Bungalow Poppies Homeschool

• Tea and Poetry; Read “The Land of Nod” from A Child’s Garden of Verses By Robert Louis Stevenson.
• In Beast Academy. Work on online lesson through addition. Making addition easier.
• Continue the food chain art project. Eyeballs and teeth on the Polar bear and Walrus (Phase 3).
• Read of math story The Life of Fred-Farming; Chapter 4; Collective nouns and sets + union of sets;
• Story of the World Chapter 20; The barbarians that came and settled Greece. The stories of Homer. The tale of Polyphemous.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Chapter 50 and 51;
• Read the Short Stories in All about Reading.
• Review syllables, 1, 2, and 3. Did an activity separating syllables.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 28, Starting “C” and words.
• Practicing the cursive c. page of c’s to copy. Copy name in cursive.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
• Talk about Martin Luther King Day.
• Started with the Happy Atoms app and game. Built various molecules.
• Prepare to Start “All about Spelling.” Level 1, Lesson 1. Review and document the Phonograms.
• Reading to Chloe the dog “Dog Loves Books” by Louis Yates and
• “Floss” by Kim Lewis.
• Read aloud The Value of Determination-Little Value Books
• Did the reading app “Teach my Monster to Read.”
• Made a teeter toter; sketched and added clay base.
• Read aloud Berenstain Bears “The Sleepover”.

We have acquired a new tank with a variety of goldfish and glofish. Cecelia has been feeding and assisting on changing water.

• Tea and Poetry; Read “My Bed is a Boat” from  A Child’s Garden of Verses By Robert Louis Stevenson
• In Beast Academy. Work on online lesson through addition.
• Continue the food chain art project. Eyeballs and teeth on the Polar bear and Walrus (Phase 3).
• Read of math story The Life of Fred-Farming; Chapter 2; The Good and the Great; percents of 100 items- Exploring the Fort and Chapter 3.
• Story of the World Chapter 19 The Greek dark ages, Numbers that add to 16.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Chapter 48 and 49;
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 29, Starting “Z” and words.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
• Talk about Martin Luther King Day.
• Kiwi Crate-Tinkering with Time. Building a marble timer.
• Prepare to Start “All about Spelling.” Level 1
• Introduce the Big Life Journal and the Big Life Journal Podcast.
• Revise and update curriculum. Fine tune what works. Order lab materials and additional books as needed.
• January 22nd Homeschool Review at 8:30 am.

Hands on learning by building a timer.

Learning about atoms and their connections through modeling and a scanning app.

• Tea and Poetry; Read “Eldorado” by Edgar Allen Poe from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• In Beast Academy. Start Chapter 5 of 2B Expressions.
• Start the food chain art project.  Paste together animals that form a food chain (Phase 2).
• Read of math story The Life of Fred-Farming; Numbers that add to 14 and a googol.
• Story of the World Chapter 16 The return of Assyria and Ashurbanipal the king who collected the first library.
• In our reading instruction All about Reading, Chapter 43; Compound words activities and word cards.
• HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with page 28, X and words.
• Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6 @ Together in Movement.
• In practical life, Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
• Talk about the winter solstice and make ornaments and lights for the animals to eat. Talk about the nights getting longer.
• Learning to silkscreen. Silkscreen a dog on a canvas bag. Doodle crate project.