Week 2 of Homespun Homeschool: We started writing a paper about The Sign of the Beaver, played Number Knockout, read the Declaration of Independence & Nathan Hale’s famous speech, worked on spelling, learned the logic concept of Simple Apprehension, worked on penmanship, read The Call of the Wild, learned about the five kingdoms of living things, wrote a paper about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, translated Latin into English, took dictation, chose 3 articles for our debate topic of capital punishment, performed an experiment to see how a spider uses vibrations on its web to communicate, looked at prepositions, performed a science experiment to explore properties of solids, worked on multiplication, performed an experiment to see why fish float belly-up, and presented an algebra problem for discussion in class!