Thursday, September 30, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/30

 1st Grader

  • Dragonbox's Numbers (math app)
  • Teach Your Monster to Read (app)
  • Wrote a letter to his ballet teacher and mailed it
  • Did a connect the dots math page and colored it
  • First Language Lessons 1
  • Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
  • Wild animals coloring book
9th and 11th Grader: World Geography Week
  • Night (Elie Wiesel)
  • Animal Farm (read-aloud)
  • World Geography
    • Trail Guide to World Geography (Asia)
    • Mapwork (Asia)
    • Mapping the World with Art (North America)
    • Red Scarf Girl (read-aloud)
  • Researched and discussed Mao Zedong, genocide in China and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Reader's Theater (9th grader - outsourced class)

Homeschool Day 9/29

 1st Grader

  • Go, Otto, Go (he read this to me)
  • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • Explode the Code
  • Sang his ABCs while we pointed to the alphabet
  • Story of the World 1 (Egypt)
  • Beginner's Bible
  • First Language Lessons 1
  • Math
    • What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?
    • Practiced telling time with the clock
9th and 11th Graders: World Geography Week
  • Night
  • Animal Farm (read-aloud)
  • World Geography
    • Trail Guide to World Geography (Asia)
    • Mapwork (Asia)
    • Mapping the World with Art (Hawaii)
  • Shakespearean Theater (11th grader -outsourced class)

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/28

 1st Grader

  • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • Go, Otto, Go (he read to me)
  • Handwriting practice on the whiteboard app on the iPad
  • Math
    • Counted to 100
    • Counted by 10s to 100
    • Added lawn dice after we threw them in the grass
  • Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
    • Bats
  • Gymnastics
  • Played outside
9th and 11th Graders - Geography Week
  • Gandhi (movie)
  • Night (Elie Wiesel)
  • World Geography
    • Mapping the World with Art (Antarctica)
    • Red Scarf Girl
    • Trail Guide to World Geography (Asia)
    • Mapwork (Asia)
    • Country Fact Report 
      • Brazil - 11th grader
      • Peru - 9th grader
  • Gymnastics class
  • Played outside

Monday, September 27, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/27

 1st Grader

  • P.E. - we played disc golf together
  • Math
    • Telling time on the hour 
    • Balance scale with gram weights
  • Copywork
    • He copied a sentence from his reading
  • Reading
    • Go, Otto, go (he finished reading this to me)
    • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • First Language Lessons 1
  • Story of the World 1 (Ancient Egypt)
  • MetKids: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Looked at virtual exhibits of ancient Egypt
  • Cub Scouts
9th and 11th Graders: World Geography Week (finishing our geography credit)
  • Animal Farm (read-aloud)
  • Night (Elie Wiesel)
  • World Geography
    • Mapping the World with Art (South America)
    • Red Scarf Girl (audiobook)
    • Trail Guide to World Geography (Asia)
    • Map of the world puzzle
    • Country Fact Reports - North America
      • 9th grader did Canada
      • 11th grader did the U.S.
  • P.E. - we played disc golf at the park
  • Piano Practice
  • 11th grader did Driver's Ed and practiced driving (Aceable for driver's ed)

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/23

 1st Grader

  • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • Wrote a letter to his cousin (wow, he really likes to write letters)
  • First Language Lessons 1
  • Story of the World 1
  • Bible
    • Paul Writes a Letter (Chris Raschka)
  • Wild Math
    • Tablespoon, teaspoon, half and a quarter
    • Used rice to make measurements
    • Played with the rice for H O U R S.
  • Basketball at the park
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
  • Bible readings (Job - 11th, Joshua - 9th)
  • Night (Elie Wiesel)
  • Physics
    • University of Colorado Boulder Projectile Motion Simulator
    • "Projectile Motion and Parabolas - Science of NFL Football" (Youtube video)
    • Conceptual Physics chapter 3 - I taught this on the dry erase board
    • LAB
      • Penny Dropped versus Pushed experiment on pg 35
      • Catapult Experiment - we launched different weighted objects from a catapult and compared the distance.  The lighter objects traveled farther.
  • Reader's Theater (9th grader - outsourced class)

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Homeschool Day 9/22

 1st Grader

  • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • See Otto (he read this to me)
  • Explode the Code
  • Copywork - copied two sentences from See Otto
  • First Language Lessons 1
  • Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
    • Megabats
  • Played at the park
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
  • Bible reading (Job - 11th, Joshua - 9th)
  • Night (Elie Wiesel)
  • German
    • Komm Mit 1 (9th)
    • "Des Teufels russiger Bruder" (11th)
  • Chemistry
    • Masterbooks Chemistry
      • Chemical Equations 2
      • CE 2 Lab
  • Coding
    • Python
    • Scratch
  • Red Scarf Girl
  • Shakespearean Theater (outsourced class - 11th grader)
  • Played at the park (9th grader)

Homeschool Day 9/21

 1st Grader

  • Playing at the park
  • Winnie the Pooh (read-aloud)
  • See Me Play (he read this to me)
  • Handwriting practice - capitals on the whiteboard app on his iPad
  • Story of the World 1 (we just started this)
  • Wild Math 
    • Practiced telling time to the hour
    • Weight/Volume with plastic beakers.  He poured water back and forth into plastic beakers to see which ones held the most water.  We also weighed the water.  We weight 200ml of ice versus 200ml of water to see which weighed more (the water weighed more).
9th and 11th Graders
  • Algebra 1 (9th) and Stewardship (11th)
  • Night  (Elie Wiesel)
  • Bible reading (Esther - 11th, Joshua - 9th)
  • World Geography
    • Mapping the World with Art
    • Trail Guide to World Geography (finished Africa)
    • Notebooking/notetaking
  • Animal Farm (read-aloud)
  • Gymnastics class

Homeschool Day 9/16

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