Homeschool Day 6/28

 1st Grader

• Beginner's Bible - read about Daniel and the Lion's Den & Jonah and the Whale
• Math - we watched about half an hour of SchoolHouse Rock math videos, especially the videos on skip-counting
• Explode the Code
• Summer's Lab Science - we started a unit on Weather.  The first lesson is about the sun.  Today, he did a sun coloring page and we read an easy reader science book about the sun.
• Flat Stanley - we read the first chapter of the book and he colored his Flat Stanley and cut it out.

9th Grader

• Algebra 1 - she watched the video
• Language Lessons 

11th Grader

• Algebra 2 - she's watched the video on Hyperbolas
• Language Lessons for the High School Student

9th and 11th Grader Together

• Read The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Read The Wave and discussed genocide in different countries around the world and the question of "how could the German people let the Holocaust happen"
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• We did more map work on North America
• Mapping the World with Art - they drew the Black Sea region
• Read A Long Walk to Water (Sudan)
• We answered questions from the Guide about Mexico, watched videos about the Yucatan Peninsula and some of the Mayan cities.  We learned about the Temple of the Moon and Temple of the Sun (Mayan ruins).  We watched a video from the National Parks about the Native American cliff dwellings in New Mexico.