Homeschool Day 2/27

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Secret of the Sealed Room
• The Apostles

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• He finished Tornado and picked out The Littles as his next book
• All About Spelling 2
• Cursive

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Science

• We plan to do Crunch Labs later this afternoon

Fine Arts

• Piano practice - can't believe how far he's come with piano
• Composer Study
• Chopin's Opus No 9
• Drawing with art markers

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Homeschool Day 2/26

 4th Grade

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• Metamorphic Rocks
• Rock Kit

French with Mr. Innes

• Review vocabulary words

Fine Arts

• Composer Study
• Delacroix's "Self Portrait"
• Piano practice

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• Classes at the college

Homeschool Day 2/25

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• 3 Types of Rocks
• We looked at sample of igneous and sedimentary rocks from the rock and mineral kit

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Classes at the college
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics

Homeschool Day 2/24

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• Properties of Rocks
• LAB: Test a rock for fracture - we used broken geodes for this lab
• I took out the rocks and minerals kit and we spent some time with this.  This is a great kit I bought from Home Science Tools a long time ago.  We also looked at a geode under the microscope

French with Mr. Innes

• Names of drinks

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Planning for High School Graduation

I'm graduating my 17 year-old in May.  If she went to public school, she would be a high school junior this year.  Because we homeschool, she's been able to take dual enrollment classes at the college all year.  She has a large number of credits: 35.5.  It wouldn't be worth it to have a senior year of high school.  She has a 4.0 college GPA also.

Here's my graduation checklist:

• Finalize transcripts
• I make these for free on Word.
• I print, sign and date about 10 copies.  I place three copies in envelopes, seal them and sign/date the back of the envelopes.
• Graduation Packet
• This is also a Word document that's several pages long.  I include information she may need when filling out college applications like volunteer hours, dates, curriculum used, sports/activities, awards, etc.
• Graduation Folder
• I place all the transcripts, envelopes, the graduation packet and any other paperwork or awards into a folder.  I give her the folder at graduation.
• Diploma
• I'm ordering a diploma from www.homeschooldiploma.com.  I'm also ordering a tassel from them.
• Cap/Gown
• I bought one a couple of years ago from www.homeschooldiploma.com, so we will be using that for pictures.
• Graduation Pictures
• Scrapbook
• I'm making her a picture scrapbook on Snapfish.
• Gift Bag
• I'm putting a gift bag with some gifts together for her to give at graduation.

Homeschool Day 2/20

 I don't know how we survived this week, but we did.

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Secret of the Sealed Room
• The Apostles

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Tornado
• All About Spelling 2
• Pokemon Mad Libs

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• Volcanoes
• We watched "National Geographic's Volcanoes 101"

Fine Arts

• Piano practice
• Sketching

12th Grader

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College Courses

Homeschool Day 2/19

4th Grader 

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• Earthquakes
• LAB: Testing structures while simulating earthquakes (we built "buildings" out of blocks on a flat-lying book and then shook the book to simulate an earthquake)

Fine Arts

• Carravagio's "Adoration of the Shepherds"
• Vivaldi's "Concerto in C Major with 2 Flutes"
• Piano practice

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses