A fellow homeschool mom set up a homeschool field trip to a local pumpkin patch for us that was supposed to be on Monday. But bad storms were forecast for Sunday night into Monday with tornadoes possible in some areas (a few did touch down but not near here) so they moved our date to Friday. But, a few days later Friday was showing a lot of rain all day long. So then they moved us to Thursday. It was fine for me I just had to move some school things around, but several other people ended up being unable to go so it was a very small group of us, but we had a good time and it was sunny and in the 60's. My boys stayed home, they are a bit over the pumpkin patch age, but Chelsea brought Liam and Willow. Liam and the girls had a wonderful time!
Week 10 in our Homeschool
Bible: We finished the book of Luke.
History: We read lessons 55, 56, and 57 in The Mystery of History Vol 1.
Art: We watched a HIGasfy video on Degas. Our art project was skipped when the field trip date moved.
Music Appreciation: We read two chapters on Schumann. The music lesson was on the conductor so we learned about what the conductor does and what the motions mean. There was a short Youtube video we watched in addition to the lessons in the book.
Poetry: We are working on a new poem and reviewing old poems. The new poem is The Spider and the Fly.
Science: For the younger 3 we started Chapter 2 in Botany. This chapter is teaching about seeds. We looked at different types of seeds , parts of a seed and opened up a bean seed to see what was inside. They learned what seeds need to grow and started an experiment planting a bean seed in 3 different locations (window, closet, fridge) to see which one grows the best. For people interested in using Apologia Science but worried about it being over younger elementary students head should start with Botany.
Emmie is reading La Mariposa in literature and working on punctuating dialogue in her grammar (a bit over her head but we're working on it.) We are back using CTC Math and she completed 3 days of it. She is doing really well in math so far this year. In AAR Level 3 she read the story Train Cat.
Lily finished The Earth Dragon Awakes in Lightning Lit and completed 3 lessons in her Reading Eggs workbook. She also completed 3 lessons in CTC Math. She is struggling a bit with times tables memorization for 6's and up and we are working on that.
Christian and Anthony are going through the steps on how to write a persuasive essay. They had to pick a favorite book or movie and write an essay that would persuade a librarian to buy it for the library. I struggle with their reasons are not as solid as they should be but we are working on the process and getting it down then will go back and work on coming up with more specific reasons. They did 3 chapters in Robin Hood and completed Step 29 in AAS 6 (only step left in this level.) Christian did 4 lessons in CTC Math. Anthony started Thinkwell Pre-Algebra (upcoming review.) I hesitated to start a different math but what made me lean towards trying it was CTC in the upper levels does not work out every problem. It gives the correct answer if you get it wrong but did not show the steps on how to get there. One of the big reasons for switching to computer math was so I didn't have to teach. But when he was getting things wrong I would have to watch the video and then work out the problems with him. So we decided to give Thinkwell a try. So far it has gone very well but we have only had it for 4 days.
Other Activities this Week
Monday the girls had gymnastics.
Tuesday I don't think we left the house.
Wednesday we had Kid's Club, Children's Choir, and Youth.
There was a little girl Wednesday that came to us injured and was waiting for someone to come pick her up and Emmie and her friend made her Feel Better soon cards during their craft time. I thought that was so sweet!
Thursday we went to the pumpkin patch.
Then Emmie had dance.
Friday the girls had music.
Saturday we went to a local Trunk or Treat. Last year it was in the 90's. Saturday was in the 50's but at least the rain stopped.
Sunday evening it was my week to be in charge of youth. We had a cookout and it was beautiful weather. The girls got to tag along with me. (that's why this post was not written on time!)
I hope you had a great week!
Happy Homeschooling!
Such cute little Halloween police officers!!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the comment you left on my last post. I hope you can find help for your little one and your family. Have you talked to your pediatrician about what's going on? It's possible there are meds to help reduce such outbursts. My Beowulf has been helped by one of his meds. Brother and Ladybug seem to have had more damage to their brains, so meds are less effective for them.
I hope geography fills the hole you're feeling in school! It seems like you're all doing so much good stuff already!!!