Home education highlights {February}

It has been a while since I’ve talked about our home school.  Even though I’ve been silent about the subject, we have busy working and learning in our school.  Here are some of the high lights from our learning in February:

Together we worked on:

    flags of Asia

Geography

We are using My Father’s World Countries and Cultures as the main spine of our curriculum.  To see the rest of our curriculum choices, visit here.

In geography we learned about:

• Kenya and Saudi Arabia
• Memorized the countries in Africa and have begun memorizing the countries in Asia
• The Riffi Berbers, the Pygmies, people of Saudi Arabia and the Kurds
• The religion of Islam 
•  Mancala (homemade game and app on my phone)
• Global positioning

 playing Mancala (link above is to a computer version)

Bible

• Continued reading through the book of Matthew
• Memorized Matthew 6: 19 – 21, 24 – 25, 33, and the Lord’s Prayer
• Read about missionaries:  Mary Slessor, Samuel Morris, David Livingstone

 grassland dioramas

Science

• Grasslands animals and plants
• Experiments with grass (to discover how grass can grow after being eaten by various animals on the grasslands), how elephants stay cool without sweat glands
• Man’s impact on the environment, endangered species, and environmental issues

 In the middle of giving a spelling test, I had to leave the room.  I came back to Grant giving the test for me.  {smile}

History

• The Civil War
• Lapbooking about the Civil War
• Read Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln and Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Greek and Latin Roots

• helios (sun), sol (sun), philia (love), and phobos (fear)

(This pin on pinterest tells about teaching Greek and Latin roots.)

  Reading On the Banks of Plum Creek

Individually we worked on:

Bryce (8th)

• Reading White Fang
• Working on Pre-algebra (fractions and formulas and figures, oh my!)
• Daily written narrations, writing assignments, grammar, and spelling

Grant (6th)

• Finished reading The Boxcar Children.  Began work on Shiloh
• Conquering long division, averages, and divisors
• Daily written narrations, writing assignments, grammar, and spelling

Flower Girl (3rd)

• Reading On the Banks of Plum Creek
• Decoding words with vowel pairs, improving in reading fluency
• Learning to multiply and memorizing multiplication facts
• Writing friendly letters and making words into plurals in grammar, daily oral narrations, and spelling

Sunshine Girl (Kindergarten)

• Has learned all short vowels, still learning the remainder of consonants
• Decoding CVC words (cat, dog, pig, etc)
• Reading short stories
• Learning numbers, counting, calendars, coins, basic addition & subtraction
• Learned about farm animals and penguins

 

Wow!  Despite fighting illness this month, we really learned a lot in our little home school.  {smile}