Homeschool Day 12/7

 1st Grader

• Miquon Math
• Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading
• Handwriting without Tears
• Biology
• We read a library book about the digestive system
• Story of the World 1
• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (excellent book)
• Gymnastics (outsourced class)

9th and 11th Graders

• Algebra 1 (9th - she needed several problems worked on the dry erase board) and Stewardship (11th)
• Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
• Gladys Aylward (read-aloud)
• Chemistry
• Mystery of the Periodic Table (9th grader)
• The Elements
• Notebooking together - BORON and CARBON
• Atomic numbers
• Bohr models
• Melting Points/Boiling Points
• Properties
• Metalloid characteristics
• Structures - we talked about Buckeyballs and Carbon Nanotubes
• Uses, etc
• Gymnastics (outsourced class)