Homeschool Day 2/3

 1st Grader

• Miquon Math Orange
• Reading
• He read a BOB Book to me
• Explode the Code
• Handwriting
• We practiced the lowercase letters on the Whiteboard app on the iPad
• Ancient Greek and Roman Unit Study
• Using Smithsonian: The Planets, we looked at pictures of each planet in the solar system
• We looked at comets, the asteroid belt and the dwarf planets
• We simulated earth rotating and orbiting the sun, simultaneously - me being the sun and him being the Earth
• The Dragons of Blueland (read-aloud)
• He played out in the snow twice (it actually snowed here in Texas)

9th and 11th Graders

• Mathusee Stewardship (11th) and Algebra 1 (9th) 
• 9th grader is one lesson away from being finished, so we looked at a couple of other math programs and she decided that she wants to continue Mathusee, because of the videos where Steve Demme is teaching - she says those are helpful
• English
• The Outsiders (T.S. Hinton) - read-aloud
• Windows to the World - literary analysis
• Bible reading
• German
• German Demystified
• They took a quiz
• Chemistry
• 9th grader finished Mystery of the Periodic Table
• Clock Reaction Experiment Kit (from Home Science Tools)
• We did almost all of the labs in one session
• They were fun!  I was worried this kit would be a dud, but we had a great time doing the experiments
• They also played out in the snow