Homeschool Day 12/30

 1st Grader

• Easy reader (he read to me)
• Literature
• House on Pooh Corner
• Aesop's Fables
• The First Adventures of Spider (African folktales)
• Life of Fred Apples - we may stop this, because it is too abstract and he can't answer the questions
• He wrote a letter to his cousin and mailed it
• Story of the Orchestra
• The violin
• We are fishing in the afternoon

9th and 11th Graders

• Trout fishing in the afternoon
• Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
• Chemistry
• Mystery of the Periodic Table
• The Elements
• Notebooking the Alkali Metals
• Characteristics
• Reactivity
• Francium + radioactivity
• Video: Reactivity of Alkali Metals with Water
• LAB: Chemiluminescence - we used Luminol + distilled water to create a solution which gave off light, but very little heat

• Physics
• The Way Things Work Now
• Physics Lab: Applying resistors in a series versus parallel on a breadboard (from the QSL Physics Kit)