1st Grader
- Nature walk at the park - we saw all the damage from the tornados last night. There was extensive damage everywhere. I didn't know until we got to the park.
- Zoetrope
- We built a zoetrope from this kit: Goldie Blox and the Movie Machine
- The zoetrope spins on a wheel and you look through the slits to watch a short "movie" made from cards with pictures on them
- Snap Circuits
- We built the spinning propeller
- Sonlight Level B (Bible, history and literature)
9th and 11th Graders
- English
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate Grammar workbook (9th grader)
- The Outsiders (read-aloud)
- WordTeasers SAT cards
- Spell, define, use in sentence
- British History
- Great Tales from English History (Robert Lacey)
- The Standard-Bearer from the 10th Legion
- Jesus and the Legends of Glastonbury
- Bible readings
- Art
- The Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci)
- We looked at close-ups of the painting, compared it to his earlier version of the Mona Lisa and read about the history of the painting (including when it was stolen in 1911)
- https://focus.louvre.fr/en/mona-lisa (close-up of the painting)
- Gymnastics (outsourced)
Update on College Kids
- The semester is about 2/3 of the way over. Both kids still have all As in their classes. The freshman has over 100% average in every class this semester.
- Kid #3 is ready to register as soon as registration opens. Then, we will have three in college at the same time.
School took way too long today. We were finished at 4 pm.
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