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)