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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