Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/1

 1st Grader

  • Reading
    • We went over the alphabet again and each letter sound.  He practiced writing each letter with his finger on the Whiteboard app on his iPad
  • Math
  • Summer's Lab Science
    • Lab workbook about mountains
    • Started the Volcano section
    • Looked at igneous rocks from our rock kit
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship/Personal Finance (11th)
  • Bible reading
  • Animal Farm (read-aloud)
  • Chemistry
    • Lesson 6: Atomic Theory - I taught this lesson on the dry erase board and answered questions
    • Chromatography Lab
  • Coding
    • Boy, they really went nuts with this one.  One of them tried out a project from a Python project book from the library.  One of them spent hours writing code for a game on MIT's Scratch.  She even watched some videos on how to program Sprite movements she was unsure of.
  • Red Scarf Girl (world geography)
    • We listened to the audiobook for about an hour
    • Discussed Communism, China, the Communist Revolution in China, how the communists tried to erase traditional culture in China, etc.  
  • Shakespearean Theater class (outsourced - 11th grader)

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Homeschool Day 10/9

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