Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Homeschool Day 8/25

 1st Grader

  • Teach Your Monster to Read app (he loves this app)
  • Beginner's Bible
  • Math
    • Building 10s with cuisinaire rods
    • Counting by 5s and 10s
    • Counting to 100 with a Montessori board
    • Watched Schoolhouse Rock video - counting by 5s
  • Summer's Lab Science: Rocks
    • We took the rocks out of the rock tumbler, washed them off and looked at them.  I refilled the rock tumbler with medium coarse sand and restarted it.  The rocks are already very smooth!
    • We looked through our rock collection again
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th grader)
  • Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
  • Born Free 
  • Bible reading
  • Shakespearean Theater class (11th grader - outsourced)
  • PHYSICS: Speed and velocity
    • Conceptual Physics: section on speed and velocity
    • Mythbusters: "Speed Bus Jump"
    • Video: "Speed's Bus Jump - How They Did It"
    • LAB
      • Measured velocity using a set distance, stopwatch, a ramp and matchbox cars
      • Calculated average velocity and compared
      • Weighed each car in grams and looked for a pattern of weight/speed

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