Our Homeschool this Week: January 20-24th

The past severals weeks haven’t gone “as planned,” but they were pretty great anyway.

I am reminded time and time again that simple is best.  Simple is how the kids learn best and it’s how I manage life best.  When I try to do too much, I am unable, and then I feel bad.  So here I am, continuing this work of keeping life and homeschooling simple! (how many times can I say that word?)

Here’s a rough outline of what our week will look like:

Morning Time (this will be all of us)

• Fine arts/literature
  • Monday- No school
  • Tuesday- Poetry Teatime
  • Wednesday- I’ll be in town
  • Thursday- Pastels
  • Friday- Shakespeare
• Geography
  • Continue learning about the oceans
• Brave Writer Writing Project
  • Report on Natural Disasters
    • Week 3: Revision
• Texas History (continue next week if we don’t finish)
  • Native Americans Power Point
  • Native Americans Interactive Notebook
  • Native Texans Poster Project
  • All kinds of Native Texans videos

Boys

• Brave Writer Arrow: The One and Only Ivan
  • Week two
    • Copywork
    • Dictation
    • Grammar: Present participles and gerunds
• Daily Grams
  • Days 6-9
• Chemistry, Harcourt textbook
  • Pages E2-E6
    • Using physical properties to identify objects experiment using this recording sheet: Design Your Own Science Experiment Record Sheet
    • Read and study: Matter and physical properties

Karis

• Two “days” of science each day
• IEW Fix-it Grammar, Week 3
• Brave Writer Boomerang, Week 2 (finish)

All Kids

• Independent reading, 30 minutes for boys/45 for Karis
• Math- 1 lesson per day