Homeschool Day and Box Day: 3/16

 Today is Box Day!  We are expecting a huge box from Sonlight, including Sonlight C (world history 2), Algebra 2, the Hands-on History box that goes with HBL C. 

2nd Grader

Wild Math 2

• We read It's About Time (which was a bit too easy for him)
• We played Sleeping Queens (addition card game)
• We played Mexican Train Dominoes

Reading/Language Arts

• Sonlight Reading/LA
• We played Story Cubes
• He's reading his dyslexia reader at night before bed

Science

• Boy, Were We Wrong About the Weather
• Bird ID outside using the Merlin Bird ID app and the guidebook Birds of Texas (see below)

Sonlight B

• A Child's History of the World
• Babe

10th Grader

• Bird Photography - she used a DSLR camera to photograph birds and ID them
• Merlin Bird ID app (Cornell University).  We recorded bird calls and identified
• House Sparrow
• Eurasian-collared dove
• Northern mockingbird
• Great-tailed grackle
• American Robin
• Cliff Swallow
• House finch
• Great horned owl
• Cedar waxwing
• We used the book Birds of Texas to see pictures of each bird we ID'd