Homeschool Week 5/31-6/4

 Last week, I made bookmarks from card stock for each kid.  The bookmarks list all the subjects I want to cover for each day of the week.  Instead of planning out each page of each book all week....I had them work through the bookmarks and just stop reading when they felt like it.

This worked very well!  I'm going to continue this.

1st Grader

• Beginner's Bible
• Wild Math 1st Grade (he's working on counting to 120 and adding the lawn dice)
• Explode the Code
• Teach Your Monster to Read (app)
• Dragonbox's Numbers (app)
• He read one BOB book this week.  I've been trying to find him phonics readers from the library, but the ones I've seen don't seem to be true phonics.
• Summer's Lab Science - he finished the unit on flowers and moved onto seeds.  We took two bean seeds, folded them into wet paper towels, put the towels in a sandwich bag and taped it onto the patio door so it can get light.  Hopefully, the bean seeds sprout and he can see the baby plant.
• Trail Guide to World Geography - he's on Week 2

9th Grader and 11th Grader

• Algebra 1 and 2, respectively
• Language Lessons
• Creative writing - both of them are writing short stories, 1x a week
• The Great Turkey Walk (9th grader) and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (our read-aloud)
• Independent reading (11th grader)
• I strewed some graphic novels and a book of short stories (mystery) and they've been reading these
• Online Spelling Bee
• Dragonbox Algebra (9th grader) ((app))
• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy (11th grader)
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• Trail Guide - North America (this is still wonderful - we love this curriculum)
• It's A Jungle Out There (South America)
• Mapping the World with Art

We won't be able to do our Saint/Hymn/Bible study this morning, because we are going to the airport to pick up grandma and then they need to be at ballet to help set up for the recital.

Me (Bible)

• Still reading through the Bible at a snail's pace.  I'm reading through The Gospel of John right now.  One of my favorite books of the Bible.

College Freshman

• Working on his Kinesiology course.  He got an A on his first quiz.