Homeschool Day 8/31

 2nd Grader

Math

• Life of Fred - finished Apples, looked at Butterflies (the next book).  We are switching off between Mathusee and Life of Fred for now

Reading/Language Arts

• All About Reading
• All About Spelling - adding this has really helped his reading
• Funschooling's Storyteller Book
• He told me a story and I dictated the story into his notebook
• Funschooling's Curious Creatures Journal

Fine Arts

• Easy Peasy Music Appreciation
• More ancient Roman instruments - the bagpipe isn't Scottish???

Sonlight B World History 1 (Bible, history and literature)

• Usual reading - Usborne Time Traveler and Owls in the Family
• Bedtime read-aloud: Henry and Beezus (Beverly Cleary)

Wednesday night church activities (Youth Group)

10th Grader

Mathusee Geometry

Bible

• Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
• Daily Bible reading (2 Kings)

Astronomy

• Smithsonian's The Planets

Fine Arts

• Easy Peasy High School Music Appreciation
• Gustav Mahler
• We spent a loooooong time listening to what Spanish guitars/classical guitars sound like.  I think I am going to try to buy her one for Christmas.  We also listened to steel lap guitars, 12 string guitars, etc.  Apparently, we need to take a field trip to Guitar Center.
• She practiced Ukulele (because that ukulele has become an extension of her body)

Bookshark J History of Science (history and literature)

• The usual Bookshark reading
• Archimedes
• Zero and ancient number systems
• We watched some videos about Vedic math and she was fascinated by it
• Going Solo (Roald Dahl)

Wednesday night church activities (Youth Group)

Homeschool Day 8/30

2nd Grader

Reading/Language Arts

• All About Reading
• All About Spelling

Science

• We read Coral Reefs (Gail Gibbons)

Read-aloud

• Henry and Beezus (Beverly Cleary)

10th Grader

Geometry

• She read Horrible Maths Savage Shapes

Bible

• Daily Bible reading (2 Kings)

Language Skills

• Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate workbook
• Writing exercises in They Say, I Say

Bookshark J History of Science (history and literature)

• Going Solo
• Archimedes

Fine Arts

• Ukulele/Guitar Collaborative Class (outsourced)

Homeschool Day 8/29

 2nd Grader

Math

• Mathusee Alpha

Reading/Language Arts

• All About Reading
• Handwriting without Tears

Science

• We read the book Seashores (About Habitats)
• We watched the Pixar short Piper - excellent 5-6 minute film about a sandpiper on the beach (on Disney +)

Sonlight B World History 1 (Bible, literature and history)

• We did all of our Sonlight reading
• Henry and Beezus (bedtime reading)
• Owls in the Family (read-aloud)

10th Grader

Geometry

• Mathusee Geometry

Bible

• Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
• Daily Bible reading (2 Kings)

Grammar/Writing

• Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate workbook
• She did some writing exercises from They Say, I Say

Astronomy

• Smithsonian's The Planets
• We looked at more pictures of Messier 57 (the Ring Nebula) and compared them to pictures we had taken from the Mamalluca Observatory in Chile last week (through the NASA MicroObservatory website)
• Followed the failure of the Artemis Launch this morning (unmanned spacecraft to the moon)
• Spent some time looking at the Artemis missions on NASA's website 

Bookshark History of Science J (history and literature)

• We did our usual reading
• Going Solo (Roald Dahl)
• Archimedes
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Geocentric models
• Dark Ages

Fine Arts

• She practiced ukulele again (we can't get her away from the ukulele)

Homeschool Day 8/26: Robotics and Writing

 2nd Grader

• Lego Engineering class (outsourced)
• Theater class (outsourced)
• Building with K'Nex

10th Grader

STEM/Technology (co-op'ing with another homeschool family)

• Ozobot - they completed a couple of the programming challenges on Ozoblockly

Writing (co-op'ing with another homeschool family)

• They Say, You Say - writing exercises 

Homeschool Day 8/25: PE (Cycling)

 2nd Grader

• He spent the entire morning playing with his green army guys, so I left him alone
• Bedtime read-aloud: Henry and Beezus (Beverly Cleary)

10th Grader

Bookshark J History of Science

• She spent a big chunk of time finishing her essay on The Thief.  I read it and we went over some issues with her writing - structure, etc.

Fine Arts

• She spent a long time playing ukulele again
• Ballet class (outsourced)

Physical Education

• We biked for about 3 miles this afternoon.  We took a scenic bike trail that runs through the woods alongside a creek.  Lots of bridges to cross and squirrels everywhere.  Both of them really enjoyed the ride.  

Homeschool Day 8/24

 2nd Grader

Math

• Life of Fred Apples (only one more chapter left of this - thank goodness)

Reading

• All About Reading

Language Arts

• All About Spelling

Science

• The Good and Beautiful Marine Biology
• Finished marine reptiles

Fine Arts

• Easy Peasy Music Appreciation Ancients
• String instruments

Sonlight B World History 1 (Bible, literature, history)

• We did all of our reading
• Owls in the Family
• Henry and Beezus (bedtime read-aloud)

Wednesday night Youth Group activities at church

10th Grader

Bookshark J History of Science (literature and history)

• Spelling words
• Essay writing assignment - she worked on this for a loooong time
• Writing about the plot of The Thief
• History and literature reading
• Eudoxus 
• Hipparchus
• Archimedes and the Door of Science
• Going Solo (Roald Dahl)

Astronomy

• Azimuth
• Astrolabe
• Using your hands to measure elevation above the horizon
• Video about how the night sky changes because of the Earth's wobble
• SkyView app 

Fine Arts

• Easy Peasy High School Music Appreciation
• Gustav Mahler

Wednesday night Youth Group activities at church

Homeschool Day: 8/23 Trip to the Zoo

 2nd Grader

Math

• Life of Fred Apples
• We worked on telling time with clock manipulative
• We went through all the +3 addition facts

Reading

• All About Reading

Language Arts

• Handwriting without Tears
• All About Spelling

Science

• Field Trip to the ZOO
• Documentary: Inside the Mind of a Cat

10th Grader

Math

• Mathusee Geometry

Easy Grammar 10th Grade Ultimate Grammar workbook

Astronomy

• Smithsonian's The Planets

Fine Arts

• She practiced ukulele

Extras

• We went to the ZOO
• Documentary: Inside the Mind of a Cat