Homeschool Day 8/16: Movies and Astronomy

 2nd Grader

Math

• Math dice games - addition
• We played War with cards

Reading

• All About Reading

Language Arts

• All About Spelling

Science

• The Good and Beautiful Marine Biology
• Crustaceans
• He was researching squids on his own

We didn't make it through our Sonlight today, but we did read aloud Henry and Beezus (Beverly Cleary).

10th Grader

Movies: We watched the movie version of The Giver.  She loved this movie and I'm thinking of getting the book from the library to see how different the book is from the movie.

We ended up watching the movie version of Animal Farm, based off the book by George Orwell.  We've already read the book, but she wanted to watch the movie version, too.  The movie version is really weird!  Not sure I recommend it.

Bookshark J History of Science (history, literature)

• More Archimedes
• Going Solo by Roald Dahl

Astronomy

• We spent a lot of time on NASA's website
• We watched NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio's Inside Hurricane Maria in 360 degrees. You can move the cursor around the hurricane to see what's happening from different views
• NASA MicroObservatory https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/OWN/Own.pl
• You choose an object in space that you would like their telescope to take a picture of.  Choose image settings and they email you a picture of your target object the next day
• She chose these objects.  We googled more information about them (distance from Earth, location, etc)
• Helix Nebula
• Pinwheel Galaxy
• Jupiter
• LAB: We are going to spend some time with the telescope outside tonight

Fine Arts

• She played the ukulele for about an hour