With
our homeschool year getting to the half over mark, I thought I'd do a quick
update.
Science. Jenny is still teaching science and just a
couple of weeks ago, the kids got to dissect a frog. Signa was note taker, but Will dove right
in.
History. We've been very lazy on history in that we
aren't following a curriculum, despite my plans. Instead, we are going with whatever the kids
(or us) are finding interesting for the week.
Marc will put on videos or websites and they learn about World War I or
Vietnam War or Hitler or the pilgrims. They
just started a new Minecraft Homeschool class about the
start of the Revolutionary War. Then
we’ll watch the new series that the History Channel is doing on this same
subject. I did have them write up
something for history. Here are their
essays:
Math. They are still working through Aleks
math. I estimate that by March 1 they will
be moving on to next year's math.
Writing. The kids just finished up their MinecraftHomeschool where they practiced creative writing while building restaurants in their
Minecraft worlds. They also do journal
writing every day. Both kids prefer to
work with a prompt, so I’ve given them a list to chose from.
Music. Will is doing
great with piano and Signa with guitar.
Will has a recital coming up at the end of January and Signa finished a
holiday sing-along, where she had her second solo tab playing (I missed the
first one, though, as I was out of town).
Shakespeare. For their
Shakespeare group, the kids are making the Globe Theatre in Minecraft and then
making a YouTube video tour of it followed by the Macbeth witches scene acted
out in Minecraft. And done in very high
pitched witches voice over that may make your glass shatter… I’ll post the link
when it’s done.
Family history. We last did Shakespeare’s family tree in our
family history class and are working on a project for the local genealogical
society of looking up obituaries on the half working microfilm machine at the
library. I think we’ll move to the
cemetery next month.
