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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Homeschool Day 8/3

 1st Grader

  • Teach Your Monster to Read (app)
  • Handwriting without Tears 
  • KONOS:Attentiveness (continued from a few months earlier)
    • Read A Picture Book of Sacagawea
    • Read a book about Animal Tracks
    • Learned the cardinal directions
    • Learned to use a compass
    • Played a compass game
    • Made treasure maps of the house, hid "treasure" and then took turns using the maps to find it
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th grader)
  • Stewardship (11th grader)
  • English
    • Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
    • Finished The Wave and had a group discussion
    • We are going to rent the German movie version of The Wave tonight (Die Welle)
  • World Geography
    • Hatchet (Canada)
    • Born Free (Africa)
  • Bible readings
  • German
    • 9th grader reviewed verb conjugations, pronouns, and some vocabulary, she also played on PollyLingual (website)
    • 11th grader watched "Herr Vogel und Frau Wal" on YouTube
  • Chemistry
    • I taught lesson1 and we did the lab together
    • They built several molecules with the Happy Atoms set
  • Coding
    • They started accounts on MIT's Scratch.  Both of them started trying it out and the 9th grader created a game where you click on baby ducks and they quack and move back to their mother
    • We downloaded PYTHON (coding language) onto the laptop.  We used A Beginner's Guide to Coding to go through beginning coding steps - we created a short program to get the computer to print certain phrases when prompted

Downloading PYTHON: https://www.python.org/downloads/  This is for Mac.  Click on Windows, etc, to download for Windows.  It's free.

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