What We Studied

We had a week of schedule changes and weather issues. We rescheduled the park playdate for the next day. Unfortunately coop could not be rescheduled and we had to cancel. Hopefully the weather will cooperate next week.

Literature and Poetry

Arthur started reading a modern book playing off of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. We finished the first Reading Explorer book which focuses on reading comprehension. We’ll hold off book two for next August. He also continued his Super Secret Notebook from Blossom & Root.

• My America poem collection

• Reading Explorer 1

• Much Ado About Baseball by Rajani LaRocca

Quentin finished his read aloud. He also worked on his reading and comprehension skills.

• Sing a Song of Seasons

• Charlotte’s Web by EB White

Math

Arthur moved into a unit about angles. We will definitely be finishing 5B by the end of this “school year.”

• Singapore Common Core 5B

• Orbiting with Logic

Quentin finished his volume of Singapore Math with more about multiplication and division and a review. We’ll be switched gears to a financial literacy unit.

• Singapore Common Core 2A

Social Studies

Arthur continued with the Cold War Era by moving into the 1960s. We covered Kennedy’s administration and broached Civil Rights.

• DK American History

• We were There Too! Young People in US History

• Words that Build a Nation

• Heart and Soul

• Nat Geo Our Country’s Presidents

• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

• A Different Mirror for Young People

• This is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

• DK Timelines of Everything

• DK History

• A Time to Act: John F. Kennedy's Big Speech by Shana Corey

Quentin covered the chapter about the Byzantine Empire. We’re so close to finishing this year’s history curriculum.

• History Quest Early Times

• DK When on Earth?

• Human Wold

• DK History

• DK Timelines of Everything

• DK A Child Through Time

• A History of Western Art

• DK Science Year by Year

• DK Myths, Legends, and Sacred Stories

• Find the Journeys Around the World by David Long

• Ancient Worlds

• A Journey Through Art by Aaron Rosen

• DK Eyewitness Wonders of the World

Science

We had a break week from chemistry class. Only three more Chemistry weeks to go for the year! We made sure to read more chapters in our Story of Science book.

• RSO Chemistry

• DK Super Simple Chemistry

• Story of Science Vol. 2: Newton at the Center by Joy Hakim

• DK The Elements

Quentin continued the Plant Kingdom section of his curriculum. We talked about leaves.

• RSO Life

• DK Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds

• What Do Roots, Stems, Leaves, and Flowers Do? by Ruth Owen

• From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons

• Plants on the Move by Emilie Vast

• Before We Stood Tall by Jessica Kulekjian

• Seeds and Trees by Brandon Walden

• What Kinds of Seeds are These? by Heidi Bee Roemer

• Little Dandelion Seeds the World by Julia Richardson

• Every Little Seed by Cynthia Schumerth

STEAM Coop

Coop was cancelled due to the weather

Art/Music/Crafts/Cooking/Documentary

We snuck in a mini lesson about cutouts and learned about the compositions about Franz Schubert. And we slipped in some documentaries. Quentin watched one about the Hagia Sophia to go with our history chapter about the Byzantine Empire.

• DK Music and How it Works

• DK The Arts

• DK Art and How It Works

• Modern Art Adventures by Maja Pitamic and Jill Laidlaw

• 13 American Artists Children Should Know

• A Child's Introduction to Art

• Women in Art by Rachel Ignotofsky

• Iconic Composers by Nicholas Csicsko & Emi Ferguson

• 13 Art Movements Children Should Know

• 13 Artists Children Should Know

• 13 Modern Artists Children Should Know

• The Story of Paintings by Mick Manning & Brita Granström

• Why is Art Full of Naked People? by Susie Hodge

Field Trip

With coop being cancelled, I grabbed a library pass for the Durham Museum. We really wanted to visit the Toytopia exhibit. The boys had fun playing all the classic games.

High

Thankfully our park playdate was able to rescheduled to the next door. The boys needed some running time with friends. And I need to just relax a bit.

Low

My body was very angry and created some issues for me. I am thankful for the flexibility of homeschooling to work around these issues.

Next Week

• Stating a new read aloud for Quentin

• Reading a Shakespeare-inspired story for Arthur

• Moving through the Civil Rights Movement

• Continuing learned about angles

• Switching to a financial literacy unit

• Covering more chapters in the Story of Science

• Learning more about the Arabian Peninsula

• Exploring more parts of the plant kingdom

• Bringing back some art and music

Next up on the TBR pile: