Bungalow Poppies Homeschool

• In morning meeting, read The School Story by Andrew Clements.
• Minecraft and or Prodigy (1/2 hour, 3x a week).
• Right Start Math Lesson #99 and #100; Greater than and Less than and Introducing area and congruent.
• Wheel of Multiplication game! 2x Spin and Graph.
• Osmo Tanagrams
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #57. Last Lesson, read final chapter in the primer!
• Start AAS; Level 2, Lesson #1 Review past concepts.
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #42-45 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 4, pages 29-33.
• Continue evening read aloud JRR Tolkien; The Hobbit.
• Finish the remaining planets and painting them for the model. Bill Nye-Pollution Solutions.
• Song School Latin Lesson #1.
• The Story of the World Chapter #11 The Kingdom of the Franks and Clovis with mapwork.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Dog Man Sketches, Watercolor blow paintings.
• Read alone The Hill of Fire-El Monstro, Courderoy, Dogman graphic novel.
• Ongoing: recite the poem (kids version) of the story of Beowulf (all year).

• In morning meeting, read The School Story by Andrew Clements.
• Minecraft and or Prodigy (1/2 hour, 3x a week).
• TG and TB Lesson #6; Wheel of Multiplication game! 2x Spin and Graph.
• Osmo Tanagrams
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #55.
• Start AAS; Level 2, Lesson #1 Review past concepts.
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #35-41 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 4, pages 21-28.
• Continue evening read aloud JRR Tolkien; The Hobbit.
• MEL Science Tin Dendrites and Tin hedgehog experiments.
• Song School Latin Lesson #1.
• The Story of the World Chapter #10. The Bottom of the World, the first people of Australia and The long journey of the Maori with mapworks.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Watch the animated “Hobbit” movie.
• Read alone Sonia Sotomayor, El Monstuo pages 5-15 and the Chapter of the Grout the diary of a Wimpy kid.
• Ongoing: recite the poem (kids version) of the story of Beowulf (all year).

• In morning meeting, read The School Story by Andrew Clements.
• Minecraft (1/2 hour, 3x a week)
• Right Start Math Lesson #98, Pages in Books Lesson.
• TG and TB Lesson #6, Volume and 2x multiplication. Life of Fred Chapter #11; Veneration, a meter, immigrants, homonymns.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #54 and #55. TB and TB started Lesson #16 Phonogram review of WH, WR, EA, OA. Homophones new and knew.
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #36 and 37 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 4, pages 12-20.
• Continue evening read aloud JRR Tolkein The Hobbit.
• Finish exploring Jupiter and painting it for the model. Bill Nye-Ocean Life
• Happy Atoms; making molecules.
• The Story of the World Chapter #8-9 The great dynasties of China and East of China. Yang Chien and the Tang dynasty. Review the story of Susano and the beginning of the Yamato empire.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Kiwicrates; redid the felted wool project. Painting in acrylics. Finished the Kiwicrates felted pencil holder.
• Read alone Nate the Great, Minecraft graphic novel, Berenstain Bears Trouble at School.
• Ongoing: recite the poem of the story of Beowulf (all year).

• In morning meeting, read The School Story by Andrew Clements.
• Minecraft
• Right Start Math Lesson #97 Higher Even and Odd Numbers and the worksheet #41.
• TG and TB review of 1x, 10x, and 11x tables, Lesson #5, Math Journal and Reviews; Arrays of Zinnias multiplication activities.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #53-54.
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #34 and 35 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 4, pages 4-10.
• Continue evening read aloud JRR Tolkein The Hobbit.
• Bill Nye-Do it yourself Science
• Kiwicrate; Into to Acids and Bases.
• The Story of the World Chapter #8 Islam becomes and Empire. Play the Mecca board game and continue with the stories of the Islamic Empire, unit questions.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Kiwicrates; felted wool and started watercolor birds.
• Read alone Frog and Toad Together and Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Ongoing: recite the poem of the story of Beowulf (all year).

• In morning meeting, continue to read The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden.
• Osmo Tanagrams and Komono Math Subtraction lessons.
• Right Start Math Lesson #96 Continuing patterns in the hundreds.
• Looking at circumference, radius and diameter. Read Sir Cumference and the First Round Table a Math Adventure.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #52. OY and OI, Do the Bucket of Oysters activity.
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #30 and 31 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 4, pages 1-3. Started level 4.
• Continue evening read aloud The Tales of Bettle the Bard.
• Bill Nye-Inertia
• REAL Science Odyssey; Jupiter and the storms of Jupiter. Did an experiment showing how the storms swirl.
• The Story of the World Chapter #8 Islam becomes and Empire. Finish the  pillars of Islam. Faith, Prayer, Giving, Fasting and Pilgrimage.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Animation. Researching the history of Oswald the bunny and tracing.
• Read aloud Frog and Toad are Friends.
• Ongoing: recite the poem of the story of Beowulf (all year).
• Swirl Art
• Listen to the Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Listen to Mozart A little Night Music

• In morning meeting, start The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden.
• Osmo Tanagrams and Komono Math Subtraction lessons.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #51 Read the Life of the Blue Whale. Learn about synonyms and do the synonym activity. Realism vs. Fantasy.
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #28-29 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 3, pages 96-110. Finish level 3!
• Continue evening read aloud Fifty Famous Fairy Tales.
• REAL Science Odyssey; Mars the 4^th planet and the steel wool experiment. Make observations of what happened to the steel wool and what Mars looks like. Finish the planet and put it on the Solar System model.
• The Story of the World Chapter #7 Islam becomes and Empire. Start discussing the pillars of Islam.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Ongoing: recite the poem of the story of Beowulf (all year).
• Learning about kitten care and drawing the new kitten.

Winter Break!

• In morning meeting, finish The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin.
• Subtraction practice with directions in Mindware Subtractions Secrets.
• 2 (1/2 hour) of Minecraft.
• Continue The Good and the Beautiful (TGTB) Math 3. Lesson #4. The 1x and 10x and 11x tables and activities.
• Continue evening read aloud Matilda by R. Dahl; Start the Twits.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Ongoing: recite the poem of the story of Beowulf (all year).
• Practical life, make and decorate sugar cookies.
• Decorate for the winter solstice and fill the bird feeders.
• Field trip to the Watkins Park lights.
• Sticker Painting
• Community Service Project filling the Hyattsville Elementary Blessing Box.

Filling the Blessing Box outside of Hyattsville Elementary School. We pool our money, estimate how much we are spending, then fill the box.

• In morning meeting, read The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin.
• Subtraction practice with directions in Mindware Subtractions Secrets.
• 2 (1/2 hour) of Minecraft.
• The Good and the Beautiful (TGTB) Math 3. Lesson #4. The 1x and 10x and 11x tables and activities.
• Th Life of Fred; Chapter 8; The crocodile smile, when not to wear an orange shirt and perimeters.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Prep board and materials. Lesson #50 and 51; Read “The Cricket” and the third sound of a /ah/
• TG and TB Level 2 Handwriting workbook; Page #26-27 Handwriting practice.
• Explode the Code, Level 3, pages 87-95.
• Continue evening read aloud Matilda by R. Dahl and the year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston.
• Read Alone Redstone Jr. High and Battle of Dragon’s Temple.
• REAL Science Odyssey; Mars the 4^th planet and the steel wool experiment.
• The Story of the World Chapter #7 Islam becomes an Empire.
• PE: In Together in Movement, walk to Together in Movement. Walk one to two miles several times a week. Walk dogs.
• Ongoing: recite the poem of the story of Beowulf (all year).
• Finish the popsicle stick house and Free Sketch.