Weekly Wrap-up: Week 18 - The One with Pet Pics (Because I Forgot Homeschool Ones)

Oops! I didn't take a single photo of homeschool this week, so how about some pet pics instead?

CORE WORK

CATI

• English Grammar 101: Section 6 - Prepositions (99%), Section 7 - Conjunctions and Interjections
• Writing - Started a Blog (Visit her here)
• Vocab Test List 2 (95%), List 3 (85%)
• Laddie (Stratton Potter)
• Khan Academy Pre-Algebra - 85% Completed

SAM

• Grammar and Writing Handbook: Unit 2 - Commas, Unit 3 - Verbs 
• Grammar Smart Junior: Nouns,  Pronouns
• English Grammar 101: Lesson 1 - Nouns (58%)
• Writing - Descriptive Writing 5 Essay Paragraph
• Grammar Ninja - Level 2 
• Rascal (North)
• Saxon 65 - Lesson 8 (Subtraction Facts), Lesson 9 (Subtraction Algorithm), Lesson 10 (Missing Addends), Test 1 (100%)

More changes for Sam and his curriculum. Math is moving ahead again with the change from Khan to Saxon, but we needed a change in Grammar as well. So, he started English Grammar 101 (online). He also started learning to write a 5 paragraph essay since he's finding "perfect paragraphs" boring. 

ASTRONOMY

Sam finished Lesson 8: Rocks, studying meteors and asteroids and creating a model of the solar system.

• Notebook Page/Project Page
• Asteroid Belt
• Solar System Model

GENERAL SCIENCE

Cati finished Module 7: The Fossil Record this week with a 90% on her exam.

• How Fossils are Formed
• Features of Fossil Records
• Petrifaction 
• Carbonate Residues and Impressions

U.S. HISTORY and GEOGRAPHY

I read aloud to Sam from History of Us: The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (Hakim). We covered chapters 16-19.

• Christopher Columbus
• Beginning of American Slavery
• Navigation
• Latitude and Longitude
• Taino
• Cartography
• Abraham Zacuto and Astronomical Charts
• Giovanni Caboto
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Ferdinand Magellan 

MUSIC HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY and CULTURES

Cati studies Music History with Easy Peasy Homeschool, and continued on with Year 3 Geography and Cultures. Since the lessons are quick, she completes one week per day, sometimes more. This week she completed weeks 9-12.

• Woodwind and Brass Instruments

ENRICHMENT

Cati

• Jazz and Concert Band
• CNN Student News
• Walked miles

Sam

• CNN Student News

DAYS COMPLETED: CATE - 114 | SAM - 108

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Happy Homeschooling!