Homeschool Wrap Up Week 25

I'm writing this post backwards because Saturday was a very exciting day for us!

Other Activities This Week

Saturday was the regional SeaPerch Competition.  I took over as club leader for our STEM Club last fall when the other leader stopped being a 4 H leader.  One of our 4 H agents had participated in the SeaPerch before and thought it was something our club would enjoy doing.  I am NOT great at building things or designing or engineering, but I was willing and the children were interested.  Our agent was very excited and willing to help out.  We were able to get a grant to buy the kits we needed, so we were on our way!

We started building the ROV at the end of January.  Once we got the basic frame built we had to design an arm for it.  Then practice driving them in the water.  Our local hospital allowed us to use their therapy pool and thankfully our club had a parent volunteer who is good at fixing and building things and was more then willing to help coach the boys.  We had three teams of three, two junior and one senior.  We worked 2-3 days a week preparing for the contest.  It was a lot of work (for adults and children!) but our kids learned so much.

The contest had 4 parts: Presentation, Engineering Notebook, Obstacle Course(driving through 5 hoops and back), and Challenge Course (completing tasks like lighting a beacon, opening a gate, and transporting objects.) Our kids worked very hard preparing for all of the parts of the competition.  Saturday morning was pouring down rain and then the lightning started so our contest was delayed until it quit (thankfully we were at an indoor pool and at least we were dry.)  We had some technical difficulties we had to overcome once we got started (smoking controller, tangling up the cord around hoops in the obstacle course, and a propeller falling off were the big ones) but our kids hung in there.  I was so proud of them!  At the end of the day, awards were given for all four parts of the contest and then overall winners in junior and senior divisions.  Christian's team (junior) won 2nd place for their presentation.  Our senior team (Nick, Alex, and Anthony) won 3rd for presentation and notebook, 2nd for obstacle course, and 1st for challenge course.  They won 1st place overall in the senior division and have qualified to go to Nationals at the University of Maryland in June!

Friday we had our final SeaPerch driving practice, and Lily had piano.

We gave cookies as a Thank You for letting us use the pool

Thursday Emmie had dance and we worked on presentations for SeaPerch.

Wednesday We had Kid's Club.  Liam thinks he is one of the big kids!

Lily accompanying Children's Choir.  She played for them in church this morning!

Tuesday Trap was cancelled because of rain.  Lily, Emmie, Christian, and Nick attended a 4 H muffin workshop.

Monday we worked on SeaPerch presentations and Lily had her make-up piano lesson that we had missed from the Friday before.

Week 25 in our Homeschool

Monday was a local public school holiday so we took it off at home too so I could try to catch up on a few things.

Morning "together" school 2-7th grade

Bible: We completed 3 lessons in the 10 Minute Bible Journey.

Read Aloud: For our morning read loud we finished Book 3 of The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls and started book 4.  We also read Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures.  In the evening we finished Voyage of the Dawn Treader but are still making our way through Dragon Quest.

History: We watched 3 episodes of Drive Thru History Acts to Revelation (upcoming review) and read lessons 19-21 in The Mystery of History Volume 1.

Science: We finished reading lesson 12 on the skin in Apologia Human Anatomy.

Art: We did lesson 2 in our new ARTistic Pursuits Book Art of the Ancients.  The project was to use pastels to do cave drawings.

Individual School 2nd-7th

Emmie completed 3 lessons in Singapore Dimensions.  In Homeschool Complete the theme for week 2 has been maps.  She has had fun reading maps, coloring maps and answering questions about maps this week.  She also completed less on in All About Reading Level 2.

Lily 4th- Lily completed 3 lessons in MLFLE, did 3 days of IXL language arts and math (15 minutes per day of each) and finished her pages for chapters 6 and 7 of Little House in the Big Woods.

Anthony and Christian (6th and 7th)- They both completed 3 days of their Rod and Staff Math books and finished writing their stories to go along with lesson 10 of SWI A.  They also completed Step 11 in AAS Level 6.

Christian worked so hard on the engineering notebook!

Nick had an opportunity to take the ACT free on Wednesday.  The school he attends for one class offers one ACT for free to juniors.  I had not planned on him taking it again until next fall, but it was free so I told me to take advantage of the opportunity and take it so he did.  We won't get the results for several weeks.

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!

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