Month: February 2020

Week 24 of Homeschool: In honor of Presidents Day, we read about the Presidents and re-created national landmarks with paper, looked at the geography of more European countries, learned Newton’s Third Law of Motion and performed experiments with screws, nails, apples and pencils to see how simple machines work, read about Japan and made our own Daruma Otoshi game and a carp windsock, diagrammed sentences, learned about how the United Nations began, had fun coloring Narnia scenes, studied Latin first conjugation future tense endings, went on a nature scavenger hunt, learned 5 noun cases, went to our first Certificate of Merit test for piano performance, music theory and ear training (Field), played softball (Francis), learned how to find the area of a triangle, and brought home our new sweet puppy Lucy!

Week 23 of Homeschool: We painted like the female impressionist Morisot, looked at the history of the early 1800’s, studied Latin first conjugation future tense endings, made Raspberry Love Muffins from our Raddish Kids box, learned Newton’s Second Law of Motion, studied Mary and Martha in the Bible, learned how to find the area of a square, looked at energy transfer in a Newton’s Cradle, learned about noun usages, performed at a group piano lesson, learned Central European Geography, read about the languages that created English, learned about World War II leaders, and celebrated Valentine’s Day with our CC friends!

Week 22 of Homeschool: We painted water lilies in the style of French impressionist Monet, worked on Latin imperfect tense endings, read 2 chapters in C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, learned about verbs, wrote a poem about a boy, performed experiments with balls and pennies to see how inertia works, started writing and designing our own Dog Man book, learned about Newton’s first law of motion, made valentines for our CC group’s celebration, learned about World War 2, gave presentations on our ant farm, learned the area of a rectangle, explored science and motion with gyroscopes, worked on phonics, and went to a retirement home and sang songs and played piano and mandolin for the elderly!

Week 21 of Homeschool: We worked on phonetics, learned about World War 1, skip-counted tens with dimes, made a bazillion shrinky-dink key-chains, diagrammed sentences, found the Middle East on a map, counted up to 200! (Francis), made mini works of art by our Cycle 2 artists, then shrunk them (more shrinky-dinks), learned about kinetic and potential energy, made an organ out of bottles and water and played music, learned about Charlemagne’s empire, reviewed Latin imperfect tense word endings, wrote a poem about mortality and nature, learned our metric measurements, had a tooth pulled (Field), and went to meet our new puppy!