Homeschool Week 9/26-9/29

I'm recording things by week, because we were so busy. 

2nd Grader

Math

• We read several chapters of Life of Fred Butterflies
• He played the Mathemagician Game (board game using addition/subtraction)

Reading/Language Arts

• All About Reading - we are crawling through this like snails
• All About Spelling
• Handwriting without Tears

Science

• The Good and the Beautiful Marine Biology
• Finished Sharks
• We started the lesson on Marine Mammals 
• Astronomy
• We looked at Jupiter through the telescope, because it was very close to the Earth this week
• We were able to see 4 moons of Jupiter, which I am assuming were Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede (the four largest moons)

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

• Read-aloud: The Year of Miss Agnes (what a great book!)
• Time Traveler - almost finished with Ancient Egypt
• The Ology
• Kate and Mack - this book is very enjoyable
• Bedtime read-aloud: Henry and Ribsy

Outsourced Classes

• Ballet
• Lego Engineering (at a homeschool enrichment center)
• Theater (enrichment center)
• Karate

10th Grader

Geometry

• Mathusee Geometry

Bible

• Daily Bible readings
• Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)

Grammar

• 10th Grade Ultimate Grammar workbook

Astronomy

• Smithsonian's The Planets
• She also viewed Jupiter through the telescope this week.  This is the closest it's been to Earth since the 1960s.
• We saw four moons orbiting Jupiter, which I'm assuming were Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede
• NASA MicroObservatory - we finally got our picture of the sun (if you go on their website and request a picture, they will take a picture using Harvard's telescope and email it to you)

Bookshark J History of Science (literature and history)

• We dropped The Gammage Cup - I'm realizing that she just really does not like fantasy fiction. Neither of us could get into this book and we're about halfway through the book
• Newton at the Center (Hakim)
• The Clockwork Universe
• I requested our next two books - The Giver and The Westing Game (we are reading the Bookshark books out of order)

Korean

• She is enjoying DuoLingo's Korean

Fine Arts

• Ukulele
• We are going out to buy a capo this weekend, so she can play more complicated songs
• Ballet class
• She is going to a professional ballet performance this evening

STEM

• We did not do our STEM Friday class this week, because of ballet

Physical Education

• Indoor rock climbing