Homeschool Day 7/18

 2nd Grader

Math

• Mathusee Alpha

Reading

• He read an Easy Reader to me

Language Arts

• Handwriting without Tears
• Funschooling Curious Creatures Journal
• He did some writing in the journal and colored pictures

Music

• Easy Peasy Music Appreciation (free online)

Science

• The Good and Beautiful Marine Biology
• We finished the lesson on coral reefs

Sonlight B World History 1 (literature, Bible, history)

• Henry Huggins is our read-aloud and he absolutely loves this book
• Kate and Mack Around the World is pretty good, too

He rode his skateboard and played catch with the football.  He built a farm with blocks.

10th Grader

Bible

• Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
• We had to have a discussion of the chapter using a literary website, because it was difficult to understand
• Daily Bible reading (1 Kings)

Math

• Mathusee Geometry

Science

• Ellen McHenry's Protozoa
• Slime Molds
• We watched a video of a slime mold recreating the Tokyo subway system
• We now believe slime molds are amazing
• LAB: We made our final agar streak plates.  We are growing bacteria and then planning to test different anti-bacterial cleaners on the plates to see which cleaners work the best
• One agar plate was contaminated with mold, so we looked at it under the 3D microscope

Bookshark J History of Science (literature and history)

• The Thief is excellent.  We are both enjoying that book.

We made an appointment to tour one of the local universities.  She is possibly interested in majoring in dance, so we chose a university with a Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Dance.