Homeschool Day 9/12

 4th Grader

We did part of our schoolwork at his sister's college again today.  Very relaxing.

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• My First Catechism
• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• Native American Indians - we finished this book today - it was excellent

Reading/Language Arts

• Hill of Fire (reader)
• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears
• Freewriting

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
• Beast Academy

Science

• Abeka's 4th Grade Science text
• Identifying trees

Art & Music

• Artistic Pursuits
• Value/Contrast

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• Beowulf
• Vide: "TED ED - Where Did English Come From?"

Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment courses at the college

Homeschool Day 9/11

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• North American Indians
• Explore Native American Cultures!
• 100 Bible Stories

Reading/Language Arts

• Hill of Fire
• All About Spelling 2
• Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More About Adverbs
• We identified parts of speech in several sentences

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
• Beast Academy

Science

• Abeka's 4th Grade Science textbook
• God's Purpose for Plants

French

• French with Mr. Innes

Art & Music

• Piano practice

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• Beowulf

Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment classes at the college

• She got a 100% on her kinesiology test!!

Homeschool Day 9/10

 This is our athletics co-op day.  So, they most of the day in the gym.

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• North American Indians
• My First Catechism

Reading/Language Arts

• Hill of Fire (reader)
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
• Beast Academy

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• The Three Theban Plays
• Antigone

Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment at the college

Homeschool Day 9/9

We did our schoolwork outside today, which the 4th grader loved. 

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• North American Indians
• Explore Native American Cultures!
• 100 Bible Stories

Reading/Language Arts

• Wagon Wheels
• Freewriting
• Mad Libs

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
• Beast Academy

Science

• Abeka's 4th Grade Science
• God's Purpose for Plants

Art & Music

• Piano
• Just the Facts 2
• Alfred's Piano Course Book 2

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• The Three Theban Plays
• Antigone

Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment courses at the college

Homeschool Day 9/5

 4th grader finished freakishly early again.  As long as he finished my lesson plans and did a good job, I'm not going to add more work.  12th grader is still working.

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• He is now using plastic figurines and magnatiles to recreate Powhatan's village and reenact the book - lol - these figurines are everywhere all over the dinner table and we have to scoot the council house around so we can eat
• My First Catechism
• A Child's Introduction to Poetry

Reading/Language Arts

• Wagon Wheels
• All About Spelling 2
• Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb?
• We also did some identifying parts of speech with sentences on the dry erase board

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
• Beast Academy

Science

• Abeka's 4th Grade Science
• Overcoming Weight and Gravity - levers, fulcrum, catapults

Here, Powhatan's tribe was on one side of the lever, while the Disney characters were on the other side, balancing on the fulcrum.  Sigh...

French

• Reviewed our vocabulary words from French with Mr. Innes

Art & Music

• Piano practice

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• The Three Theban Plays
• Antigone

Personal Finance

• Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment classes at the college

• She was happy yesterday after school, because the English professor used her essay as an example in class

Homeschool Day 9/4

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• Explore Native American Cultures!
• 100 Bible Stories

Reading/Language Arts

• Wagon Wheels
• All About Spelling 2
• Writing exercise
• He had to write a description of a capybara

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook
• Beast Academy

Science

• Abeka 4th Grade Science textbook
• Overcoming weight and gravity
• We made some simple machines, including a toy pulley

French

• French with Mr. Innes (YouTube)

Art & Music

• Artistic Pursuits
• Looking at things under a microscope and drawing them
• Piano practice

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• The Three Theban Plays
• Antigone (Sophocles)

Personal Finance

• Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment classes at the college

Homeschool Day 9/3

This was our athletic co-op day, so we spent several hours at karate and the 12th grader teaches gymnastics. 

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Pocahontas and the Strangers
• Explore Native American Cultures!
• People of the southeast 

Reading/Language Arts

• Wagon Wheels (reader)
• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears

Math

• IXL 4th Grade Math Workbook

Science

• Abeka's 4th Grade Science text
• Gravitational Forces

12th Grader

Classical Literature

• Antigone

Personal Finance

• Mathusee Stewardship

ASL Basics

Dual enrollment classes at the college