Homeschool W30: Recovered and Back to Work!

What We Studied

Thankfully everyone got better from their cold and we had a normal week. I took one picture of us doing school that didn’t involve the chicks. Oh well. Enjoy some baby chickens pictures.

Literature and Poetry

We started and finished a read aloud that I had never actually read before. It’s a delightful little adventure book that we knocked out in a few days.

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
• I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky
• Hello Earth! Poems to Our Planet by Joyce Sidman

Math

Another week of math games, puzzles, and review

• Logic Countdown
• The School of Numbers

Social Studies

We covered the last chapter of History Quest Middle Times about Elizabethan Times.

• DK Timelines of Everyone
• When on Earth
• DK History
• DK Timelines of Everything
• Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley
• Shakespeare’s Theatre by Andrew Langley
• The Tudors: Kings, Queen, Scribes, and Ferrets by Marcia Williams
• Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley

Arthur Independent Time

To allow for one-on-one time with Quentin, I have added an hour of independent work time for Arthur. Each week, he will have a mix of packet work (mostly grammar and math review), independent reading time, and special projects. Many of his projects will be aligned with our literature selections (some taken from B&R Language Arts curriculum) and history.

Science and STEAM Coop

For coop and our mini science unit, we’re focusing on plants and gardening.

• DK Trees, Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds

Art/Music

None this week

Quentin

I have scheduled at least four 1-hour time blocks for one-on-one time with Quentin. I bought Blossom and Root’s Early Years Volume 2 curriculum to use as our base. I love the variety of activities and some of the bigger projects included.

ELA

• Biscuit and the Lost Teddy Bear by Alyssia Satin Capucilli (Q reads)
• Biscuit Loves the Park by Alyssia Satin Capucilli (Q reads)
• Biscuit and the Garden by Alyssia Satin Capucilli (Q reads)
• The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter
• The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter
• The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter
• High Five May 2020
• High Five June 2020
• Our Universe: Earth by Marion Bane Bauer

Math

• Lollipop Logic Book 1
• Tinkeractive PreK Math

Other

• Smart Start Beginning Coding Grade 1
• Tinkeractive PreK Science

Field Trip

There wasn’t a field trip this week.

Documentary Selection

I have carved out a one hour time block each week to watch a documentary related to our studies.

Misc. Picture Books Read

• My Little Pony, Pony Life: Royal Bake-Off by Katie Chilson
• Over in the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats
• There’s a Tiger in the Garden by Lizzy Stewart
• There’s a Hole in the Bucket by John M. Feierabend

High

• For Earth Day, we had a little coop party at a member’s house. Mostly it turned into free kids’ play, but sometimes that’s what we really need.

Low

• The chicks had to be returned on Saturday. The kids really wanted to keep them…

Next Week

• Taking a curriculum break with multiple outings
• Starting the next Chronicles of Narnia book
• More math games, puzzles, and review
• Wrapping up the Middle Times for history

Next up on the TBR pile: