Homeschool Day 5/29

 Fifth Grader

We won't have school next week, because he is going to VBS (Vacation Bible School).

Book Basket

Archimedes and the Door of Science

A Light in the Attic

Math

Life of Fred Farming

Language Arts

Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1

Cursive Success

Bible

My First Hymnal - "Holy Spirit, Light Divine"

The Action Bible Anytime Devotions - "When You Feel Like Hiding"

The Action Bible - Cain and Abel

Latin

He had a Lesson 1 test and scored 100%

Art

The Arts - cave art

Art Project - he worked with pastel sticks to create his own cave art

Homeschool Day 5/28

Fifth Grader: 

Book Basket

Sarah Whitcher's Story

A Light in the Attic

Math

We played The Mathemagical World (board game)

Subtraction practice

Life of Fred Farming

Language Arts

All About Spelling 3

Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1

Ancient History

The Story of Civilization vol 1

History Pockets - Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Latin

Prima Latina

Physics

Mark Rober's Crunch Labs - we completed the rockets project (year 1, project 12)

Second Day of School 5/27

 Another great start to our school year.  He loved everything!

Book Basket

Archimedes and the Door of Science

A Light in the Attic

Bible

My First Hymnal

The Action Bible

The Action Bible Devotional

Language Arts

Cursive practice

All About Spelling 3

Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1

Geography

Around the World Coloring Book

Geography from A to Z

We made landforms out of play dough

Music

Story of the Orchestra (Vivaldi and Bach)

We started Ukulele

First Day of 5th Grade! 5/26

Today was our first day of school after taking two months off.  5th grade, Logic Stage and all new subjects.  

He did great and told me how much he liked it.  He said his favorite subject today was Latin, followed by Math.

I timed it to get an idea of how long his school day will take with just him and it was three hours.  We took a "recess" after every two subjects.  

Here's what we did for school.

Book Basket

• Sarah Witcher's Story 
• A Light in the Attic

Math

• We played Sleeping Queens
• We did math fact practice
• Life of Fred Farming

Language Arts

• Handwriting without Tears Cursive Success
• All About Spelling 3
• Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1

Ancient History

• The Story of Civilization volume 1
• History Pockets - Ancient Egypt
• Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Logic

• Cat Crimes (board game)
• Red Herring Mysteries vol 1

Latin

• Prima Latina lesson 1

Our 5th Grade Daily Routine

 I chose our curriculum, bought it, organized it into our book basket and now I'm looking at daily routines/schedules for 5th grade.  

I'm not sure how all of this is going to work out, but this seems to be my best option.  

Weekly Schedule

Monday

• Book Basket
• Math
• Language Arts
• History
• Logic
• Latin

Tuesday

• Book Basket
• Language Arts
• Bible
• Geography
• Music

Wednesday

• Book Basket
• Math
• Language Arts
• History
• Latin
• Physics

Thursday

• Book Basket
• Math
• Language Arts
• Bible
• Art/Handicrafts

Friday

• Physics
• Texas History

Finalizing 5th Grade Plans/Preparing to Start

 Although our plans are generally the same, we've made a couple of small changes as we looked at samples, talked over what we want to do, etc.  I still haven't solidified a weekly schedule for ourselves.  I might just throw everything into a book basket and fly by the seat of our pants without a schedule.

We start the second week of June (after Vacation Bible School).

Here's what we have:

BIBLE

My First Hymnal (Concordia Publishing House)

The Action Bible

The Action Bible Devotional

MATH

Continue Life of Fred series

Math games

LANGUAGE ARTS

Language Lessons for the Elementary Child volume 1

All About Spelling 3, hopefully 4 also

Handwriting without Tears Cursive Success

LITERATURE

Choose as we go

Poetry

HISTORY (2 STREAMS: WORLD AND AMERICAN)

The Story of Civilization volume 1 (Spine)

Famous Figures of Ancient Times

Choose books as we go

GEOGRAPHY

Geography from A to Z

Countries of the World Coloring Book

Paddle to the Sea

Seabird

LOGIC

Cat Crimes Game

Mindbenders volume 3

Red Herring Mysteries Book 1

PHYSICS

Real Science 4 Kids Physics (spine)

Max Axiom comics series

Mark Rober's Crunch Labs year 2

Other labs as we go

Archimedes and the Door of Science

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

LATIN

Minimus: Starting Out in Latin

Learn some of the church prayers in Latin (Prima Latina)

ART

Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia

MUSIC

Story of the Orchestra

HANDICRAFTS

Choose as we go