Homeschool Day 11/29

 1st Grader

• Miquon Math Orange
• Reading
• My Father's Dragon (read-aloud)
• Explode the Code
• Ordinary Parents' Guide to Teaching Reading
• First Language Lessons 1
• Story of the World 1
• Tut's Mummy, Lost and Found
• Science (biology)
• Library books about the human body
• For Cub Scouts, he collected blankets for the homeless and turned them in today
• He learned how to ride his bike without training wheels over the weekend

9th and 11th Graders

• This was actually one of the best homeschool days ever.  The teens were very excited to do school today.
• Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
• Finished reading Steinbeck's The Pearl
• We had a great, excited group discussion about the book.  
• We discussed Steinbeck's background 
• Introduced Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (their next book) and talked about his biography
• Physics
• Lab: Reflections from Curved Mirrors from QSL Physics Kit
• Calculated the focal length of lenses of different thicknesses
• Inverted image using a laser, concave lens and note card
• Chemistry
• Mystery of the Periodic Table (9th grader reading)
• Started our notebook of the elements.  We're going through each element of the periodic table and covering Rutherford models, atomic number/mass, properties, boiling point/melting point, classification, when the element was discovered, what the element is used for, etc.
• Hydrogen and Helium - notebooking 
• Watched footage of the Hindenburg airship explosion and talked about why hydrogen is so flammable
• 11th Grader had a private voice lesson
• We are going to walk to the cookie store to buy cookies