Homespun Homeschool Week #7

Week 7 of Homeschool: We learned new Latin words, built a wooden crane, practiced math while playing Allowance, wrote a paper about Benjamin Franklin’s important papers, built a marble rollercoaster, put together every United States puzzle in the house (!), watched The Miracle Worker and started reading Helen Keller’s “The Story Of My Life,” learned about Lewis and Clark’s covered-wagon trek and built our own, learned the basics of fractions and division, drew a self-portrait (Francis), marked every conjunction in John Chapter 1, colored the Headman Flag from early American history, compared quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, worked on Conjunctions, practiced our editing skills, and did schoolwork while sipping Maple lattes and steamers at Peets!

 

 

 

Homespun Homeschool Week #6

Week 6 of Homeschool: We built bookcases for our tiny model library, learned about the Louisiana Purchase, made a compass with a needle, paper, magnet and a bowl of water, diagrammed sentences, wrote a paper about the Boston Tea Party, learned about the digestive system, melted wax to seal letters and learned the history of seals, studied our states and capitals, learned Latin nouns for John 1, practiced skip-counting 11’s and 12’s, learned all about North Carolina, and took walks in our neighborhood!

Homespun Homeschool Week #5

Week 5 of Homeschool: We painted color wheels then created artwork using palettes, learned the forms of the verb “to be,” studied John 1:1-8 asking the 5 W’s and an H, practiced diagramming sentences, performed an experiment to see how our ears can hear direction, wrote a paper about the Boston Massacre, read Field’s current book “The Nostalgia Machine” out loud, learned five more states and capitals, performed an experiment to show how skin cells rub off, read about George Washington, looked at abstract art and created our own, assisted the teacher in our Tuesday Classical Conversations Essentials class, learned about the five main senses, practiced skip-counting 9’s and 10’s, went to Apple Hill, read in The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald, went to the beach with our cousins, and celebrated Grampy getting another year older!

Homespun Homeschool Week #4

Week 4 of Homeschool: We studied the nervous system and made play-dough nerve cell-models, looked at noun usages and attributes, designed our own thirteen-colony United States flag, learned all about the state of Maryland, studied the principle parts of verbs, learned about lung capacity and built a lung model, read the Declaration of Independence and made our own replicas of the original document, learned more Latin words for John chapter 1, read about candle-making in colonial times and made our own beeswax candles, wrote a paper about Washington and Braddock’s battle, learned the southeastern states and capitals, practiced spelling, skip counted 7’s and 8’s, read The Princess and Curdie by George Mac Donald, created a code for transferring secret messages, learned all about the Constitution, read scripture and studied our catechism, and wrote a guide for how to beat Paper Mario!