Homeschool Day 8/29

 2nd Grader

Math

• Mathusee Alpha

Reading/Language Arts

• All About Reading
• Handwriting without Tears

Science

• We read the book Seashores (About Habitats)
• We watched the Pixar short Piper - excellent 5-6 minute film about a sandpiper on the beach (on Disney +)

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

• We did all of our Sonlight reading
• Henry and Beezus (bedtime reading)
• Owls in the Family (read-aloud)

10th Grader

Geometry

• Mathusee Geometry

Bible

• Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
• Daily Bible reading (2 Kings)

Grammar/Writing

• Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate workbook
• She did some writing exercises from They Say, I Say

Astronomy

• Smithsonian's The Planets
• We looked at more pictures of Messier 57 (the Ring Nebula) and compared them to pictures we had taken from the Mamalluca Observatory in Chile last week (through the NASA MicroObservatory website)
• Followed the failure of the Artemis Launch this morning (unmanned spacecraft to the moon)
• Spent some time looking at the Artemis missions on NASA's website 

Bookshark History of Science J (history and literature)

• We did our usual reading
• Going Solo (Roald Dahl)
• Archimedes
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Geocentric models
• Dark Ages

Fine Arts

• She practiced ukulele again (we can't get her away from the ukulele)