Home school report for January 30th -



The weeks are definitely going better without mom having to attend college classes 2 days a week. The online RN program is difficult, but worth it for us. This week we attended the home school co-op on Monday afternoon. Caden's class is studying honey bees, he is also participating in choir, Zach is in guitar classes and hand bells. Autumn is not involved in the co-op this year but she using the time to work on her independent work. The boys will be making valentines for a class party next week. This week at home we covered...



Autumn :

Math - a review of ch. 1-3 in geometry this week, she is having trouble remembering some of the concepts & we continue to go at her pace in this area.

Science - properties of water in chemistry

Literature - read Ilyas by Tolstoy, The Mansion by Henry Von Dyke, The Brothers by Bjornson. Ilyas was her favorite.

Vocab/ spelling review of roots; ven,vent,ali,alter,log,logy,omni and the prefixes; peri,ante,un,hypo,sur,ante.

Writing - continues with dictation exercises and free writing

geography - southern states, we plan to go out for Cajun food next week to wrap up our study of Louisiana.



Zach:

math - fractions/decimals

Science - plant kingdom studied molds, moss and mushrooms. We have a mold experiment in progress...

grammar - word usage ( lay/lie, set/sit ect..)

spelling - learning rules ( Z is such a poor speller, we are starting with the rules and phonic instruction to see if it helps)

writing - continues with dictation exercises and free writing

geography ( as above)

music - lesson each week and in home school group



Caden:

math - horizons finished lesson 20 ( doing great in math)

science - studying plants, attempted to a bean seed ( it never sprouted will try again this week, read aloud the trellis and the seed, & cactus hotel. We studied how water travels up a stem.

story time - we are reading a pioneer sampler (both boys love this book , so do I)

copy work - least favorite subject, we copy selections from poems, history, science, and spelling words.

history - continue with early life for the Pilgrims, made ice cream ( use HOD)

reading - phonics using Noah Webster's reading handbook



yesterday we added a small unit study on snowflakes to take advantage of the 6 inches + that fell here over the last 24hrs. We made snow cream, looked at snowflakes, learned why snowflakes form the way they do (hexagon shaped) and read the poem To a snow flake.


Blessings Lisa