Monday, February 7, 2022

Homeschool Day 2/7

 1st Grader

  • Miquon Orange Math
  • Reading
    • Explode the Code
    • He read two BOB books to me
  • Ancient Greeks and Romans Unit Study
    • Usborne Greek Myths
    • Romulus and Remus (Rockwell)
    • He made a book of the planets using construction paper and markers.  On each page, he drew a picture of a planet from our solar system and then wrote its name.  
  • The Dragons of Blueland
  • Random House Book of Bible Stories
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
  • English
    • Windows to the World - literary analysis curriculum
    • The Outsiders (T.S. Hinton) - read-aloud
  • Bible readings
  • German
    • German Demystified
    • We listened to Matthew Chapter 3 in German
  • Subatomic Particles Study (for Chem/Physics)
    • Video: "What's the Smallest Thing in the Universe - TED Talk"
    • Video: "Step Inside the Hadron Collider - BBC" - this video has a 360 degree feature, where you can move the camera around and see the tunnels of the Hadron Collider, etc.
    • We had a loooong discussion on everything Particle Physics - the safety of experimenting with these particles, what kinds of things could go wrong with the Hadron Collider, recreating the conditions for the "beginning of the universe", ethics when experimenting, etc.  The teens were fascinated by these videos and kept pausing them to talk about it.

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