Brain Dissection: 5/3

 2nd Grader

• I finally caved and paid money for a dyslexia evaluation. He tested as severely dyslexic.  He scored as having issues with subword processing, word level reading, visual attention and passage level reading.  
• They have an action plan, so I need to sift through his scores and look at the action plan again

10th Grader

Bible

• She finished the Book of Psalms

History & Literature

• The Days of Elijah
• John Hersey's Hiroshima

Science

• Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
• Brain Dissection
• We did it!  We dissected a sheep brain from Home Science Tools.  We located nerves, the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, the pituitary gland, the cerebrum, the cerebellum, the meninges, the corpus collosum, etc.
• We did a longitudinal dissection and then a perpendicular dissection to see the arbor vitae and the grey/white matter