Homeschool Day 4/12

 2nd Grader

Math

• Singapore Math

Sonlight Reading/Language Arts

• He wrote his spelling words
• He read his Sonlight reader
• Grammar exercise
• He's reading his dyslexia reader at night before bed

Science

• Apologia's Land Animals of the Sixth Day

Sonlight B (history, literature and Bible)

• Kate and Mack book
• The Ology
• Usborne's Time Traveler
• Read-aloud: Gooney Bird Greene
• We're reading Beverly Cleary's Socks before bed

Extras

• Wednesday night church activities

10th Grader

Bible

• Reading through Psalms

Math

• Mathusee Geometry

Grammar & Writing

• She wrote a rough draft of her persuasive essay for the They Say, I Say class she's taking with a friend
• Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate workbook

Science

• Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
• We watched the video: "How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped us Understand Genetics"
• DNA Lab: we did karyotyping - matching chromosomes using their centromeres, sizes and stains
• We talked about tetraploidy, quadraploidy, Turner syndrome, and XYY syndrome

History & Literature

• Days of Elijah

Extras

• Practicing ukulele
• Wednesday night church activities

We were finished with everything by about 1pm.