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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/29

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • Pocahontas and the Strangers
  • My First Catechism
  • Explore Native American Cultures!
    • We're looking for the supplies to build the Wampum Belt, but we haven't started it yet
Reading/Language Arts
  • Wagon Wheels (reader)
  • Mad Libs - he loved this so much
  • Handwriting without Tears Cursive
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Friction and simple machines demonstration
French
  • French with Mr. Innes

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • Oedipus Rex
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics

Dual enrollment courses at the college

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/28

 We finished school freakishly early today.  I don't know how, but the 4th grader was unusually cooperative.

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • Pocahontas and the Strangers
  • 100 Bible Stories
  • A Child's Introduction to Poetry
Reading/Language Arts
  • Freewriting
  • All About Spelling 2
  • Wagon Wheels (reader)
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Telegraph and Morse Code
Music
  • Alfred's Piano 2

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • Oedipus Rex
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics

Dual enrollment courses at the college

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Our Crunch Labs Strobe Light Animator

 We put this together this afternoon and it was a really cool project.  As always, we love Mark Rober's Crunch Labs.  The movie is a little squirrel running.




Homeschool Day 8/27

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • My First Catechism
  • Pocahontas and the Strangers
Reading/Language Arts
  • All About Spelling 2
  • Handwriting without Tears Cursive
  • Wagon Wheels (reader)
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
French
  • French with Mr. Innes (free on Youtube)
Fine Arts
  • Artistic Pursuits Book 1
    • Value and shading

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics

Dual enrollment courses at the college
  •     So far, she has 100% in English 1

Monday, August 26, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/26

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • 100 Bible Stories
  • Pocahontas and the Strangers
  • A Child's Introduction to Poetry
  • We located Jamestown and England on the map
  • We put together the US States Puzzle again
Reading/Language Arts
  • Wagon Wheels (reader)
  • All About Spelling 2
  • Writing - comics with captions writing exercise
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science Text
    • Electromagnetic Forces
    • We made an electromagnet and used it to pick up paper clips
    • We found the north and south poles on a magnet



















Piano
  • Alfred's 2

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics

Dual Enrollment courses at the college

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/22

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • Started Pocahontas and the Strangers
  • A Child's Introduction to Poetry
  • My First Catechism
Reading/Language Arts
  • We finished reading Daniel's Duck
Fine Arts
  • Artistic Pursuits Book 1 (middle school)
    • Texture outdoors
Physical Education
  • Trampoline park

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • She finished The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • She started Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (Ancient Greek play)
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics

Dual Enrollment at the College

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/21

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • We finished Pedro's Journal (read-aloud)
  • Explore Native American Cultures!
  • 100 Bible Stories
Reading/Language Arts
  • Daniel's Duck
  • Handwriting without Tears Cursive
  • Free-writing
  • Grammar
    • I and You and Don't Forget Who, What is a Pronoun?
    • Identifying parts of speech in a sentence
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Motion Has Energy
French
  • French with Mr. Innes (YouTube)

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics

Dual enrollment courses at the college

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/20

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • My First Catechism
  • Pedro's Journal
  • A Child's Introduction to Poetry
Reading/Language Arts
  • Daniel's Duck 
  • All About Spelling 2
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Workbook
Fine Arts
  • Piano practice

12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics (YouTube)

Dual Enrollment at the College

Monday, August 19, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/19

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • 100 Bible Stories
  • Pedro's Journal
  • Explore Native American Cultures!
Reading/Language Arts
  • Daniel's Duck (reader)
  • All About Spelling 2
  • Grammar
    • Schoolhouse Rock video - verbs
    • We wrote sentences on the dry erase board and identified nouns and verbs
  • Handwriting without Tears Cursive
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Motion Needs Force
French
  • French with Mr. Innes - the colors of the rainbow


12th Grader

Classical Literature
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
ASL Basics (on Youtube)

Dual Enrollment courses at the college (English and Kinesiology)

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Homeschool Day: 8/15 @ the college!

 


Today, we went to Kid #3's university to find her parking lot, find out where her classes will be, take a look at the theater (she's a theater minor), get her student ID, go to the college bookstore and eat lunch in the Student Union!

In hindsight, (even though we felt a little weird) this was a great idea, because it took me with a paper map and a map on my phone, my husband driving and my kids looking out the window to figure out where to go!!  After driving all over the campus and getting lost, we did figure everything out and I copied the addresses of each parking lot my daughter can park in so she can add those to her GPS for the first day of school.

We found all of her classes, the fine arts building, the theater, the library, the gym and the Student Union Building.  She seemed very relieved when we were driving home, because now she's familiar with where everything is.  We didn't want her to be flustered and late on the first day.  

Photo is 9 year-old playing all over their outdoor hammocks on campus.  They have a meditation room and tons of stress-reducing hammocks and benches all over campus.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/14

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • Pedro's Journal 
  • We mapped Columbus' first voyage
  • A Child's Introduction to Poetry
  • 100 Bible Stories
Reading/Language Arts
  • Daniel's Duck
  • Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp.  More About Verbs
  • Writing project
    • Monster descriptions - we drew monsters on the dry erase board and then took turns writing descriptive words
  • We practiced the months of the year
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Forces and Motion
French
  • French with Mr. Innes
Art
  • Artistic Pursuits

12th Grader

Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
Classical Literature
  • Gilgamesh
ASL
  • ASL Basics (YouTube)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/13

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • My First Catechism
  • Pedro's Journal
Reading/Language Arts
  • We finished Nate the Great
  • Freewriting
Math
  • Beast Academy
Piano
  • Alfred's 2
Extras
  • Karate Class
  • Cub Scouts

12th Grader

Personal Finance
  • Mathusee Stewardship
Classical Literature
  • Gilgamesh
Foreign Language 
  • ASL Basics (YouTube)

Monday, August 12, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/12

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature) 

  • 100 Bible Stories
  • Explore Native American Cultures!
  • Pedro's Journal
Reading/Language Arts
  • Nate the Great (reader)
  • All About Spelling 2
  • Handwriting without Tears cursive
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Alexander Graham Bell
Fine Arts
  • Piano
    • Just the Facts 2
    • Alfred's 2

12th Grader

Personal Finance
  •     Lesson 1 from Mathusee Stewardship
Classical Literature
  • Gilgamesh
  • We watched the TED ED video about Gilgamesh 
Foreign Language
  • ASL Basics (course on Youtube)
Dual Enrollment at the College
  • It starts next Monday, so we double checked to make sure her classes were ok and that we had the required books.  We printed out any syllabi we could find.

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/8

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature) US History 1

  • Pedro's Journal
  • My First Catechism
  • Explore Native American Cultures!
Reading/Language Arts
  • Nate the Great (reader)
  • To Root, to Toot, to Parachute (Verbs)
  • Writing exercise: Creative Captions
    • We drew comics and he wrote dialog for the comics
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka 4th Grade Science
    • Sound-wave energy
    • We played around with a tuning fork - learned how it works and found the note on the piano
Art
  • Artistic Pursuits
    • Landscape drawing
12th Grader
  • Trip to the Bolivar Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

French with Mr. Innes

 My son (the 4th grader) absolutely loves this French program.  He is rattling off so many French words at this point and we just started French over the summer.  He's trying to form sentences on his own.  He was even trying to convince his 9 year-old friend to learn French.  

We are currently working through the playlists on YouTube under the name French with Mr. Innes.  We're currently in the series "Learn French Basics for Kids in 40 Days."  There are mini-series on different topics like buildings, numbers, colors, French pronouns, pets, food and drink, parts of the body, etc.

His videos are excellent for younger kids.  The way he teaches vocabulary makes it easy for them to remember.  Even I'm learning all of the vocabulary alongside my 9 year-old.   

I am planning to subscribe to his website/curriculum after we finish the free YouTube playlist.  He has a French video curriculum that you can pay for monthly as a subscription.  It looks like a step up from his video series on Youtube, but it looks excellent.

Here's his homeschool page: French for Homeschooling

The subscription amount is in European currency, but all of his reviews are from the United States, so I think he's getting most of his homeschool subscribers from the US, since we have a much larger homeschool population than Europe does.

This was such a great curriculum find!  


Homeschool Day 8/7

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature) US History 1

  • Pedro's Journal
  • A Child's Introduction to Poetry
  • 100 Bible Stories
Reading/Language Arts
  • Nate the Great
  • All About Spelling 2
  • Handwriting without Tears cursive
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Mark Rober's Crunch Labs
    • Catapult
French
  • Review of our vocabulary

12th Grade
  • Trip to the Bolivar Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/6

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

  • Pedro's Journal
  • Luther's Catechism for Kids
  • Explore Native American Cultures!
  • We put together the US puzzle
Reading/Language Arts
  • Months of the year
  • All About Spelling 2 - so far, so good
  • Nate the Great (reader)
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade Science
    • Refraction and bending light
French
  • French with Mr. Innes
    • Le tricolores
Fine Arts
  • Piano practice

12th Grader
  • On a trip to an island in the gulf coast

Monday, August 5, 2024

Homeschool Day 8/5

 4th Grader

Sonlight D US History 1 (history, Bible and literature)

  • Pedro's Journal
  • Explore Native American Cultures
  • 100 Bible Stories
Reading/Language Arts
  • Nate the Great (reader)
  • Cursive
  • Mad Libs
  • I introduced All About Spelling 2 - because he made so much progress in reading this summer, I'm going to try a spelling program
Math
  • IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
  • Beast Academy
Science
  • Abeka's 4th Grade textbook
    • Transmitting Light
    • We played outside with a prism and a lens
Fine Arts
  • Piano practice