Homeschool Week 12/12-12/16

2nd Grader

Math

• Skip Counting by 2, 5, 10, 100
• Watched Schoolhouse Rock videos for 3 and 2
• Built 3-digit numbers with Mathusee blocks
• Less than, greater than and equal with the blocks
• Played War and Dinosaur Escape

Reading/Language Arts

• Sonlight
• Handwriting without Tears
• Explode the Code 2
• Activity Book for Kids with Dyslexia

Science

• The Shark Book
• Cats and Kittens by Tomi de Paola 

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

• Happy Times in Noisy Village (read-aloud)
• Timeline figures
• A Child's History of the World
• The Ology
• Kate and Mack geography book
• National Geographic poetry book

Physical Education

• Rollerskating
• Karate class
• Ballet class

10th Grader

Bible

• Reading through the Book of Psalms

Geometry

• Mathusee Geometry
• Murderous Maths' Savage Shapes

Grammar & Writing

• Easy Grammar 10th grade workbook
• Typing practice

Science

• Smithsonian's The Planets
• Wicked Plants

History & Literature

• Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
• The Westing Game (read-aloud)
• Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie

Foreign Language 

• DuoLingo Korean

Fine Arts

• Photography - working with her camera, portrait videos
• Classical guitar practice

Physical Education

• Ballet class
• Gymnastics class

Homeschool Week 12/5-12/9

 2nd Grader

Math 

• We read 365 Penguins
• We played Math War (addition and subtraction game)
• We backed off on math to really concentrate on reading this week

Reading/Language Arts

• Sonlight Reading/LA 
• Handwriting without Tears
• Explode the Code

Science

• Monday's nature walk
• Identified species of trees
• Eastern red cedar
• Osage-orange
• Mesquite
• Shumard oak
• Identified lichen and moss
• Looked at five species of live tarantulas
• Several old world and several new world
• Looked at baby preying mantises
• Lego Engineering class (outsourced)

Sonlight B (History, Literature and Bible) World History 1

• Greek Myths
• A Child's History of the World
• Sparta
• The Olympics
• National Geographic Poetry book
• I ordered our next read-aloud

Physical Education

• Karate class (outsourced)
• Ballet class (outsourced)

Fine Arts

• Theater class (outsourced)

10th Grader

Bible

• The Book of Psalms

Math

• Mathusee Geometry

Writing and Grammar

• They Say, I Say 
• Typing

Science (astronomy and biology)

• Tree identification
• Shumard oak
• Osage-Orange
• Cedar
• Mesquite
• Lichen and Moss
• Photographed trees, leaves, etc
• Smithsonian's The Planets
• Wicked Plants
• She researched Coyotillo (a deadly plant from Texas and Mexico)

Literature and History

• The Westing Game (read-aloud)
• Marie and Pierre Curie

Foreign Language

• DuoLingo Korean
• Watching Korea No 1 on Netflix

STEM Thursday

• She continued soldering the components onto the circuit board for her FM Radio Kit that she's building from Elenco
• Two of the metal disc connectors pulled up from the circuit board after soldering.  We contacted the company and now we're trying to figure out how to fix it

Physical Education

• Gymnastics (outsourced)
• Ballet class (outsourced)

Fine Arts

• Photographing scenery during our nature walk on Monday
• Collaborative Ukulele and Guitar class (outsourced)

Nature Walk/Tree ID 12/5

 We took the morning to work on local tree identification and hike a trail through the woods.  We're using the book Trees of North America (National Audubon Society) to identify trees.  

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600056/national-audubon-society-trees-of-north-america-by-national-audubon-society/

On this walk, we found lichen, moss, looked at tree rings...  We identified Eastern red cedar, mesquite, Bradford pear, Shumard oak, and Osage-Orange.  

We talked about how Osage-orange wood was nicknamed "bow wood" by the French, because Native Americans would use its wood to make bows.  The seeds are also called horse apples or monkey balls.

We talked about how the stoma work (on the leaves) and why leaves fall off the trees before it gets too cold.

Homeschool Week 11/28-12/2

 2nd Grader

Math

• Learning values up to 1,000
• Went through the Mathusee blocks showing 10 hundreds = 1,000
• Skip counted by 2, 5, 10, 100
• Read How Many Jellybeans?
• Played some math games

Reading/Language Arts

• Reading Eggs
• Sonlight Reading/LA 1
• We just switched to Sonlight's Reading/Language Arts this week
• Dyslexia activity book

Science

• Learning with Legos (outsourced class)

Sonlight B World History 1 (History, Bible and Literature)

• Usual Sonlight readings
• Greek Myths
• Hands-on History Box - we made the Laurel Wreath project
• Sonlight's glue did not work.  I had to use a hot glue gun

Fine Arts

• Ballet class (outsourced)
• Theater class (outsourced)
• Nutcracker performances this week

Physical Education

• Karate class (outsourced)

10th Grader

Bible

• She's reading through the Book of Psalms

Math

• Mathusee Geometry

Grammar & Writing

• Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate workbook
• They Say, I Say
• Typing practice

Astronomy & Biology

• Smithsonian's The Planets
• Wicked Plants

History & Literature

• The Westing Game (read-aloud)
• Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

STEM

• She started the Elenco FM Radio Kit
• https://shop.elenco.com/consumers/autoscan-fm-radio-kit.html

Foreign Language

• DuoLingo Korean
• Watching Korea No. 1 (Korean reality show)

Fine Arts

• Ballet classes (outsourced)
• Nutcracker performances

Physical Education

• Gymnastics (outsourced)