Read-at-Home Mom: Homeschool Update: Week of 10/25/21

Weekend Activities, 10/23/21-10/24/21

On Saturday, the girls rode bicycles and M. went on a bike ride with Daddy. We made a birthday video for Grandpa's sister Aunt V. and attended the Latin Mass on Sunday.

Morning Time

Music: I continued reading aloud from Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia by Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher, and we listened to these pieces referenced in the text:

Singing: We practiced singing When the Saints Go Marching In.

Poems: From Favorite Poems Old and New, edited by Helen Ferris (Doubleday Books, 1957), I read aloud: "There Are So Many Ways of Going Places" by Leslie Thompson, "Autumn Fancies" by Anonymous, "Vegetables" by Eleanor Farjeon, and "The Wonderful World" by William Brighty Rands,

Art Appreciation: In 100 Masterpieces in Color (Hamlyn, 1972), we looked at Saint Mark from the Cathedral Treasury, Trier, and The Crucifixion (unknown painter, before 1339) from the British Museum.

Catechism: We continued learning to understand the Apostle's Creed using I Believe in God by Lawrence Lovasik. Saint Stories for Kids put out a week of episodes featuring "spooky" saint stories, and we listened to all of those as well.

History

First Grade: C. and I read most of The Great Pyramid by Elizabeth Mann and all of Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki. She also watched the Reading Rainbow episode featuring the Aliki book, and did some coloring pages of Khufu and Osiris and Set. On Friday, C. decorated a Kiwi Crate box covered in paper to use as a sarcophagus. She wrapped one her dolls in a white scarf like a mummy and colored a paper mask to put over her face. Then she dressed up in a costume and black wig and she and her sisters processed through the house, taking the mummy to her tomb.

Third Grade: With Daddy, M. read these sections from The World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster:

A Synagogue in Amsterdam
At Home in Leyden
(The Telescope (1608))
Galileo and the Planets
Henry IV is Dead
Galileo in Rome (1611)
French Missionaries in Canada
Pocahontas Is Married
The Royal Couple
King Gustav Adolf
Russia's New Tsar, Michael Romanov (1613)
The Naming of New England

Science

First and Third Grade: We finished BFSU Lesson B-7: How Animals Move II: Different Body Designs; Major Animal Phyla. I showed M. and C. video from the library's website called Animals 101: Animal Atlas and Invertebrates - Sponges, Worms, Mollusks, Arthropods, Echinoderms.

Pre-K: E. and I read about weather phenomena in National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of How.

C. also did her Mirror Illusions Kiwi Crate.

English

M. and C. finished all their thank you notes.

C. continued reading King Oberon's Forest. She also read the first two books in the Lulu series by Hilary McKay. M. continued reading The Man Who Was Don Quixote by Rafaello Busoni and The Adventures of Don Quixote by Leighton Barret and illustrated by Warren Chappell. She also read Cody and the Fountain of Happiness by Tricia Springstubb. We finished our read-aloud of Anna Witch.

E. continued to practice beginning blends in The Ordinary Parents' Guide to Teaching Reading.

We started reading the section Three Children and Shakespeare about Julius Caesar.

Typing and Handwriting

M. and C. wrote their thank you notes in cursive. Both girls did typing most days.

Languages

C. continued working on learning two Halloween songs in ASL from We Play Along: It's Halloween and 10 Little Jack-o'lanterns. She also watched a series on the same channel of signs for household objects.

Art

The girls made Halloween decorations from foam shapes and we hung them in the front window.

Math

M. continued working on Challenging Word Problems 3. C. worked on a review in Singapore 2A. C. also worked on addition and subtraction with renaming on the soroban. Both girls did a chapter from Life of Fred.