Homeschool Day 8/18

 1st Grader

• We played a game where we took turns making words with plastic letters and then he read them
• Math
• He's not writing his numbers correctly, so we played a game where he rolled dice and then wrote the numbers with his finger on the Whiteboard app on his iPad.
• Addition -rolled dice, turned the dice into an addition problem and then solved using the cuisinaire rods
• Bible
• We read St. Jerome and the Lion by Margaret Hodges.  This is a wonderful picture book.  He really enjoyed it.
• Summer's Lab Science
• We recorded the weather on his weather chart
• We started the lesson on Rocks and Minerals
• We looked through the book My Book of Rocks and Minerals
• I got out my rock kit from Home Science Tools.  He looked through the rocks and we identified them.  We also talked about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.  Here's a picture of the kit:

9th and 11th Graders

• Algebra 1 (9th) and Personal Finance/Stewardship (11th)
• Bible readings
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Physics
• We watched the Mythbusters episode "Appliances in the Bath Mini-Myth"
• Electricity Lab Kit 
• Discussed volts versus amps
• Made an electromagnet and tested it - added more batteries and tested the difference
• Discussed Maglev trains/watched video
• Used resistors to change a circuit
• Tried to use a solar battery, but there was not enough light outside (it's raining)
• Coding/Programming
• We spent a couple of hours putting the Raspberry Pi 3b+ together
• We are planning to hook it up to the TV this weekend and install the software and begin the set-up