1st Grader
- Beginner's Bible
- Wild Math 1st Grade - still more counting to 100, counting by 10s (he's actually understanding it now!). We took the Mathusee blocks and built 100 with 10s, then we built up to 1,000 with 100s. We also built random numbers by combining the blocks
- Explode the Code - he wrote an entire page of words, sounding them out and then writing them in the workbook
- Handwriting without Tears
- Extra apps: Teach Your Monster to Read
- Summer's Lab Science - we worked on the lesson about trees. We also walked in the woods and did bark rubbings
- Trail Guide to Geography - started North America
Hymn and Saint Study (1st Grader)
- Listened to hymn The Old Rugged Cross
- He sat in on high schoolers learning about the Apostle Saint Andrew
- Read Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland (Tomie dePaola)
9th Grader
- Bible reading (Genesis)
- Language Lessons
- Finished The Great Turkey Walk and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She said the books this past year were some of her favorite we've ever read (even though they were on the easy side). The easy, enjoyable books were chosen, because she had been having serious vision problems (she's in bifocals now) and I was trying to make reading enjoyable again.
- Online spelling bee
- Creative writing - still working on her short story. She's writing a story from an interesting perspective. The main character is deaf.
- Math Camp! - she had Math Camp at an enrichment center all week. This has been wonderful and she's glad she went. They used games and manipulatives to work through Algebra 1 and 2 topics as a group
11th Grader
- Bible reading (1 or 2 Kings)
- Algebra 2 (parabolas)
- Creative writing - also working on a short story
- Online spelling bee
- Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
Geography (9th & 11th Graders)
- Trail Guide to World Geography (North America - mapwork and notetaking)
- Mapping the World with Art - Greece
- It's A Jungle Out There (South America) - they both finished this book
Hymn, Saint and Missionary Study (9th & 11th Graders)
- Hymn: The Old Rugged Cross
- The apostle Saint Andrew
- Read a short bio of Saint Andrew
- Mapped his 4 journeys around the ancient world
- Read about his death
- Read his section in The Twelve Outlaws
- Missionary reading: Gladys Aylward, The Adventure of a Lifetime (China)
College Students
- Freshman only has one week left of the first summer session. So far, he has a 96% average for the session. The summer sessions are only 4 weeks long and we've both concluded that 4 weeks is just way, way, way too fast for a college course. Although he's getting an A for the session, both he and I talked about it and he probably will never do summer sessions again, unless he really has to. He's registered for two courses for the next summer session (starts in 1 week) and I'm trying to talk him into dropping one of the courses. Trying to condense 16 weeks of material into 4 weeks is just ridiculous.
Me
- I'm almost finished with the Gospel of John -getting ready to start Acts of the Apostles
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