Homeschool Day 7/8

1st Grader

• Handwriting without Tears - letter C
• Math - we played Dominos (Mexican Train).  The first round upset him and he started crying.  Mexican Train takes some strategy and logic when you're 6.  He kept going and was fine after that.
•  Reading - I used plastic letters to spell out a bunch of CVC words from All About Spelling level 1. He CAN read, but he just has such a short attention span that we can only read a few words at a time.  It's frustrating
• World Geography
• Read about North America in DK Children's Encyclopedia
• Put together a puzzle of the United States (each piece was a state)
• Summer's Lab Science
• We read the section on Clouds from DK Children's Encyclopedia

9th Grader

• Dragonbox Algebra
• Creative Writing - she continued her short story.  It's a mystery/suspense.  She had excellent use of paragraphs, great descriptive writing, etc.  
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• Mapping the World with Art - the Iberian Peninsula
• A Long Walk to Water
• The Wave

11th Grader

• Creative writing - she finished her short story.  Let me just say that she's the next Ray Bradbury.
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• Mapping the World with Art - the Iberian Peninsula
• A Long Walk to Water
• The Wave
• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

College Freshman

• Ended the first summer session with a 98% average.  Started the second session on Monday.  GIANT learning curve with the apps and tech he needed to successfully submit his work.  He spent most of Monday through Wednesday frustrated and asking for help with the programs/app.  By today, he seemed to have figured everything out.
• When the kids start a new semester, I now expect the first week to be mass hysteria as the kids figure out how to navigate their new classes.

Homeschool Day 7/7

 1st Grader

• Well, he made up for yesterday.  He was loving school today.
• Beginner's Bible
• We read Flat Stanley
• Math
• www.educationunboxed.com has a game called "What's in the Box?"  We played 'what's under the cup.'  It's an addition game.  You take two cuisinaire rods and place them in an addition sentence using notecards.  You place the "answer" cuisinaire rod in a box (or under a cup).  The kid has to find the cuisinaire rod that's the answer and then compare his answer to the one under the cup: http://www.educationunboxed.com/whats-in-the-box-part-one/ He loved this game so much that he got mad when I said it was time to stop.  😬
• Summer's Lab Science - we started the unit on clouds.  We looked outside and identified the clouds in the sky.
• Trail Guide to World Geography - he really likes geography, but I'm starting to feel like this is just way over his head.  I want to keep doing geography with him, but I might have to start from scratch and put it together myself.

9th Grader

• Bible (Genesis)
• Dragonbox Algebra
• Online Spelling Bee
• Read-aloud The Wave
• The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• The Long Walk to Water
• Guide - South America, including discussions of earthquakes in Chile, volcanoes, map work, Machu Picchu

11th Grader

• Bible (2 Kings)
• Algebra 2
• Online Spelling Bee
• Read-aloud The Wave
• The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• The Long Walk to Water
• Guide - South America, including discussions of earthquakes in Chile, volcanoes, map work, Machu Picchu

Homeschool Day 7/6

 1st Grader

• Yeah, this was a terrible, non-productive day for him.  He mostly wanted to play with his toy dragons.  I did what I could and then just let him go
• Handwriting without Tears
• Wild Math
• We counted by 5s and 10s
• He used the Montessori number chart to fill in the 5's and 10's in order
• We used plastic farm animals to go over even and odds
• He did a few addition problems
• He read a few words from his reader and that just went south quickly.  It was not very productive.  
• We read Flat Stanley

9th Grader

• Bible (Genesis)
• Algebra 1- we worked some review problems together that she missed in the workbook
• Language Lessons - book titles
• The Wave
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• World Geography
• Trail Guide to World Geography (South America) - did some great note-taking in their notebooks on special geographic features in South America
• The Long Walk to Water
• Mapping the World with Art - I think they drew the Ukraine
• We watched The Joy Luck Club (with some censoring) 

11th Grader

• Bible (2 Kings)
• Algebra 2 - she started the section on those coin word problems and consecutive number word problems
• Language Lessons for the High School Student - expository writing
• The Wave
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• World Geography
• Trail Guide to World Geography (South America) - did some great note-taking in their notebooks on special geographic features in South America
• The Long Walk to Water
• Mapping the World with Art - I think they drew the Ukraine
• We watched The Joy Luck Club (with some censoring)

Homeschool Day 7/5

 

• More catfishing.  We did catch a rather large catfish - had to use the net to bring it in.  
• Read The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• I read aloud The Wave and Gladys Aylward: Christian Heroes Then and Now
• The girls read The Long Walk to Water
• I'm pretty sure everyone did their Bible reading

Homeschool Days 7/1-7/2

 

7/1

• Creek fishing in the morning.  We caught about ten bluegill, but no other kind of fish.
• High Schoolers read The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) and A Long Walk to Water.  I read aloud The Wave.  We decided that our next read-aloud will be Animal Farm, because The Wave and Anne Frank are spurring all kinds of interesting discussions.  We're also going to find the German movie version of The Wave.
• 1st Grader read Flat Stanley with me.
• 11th Grader is learning a complicated piano piece from Chopin.

7/2

• I took the kids rollerskating.  We ate lunch at a hamburger place and then went to the library.

Homeschool Day 6/30

1st Grader

• Beginner's Bible - we started the New Testament
• Math
• Counted to 100
• Skip-counted by 5s and 10s
• Used farm animals to learn about even and odd
• Did some simple addition problems using the rubber farm animals
• BOB Book - he read an entire book
• Alphabet puzzle - he put the puzzle together, but I also made him tell me the letters' proper names
• Summer's Lab Science - we made a solar oven and cooked s'mores in the driveway...well, and then ate them
• We read Flat Stanley 

9th Grader

• Bible - Genesis
• Algebra 1 - she needed me to do more problems on the dry-erase board.  Solving two equations with two variables
• Online Spelling Bee
• She read Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• I read The Wave
• Trail Guide to World Geography (South America)
• Mapping the World with Art - the Caspian Sea
• A Long Walk to Water
• We watched a video about the Panama Canal and watched a time-lapse video of ships traveling through the canal + the locks
• Video about Venezuela's Angel Falls
• Video about the Mid-Ocean Rift

11th Grader

• Bible - 2 Kings
• Algebra 2 - she's on one of the final lessons
• Online Spelling Bee
• She read Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• I read The Wave
• Trail Guide to World Geography (South America)
• Mapping the World with Art - the Caspian Sea
• A Long Walk to Water
• We watched a video about the Panama Canal and watched a time-lapse video of ships traveling through the canal + the locks
• Video about Venezuela's Angel Falls
• Video about the Mid-Ocean Rift

Geography Videos

Building of the Panama Canal (TED Talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_UuHRtXCY

Panama Canal Full Transit Time-Lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8TkcWhmByg

Angel Falls in Venezuela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_tqK4eqelA

Homeschool Day 6/29

 1st Grader

• Handwriting without Tears
• Math
• Game: flip a penny onto a 100 board and then build the number the penny landed on with Cuisinaire rods (Mathusee blocks)
• Lawn Dice - we rolled the dice and then he told me which number is bigger and then he added the numbers
• Skip-counting by 10s and 5s
• He counted to 100 again
• Explode the Code
• We read Flat Stanley
• Trail Guide to World Geography (North America)
• He put together a puzzle of North American countries

9th Grader

• Bible (Genesis)
• Algebra 1 - she needed me to do the workbook page on the dry-erase board (solving 2 equations with 2 variables)
• Language Lessons
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• The Wave
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• She read A Long Walk to Water
• She put together a puzzle of Europe, complete with each country's flag/capital

11th Grader

• Bible (2 Kings)
• Algebra 2
• Language Lessons for the High School Student
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• The Wave
• Trail Guide to World Geography
• She read A Long Walk to Water
• Puzzle of Asia and Africa, complete with each country's flag/capital