5th Grader
Book Basket
Archimedes and the Door of Science
A Light in the Attic
Math
Addition math facts
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Cursive Success
Queen's Language Lessons
Sequential Spelling - we switched from All About Spelling, because he felt it was for babies, but SS seems too hard for him
Ancient History
We finished Pharoah's Boat
We worked on History Pockets Ancient Egypt
Logic
Cat Crimes
Mindbenders
Latin
Prima Latina lesson 5
Fifth Grader
We switched spelling programs from All About Spelling to Sequential Spelling, but not because All About Spelling wasn't working. He was upset, because he felt like it was "spelling for babies" and he was embarrassed to be using it. I already owned five levels of Sequential Spelling and grabbed it off the shelf to show him samples. He said he wanted to try Sequential Spelling instead. So, we switched. If he doesn't like Sequential Spelling, we can easily switch back.
Book Basket
Sarah Whitcher's Story
A Light in the Attic
Math
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Sequential Spelling 1
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
Bible
Action Bible Devotional
My First Hymnal - "Someone Special"
Action Bible - Abram
Latin
Prima Latina - test on lesson 4
Art
The Arts - Ancient Egyptian art
He did a drawing of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch
We have now started Year 2 of Crunch Labs. This is the last year of subscription boxes, unless we subscribe to the Hack Pack, which is more for high school. So we will need to wait on that, since my student is only ten years old.
Here's a link:
We love Crunch Labs and I count it as Physics in my son's school records. This lab was the Bell Curve/Soccer Goalie.
Here's a video of our project:
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
Sarah Whitcher's Story
A Light in the Attic
Math
Subtraction with math dice
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Cursive Success
All About Spelling 3
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child
Ancient History
Pharoah's Boat
Latin
Prima Latina lesson 4
Physics
Crunch Labs: Bell Curve (has its own post with video)
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
Archimedes and the Door of Science
A Light in the Attic
Language Arts
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
Bible
Action Bible Devotional
Action Bible - Job
My First Hymnal - Psalms
Geography
Around the World Coloring Book - AUSTRIA
Geography from A to Z - cliffs, caves and continental divide
Music
Story of the Orchestra - Wagner - we listened to part of Ride of the Valkyries
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
Sarah Whitcher's Story
A Light in the Attic
Math
Math dice
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Cursive Success
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
All About Spelling 3
Ancient History
History Pockets: Ancient Egypt - we made the paper doll project
We browsed the pictures in the book The Treasures of Tutankhamen and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo
We looked at Xrays, pictures and CT scans of ancient Egyptian mummies online - he was pretty obsessed with this topic
Logic
We played Cat Crimes
Mindbenders
Latin
Prima Latina lesson 4 vocabulary
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
Archimedes and the Door of Science
A Light in the Attic
Math
We played Math War (card game)
Life of Fred Farming
Bible
The Action Bible
Action Bible Anytime Devotions
My First Hymnal
Language Arts
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child
All About Spelling 3
Art
The Arts - Ancient Egyptian art
He worked on a flower sketch
Physics
Mark Rober's Crunch Labs - we made the paper airplane launcher
We've officially completed all of the first year Crunch Labs
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
Sarah Whitcher's Story
A Light in the Attic
Math
Subtraction math facts
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Cursive Success
All About Spelling 3
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
Ancient History
Tutankamen's Gift
Famous Figures from Ancient Times - we made Pharaoh Khufu
We looked at pictures of the Narmer Palette
Latin
Prima Latina lesson 3
Fifth Grader:
Book Basket
Sarah Whitcher's Story - this is a really good book!!
A Light in the Attic
Math
Math facts practice
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Cursive Success
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
All About Spelling 3
Ancient History
We finished So You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder
History Pockets Ancient Egypt - this is fun - we made the ancient symbol necklace
Logic
Red Herring Mysteries book 1 - we're not doing too well with this - I might drop it
We played Rush Hour (board game)
Latin
Prima Latina lesson 3
Music
The Story of the Orchestra - Beethoven
Here's the website: https://www.tcu.edu/
We toured this university today, because our son is a Senior this year at TCU and our daughter is planning to apply to TCU for her Master's later this year. Our fourth is also considering TCU for their dance department as an undergrad.
TCU is very homeschool-friendly. They accepted our homemade transcripts with no problem. They also have a transfer agreement with our local community college and they accepted all of our son's transfer credits.
The campus is incredible. It's enormous and took us four hours to walk the entire campus and see everything we wanted to see. It's very clean and well-maintained. They are very sports-focused with an incredible football stadium and basketball stadium. They're a Division 1 school. They have D1 sports, along with club sports.
My son has really liked this university. The classes are rigorous, but there is a lot of support for students. The school tries to include their families in different activities, which is refreshing, since we have not seen that at our daughters' universities.
They just opened a medical school and my son met their entrance requirements, so we discussed applying, but he chose to continue in the field of nursing.
Here are some pictures we took of campus today.
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
A Light in the Attic
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Math
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
Bible
My First Hymnal "Holy, Holy, Holy"
The Action Bible
Action Bible Anytime Devotions
Latin
Prima Latina - test on lesson 3 (he got a 100%)
Art
The Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia - The Standard of Ur
Fifth Grader
Fifth Grader
Book Basket
A Light in the Attic
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Language Arts
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
All About Spelling 3
Bible
My First Hymnal - Psalms
Action Bible Anytime Devotions
The Action Bible
Geography
Around the World Coloring Book - Australia
Geography from A to Z
Music
Story of the Orchestra - Haydn and Mozart
Vacation Bible School has ended. The ballet recital is now over. The 12th grader has graduated. It's back to business with the 5th grader.
I'm having him take a recess to play outside after every two subjects. This is causing our school to drag out a bit, but it's helping him focus better.
School today only took three hours, so it really isn't much.
Book Basket
A Light in the Attic
Sarah Whitcher's Story
Math
Addition practice (timed)
Life of Fred Farming
Language Arts
Cursive Success
Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1
All About Spelling 3
Ancient History
Timeline Figures - we made Narmer from the book Famous Figures from Ancient Times
So You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder!
1000 Facts About Ancient Egypt
Logic
Cat Crimes (board game)
Mindbenders Book 3
Latin
Prima Latina lesson 2
"The Fox and the Grapes: A Mini Unit Study" - a blog post from www.diyhomeschooler.com
https://diyhomeschooler.com/the-fox-and-the-grapes-a-mini-unit/
I thought these were interesting step-by-step instructions on how to teach grammar, writing and spelling using literature (without a curriculum).
