Homespun Homeschool Week #3

Week 3 of Homeschool: We read about the Boston Tea party, looked at 4 types of verbs, built an airbrush and used it to decorate cards for our local retirement home, looked at the quarters for all 50 states (thanks Granny!), learned what a past participle is, gave a presentation on the radio we built, skip-counted 5s and 6s, wrote a paper about Goodman John Howland, built an air-hockey set and played, learned Latin pronouns, diagrammed sentences, memorized John 3:3, practiced spelling, learned 5 more U.S. States and capitals, performed an experiment to examine the characteristics of our fingerprints, and built an electronically-controlled fishing rod!

 

Homespun Homeschool Week #2

Week 2 of Homeschool: We learned 5 more states and capitals of the United States, learned Latin conjunctions and adverbs, met with our charter support teacher online and played a hide and seek clue game, memorized John 1:2 and translated it into Latin, practiced skip-counting 3s and 4s,  learned about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, learned what a present participle is, practiced diagramming sentences, started writing a paper about the Mayflower, used geo-boards to make congruent shapes, learned about the bones that make up the axial skeleton and examined rib bones, made a skeleton mobile, learned about Pennsylvania, practiced spelling and dictation, wrote a short story called “The Nostalgia Machine,” built an infinity mirror, and made rock sugar using the magic of chemical reactions!

 

Homespun Homeschool Week #1

Week 1 of Homeschool: We learned about four kinds of tissue, built a radio, reviewed sentence classification, learned about Columbus’ voyage to the Caribbean, made a strip-map showing landmarks from our house to Granny & Grampy’s, read the Native American legend about The King of the Buffaloes and drew buffaloes step-by-step, made time capsules, learned 5 states and capitals of the United States, started memorizing John 1:1 and translating it into Latin, read the Native American legend about Mudjee Monedo and colored pictures of him, built a claw machine using strings and tension, wrote a paper about Columbus, folded Star Wars paper spaceships, learned Latin prepositions and the Latin alphabet, learned the definition of an infinitive, and opened our schule-tutes!