Homeschool Wrap Up Week 2

 For our second wek back to homeschool, we added in language arts.  We also were able to squeeze a nature study in during a break in the rain this week and watched an art history video.  It was a busy and good homeschool week but we are still working on trying to get into a good routine that will allow us to get all of our work done without feeling rushed or frustrated.  

Week 2 in our Homeschool

 

Bible: We finished reading 1st Corinthians and started 2 Corinthians.

Read Aloud: We read three chapters in the YWAM biography on John Adams.  It was very interesting to read about John's experience being innoculated for smallpox.  We had a very interesting discussion about science and medicine and how the experts and ideas that everyone thinks is good at the time may not be considered good science or medicine in the future ;)

History: We finished Week 2 in The Mystery of History Vol II on Nero, The Martyrs of the Early Church, and Josephus.

Science: The boys are working on their science independently.  The girls' lessons were on jellyfish this week.

Nature Study: Our nature study this week was on ponds with a focus on insects.  We had gotten a LOT of rain again this week but Thursday morning there was only a sprinkle.  We headed to the park with sketchbooks and they did sketches of the pond there and then we did a mile walk. There were not very many insects out (of course) but we still had a good conversation about them.

Art History: We watched the first HiGASFY video in the Renaissance series that discussed the Bubonic Plague and how that led into the Renaissance.

Language Arts: Christian and Anthony worked on sentence fragments this week and independent and dependent clauses.  Emmie's lessons were based on poems and using synonyms for common words.  Lily's lesson were based on the book Dreamer. Alex is working on watching IEW's Essay Intensive video.

Math: I had to dust off some of my Algebra skills when all three of us got conflicting answers to a problem, but we figured it all out.  The younger 3 completed their Teaching Textbooks lessons on their own and it went well for week 2.

Reading/Spelling: We have not started spelling yet.  Emmie completed lesson 1 review in AAR Reading Level 4 and we spent the rest of the week working on lesson 2.

 

Other Activities this Week

The rest of the week we worked on taking care of animals and getting them ready for livestock shows next week.  We tagged, washed, and clipped goats and trimmed hooves.  We washed and clipped pigs.  We practiced walking and bracing goats and then practiced some more.  Goats are stubborn and hard headed and can be hard to work with.  They were hard to work with this week!  

 

The girls had fun playing with their rabbits.

 

We are excited and nervous for the upcoming livestock shows!

 

We are taking the whole week off of school.  Nick and Art were both home for Labor Day so we took that day off and we have livestock stuff the rest of the week.

 

I hope you had a great week!

 

Happy Homeschooling!