Cells, Ancient Egyptians, Community Helpers, & Legos

We had a great week of school this week.  Maybe it's cause I got a much needed Mom's Night Out at Hobby Lobby with friends from co-op, or that the kids had pretty good attitudes, or God gave me an over abundance of patience this week but it really was a great week.  Here's what we did.

 

Mj - 6th Grade

 

Bible: Mj is doing Apologia's Who Am I? and What am I Doing Here? He studied Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things." The book broke up what each of those things meant. 

 

English: Mj wrote a persuasive paper about why he should be able to buy more Super Mario brother games.

 

Math: Lots of fractions!

 

History: Mj finished his chapter on ancient Egyptians.  This was a fun chapter and we both had fun learning together about their culture and customs.  We found some fun videos on pinterest that we watched together.

 

Science: Mj began a new chapter on cells.  He learned the parts of animal cells and plant cells.

Mj was pumped to get the microscope out and look at come plant cells.

 Mj had fun making an animal cell out of jello, fruit and candy.

For dinner we had an edible plant cell.

 

Jadyn - 1st Grade

 

Bible: Jadyn learned about Abraham and Sarah.  We finished our unit on Abraham and Sarah by watching What's in the Bible with Buck Denver? Volume 1 to review what we have learned in Bible so far this year.

 

Phonics & English: Jadyn worked on "sh", "ng", & "th".  She also learned about suffixes and how adding a suffix will change a 1 clap word to a 2 clap word.

Working on her sight words with our educubes.



Math: Jadyn finished her chapter on subtraction and began a new chapter on money.

Working on her subtraction facts.

 

Heritage Studies: Jadyn is learning about communities.  It worked out perfectly that her little brothers had to dress up as community helpers for Awana this week.

Some of the cutest community workers I've ever seen!

Science: Jadyn is learning about the seasons.  We talked about how the seasons are a cycle and began talking about Spring. I've realized that living in Miami has made it kind of difficult to talk about seasons.  Jadyn doesn't remember spring in Pennsylvania so we got on the internet and looked at books of pictures of spring.

 

Art: Jadyn was so excited to use her oil pastels for her art project this week.  I use the Homeart Studio DVDs with the kids and they absolutely love them.

 

Jadyn had a fun afternoon yesterday with her friends from co-op for their Elementary Explorers' Pool & Pizza party.







Also, big news around here.  Jadyn lost her 2nd tooth!  We looked at it under Mj's microscope!  She's got another very wiggly tooth so I'm pretty sure by next week her smile will look a lot different.

Gabe - Preschool

 I was so excited to do "L" with Gabe cause it meant Legos!!!!!

 

Job thought Gabe needed some help coloring his Lego Batman picture.

Which Lego minifigure is different? He loved this!

Prewriting with Lego friends

A Lego movie puzzle.

Working on numbers with Lego friends.

Gabe joined in on Jadyn's art project. I loved listening to his story as he was drawing about his astronaut's adventure in space.

 

 
Gabe actually let me get the ladybug stuff out that I used with Jadyn for one day. Here he was separating the uppercase Ls from the lowercase ls.

Matching shapes with ladybugs.

Some geometric shape fun!  I love when he just gets in the educational bins and finds something to play.

Finding his "l"s  on the paper.

Job - Totschool

 

Job loves doing anything that his older siblings are doing.  We counted Lego minifigures together and he worked on using the clothespins.

He loved playing with the educubes.

 

Columbus Day Fun

 The enjoyed watching a video about Christopher Columbus on youtube.  Mj wrote a paragraph on what he would do if he was an explorer.  The 3  younger kids colored a picture of Christopher Columbus and for lunch we had a Columbus theme.

 

 

Today was an absolutely beautiful day here in Miami.  I didn't want to stay cooped up inside and neither did the kids so we took school outside and had so much fun learning and doing their papers. I walked outside to find this - the 2 older kids were helping Gabe with his paper.  I just sat on the porch and watched them.  This is why I homeschool!!!  They fight like cats and dogs the majority of the time (please, tell me my kids are not the only ones that are mortal enemies 99% of the time), but on those rare occasions where I see them getting along my heart is overflowing!

Jadyn thought she was hilarious coming up and jumping on Mj's back while he was working on his reading paper. 

While we were doing school, we heard a lot of commotion and looked up to see a flock of beautiful green parrots circling above and land in our tree.  We watched them for awhile until our dog scared them and they flew away. The fun things we get to see in Miami!

So that's what our week looked like.  Check out other homeschool blogs at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.