Monday, December 6, 2021

Homeschool Day 12/6

 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
9th and 11th Grader

  • 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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