Week 22 of Homeschool: We wrote a paper about the American Flag (Field), made all kinds of puppets and learned about puppets from various cultures (Italy was our favorite!), worked on word roots and endings, built a treasure chest and learned about map-making, reviewed Latin word endings, finished book one in the Frank Peretti children’s adventure series, learned about dozens, reviewed Latin word endings and learned new Latin words, added money using dimes, nickels and pennies, wrote out John 1:1, learned how to splice wires together, and went mushroom-hunting with our cousins!

Week 21 of Homeschool: We learned about surface tension with wood and wire, translated John 1:5 Latin to English, learned all about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, performed piano for the Certificate of Merit (Field), edited tons of sentences, learned the third four elements in the periodic table, studied the difference between real and fools gold, received prayer from our amazing Essentials teacher Mrs. Hyun, learned the area of a triangle, worked on spelling, read Frog and Toad stories to mom (Francis), learned what a predicate is, wrote code to create am .html page of the Beatitudes, and did a cupcake walk to classical music with our Classical Conversations community!

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!