Thursday, September 9, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/9

 1st Grader

  • Teach Your Monster to Read
  • Handwriting practice on the whiteboard app on the iPad
  • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • Math
    • Rolled yard dice, lined the dice up in order from smallest to largest
    • Rolled four yard dice and added them
  • Beginner's Bible
  • History
    • Read Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
    • Read How People Lived in Ancient Egypt
  • He did better with school today.  He seemed to be less shocked by history.
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
  • Animal Farm
  • Movie: Hotel Rwanda (ok, not for kids, but I let the teens watch it - it's a true story about the genocide in Rwanda in 94)
  • Bible reading (9th grader is in Leviticus/11th grader is in Esther)
  • Physics
    • Acceleration - discussed on the whiteboard
    • Mythbusters episodes
      • "Mythbusters vs. Race Car"
      • "Cutthroat Race"
    • Video: "The insane speed of F1 cars"
    • LAB: Acceleration lab using a physics cart, an inclined plane and weights
      • Calculated acceleration of a cart as it travels 1.5m down an incline plane
      • Calculated acceleration of a cart loaded with 150g of weight as it travels 1.5m down an incline plane
      • Calculated the difference in acceleration.  Obviously, the weighted cart had a faster acceleration
  • Reader's Theater (9th grader - outsourced class)

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Homeschool Day 10/9

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