Homeschool Day 4/13

 Kindergartener

• Listened to me read aloud The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.  This was originally supposed to be for the 13 year-old, but he listened quietly to the entire second chapter, so I guess I'll invite him in to listen when I read it again tomorrow
• Played in the woods, skipped rocks in a creek, played on the playground
• Went with me to run errands

13 Year-old

• Algebra - we worked through a number of slope + y-intercept problems together on the dry erase board
• Language Lessons for the Secondary Child
• Free reading.  She read Because of Winn-Dixie and I read aloud The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Anatomy reading - the integumentary system
• History 
• video: "Hiroshima Dropping the Bomb - BBC"
• video: "Nagasaki Bomb and Surrender - BBC"
• finish movie: Defiance
• Timeline figures (from History in the Woods) - we worked through all the timeline figures for WWI and WWII.  We reviewed/discussed them and taped them onto our wall timeline.  This took about half an hour, but it was a great review!
• Went walking in the woods and skipped rocks in a creek

16 Year-old

• Algebra - we worked through several problems together
• Language Lessons for the High School Student - editing
• German together - we are about done with the Komm Mit 2 text
• Scarlet Letter Unit Study
• The Scarlet Letter
• Whatever Happened to Justice
• The Fallacy Detective
• History 

• video: "Hiroshima Dropping the Bomb - BBC"
• video: "Nagasaki Bomb and Surrender - BBC"
• finish movie: Defiance
• Timeline figures (from History in the Woods) - we worked through all the timeline figures for WWI and WWII.  We reviewed/discussed them and taped them onto our wall timeline.  This took about half an hour, but it was a great review!
• Went walking in the woods and skipped rocks in a creek
• Apologia Biology LAB - from the chapter on Plants - we collected about 15 tree leaves and went through the book classifying the leaves by shape, branch orientation, lay-out of the leaf's veins, edging, etc.  We went to a park in the woods for this lab, brought our textbook and just sat in the grass going through the different kinds of leaves that she found