Homeschool Log

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

MATH

AUSTIN

PATTERNS

1. Introduction

2. Growing Patterns: Flowers

3. Growing Patterns: Building Blocks

4. Growing Patterns: Artwork

5. Growing Patterns: Happy Faces

6. Summary

7. Train Game

AMANDA

TESSELLATIONS

1. Introduction

2. What is a Tessallation?

3. Identifying Tessallations

4. Covering a Surface

5. Creating a Tessallation

ENGLISH

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

GRAMMAR

Video: Basic English Grammar - The Simple Past Tense #1 (8:14)

Video: Basic English Grammar - The Simple Past Tense #2 (6:03)

Video: Basic English Grammer - The Simple Past Tense #3 (10:57)

Video: Basic English Grammer - The Simple Past Tense #4 (10:49)

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

SCIENCE

FORCES

Video: Show Me Science - Gravity and Force (2:40)

Video: Show Me Science - Magnetic Force at Work (1:45)

Video: Conceptual Physics - Centripetal Force (2:40)

Video: Conceptual Physics - Calculating Friction Forces (1:50)

Video: Centripetal Force Demonstration (1:05)

Video: Video on Buoyancy (4:50)

Video: Buoyancy - Archimedes Principle (7:45)

Video: Four Fundamental Forces (10:30)

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

SOCIAL STUDIES

AGRICULTURE

Video: History of Farming (3:26)

Video: Making History - Agriculture (5:20)

Video: American Agriculture (2:13)

Video: Agriculture and Food Systems (4:20)

Video: Farm Machinery Through the Ages (6:10)

Video: A Day on the Wheat Harvest (9:24)

Video: The Future of Food - Introduction (9:49)

Video: From the Farm to the Fridge Part 1 (5:32)

LITERATURE

Leah Mordecai: A Novel by Belle Kendrick Abbott - Chapters 1- 4

MICHAEL
MATH
Worksheets - Trace and Color #2 - 4
Pattern Recognition - 3 Pages

READING
-AN WORD FAMILY
Two -an word family worksheets
Review Flashcards
-an word family lesson from Starfall (3 times)

SIGHT WORDS
SING, SIT, US, JUMP
Reveiw and act out flashcards (4 times)
Sight word memory match game (4 times)

OTHER
Letter Hh online book from Starfall (4 times)
Letter Sounds Worksheets - Letters Ww, Xx and Yy

SCIENCE: Earth and Space (Book)
The Rocky Planets
Giant Balls of Gas
Faraway Planets
Bits and Pieces in Space

SOCIAL STUDIES
Worksheet: All About Me (Self-Awareness)

Homeschool Log 1/16 - 1/20

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

AUSTIN
DIVISION OF WHOLE NUMBERS
1. Introduction
2. Review of Base 10 Blocks
3. What is Division?
4. Using Base 10 Blocks
5. Division with Symbols - Demo
6. Division with Symbols
7. Summary

AMANDA

POLYGONS

1. Introduction

2. Naming Polygons

3. Identifying Polygons

4. Exploring Polygons

ENGLISH

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

GRAMMER

Video - Punctuation Basics - Restrictive and Non-restrictive 7:15

Video - More on Restrictive Elements and Punctuation 7:25

SCIENCE

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

ELECTROMAGNETISM

Video - Introduction to Magnetism 10:43

Video - Magnetic Fields and Their Effects on Moving Electrical Charges 8:58

FORCES

Video - Normal Force 1:20

Video - Friction 2:30

SOCIAL STUDIES/LITERATURE

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

Hebrew Heroes by A.L.O.E. - A Tale Founded on Jewish History

Chapter 32 - Friends or Foes

Chapter 33 - The Leader and the Man

MICHAEL

MATH

Counting and Graphing (more here)

READING

WORKSHEETS

What Starts With the Letter Uu?

Drawing Objects that Begin With the Letter Uu

Review of Starfall Online Letter Gg Book

SCIENCE

EXPLORE AND LEARN VOLUME 1 - EARTH AND SPACE

What is the Sun?

The Sun's Family

SOCIAL STUDIES

WORKSHEET

On and Off (location, direction and distance)

ACTIVITY

Community Helper Puppets

Michael also participated with the preschool activities with the daycare kids.


Along with this we had some other fun things going on.

CJ made his first whole meal for everyone Tuesday evening. He served an egg casserole that he made, hash browns and peaches. The egg casserole was really good and we enjoyed it.

Doug and Austin took apart a CD player that doesn't work anymore and checked out the inner workings, looking at the electronic components.

Amanda and I were listening to NPR Talk and got to discuss SOPA as well as the sinking of the cruise ship in Italy. So much learning comes from simply listening and observing what is going on around us and discussing what interests us.

Wednesday evening was our usual church evening, beginning with a church dinner, than a short worship service and then classes for all ages.

Both Austin and Amanda had friends here this week that they enjoyed spending time with.

So these, along with our busy day Monday, are  some of the highlights of our week.

Homeschool Log 11/13 - 11/18

We only did two days of "school"  this week instead of our usual four. On Tuesday a large part of my day was taken up with a meeting in the morning and then Michael had an appointment at Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center (details in this post) in the afternoon. Wednesday is our normal day off and then Friday public schools were out and one of Amanda's friends was here for the day so I let my kids off school as well. Next week will be a short week as well - only Monday and Tuesday - and then we will hopefully be back on schedule for a couple weeks before the Christmas holidays.

So here is some of what they did this week.

AUSTIN AND AMANDA

MATH

Austin - Multiples, Factors, Primes and Composites

Lesson 1 - Factors Introduction

Lesson 2 - Chair Arrays

Lesson 3 - Defining "Factor"

Lesson 4 - Finding Factors

Lesson 5 - Primes and Composites

Lesson 6 - Sorting Primes and Composites

Lesson 7 - Multiples Intro

Lesson 8 - Calendar

Lesson 9 - Hundreds Chart

Lesson 10 - Factors Vs. Multiples

Lesson 11 - Questions

Lesson 12 - Summary

Amanda - Area and Perimeter

Lesson 1 - Introduction

Lesson 2 - Review of Area and Perimeter

Lesson 3 - Same Area/Different Perimeter

Lesson 4 - Same Perimeter/ Different Area

Lesson 5 - Changing the Length of the Rectangle

Lesson 6 - Exploring Rectangle Shapes

Lesson 7 - Snow Walls

ENGLISH
Austin and Amanda - Grammar

Video - Participial Phrases and Participles as Adjectives 4:34

Video - Participial Phrases Set Off by Commas 4:57

SCIENCE

Austin and Amanda - Physical Science: Atom

Video - Physical Science - The Structure of an Atom 6:16

Video - The Earliest Models of the Atom 9:00

Video - The Rutherford Model of the Atom 9:10

Video - The Bohr Model of the Atom 9:10

SOCIAL STUDIES/LITERATURE

Hebrew Heroes by A. L. O. E. - A Tale Founded on Jewish History
 Chapter 8 - The First Struggle
Chapter 9 - Hadassah's Guest
Chapter 10 - Death of Mattathias
Chapter 11 - Concealment
Chapter 12 - Deep Things
Chapter 13 - Silent Conflict


MICHAEL

MATH
Worksheets - What Do You Do During the Day? (Time)
 What Do You Do Night? (Time)
Money (Identifying Coins)

Games - Curious George - Count Your Chickens
Curious George  - How Tall


READING
Worksheets - Letter Oo (Letter Sounds)
What Starts with Letter Pp (Letter Sounds)

Daily Review of Starfall Online Letter Cc Book (2 Days)

SCIENCE
Worksheets - Let's Move (Motion Related Words)
Fast and Slow (Motion Related Words)


Book -
Explore and Learn Volume 1 - Earth and Space
Changing the Shape of Land
Places Without Water

SOCIAL STUDIES
Worksheets - Above and Below (Location, Direction and Distance)
Above and Below (Location, Direction and Distance)

Michael also participated in our Preschool activities with the younger kids.

Sunday evening we went a birthday party for a friend of ours. All the kids had a great time there.

Wednesday evening Austin went with our church youth group to another church for a combined youth service. Michael went to our KidWorx program at our church, where Doug helps with one class and I teach the youngest class with my helper.  Thursday evening Austin, Amanda and Michael all went to their cousin's birthday party. Several days this week Amanda had a friend over.

Both Austin and Amanda are actively involved in our home childcare business and spend several hours a day working with the kids, meal prep and clean up,  and general cleaning. They  earn money from the business based on what we make each week and are required to save a portion, and give a portion of their earnings. They can then spend the remainder as they choose (within reason).

Austin spent a lot of his free time playing games on the computer or watching shows like NCIS or Pawn Stars. We've all been fighting colds the last couple weeks and I think his was getting too him a little.

Amanda spent her free time playing with and caring for the animals - our cats Scout and Sheena and our dogs Veronica and Pepper, as well as Little Red, the guinea pig and our three box turtles. She also finished reading Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul and read all of Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent.

And there you have it, a little glimpse of what we did this week as we worked, learned and played together.

~ Linking Here ~