Week In Photos ~ Week 19

^^^ when a dad joins in on the fun!

 

 Studying mammals in nature study at co-op...looks like it was cats this week!

PE at co-op... Jedi dodgeball?

Week 19 Overview

Getting back into the swing of things after Christmas break was hard, but we have lots of interesting things that we are learning about, so it is worth getting back into our studies!

Here are just some of the things from week 19:

• Bible~ Ezra, Haggai, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Malachi, & Daniel; rebuilding Jerusalem and waiting; Cyrus defeated Babylon and established the Persian empire in its place. Then, he allowed captive people to return to their homelands. Several thousand Jews went back to the promised land. They were eager to rebuild the Temple of God and the city of Jerusalem; the prophet Haggai taught the Jews to put God first. We see that those who obey God's Word are blessed.
• History~ East of China, the Yamato dynasty of Japan, Korea, the first people of Australia and New Zealand, and the Maori people.
• 3rd Grade Science~ parts of plants, animal-eating plants, the movement of seeds,  how plants protect themselves, the Mexican jumping bean, and looking at radishes.
• 6th grade Science~ Understanding pressure, force, and area; density- sink or float; types of energy; power and in Cool Stuff 2.0- Optical microscopes versus an SEM, weather satellites, radiosondes, particle accelerators, neutrinos, and photomultipliers. (Say what? Yes, I know. I haven't heard some of these words before either!)
• 3rd grade math~ using the standard algorithm to compute double digit by single digit multiplication problems, review of our first half of the year, and beginning mental calculations.
• 6th grade math~ multiplying and diving with decimals, long division with decimals, decimal remainders, never-ending decimals, and rounding & estimating with decimals.
• Read Aloud~ A Single Shard: a Korean orphan boy, 12 years old, is indebted to the master potter, Min, in the 12th century. This fictional story shows integrity, perseverance, disappointment, hope, and loyalty.
• Vocabulary~ 3rd grade: absurd, accomplish, ascend, dense, experiment, flimsy, heroic, lumber, mimic, significant, soar, spectator, suspend, terminate, unwieldy; 6th grade: abet, agile, allot, balmy, congregate, divert, humdrum, influx, intricate, memento, query, sporadic, staple, tumult, unseemly.
• Writing- journal entries pertaining to Christmas break.

As you can see...lots of interesting learning! Check out our week in photos, coming soon!

Usborne Quicklinks ~ Week 19

3rd grade Science ~ Book: Mysteries & Marvels of Nature

Pages

6-7 carnivorous plants

18-19 sunflowers, Mexican jumping beans, and plant tropisms

30-31 Saguaro Cacti, most poisonous mushrooms in the world, and poison ivy



6th Grade Science ~ Book: What's Science All About?

Section: Physics, Energy Everywhere ~ Websites #1-6



History ~ Book: 12,000 Years of World History

Pages

76 Tomb model of a Yamato warrior

180-181 Easter Island (Moai), the aboriginal people of Australia, Polynesian explorers journey to the South Pacific, the Maoris & settlement in New Zealand, and the traditional clothing & tattoos of the Maori.

Week In Photos ~ Week 18

 Studying mammals in Nature Study at co-op (2nd semester has started!)

Using a tiny chisel and mallet for an archeology project.

She was obsessed with getting those bones out. Future archeologist?

 Girls first hockey game...it was a win for the Jacksonville Icemen!

Week 18 Overview

We all enjoyed one of the many benefits of homeschooling for week 18: a laid back, at your own home, traveling kind of homeschool! Before Christmas break, we worked hard to get ahead in a few subjects. So over the holidays, separately (with our own families), we read, traveled, played math games, played word games, measured in cooking and baking, and experienced lots of other  things together. There are still a few workbook items we will complete from week 18, but it was a fun break to do things differently for a few days.

Here is some of the academic learning we covered:

• Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Esther (Life in Babylon and captivity, God protects his people even among their enemies, God uses even our hard times for good, and there are godly people who have become famous because of their importance)
• The Rise of Islam, Muhammad, The Koran, Islam becomes and empire, the fight for Mecca, the spread of Islam, Baghdad, Sinbad in the valley of snakes (fiction), The great dynasties of China, Yang Chien, and the Tang dynasty.
• Multiplication and division facts
• Daily math and math fact practice
• Science 3- Inside the human body, stomach, brain, muscles, and bones
• Science 6- friction, oiling machinery, Newton's 3 laws of motion, physics and machines and work, simple machines, weight and mass, moon's gravity and Earth, velocity and stability, and binoculars and night vision cameras.

We are now right in the middle of the school year. 90 days completed and 90 days left to go. We look forward to an interesting second half of the year. We will still be working hard, but plan on letting go of a few traditional learning routines and adding in more real-world learning (cooking, sewing, fishing, field trips, gardening, service projects...lots of good stuff!). We are able to do this for a few reasons. One is that we have made a lot of learning growth already in just a short time. Another is that homeschooling allows us the chance to learn in a variety of ways, as we see fit- not just the traditional textbook and workbook options. Both books and experiences are important in the learning process, so we are happy to try out a little more experience in the next few months.

Remember to save the date for our homeschool banquet this spring: the evening of Friday, April 20th. More to come about this as we get closer. This is always a wonderful evening of showing-off and celebrating our co-op learning and experiences from the year. It seems far away now, but it will be here before we know it.

Enjoy our Week in Photos ~ Week 18 (coming soon!) and we'll be back with more updates in week 19. :)

Usborne Quicklinks ~ Week 17 and 18

6th grade Science ~ Book: What's Science All About?

Section: Physics ~ Feel the Force ~ Websites #1-9



3rd grade Science ~ None for week 17 and 18

Students read a biography about Rachel Carson, a Magic School Bus book about the Human Body (especially cells), and a section in our Biology book about plants. None of these were Usborne books, so there are no links for these two weeks.


History ~ Book: 12,000 Years of World History

Pages
108-109  Byzantine Empire & Western Roman Empire, Fall of Constantinople, Hagia Sofia (church and museum), and Emperor Justinian.

142-143 St. Benedict & rules for monks, monastery life, and Middle Ages and manuscripts.

         77 Jomon period in Japan

112-113 Famous mosques, Mohammed, pilgrimages to Mecca, Koran (produced in 1304).

114-115 The Arab world in the 8th century, astronomy in the Islamic world, and Middle Ages & Islam.

174-175 Sui, Tang, Sung (Song), and Ming dynasties, Silk Road, and Chinese chemists invented gun powder.

Happy Learning!

Week in Photos ~ Week 17