Homeschool Day 1/31

 1st Grader

• We did all of his schoolwork outside, because it was very pretty out.  We used the sidewalk chalk on the driveway to do his math and reading.
• Miquon Math Orange
• Reading
• Explode the Code
• Ordinary Parents' Guide to Teaching Reading
• Ancient Greek and Roman Unit Study
• Usborne Greek Myths
• Pompeii: Buried Alive
• National Geographic Kids: Planets
• Activity: He told me a monster myth story and I wrote it on paper.  He decorated it with markers.
• The Dragons of Blueland (read-aloud at bedtime)
• He played outside at the park

9th and 11th Graders

• Stewardship (11th) and Algebra 1 (9th)
• TSI Reading practice test - the 11th grader and I did it together
• English
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Discussion of the author and how we came up with the idea of the book
• Windows to the World - literary analysis
• The Outsiders (T.S. Hinton) - read-aloud
• Bible reading
• German (together)
• German Demystified
• Vocabulary - parts of the body
• Chemistry
• Mystery of the Periodic Table (9th grader)
• LAB: Acids, Bases and Ph
• The had 4 unknown solutions and had to identify them as acids, bases, water or phenolthalien