Weekly Updates

Week 24 of Homeschool: We finished reading book #3 in the Spirit Flyer series, learned Spanish names for animals and played a match-up game, painted upside-down like Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, learned about the wars of the Ancient Greeks and built a model of the parthenon, wrote a presentation on our overnight field trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, started reading Moby Dick, built Wordblobs, finished chapter 1 in The Fellowship of the Ring, discovered our dove had returned and built a new nest in our entryway (more babies soon?), started writing words, and started t-ball!

 

 

 

Week 23 of Homeschool: We learned about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln for President’s Day, built structures with toothpicks and marshmallows, worked on our reading with rhyming candy hearts, looked at terms of contrast in 1 Peter, painted in the style of artist Clementine Hunter for Black History Month, spotted a Red Shoulder Hawk in our backyard, performed an experiment to see how air pressure holds up a glass of water, read a love letter from Theodore Roosevelt to his fiancé (President’s and Valentines Day!), performed an experiment to prove that air contains oxygen, then another experiment to see how cold versus hot temperatures change air density, read about the armor of God and made our own, and created a  spin art machine with a box and circuit!

 

Week 22 of Homeschool: We studied ancient Sparta and Athens and made some Spartan warriors, learned some new helping verbs, read Harold and the Purple Crayon and made our own crayon creations, learned some parts of a volcano, read Captain Underpants, performed the first 11 magic tricks from the book 101 Cool Magic Tricks, took a look at naturally occurring rock arches, and build our own using Jenga blocks, play dough, craft sticks and books, read several chapters in Spirit Flyer Book #3, exchanged Valentines at CC and Fusion, worked on our spelling, and started writing a new play called Sans Serif!

 

 

 

Week 21 of Homeschool: We learned helping verbs, inspected soil for forms of life, learned how to identify rocks, read in our Spirit Flyer book #3, learned the area of a rectangle, looked at a chrysalis, a blade of grass and a decayed leaf under the microscope, found African Waters on the map, worked on reading and writing, studied our Latin first declension noun endings, learned about the Medes and Persians and Cyrus the Great, practiced ordering numbers, learned the 4 kinds of volcanoes, studied the civilizations of Mesoamerica, and ate like Hobbits for a day!

 

Week 20 of Homeschool: We studied metric measurements, learned about Prince Henry of Portugal and created a music box version of the CC song, learned each continent highest mountain and which is the shortest and the tallest, read Katy and the Big Snow and made our own snow plow, studied our Latin first declension noun endings, used flip books and number stacks to practice addition, learned the geography of the Middle East, grew crystals, learned about the re-civilization of Ancient Greece and wrote our names using the Greek alphabet, read the story of Jonah and made our own Jonah and fish, learned about the Robinson Projection Map and how to use it, read 1/2 of book 3 in the Spirit Flyer Series, and made hot cocoa cupcakes from our Raddish Kids box!

 

Week 19 of Homeschool: We learned about the early Greeks and made a sword and shield out of duct tape, learned 3 main types of rock, drew the bones in our hands, studied our linear equivalents and learned how to measure by inches, gave presentations on our trips to L.A. and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, created art in the style of Ghiberti, reviewed our Latin Noun Cases, learned step 1 of how to juggle, read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, learned new Latin words and phrases, practiced skip-counting by 10’s, and learned a ton of card tricks and practiced on Mom, Dad and Granny!

 

Week 18 of Homeschool: We learned Liquid Equivalents, did a taste test, read about Mexican Jumping Beans, studied Latin noun cases, went for a hike, practiced reading and writing, learned Western Africa’s geography, performed an experiment to see how the earth’s tilt causes seasons, studied Ancient Crete & the Bull Jumpers, learned about the earth’s core, mantle & crust, performed an experiment to see how soil layers form, learned how the Kush mined gold, made shadow puppets and designed our own fishes at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, learned compound prepositions, created art like Giotto, and slept overnight at the Monterey Bay Aquarium!

 

Week 17 of Homeschool: We had fun with bubble science, learned Spanish verbs, built a Praxinoscope and watched the magic of animation, worked on our letters, learned how to study the Bible inductively starting in 1 Peter, read about Ancient Babylon and the story of Marduk and Tiamat, learned how to play Beethoven’s 5th using pictures as pitches, used latitude and longitute to find locations on maps, and wrote silly Haikus!

Week 16 of Homeschool: We did equations using lines of Latitude and Longitude, learned about the return of Assyria, worked on our drawing skills, wrote out holiday words, worked on fractions, made paper gingerbread men, wrote about what he (Field) will be doing in 20 years, went to see mom caroling, wrote Haikus, went to Dovewood Court to see the Christmas lights, and went to see the Nutcracker Ballet!

Week 15 of Homeschool: We continued experimenting with cardioids and multiplication, learned about the Phoenicians and their early settlements, went to a cookie decorating party with our homeschool friends, worked on spelling, continued working on our “th” and “sh” sounds, built modern art sculptures, went fishing for sight words, made a Sierpinski Fractal Triangle Christmas tree (with a Koch Snowflake star) out of gingerbread, and found a cardioid in a cup of cocoa!