Weekly Updates

Week 20 of Homeschool: We looked at crystals under the microscope, started researching our Faces of History paper on Alexander Hamilton, learned about the Spanish Flu and its correlations to Covid-19, collected specimens from our neighborhood and drew illustrations, worked on sentence parts, learned about the Women’s Suffrage movement, wrote a paper about future dreams (Field), learned the second four elements in the periodic table, diagrammed sentences, translated John 1:4 Latin into English, worked on telling time, learned the area of a square, looked at congruent shapes, played fun games with our HST from Inspire Charter School, made Valentines for our Classical Conversations group, and went to our little league baseball try-outs!

Week 19 of Homeschool: We created gas to inflate balloons, learned the first four elements of the periodic table, built a hydraulic wheel, learned about World War 1, made a guitar with rubber bands, performed an experiment to see the power of bubbles, played cool math games, drew lines of symmetry, added historical events to our timeline, learned about the state of California, experimented with oil and water to see if they mix, learned how to find the area of a rectangle, read about the Spanish Flu and compared it to the Covid 19 epidemic, translated John 1:3 into Latin, made Valentines cards for the elderly and friends, added endings to root words, and practiced piano for the Certificate of Merit program!

Week 18 of Homeschool: We read Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer, practiced the Latin translation for John 1:1-7, Read The New Colossus poem from the Statue of Liberty, listened to interviews with immigrants who came to America through Ellis Island, found the Great Lakes on our maps, learned amazing and interesting facts about atoms, read American tall tales by Davy Crockett and practiced drawing the catamount in one of his stories, wrote a paper about the Transcontinental Railroad, looked at snow under a microscope, learned Metric Measurements, created cardioids with math, listened to Debussy’s “La Mer” and imagined ourselves in a boat at sea, learned about density by making an egg float in salt water, added endings to root words, practiced diagramming sentences, and completed the 100 Day Lego Challenge and won an Amazon gift card!

Week 17 of Homeschool: We worked on running sums, learned about Alexander Graham Bell and made a telephone with cups and string, learned about Tycoons of the late 1800’s and their connection to modern day monopolies, learned about elements on the periodic table, located the Northwest U.S. Mountains, pulverized cereal to find iron, wrote the first issue of The Oklahoma Bee (“founded yesterday”), read passages about the Tree of Life in the Old and New Testaments, performed experiments with water, paper, cups and marbles to learn about matter, changed the structure and purpose of sentences, made a short silent film, learned Linear Equivalents, translated John 1:2 into Latin, learned about Tchaikovsky and listened to his final composition, researched Texas, worked on spelling, diagrammed sentences, and practiced for our Piano Preparatory test!

Week 16 of Homeschool: We created Venn Diagrams, learned our liquid equivalents, drew portraits of Mom & Dad (Francis), learned about the 14th Amendment and Jim Crow laws, translated John 1:1 into Latin, wrote a zine called “The Pre-Teen Examiner” (Field), built a parabolic microphone and listened to quiet sounds amplified, practiced adding with coins, wrote a fictional short story about the Underground Railroad, read in the McGuffy Reader, listened to the original “Jumpin’ Jim Crow” song and discussed, created art with diamond dots, read 2 tall tales by Davy Crockett, added and subtracted by 10’s, learned how to find the atomic number of an atom, listened to Romantic Classical composers and read about their compositions in Classical Music for Dummies, reviewed the history of the Reconstruction of the Southern States and the Civil Rights Movement, found the Western Mountains of the United States, looked at verb tenses, diagrammed sentences, practiced adding up bills of sale using running sums, practiced spelling, and resumed meeting with our Classical Conversations group!

Week 15 of Homeschool: We celebrated Beethoven’s 250th’s anniversary by reading about his life,  cut our own hair (Field), learned all about “Ologies,” got family pictures taken, learned about the properties of water and made a maze for water droplets, read in American History, wrote about who died at Genesse Falls, worked more with tangram shapes in math, studied Latin, added endings to word roots, wrote a piano piece called ”Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow” (Field), played Colorku (Sudoku with colors), worked on Latin and French, and had family over for Field’s Zoom piano recital!

Week 14 of Homeschool: We read about Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Era, learned about the science of snowflakes and made 3D paper ones, read in the McGuffy Reader Volume 2, created simple circuits with paper and wire, started writing chapter 2 in our story about a Nintendo factory in Japan (Francis), performed an experiment to make bones flexible, made ornaments for our Jesse Tree, practiced for our piano recital (Field), studied Latin, read poetry, studied 2 Corinthians 1, worked on French, made ornaments for our church Christmas tree, did phonics drills, and watched actors on the set of Mom’s music video!

Week 13 of Homeschool: We studied Latin, made pumpkin cheesecake bars, diagrammed sentences, worked on spelling, made a bar graph and pie chart of our favorite Thanksgiving foods, read American history, subtracted ones, assembled all 50 U.S. States, added endings to word roots, wrote a piano piece called “Climactic Duel” (Field), cracked tangram challenges, wrote about who died at Mt. Vernon, read in New World Echoes, and got our Christmas tree!

Week 12 of Homeschool: We cut up apples to learn about fractions then tasted and charted our favorites, learned the major purposes of blood, studied the artist Roy Lichtenstein and created art using his methods, measured vertical, horizontal and oblique lines by inches, assembled life-size diagrams of our bodies replete with the major organs, bones and muscle, studied John 1:12, learned about General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, triggered the jaws on our Venus Fly Trap and learned about its amazing design, planned out 5 Raddish Kids Thanksgiving dishes, located the Southern features of the Appalachian Mountains, learned how to measure teaspoons, Tablespoons and fluid ounces, worked on spelling, learned new Latin words, and bid in an online Classical Conversations auction and won a $20 bill and a Sees Candy gift card!

Week 11 of Homeschool: We learned about the endocrine system, read the Gettysburg Address aloud (Field), learned Latin noun and pronoun rules, read the words to the Star Spangled Banner and created firework art, wrote a short story called “Camping Out,” learned about the Civil War, studied John 1:11, built a machine that blows smoke rings, learned new Latin words, practiced French and Latin on Duolingo, learned about the American artist Andrew Wyeth and created art in his style, read the poetry of Robert Frost and basked in his calm, cold world of words, met up with CC friends online, added endings to word roots, read Frog and Toad stories (Francis), counted pairs, drew turkeys step-by-step, studied the account of David and Goliath, and wrote things we are thankful for and put them on our Thankfulness Tree!