Week 10 of Homeschool: We studied ancient China, wrote out Robert Frost poetry, skip counted the 15’s, went GeoCaching (with no luck yet, after 3 tries), read the first 5 chapters of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, brainstormed and wrote a key word outline based on our research of Ellis Island and wrote 3 paragraphs, learned more prepositions, wrote an original poem called “A Year In California (Field wrote – I love the first few lines!), designed our names with the Scratch coding program, learned about Lao-Tzu, Confucius and Taoism, looked at the parts of a plant, carved Jack-O-Lanterns and decorated pumpkin cookies with our cousins, studied Spanish, worked on Latin 4th Declension Noun Endings, and went with Granny & Grampy to see Treasure Island at the B Street Theatre!
