Month: May 2018

Week 30 of Homeschool: We studied fractions and learned about numerators and denominators, made a logo for our school (Sunbeam Academy), wrote a poem called “Umbrella, Drumbrella,” made freezer paper stencils to create original t-shirts, took our end of the year test and scored 99% in both reading and math for 2nd grade (!), started writing a new album of original songs (Field), painted bugs and Vincent Van Gogh, performed an experiment to see how plants drink water, practiced drawing people, wrote a story about a woman in an office who has an adventure, and went to the Crocker Art Museum for bugs, bugs, bugs!

Week 29 of Homeschool: We learned how to round numbers up and down, went to the capital and lobbied our senators to vote no on AB 2943 (and got on the news!), built a spinning plate and made circular artwork, got 2 goldfish and named them Pesces (Latin for fish) and Pez (Spanish for fish), watered our garden and labeled our vegetables, looked up cross-references for Proverbs 3:5, read LOTS of Calvin and Hobbes, created surreal artwork, learned the Latin words for types of weather, finished reading Stuart Little, and made Mary Berry’s Cherry Cake for Granny’s birthday!

 

Week 28 of Homeschool: We read Mark Twain’s Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, studied the Missouri state quarter, made rubbings & designed our own, learned about the National Park Regions, built a marble run, checked on our baby doves & saw they’d grown, used geo boards to learn congruent shapes, studied Romans 5:19, built and programmed a mechanical leg, made Mother’s Day cards, played t-ball, wrote a story about the magical land of Marnia, planted our Spring vegetable garden, acted out Frog & Toad stories, built domino falls, and went to Fusion Homeschool Academy’s open house for BBQ, sno cones, crafts and acting class!

 

Week 27 of Homeschool: We drew mirror images, wrote out the music to Old Hundredth, drew maps of the Assyrian Empire and Fertile Crescent, learned Latin words for basic foods, built a periscope, worked on numbers and letters, had our last piano lesson for the school year, read Stuart Little, made a top from our spinning science kiwi crate, played t-ball like a pro, learned the parts of a gyroscope and watched it spin from different angles, made our own Secret Agent briefcase, and saw The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe at B Street Theatre!