phathui5 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 What are everyone's children studying this week? I'm working on our lesson plans for this week while I eat cheesecake and play games on facebook. :) We'll be starting Story of the World Book 3, chapter 5. I'm hoping to finally get started on our Earth Science curriculum. The only science we've really done so far this year has been at 4-H. 12yods is starting Saxon Math 87, dd is working on Saxon 3 and 7yods is in Saxon Math 2. I need to do more math than I have been with 5yods. Everyone is still enjoying ixl.com 12yods and 9yodd will both keep working through their new Spectrum Spelling books. 7yods and 5yods have a reading class at the library on Wednesday; it's their second week going. Maybe, just maybe, I'll manage to get the second lesson in our Atelier art curriculum done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKidAcademy Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 We are starting SOTW, ch 19. We started a simple machines unit in science last week, so we are continuing that. Lesson 32-ish in TT5. Lesson 10 in EIW. Daily Classical Conversations memory work and presentation practice, along with practicing our family presentation. Hope you all have a terrific week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 This week, we'll be learning about Daniel Boone, the Pilgrims, and the Sun. :) Oh, and some math and grammar thrown in there, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily_Grace Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 13yo ds: History - War of 1812 Language arts - descriptive writing Math - Multivariable linear equations Sciences - amphibian project/orbitals and energy level diagrams Piano Art - working with pastels Finance - stocks It's gotten to the point where there is no him learning and me teaching. It's both of us learning together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpoy85 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 C: Bible: Finish learning about Josiah Reading: Lesson 2 Writing: Any page she hasnt done Math: Lesson 11 History: finish ch 1 Science: Finish ch 1 L: Bible: Start Adam & Eve 3rs: Finish R&S "C" book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 ooooh, I want cheesecake! We're playing catch-up with our AO readings; and making notebooks and filling out forms for our charter school; running around in the rain (it's just started raining here -- it rains most of the winter, Button has Big Rainy Day plans for tomorrow); we'll be picking up our Apologia Zoology 1 science (we are old-earthers, for the record: there is a lot of on-the-fly editing of Apologia), I fervently hope; DH has a birthday. And I'm troubleshooting our math -- continue with the new year of Singapore, do some MathUSee, some MEP, or drop into some TOPS units? -- and trying to get us up and running on the producing-art front. At least a good drawing-material area set up. Finally: finish lesson 3 on our Progressive Recorder program. Button's sick of the note G; he wants to move on to C!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) This week we hope to accomplish the following: Older dd: quiz in English, new chapter in Latin and French, writing project in CW, start notes for paper in Renaissance humanities, finish our chapter in science, continue in math, independent reading in Age of Fable, English Literature for Boys and Girls and K12's Human Odyssey, striving to finish Renaissance and Reformation Times Younger dd: quiz in Latin, new chapter in French, grammar work with nouns, continued work in Singapore Math, almost finished with Burgess Animal Book and then moving to our study of astronomy and physics, independent reading of War Horse, House of Arden, My Bookhouse #3, Cricket in Times Square and Among the Night People, working in D'Aulaire's Greek Myths, reading Our Island Story with our Book Notes I'm hoping for a good week....:) Edited October 22, 2012 by Kfamily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 ooooh, I want cheesecake! Me, too! 5th grader and 4th grader: Along Came Galileo, more stargazing at night, trying to watch Orionids (but too cloudy) Tales of Robin Hood, SOTW 2, writing summary of Beowulf Stories Told to Children Following some math rabbit trails right now: integers and consumer math (my kids are building a fictional business) Writing descriptive and narrative paragraphs Journey through the Bible (my kids will move out someday and we'll still be trying to finish this) Artistic Pursuits Reading Middleworld, Fudge-a-mania and Sea Star 2nd grader: Building a times table chart, Life of Fred Reading Anansi stories Apologia's Swimming Creatures with sketches of sea creatures Beginner's Bible, Loyola's Book of Saints All About Spelling 2 Artistic Pursuits Reading aloud Beezus and Ramona Going to *try* formal LA this week - WWE and PLL 5 yro: More Mudpies and Magnets... Starting MFW K this week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) My main priority is supposed to be to get some fun chemistry experiments/projects going this week. I'm always so lazy about that. DD9 will need to memorize 5 multiplication facts per day. They're just NOT sticking, no matter how well she understands how they work. Spanish review week. Testing my made up worksheets on the girls. DD10 wants to practice emailing with her bilingual friend, but most of her comprehension is auditory. We're on SOTW3 ch10. I forget what chapter of History of US we're on. Math, spelling, and MCT will flow as usual. I'm trying to get the girls to take a break from Harry Potter and cover some less recent classics. ;) My K'er doesn't have a set plan, but he's very motivated, so I'm sure we'll do a lot of fun stuff! Edited October 22, 2012 by Carrie1234 forgot how old my kid is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) ds8/2nd-ish- Math- Likely finishing up our skip counting chapter in BA Writing-wwe2- Week 11 Spelling-Spelling Plus- Moving on to List C, we've been reviewing a few from B the last few weeks but I *think* we've covered them all now Phonics- Blend Phonics/Websters- Finishing up this week and moving onto ElizabethB's online Spelling and/or Phonics lessons Penmanship- Working on learning LoE cursive dd5- Phonics & Writing- LoE- Foundations Math- Some RSA when we feel like it and lots of play Science Reading this week- All about BUGS- I think they picked out half the selection of bug books from the library. Trying to see what bugs we can catch is on the list for every week :) History Reading- Early American History- Dh is wanting to watch - How the States Got their Shape so I decided to get some books to go along with this a bit Religion- St. Joseph Communion Catechism, learning the Act of Contrition and 10 Commandments(and what they mean), reading about various saints and study of All Souls / Saints Day. Bible Reading. Poetry- Since we are not doing FLL here this year we had slacked in this area but ds loves poetry and they both have been begging to memorize more poems, so I have the poems from IEW Linguistic Development through Poetry Development printed up and ready to start. eta: We are starting a short term "enrichment" co-op this week as well. They will be doing some fun music, art and science there. It is for a couple of hrs on Fri. Edited October 22, 2012 by soror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBanjoClown Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Ds8 will be on lesson 15 in R&S spelling. In math he is going to continue measurement, working on unit 3 chapters 4 and 5 in Singapore 2A. He will continue working through PLL (starting lesson 58 today) and Easy Grammar. He will be reading Tut, Tut (Time Warp Trio) and then The Whipping Boy and starting The Mouse and the Motorcycle. In science we will be studying day and night/the rotation of the earth. In history we are on chapter 14 of Story of the World 1. We will be working on chapter 15 of Song School Latin. Ds5 will be on lesson 94 in Abeka reading. He will be beginning Unit 7 in Singapore Math 1A, on shapes. He will be doing the same science and history as ds8. Both boys will be using their Awana memory verses as copywork, along with working in their handwriting workbooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocCityMom Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 We're rowing Climbing Kansas Mountains by George Shannon, studying Ancient China in SOTW, vol. 1, finishing up a BFSU lesson on time and the earth's turning, finishing up our study of Columbus, listening to opera (The Magic Flute has been a huge hit here!), doing some Michelangelo-inspired art projects, and moving along in OPGTTR, FLL, WWE, and RightStart B. We just returned from a week's vacation in DC so we'll likely have to start slow . . . I've probably been too ambitious in my planning for the week. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michele B Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I have plans to beginning SOTW vol 4, ch 4 this morning as wells a s get back on track for science... One piano practice is finished, so 1 more piano and a violin left. We are going to hit grammar and writing hard this morning to make a good start for the week. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Ds will be finishing Tale of Despereaux today and attending the book club I'm leading tomorrow. I will be teaching about the literary elements of theme, point of view, and simile vs. metaphor. He will only have a couple of grammar and math lessons these two days. On Wednesday, our student guest comes to do history, geography, health, science, and art. We are in the United States in our geography study, so I decided to spend a day focusing on our state. We will do a science experiment that we didn't get to last week about how soil erodes but grass helps hold it. I'm still working on our activities for that day. The rest of the week will be focused on math and language arts, including IEW writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaNYC Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 The unofficial plan for ds (11) this week is: The first of three 90-minute stop-motion animation classes in Manhattan A few more readaloud chapters of Prince Caspian 2 lessons in Saxon Math 7/6 Reading, discussing, and doing some writing about 2 poems in Read & Understand Poetry Editing 3 or 4 paragraphs in Daily Paragraph Editing (for grades 6+) 1 lesson in A Workbook for Dyslexics spread out over the week Starting a month-long unit on The Animal Kingdom using Science Essentials and nature study - maybe a trip to the science museum (it's 10 minutes from my house and we get in free. I have no excuse not to take him). Reading about Early Man in the Complete Book of World History and maybe doing some sort of project (lapbook? art project?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 We are on BREAK this week! Read 10 minutes, 10 minutes of math, go play outside! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 dd8: lesson 12 R&S spelling 3, lesson 35 in R&S English3, lesson 44 in R&S math 3, Review chps. 1-5 in Prima Latina, study insect life cycles and defense strategies w/books and notebooking. I plan to have her do some copywork and dictation as well. dd10: lesson 11 R&S spelling 6, lesson 34 in R&S Engish 5, lesson 40 in R&S math 6, lesson 9 in First Form Latin, lesson 5 in Spanish for Children. For science she is moving in the human body at home using The History of Medicine, and reading a chapter of her text for co-op. I haven't looked to see where they are this week yet. It is a new chapter. She is reading Tales from Africa and doing work (summaries, dictation, etc) from CHOLL logic ancients. Both: Ancients in history: we are up to the Israelites in SOTW1 (chp. 6?) I have KHE, Ancient Israelites and their neighbors, and MP Christian Studies I to use. We are on lesson 8 of MPCSI. That's about it. :tongue_smilie: We take on a new babysitting child on Wed. so Wed and Thurs might be light days as we adjust.. We may be finishing up some of these chapters next week. Hopefully by week 2 of new child, we will have all adjusted. We are close to where I wanted to be by the end of Oct. for all skills subjects and science and latin. I had hoped to be further along in ancients studies. I don't want to work all summer, so I will be keeping up history if nothing else over holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lea_lpz Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) We'll be studying farm animals and harvest time for the next 6 weeks using MFWK units 12-14 and Wee Folk Art Harvest Time. We'll be spending 2 weeks on each MFW unit and do 2 units a week for wee folk. I am not following it (wee folk art) as written, but more as reading list (1 book a day), activity that goes with each unit, and the poetry (spending 2 weeks on each poem). We'll be doing the quilt block patterns, too. We'll just be focusing on Christmas crafts, baking, and Christmas stories for December, so will likely try to put quilt together then. For BFIAR we're doing Prayer for a Young Child. K math theme these next couple of weeks will focus on telling time, seasons, months, days of week, etc. I am very excited about these next couple weeks of themes! Edited October 22, 2012 by lea_lpz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnaM Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Bible-LifePac 2 book 9 continuing with how the nations were separated after the tower of Babel Math-Restarting with BJU Grade 3 History-Pythagoras, Confucius, Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, and Darius I Science- Finishing up the Moon and moving on to Mars. We will make a telescope sometime during the week. English and Writing-Easy Grammar lessons and how to write a friendly letter (we are writing to Grandma), Brianna will be picking out her book for her first book report. Reading in Abeka readers for comprehension and book of choice for pleasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralloyd Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 All together but not all at one time: Bible memory Aunt Vera's Bedtime Stories (missionary stories) History- Start "Incans Aztecs Mayans" (We did SOTW2 chap. 32 last week) Picture Study- We're on the last picture in SCM's Michelangelo portfolio. Winnie the Pooh (I read this to the girls when they were little. However, they want their little brother to hear it. Plus didn't mine hearing it again themselves. ;)) Dd 10: IEW SWI A lesson 2 MUS Epsilon L. 25 A&D Spelling Wisdom Ex. 76 Read a chapter in Little Women Dd 8: R&S unit 6 L.3 Spelling Wisdom Ex.23 MUS Gamma L.27 Reading a chapter of The Secret School DS 6: ETC book 1 pg. 22-23 Scardey Cat Reading game in lesson 2 Play a math game I made up with Squinky cars and dice Maybe do the last MUS Primer page in L. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Big Crew (7th and 8th) -whatever comes next in grammar, composition, vocabulary and math -displaying data, mathematics and careers/people in physical science -finish going through the Revolutionary War battle by battle -defensible arguments -Tolkien study for the older one, dystopian rabbit trail for the younger one -getting familiar with Art of Poetry, reading introduction -whatever comes next in the Constitution study Middle Crew (2nd and 4th grades, with the preschool tagging-along where she can): -whatever comes next in their math, grammar, and spelling -paragraph writing for the older one, cursive copywork for the younger one -cells parts and skin in science -George Washington, Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in history -tropical zone with a focus on Brazil in geography -writing about stuff your parents say in poetry Little Crew (preschooler): -building numbers up to twenty -reading every easy reader she can get her hands on -some workbooks leftover by the big kids for when that's not enough Toddler bringing up the rear will be in the middle of all that, no doubt. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airforcefamily Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 3rd grader four tt3 chapters and a quiz two new stars in memoria press astronomy fll3 week 11 wwe lessons 31 and 32 (there might be more) start aas a chapter in etc location of continents for social studies a lesson in her book on reading maps a lesson in her book on manners a lesson on vases and pottery then making bubble pots a lesson on lungs for health five religion lessons 1st grader start aas start aar (have a feeling we will initially move fast through it) fll1 week 11 wwe1 lessons 30-34 one new star in astronomy deserts in social studies a lesson on manners a lesson in maps workbook same art lesson/project a chapter in etc starting rightstart math b, switching from mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 We're doing measurement this week in math. Today we messed around with pendulums - changing the length of the string and experimenting with how it changes the period. Alex was totally amazed that for a given length, a big swing and a small swing take the same amount of time. :D In spelling we are working on words with long A spelled EA, and will move on from there to -TION words. In Latin she'll be learning how to use adjectives. WWE is on The Magic of Oz. Alex would like to get the whole book from the library. We still need to have a book discussion about The Water Horse, which was her last "assigned reading" novel. We're skipping chemistry this week because enviromommyis out of town. We skipped it last week because my son was sick, and the week before because I was out of town. Odds are not good for finishing RSO Chemistry before Christmas. My husband is in charge of history. I believe they'll be focusing on the Spanish and Portuguese in the New World, but then again, there's a homeschooling group trip to a fun farm on his day at home, so maybe they won't. ;) In MCT Language Arts, this is a poetry week. (We alternate between Music of the Hemispheres and Sentence Island.) After months focused solely on the sounds of poetry, we will begin to cover figures of speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Family Subjects: All of a Kind Family--literature, this is a big hit! Guns for General Washington and other Rev. war readings Apologia Swimming Creatures--finish up whales...we sculpted whales for our ocean boxes, but still need to paint them. Bach study--listen to Bach CD throughout the day and continue with Boy From Thuringia Monet--continue Linnea in Monet's Garden Missionary Stories with the Millers chapter 2 Bible memory work, Catechism, Bible story book (we're on Abraham and Isaac right now) finish sewing felt apple coasters and make caramel apples We are on our 10th (or so) schedule, but this one is just slightly different than our last schedule...I think we're getting it all figured out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daffodil Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Math: My 6.5 year old just finished the section on adding and subtracting with regrouping in Singapore 2A, so this week we're doing some review and Intensive Practice before moving on to measurement. We also got Maya Madness (math game) this weekend, so we'll play that a bit. My 4 year old will do two lessons in MEP Reception. Language Arts: I'm reading aloud The Rats of Nimh and a stack of Franklin stories. My 6 year old is also reading The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes for her independent reading. In spelling she's working on the sounds of long u and z (AAS). She does copywork and narration from our reading. We'll do poetry teatime on Thursday and freewrites on Friday. Oh, and handwriting practice for both. Science: We're reading Winter's Tail and another book about dolphins. Prehistory: Finishing up dinosaurs and moving on to mammals. Spanish: Watching Salsa and reading a bilingual issue of Scholastic Let's Find Out. Art: Making our own "leaf men" based on the Lois Ehlert book. We also have outside art classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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