Homeschool Day 2/1

 2nd Grader

Math

• More practice with multi-digit multiplication and reading the answers in the hundreds
• We played Snakes and Ladders
• We played Mathemagical World

Reading/Language Arts

• Explode the Code 2
• Handwriting without Tears
• Sonlight Reading/LA
• We played Sight Word Bingo, which he really liked

Science

• The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

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

• We read about the Great Wall of China
• Little Pear (read-aloud)

Extras

• James and the Giant Peach (bedtime read-aloud)

10th Grader

Math

• Mathusee Geometry - she did the Honors page and I needed to help her with a couple of the problems

Bible

• Reading the Book of Psalms

Writing and Grammar

• Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate workbook

Science

• Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

History & Literature

• She finished Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie - excellent book
• We looked at pictures of Albert Einstein with Marie Curie
• We talked about radioactive bacteria that were discovered in Oregon
• She wants to read John Hersey's Hiroshima, so I ordered that

Extras

• DuoLingo Korean
• She practiced classical guitar

College Kids Update

• The 21 year-old was accepted as a transfer student to Texas Tech University.  She is also being given a scholarship based on her 4.0 college GPA.  This is her last semester at the community college.  We are estimating she will finish her Bachelor of Science in about 3 semesters.  She plans to continue and finish her Master of Science through Texas Tech or Texas A&M.
• All three college kids still have 4.0 GPAs and were on the Dean's List together for Fall 2022. 
• Kid #3 will have her artwork hanging in the college library through out February and March.  The art pieces are a self-portrait in oil and a portrait of her sister in oil.