What We Studied
We completed one regular school week and then a few days of another week before leaving for Indiana for Alex’s graduation. So I decided to combine these two weeks into one post.
Literature and Poetry
Arthur is primarily using Hearth and Story G5 for his language arts this year. Arthur started and finished another Applegate book. We have loved every book that she has written. We also covered more grammar and extra language arts assignments.
Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
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 finished reading two classics.
Poetry: A First Book of the Sea by Nicola Davies
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Math
Arthur is using Singapore’s Math in Focus Course 1. Effectively this is Singapore’s 6th grade math text. We finished the textbook and will be doing review for the summer.
Math in Focus Course 1 Book B
Quentin is using Singapore’s Primary Mathematics Common Core edition 2B and 3A.We are close to finishing 3A, but not quite there.
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 Anatomy by Julia Rothman
DK Earth's Incredible Oceans by Jess French
DK Ocean
DK Eyewitness Ocean
The Ocean in Your Bathtub by Seth Fishman
The Girl Who Built an Ocean: An Artist, an Argonaut, and the true Story of the World's First Aquarium by Jess Keating
A Turtle's View of the Ocean Blue by Catherine Barr
Oceanography: The Study of Oceans by Susan H. Gray
Manfish by Jennifer Berne
Marie's Ocean: Marie Tharp Maps the Mountains Under the Sea by Josie James
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh
Ocean Speaks by Jess Keating
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle by Claire A. Nivola
Enrichment Co-op
We covered our fourth week of co-op. Arthur covered slime chemistry. Quentin wasn’t feeling it and stay home that day.
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 Blondie, David Bowie, The Smiths, and Depeche Mode these weeks. Many winners for our listening.
Music Lab: We Rock!
DK Music and How it Works
DK The Arts
Field Trip/Activities
Before leaving for Indiana, we had our twice a year visit to Arbor Day Farm. We absolutely love that place and can spend all day exploring and playing. A ton of homeschool friends joined us for a full day.
High
Thankfully we have reached the point in the year where we can slow down the lessons to allow for travel and activities.
Low
Arthur hasn’t gotten to all the literature pieces that I had hoped for this year. Not a huge deal as we will just continue, but I think I need to recalibrate for next year’s plans.
Next Week
We are currently in Indiana and not covering any big lessons. We brought a bag of work to complete and will just fit it in here and there.
Next up on the TBR pile:
