This week the kids had another week filled with music! Monday they got together with their quintet group and practiced their song they will be performing with the homeschool choir. On Friday they went to the homeschool choir and practiced singing their songs as well as performing their quintet song on their string instruments. On Tuesday and Thursday they went to their piano and string lessons at Bows and Bridges, and they practiced their instruments throughout the week as well. It's fun to listen to them progress!
Elsie has had a fun time listening to books on CD and finished Little Women, which I had read 2/3 of previously to her. She loved the characters and the book as a whole. She also read another 70 pages of The Princess and the Goblin as well as a bunch of short stories from a Usborn book called Illustrated stories of Horses. For her writing, she finished the story she was writing in journal format about a girl who goes to space and drew a couple pictures for it. Peter read 75 pages out of a biography about Isaac Newton and enjoyed learning about the earlier years of his life. He wrote a couple paragraphs for an essay he is writing about why dogs are better than cats, as well as almost 300 words in his science fiction story he is working on. He also took notes on and participated in a debate about global warming. Anna finished chapter 1 in Days Go By and also read chapter 2, A Doll For Susan. She also wrote notes back and forth with her neighbor friend. They shared poems they were working on with each other and had a great conversation in writing! Kimball read 50 pages of How Money works. He says this book is a little trickier to understand. He also worked on refining his Fun Facts about space story and added pictures from PC Paint in it. He also wrote notes back and forth with his neighbor friend about when they could play and did some copy work from Peter Pan and Robin Hood.
For Math Kimball finished the chapter on long multi-digit multiplication He was multiplying 2 three-digit numbers. It was quite tedious, but he persisted and finished the chapter. He just needs to take the test. He also reviewed finding factors, solving for the unknown, and writing large numbers into words. Anna continued to work on chapter 10, learning to count by 8s. She also reviewed solving for the unknown and doing story problems. Peter started chapter 3, finding the value of x in equations, and reviewed least common multiples. He also read several pages from The Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe about the number 8. Elsie finished chapter 2 and took the test. She learned what a numerator and denominator are. She learned how to draw out a picture of what a fraction is, how to write a fraction numerically, and how to spell it out as well. She also reveiwed how to find the perimeters of squares.
We continue to have a fun time learning about the ocean. We tried an experiment where we layered various liquids to represent the 5 layers of depth in the ocean. It didn't work out very well, but it helped us understand what the layers are and what kind of life forms live in each of them. We had a fun time reading about various sea creatures as well. Peter learned about global warming in Pyramid Project and in his Forensic class he watched a case from the different perspective and heard about other cases the teach had been apart of.
For the tech/business class the kids had a fun time taking apart a microwave with their dad to use the motor and switches for the incubator for our chicks. They watched their dad cut a hole in the top of the cooler and put a window so they will be able to see the chicks hatch. Peter also worked on his Minecraft, where he figured out a name for his restaurant: Pete's Pizza, and he came up with a logo as well.
Learning the history of Great Britain has been fun. We learned about the battle of Hastings last week as well as King Richard the Lionheart and his brother John. The kids also enjoyed building a small trebuchet from a kit and experimenting with various catapults.
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