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Homeschool W24: Back to Normal?

What We Studied

We had a pretty normal week. Lots of schoolwork, a few activities, but also weather that interrupted some plans. We had a big blizzard blow through on Tuesday night that cancelled our Wednesday plans. We pivoted by covering more schoolwork and watching some more documentaries. Not a big deal.

Literature and Poetry

Arthur is primarily using Hearth and Story G5 for his language arts this year. Arthur dove into our next coop book club selection. We’re both really loving it! It’s a gentle story, but with a lot to say. We also covered more grammar and extra language arts assignments.

  • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

  • Science Verse by Jon Scieszka

  • The Elephant in the Room by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Quentin is primarily using Blossom & Root G1 for his language arts this year. We will pull some elements from Build Your Library Level 2 and random books that we have around the house. We started our next read aloud that aligns with our Blossom and Root curriculum. We’re both really loved it!

  • Poetry: Out of This World: ICE Poems About Polar Life by Douglas Florian

  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Math

Arthur is using Singapore’s Math in Focus Course 1. Effectively this is Singapore’s 6th grade math text. We ended up taking a short break from our textbook to explore more logic and algebraic expressions.

  • Math in Focus Course 1 Book A

Quentin is using Singapore’s Primary Mathematics Common Core edition 2B and 3A. We moved onto 3A starting slow to easy back into our lessons. Taking it slow but moving along.

  • Singapore Primary 3A

  • Primarily Logic

Social Studies

Arthur is using Curiosity Chronicles Early Modern History Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 this year. Because of our changes in scheduled, we ended up covering three sections of history this week. We learned about the Latin American Revolutions in South America, the revolutions in Brazil and Mexico, and the African Zulu Empire and Central African caliphates

  • Curiosity Chronicles Early Modern History Vol. 1

  • DK History

  • DK Timelines of Everything

  • DK Timelines of Everyone

  • DK A Child Through Time

  • Simon Bolivar: Latin American Liberator by Frank de Varona

  • A Kid’s Guide to Latino History: More than 50 Activities, by Valerie Petrillo

  • Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers, by Juliet Menendez

  • Where Is the Amazon?, by Sarah Fabiny

  • DK Eyewitness: The Amazon

  • Fiesta Femenina: Celebrating Women of Mexican Folklore, by Mary-Joan Gerson

  • Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection, by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy

  • Brazil: Enchantment of the World, by Ann Heinrichs

  • Mexico: Enchantment of the World, by Liz Sonneborn

  • A Kid's Guide to Latino History by Valerie Petrillo

  • Shaka Zulu by Richard Spilsbury

Quentin is using History Quest Middle Times with Build Your Library Level 2 as his main history curriculum. We covered two chapters, one about the Inca Empire and one about the Renaissance..

  • History Quest Middle Times

  • DK When on Earth?

  • DK History

  • DK Timelines of Everything

  • DK Timelines of Everyone

  • DK A Child Through Time

  • DK Explorers

  • Ancient Civilizations: Aztecs, Maya, Incas! by Anita Yasuda

  • The Inca Empire by Sandra Newman

  • 20 Fun Facts About Machu Picchu by Janey Levy

  • Inca by Lawrence Kovacs

  • Lost Treasure of the Inca by Peter Lourie

  • A Look at Renaissance Art by J. Jean Robertson

  • Raphael by Mike Venezia

  • Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd

  • Leonardo da Vinci by Mike Venezia

  • The Renaissance by Enzo George

Science

Arthur is using RSO Biology 1 this year has the main science text. Our academic coop will also be using RSO Biology 1 as a basis for the fall and spring semester courses, so we will be just supplementing at home. We will also be doing some of Blossom & Root’s Book Seeds and various other small units in between. Other than co-op, we watched a ton of PBS Eons videos this week.

  • RSO Biology 1

  • Story of Science Vol. 3 by Joy Hakim

Quentin is using RSO Earth & Environment and RSO Astronomy 1 as a base. Of course, we have a ton of extra science resources laying around the house. And I will be hosting some one-off science exploration days that align with the units. We jumped back into RSO Earth & Environment to cover the atmosphere. But we also just watched a ton of PBS Eons videos.

  • RSO Earth and Environment

  • DK First Earth Encyclopedia

Academic Co-op

We’re entering the home stretch of this semester of co-op. For biology, the kids learned about fish and amphibians. For art, they focused on abstract and absurdist art. And for writing, we started our unit on Fictional Narrative. Only two weeks to go!

Art and Music

Art will be very sporadic this year, but we do have some fun excursions planned. And I will incorporate art projects into a lot of other subjects and unit studies.

For music, we are using Music Lab: We Rock! as our spine. Each week we will be learning about a different rock musician and focus on a particular song. I have also created Spotify playlists so we can listen on the go.

  • Music Lab: We Rock!

  • DK Music and How it Works

  • DK The Arts

Field Trip/Activities

No specific field trip this week.

High

We got a lot of curriculum covered…

Low

The weather brought a fun winter storm and some terrible road conditions that disrupted our week. We had to skip our nature walk due to sleet and soggy ground. And our social meetup was cancelled due to the blizzard.

Next Week

  • Finishing our read alouds, probably starting our next ones

  • Moving forward with our math textbooks

  • Traveling to the United States and Russia (A) and Russia (Q) for history

  • Exploring weather for science

  • Visiting the zoo

  • Attending a nature class

  • Moving into the last two weeks of Academic Co-op

Next up on the TBR pile:

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Monday 03.10.25
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