Homeschool Update: Week of 9/28/20

 Morning Time

• Poems from Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year selected by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Nosy Crow, 2018): "Apples" by John Siddique, "New Sights" by Anonymous, "The Leaves Are Green" by Anonymous, and a short excerpt from "As You Like It." 
• Poem from Exploring Nature with Children by Lynn Seddon: "September" by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Questions from The Big Book of Tell Me Why by Arkady Leokum, illustrated by Howard Bender: "How did candy originate?", "How was fire discovered?", "Who invented matches?", "Who discovered electricity?"
• "Now Thank We All Our God" sung from The Vatican II Hymnal
•  "Cindy" sung from Wee Sing Fun 'n' Folk 
• Painting from Come Look with Me: Enjoying Art with Children by Gladys S. Blizzard (Charlesbridge, 1996): Interior of a Ropewalk by Charles Bird King
• Painting from Exploring Nature with Children by Lynn Seddon: Haystacks - End of Summer by Claude Monet 
• Listening to The Happy Farmer by Robert Schumann
• Lesson 4 from The New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism 
• Questions from the 500 Questions Game Book (Parragon Books, 2017) for fun on Friday
• Memory work: C. mastered "The Fairies" by William Allingham and M. mastered "If" by Rose Fyleman. Both girls recorded their recitations on video.
• Recording weather, including temperature, sky color, wind strength, and clouds, as well as animal activity and observations about the leaves. 

History

C. worked on learning the names for the different relationships on a family tree and began mapping a family tree of her own. We got stumped on my husband's side of the family a little bit and wrote down some questions to ask Gran during our weekly Skype date. 

Table Time 

On Monday, we skipped this time because we met up with our friends in the nature study group. On Wednesday, we skipped it again to celebrate C.'s birthday. The other days of the week we colored Archangels (for Michaelmas on Tuesday) and played with Legos.  

Math

M. and C. both started working on review sections in their respective Singapore workbooks. C. finished Life of Fred: Apples. M. worked independently in Life of Fred: Goldfish. They also both did work on Khan Academy. 

Preschool

E. enjoyed sorting buttons in a muffin and stringing beads on pipe cleaners. She colored one page in her Melissa and Doug alphabet pad. 

Science

The BFSU lesson for the next two weeks is C-1 Concepts of Energy I - Making Things Go. Using Early Elementary Science Education by Shannon Jordan as our guide, we discussed four different types of energy - heat, light, movement, and electricity - and categorized different actions based on the type of energy that causes them to happen.  We also talked about how energy changes from one form to another and emphasized the fact that matter never becomes energy and vice versa. 

Reading and Writing

C. started reading Happy Birthday from Carolyn Haywood. M. finished Redwall and has moved onto Mossflower. She also read Riding the Pony Express by Clyde Robert Bulla.

Music

Both M. and C. practiced recorder and piano every day. 

Physical Education

During our time with the nature group on Monday, all three girls ran around with friends and played some sort of game involving bodyguards.