Homeschool Day 4/10

 2nd Grader

Math

• Singapore math

Sonlight Reading/Language Arts

• Introduced the new words in the lesson
• He read his reader
• Copywork

Sonlight B (history, Bible and literature)

• We started Gooney Bird Greene (read-aloud)
• Time Traveler
• National Geographic poetry

Science

• Apologia's Land Animals of the Sixth Day
• Wolves
• Caterpillar to Butterfly kit
• The caterpillars have attached themselves to the lid of the container and have formed chrysalises
• One of the chrysalises fell and we super-glued it back onto the lid

Art

• Draw, Write, Now

10th Grader

Mathusee Geometry

STEM/Technology

• Coding/Circuitry projects from the kit 30 Days Lost in Space
• Coded into the keypad and a buzzer would go off on the circuit
• She spent a good hour on this

Grammar & Writing

• They Say, I Say writing course with a friend
• Persuasive essay

Science

• She finished enough astronomy last week for me to give her 1 credit Astronomy on her transcript
• DNA
• We watched the video Genetics 101 by National Geographic
• We made a DNA model of base pairs in the shape of a double helix
• We looked at pictures of the staircase at the UIC's molecular biology building: https://www.instagram.com/p/BFVAWA4SuQ1/

Extras

• Ballet class (at the ballet school)