Homeschool Week 5/24-5/28

 Field Trip to Galveston, Texas

• We took a boat ride and dolphin tour in Galveston Bay and saw dolphins swimming alongside the boat
• We walked the marina and looked at the ships and sailboats
• We took a tour and historic walk through the older part of Galveston and listened to the history of the town, including the Great Storm of 1900 and the Civil War 
• The kids played in the ocean

1st Grader

• Made an attempt at his Explode the Code workbook and reading a BOB Book
• Worked on filling in a number chart from 1-30
• Sang his ABC's
• Read-alouds from Amazon Kids
• Listened to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Summer's Lab science: started the unit on Flowers
• Trail Guide to World Geography - he's working on week 2 now

9th Grader & 11th Grader

• Independent Reading
• Algebra
• Language Lessons
• Trail Guide to World Geography - I think we are now on Week 3 - we're flying through this already
• Mapping the World with Art - Mesopotamia and Greece
• Geography reader: It's A Jungle Out There

College Student #2

• His Kinesiology class starts on Tuesday, but the teacher already sent out the syllabus, so he's already getting started with his class.  I sat down with him and we went over the syllabus and grading rubrics together.  I explained Office Hours to him and we looked at his Week 1 assignments.  He's starting early today with Week 1.

College Student #1

• Finished finals and all of her classes for the Spring semester.  All A's AGAIN.  She has a 4.0 GPA as a sophomore.  She's taking a break over the summer.

Both college students are already registered for their fall classes at the college and I paid their tuitions already.  We just need to buy their school books in August.

Homeschool Day 5/18: Back to work

 I'm almost finished with everything I wanted to do - renovating the house, organizing all the curriculum, going through old school papers, etc.  I wanted to take the summer off, but the kids were wanting to start back up again.

We started new curriculum today.  But we are working with no schedule.  I'm just doing what we have time for and feel like doing for now. 

1st Grader

• Explode the Code
• Summer's Lab science (unit on Plants)
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• Originally, I had no intention of doing this with him.  It's a year-long unit study curriculum and looking through the content, it looks more appropriate for 2nd grade and older.  It's broken into three levels: elementary, middle school and high school.  So, you could use this unit study for K-12, technically.  I had no intention of using this unit study with the 6 year-old, but once he saw me working on it with the high schoolers, he threw this huge fit and started crying, because he wanted to do it, too.  So here we are...adding Trail Guide to World Geography to his curriculum this year.  *rolling my eyes*

9th Grader & 11th Grader

• Algebra - 9th grader algebra 1, 11th grader algebra 2
• Language Lessons (Queen's Homeschool - continuing from before our break)
• Independent reading
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• Mapping the World with Art (Mesopotamia)
• Geography questions for Week 1 (we covered one week in one day)
• Living geography book: It's a Jungle Out There
• Piano practice
• Final gymnastics class for the year

After our first day of Trail Guide to World Geography....I LOVE this unit study!!!!  This is going to be a great unit study.  I don't plan to stretch it out all year, though.  I'm planning to finish it this fall at some point and then move on to our Physical Science unit study.  I am trying to cover 4 weeks from the teacher's guide per week.  I anticipate spending 3 months on it, finishing up with the unit on Around the World in 80 Days.