The start of a whole new chapter in this exciting journey we travel. We have decided to start school early this year since our schedule is a little unconventional. Our goal is to be half way through by Thanksgiving. Our first week, we started by reading the Bible each morning and also Proverbs daily. Sarah will learn memory verses weekly. Our beginning study is on worldliness and learning what it is and how it affects us every day.
This week we reviewed multiplication by practicing daily, worksheets, and playing card games to review. Laughter makes learning much easier.
On to Biology. We are using Apologia's Exploring Creation with Biology this year. We discussed lab safety, expectations for daily reading, answering the on your own
questions and vocabulary. We learned the parts of the mircoscope and how to use it.
Quiz on the microscope. Off to a good start. Learning about the classification system.
This year we are also doing a middle school chemistry to build a foundation for next year. We are having fun reading about the different states of matter, starting to learn some of the chemicals in everday items we use. Brain pop is coming in handy here also. We also learned about Lavoisier this week.
Sarah wanted to learn about the body systems, so this week we studied cells. She read a magazine by Kids Discover about cells, watched Brain Pop movies and took tests on
cells, cell structures, cell specialiazation, cellular respiration, and cancer. She ended the week by labeling a cell.
We started Rosetta Stone Spanish this week. She is enjoying this very much. You
must use the microphone and it keeps beeping until you can pronounce the words
properly.
American History seemed a little boring to both of us. This week was about Leif Erikson. She also read Walk the Worlds Rim. Not sure if its the curriculium or what, I guess we will see.
Language Arts started with capitalizations rules, spelling and vocabulary. We are doing extra spelling and vocabulary this year, gearing up for SATs.
We tried to spend some time studing Picasso. We read about his background
and looked at some of his work. Sarah found his work to be "weird". So much for art
appreciation from a teenager. We will keep trying.
We studied MRSA this week. What is is, where it is found, how it is treated, etc.
This week Sarah also went to the animal sale on Tuesday night, worked her regular job on Wednesday and kept up her chores with the animals.
We also had a wonderful family celebration with our family on Friday night. What a full and busy week.
