February School

February 2020 has come and gone and with a lot under our belt.  We celebrated birthdays, we celebrated Valentine's Day with the Holt family,  and we played with friends for playdates.  We learned a lot about mummies and Ancient Egypt, as well as, pirates!    The only thing I would have put into our February School would have been black history and presidents.  I am finding that I really struggle with planning ahead on holidays.  I also need to be better at getting photos of our school days and just life in general.  

For Morning basket, we covered so many topics.  We read books from the Charlotte Mason schedule.  Learned about some people who worked hard for the kingdom of God, practiced memorizing the catechisms, and read five minute devotionals.  Our favorite read loud this month was the Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo.  This book was excellent and has become a favorite of ours.  It even inspired Ava to add some of the authors technique into her fairytale writing.  We also read some Valentine's books, Groundhogs books, and poetry.  During our morning time we find it fun to include some language arts by using MadLibs.  Since we were talking about fairytales, we did a fairytale MadLib.  We also incorporated learning about fairytales using a Fairytale Spin to Play game.  One of my favorite, and the girls, was the Once Upon a Time Map Book.  We used this for a fun spin on geography and reading map skills.  For Art, we included our Charlotte Mason artis, Gustave Courbet and we also used a Learn to Draw Princess Kingdom to go along with our fairytale theme.  Morning Basket Math included a variety of games, heart candy patterns and candy heart measurement.  For science, we played Top Trumps Fillies, foals, and fantasy.  

Here is an overview of what they learned in unit studies this month:  

Ancient Egypt and Mummies:  We read Magic Tree House Mummies in the Morning and the Ancient Egypt Fact Tracker that goes along with it.  We read Who Was King Tut biography, as well.  The girls learned about Egypt and where it is on a map, including a cut out of Egypt that they colored and placed in their composition books.  They watched several YouTube videos on the subject and we did the Waldock Way unit study on the subject.  We played Top Trumps King Tut.

We also read Magic Tree House Pirates Past Noon and the Pirates Fact Tracker, Who Was Blackbeard, and You Wouldn't Want to be a Pirate's Prisoner.  We played several pirate games

like Don't Poke the Pirate, Don't Rock the Boat, and my personal favorite Dozen Doubloons which is fun and couples with math and making addition equations that add up to 12.  Ava drew a pirate ship in her composition book and we also watched YouTube videos on the subject, watched Hook, and did the Waldock Way unit on the subject.  

For writing, we are working on the Brave Writer Jot it Down curriculum and spending our time looking into fairy tales.  This month we have looked at The Frog Prince.  We read the story and they wrote their own version of it and colored a frog to go along with it. 

Ava was able to complete several activities in her Good and the Beautiful curriculum.  

LA lessons-79-87, reading comprehension sheets, spelling, read each day independently (60 books), Reading Eggs, grammar, compound words work, homophone matching game and worked on punctuation.  

Math- 52-59, Math Seeds, addition facts to 20, candy heart patterns, candy heart measurement, color caper game, comparing numbers

Bible: Jonah 

Sally: 

LA: Lesson 10-18 in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy lessons, some beginning sound and ending sound exercises, as well as reading her Good and the Beautiful level A books, and spelling.

Math: lessons 79-87, Color Caper game, addition facts, and MathSeeds

Bible: Jonah

Evie: 

Confessions of a Homeschooler: Letters A, E, I

Math: Preschool Math Unit 1