We had an impromptu science class this week. My husband and I were on a run, and my husband found a robin egg lying on the grass, unbroken. We ran back home and showed the children. They decided they wanted to put it in our home-built incubator (from last year's chickens) and see if we could hatch it. We did some quick research and found out what temperature robin eggs need to be at (90-95 degrees Fahrenheit), what humidity (50%), and how long they incubate for (about two weeks). We also learned the eggs need to be rotated every 40 minutes. So, my hubby jimmy rigged the rollers in our incubator for a tiny robin egg and we currently have the egg turning the required time.
For music, the children continue to practice their string instruments and piano. Kimball turned in his videos of Rigadoon and received new videos for the next song, Etude, on the cello. He also worked on his hundreds chart for Long Long Ago on the piano. Elsie reviewed her songs on the violin and continued to work on her waltz and folk song, and Happy Farmer for piano. Anna memorized Allegro and turned in her videos of her violin songs. She received new instruction videos for Perpetual Motion from her teacher. For piano Anna is playing Lightly Row and reviewing Cuckoo.
Adam had a fun time riding his bike. We all went on a 5 mile bike-ride to see a neat bird's nest. He did great. We went on a couple other 2 mile bike rides. He says his legs are getting stronger. There are lots of hills where we live!
For Language arts the kids all worked from their Good and Beautiful curriculum. Anna is having a fun time reading books. She read Grasshopper on the Road by Arnold Lobel this week. She also read the first Billy and Blaze book. She did 3 lessons out of her G&B book. She practiced writing sentences, some of which were made up by her, and others that were dictated. She also practiced writing and memorizing some spelling words, and reading 2 syllable words. Kimball also read the introduction to The Secrets of Mental Math (his choice of light reading). He also continued to study how to spell words ending in ck,c, or k. He did a unit review where he read and and spelled words with qu, kn, igh, ear, alk and oo. He reviewed all his spelling words and worked on the ones he had missed. He recited his poem he memorized, and reviewed all of the homophones he has studied as well. Elsie read the short story, A Penny's Worth of Character. She also studied comas in dates, memorized a poem titled "Window Boxes", practiced reading fluency, and learned about pronouns. She wrote a wonderful poem about a memory of hers, she typed it up, and we proof read it together. She read about 60 pages from the poetry book Devotions by Mary Oliver. Adam practiced reading sight reading words and phonics. He read some sentences, and started putting blends of letters together, such as it, ad, and am. He read a mini book called A Pet 2 times. I read a couple chapters of Bobby and the Big Road to him.
For Tech Elsie learned how to change her background in zoom. She is learning to use zoom to connect with friends, hold book clubs, and for violin lessons. She is exploring many applications and the software itself. Kimball started making a list of things he has learned off of Minecraft for his next Minecraft assignment. Anna was unable to get to Tech this week. We have such a demand for computer time right now that she is the lowest priority. She has been improving by leaps and bounds with her reading (and her violin), and that is our focus.
For Math Elsie learned how to find the area of a circle. She also reviewed solving for the unknown using multiplicative inverse, and how to divide and multiply fractions and mixed numbers. She did lots of story problems. Kimball finished chapter 2 of Epsilon and took the test. He learned how to write out fractions using words and reviewed multiplying a fraction by a whole number, and how to find the perimeter of a square. Adam did lessons 17-20 of his Good and Beautiful math. He learned more about fact families, and we built and discussed 7,5, and 2; 2, 8, and 10, 9, and 11. He also learned all the number pairs that make up 10. We discussed calendaring, number sequencing, and patterns. Anna worked on lessons 20-23 in her Good and Beautiful math. She reviewed counting money with nickles and pennies, subtraction and addition problems, and counting by 4s. She learned facts that subtract from 14 and 15, and we played a games to reinforce as well as worksheets. She learned the distance of a mile and what it equates to as well and also drew a map while reviewing coordinates.
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