1st Grader
- Miquon Math
- Bananagrams - we did this for reading today, because - boy - he did NOT want to do school
- First Language Lessons 1
- Story of the World 1
- Read The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Erathosthenes)
- We took a child-safe tape measure and practiced measuring things
- Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
- Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
- Read-aloud - Gladys Aylward
- Physics
- The Way Things Work Now (David Maccaulay)
- Mad About Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes and Curiosities
- We did half the chapter on light together
- We used mirrors and prisms from our science kit to solve the problems
- LAB: Refraction
- Prisms and sunlight
- Acrylic lenses and sunlight
- Prisms, lenses and lasers
- Showing refraction of laser by prism and lens
- Science Projects
- We researched science projects some more and came up with solid ideas for projects
- The 11th grader is planning to do an experiment showing how magnetic fields affect plant growth
- The 9th grader is thinking of doing an experiment with either different types of glue and their strength or different building materials and their strength
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