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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Homeschool Day 7/5

 2nd Grader

Math

  • Life of Fred Apples
  • Addition flashcards
Reading
  • He read an Easy Reader book to me
Language Arts
  • Handwriting without Tears
Science
  • The Good and Beautiful Marine Biology
  • We looked at the Pelagic Zones in the ocean using this website: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/.  This website is incredible!  At least, the 7 year-old thought it was.
Sonlight B World History 1 (Bible, literature and history)
  • All the usual Sonlight readings

10th Grader

Math
  • Mathusee Geometry
Bible
  • Daily Bible reading
  • Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate series

Science (Biology)
  • Ellen McHenry's Protozoa 
    • Foraminiferans
    • Radiolarians
  • LAB: Boy, this was a nasty lab.  We took the bacterial cultures that we prepared yesterday and identified the bacteria by shape under the microscope.
    • One culture was clearly Cocci bacteria - I'm guessing staphylococcus.
    • One culture had a mix of cocci and bacilli. (the swab of the dog paw)
    • The culture from the dog's teeth looked like cocci bacteria
    • We read about how different antibiotics work for killing different kinds of bacteria
    • We talked about how autoclaves work
Bookshark J History of Science (history and literature)
  • We only had time to read The Thief (the literature selection)
Art
  • She sketched using pastel sticks on mixed media paper

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