What We Studied
We pushed through and finished a pretty normal week for us. My body decided to make me cancel Friday’s hike, but we did engage in a few other activities this week.
Literature and Poetry
Arthur is primarily using Hearth and Story G5 for his language arts this year. Arthur started and finished the June Co-op Book Club selection. I was feeling in the mood for some good adventure fantasy and this one looked perfect. Arthur ended up not loving the second half, but I did. We also covered more grammar and extra language arts assignments.
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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 continued reading a classic.
Poetry: Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmer’s Market by Michelle Schaub
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Math
Arthur is using Singapore’s Math in Focus Course 1. Effectively this is Singapore’s 6th grade math text. We got back into our math textbook and completed a chapter about Statistics. Only one more chapter to go!
Math in Focus Course 1 Book B
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. Beyond random documentaries and museum visits, we will be pausing our history study until August.
Quentin is using History Quest Middle Times with Build Your Library Level 2 as his main history curriculum. We will be pausing history until August.
Science
Arthur finished his RSO Biology 1 course with the end of the academic co-op. We switched gears a bit and covered a few BookSeeds from Blossom & Root.
Quentin finished RSO Earth & Environment and RSO Astronomy 1 as a base. He started a side unit about oceans. We got through multiple topics and watched a few episodes of Blue Planet to reinforce.
A First Book of the Sea by Nicola Davies
Ocean by Stacy McAnulty
Oceans by Peter Benoit
Ocean Anatomy by Julia Rothman
DK Earth's Incredible Oceans by Jess French
DK Ocean
Discover the Oceans: Southern Ocean by Emily Rose Oachs
Discover the Oceans: Pacific Ocean by Emily Rose Oachs
Discover the Oceans: Indian Ocean by Emily Rose Oachs
Discover the Oceans: Atlantic Ocean by Emily Rose Oachs
Discover the Oceans: Arctic Ocean by Emily Rose Oachs
How Deep is the Ocean? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
Diving Deep: Using Machines to Explore the Ocean by Michelle Cusolito
Sandy Feet! Whose Feet? Footprints At the Shore by Susan Wood
Seashores by Cathryn Sill
DK Shell
Seashells: More Than a Home by Melissa Stewart
A Nature Walk at the Beach by Louise and Richard Spilsbury
Tide Pool by Louise Spilsbury
A Turtle's View of the Ocean Blue by Catherine Barr
Coral Reefs by Precious McKenzie
One Night in the Coral Sea by Sneed B. Collard III
Coral Reefs by Cathryn Sill
Seagrass Dreams by Kathleen M. Hanes
Enrichment Co-op
We covered our third week of co-op. The transition to a new park worked well. The classes seemed to go really well. Arthur learned about sugar chemistry. Quentin learned about the scientific method through experiments with Peeps.
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. We listened to Fleetwood Mac to finish the New Rock Sound chapter. The boys were not huge fans (I do not understand this sentiment). We moved onto the New Wave chapter with Roxy Music and Devo. Boys weren’t super excited about these bands but we had fun discussing how different they are from the last chapter’s bands.
Music Lab: We Rock!
DK Music and How it Works
DK The Arts
Field Trip/Activities
Wednesday we had our monthly exploration at Joslyn Art Museum. The kids focused on light and shadow by taking pictures in the outdoor sculpture gardens. I think Arthur had more fun chatting with friends than taking pictures, but it was a lovely day to look at some art.
High
We got so much schoolwork done this week. We are in a great position to take off from school the two weeks we are in Indiana. And when we come back, our load will be light.
Low
Very sad to miss our Friday hike at Platte River State Park. My body was revolting and I just couldn’t bring myself to drive down there and then hike.
Next Week
Reading more literature
Moving forward with our math textbooks; very close to being done
Exploring the ocean (Q) for science
Listening to Blondie and David Bowie for music!
Transitioning to a more summer routine of activities and schoolwork
Next up on the TBR pile:
