Only 6 weeks left. Also trying to remember what Hannah has been doing is hard because this unit started in April! The trips that have been keeping us busy were Arkansas at Easter to see the Shaders, Idaho in May to see Grace graduate, and Hannah’s first international trip for the Guatemala mission trip in June.
Bible devotion time has been focused on helping Benjamin get his Bible merit, but about to start a full reading of the bible for Hannah’s Friends requirement. Hannah also has a workbook (Remembering God’s Awesome Acts) that we do once or twice a week and weekly memory verses.
In history/social studies this unit, we studied India and the Arab areas. Books we read were India: The Culture, India: The People, Gandhi: Peaceful Warrior, Teresa of Calcutta, Arabs in the Golden Age, Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere (India and Middle East sections), and selections from 100 Gateway Cities. We also use World Teen magazine to study some current events. Hannah has a project for each geographical area and she made a sari for India and hummus for Middle East.
Read Alouds have been eye opening looks into other cultures way of life. We finished Daughter of the Mountains, read Shadow Spinner, A Long Walk to Water, and Water Sky. We also had weekly poems in All the Small Poems. We don’t really like this book much but have started attempted to treat each poem as a riddle to see if Hannah can guess what the item is (I don’t read the title). She seems to like that better.
Hannah does well in LA. We do spelling in Sequential Spelling 3, grammar in Grammar, and vocabulary in Wordly Wise 3000, Book 5. We have a weekly cursive and creative assignment. During this unit she read King of the Wind and really enjoyed A Girl Named Disaster.
Science is all about human anatomy this year. We’ve been in The Care and Keeping of You, Usborne Complete Book of the Human Body, and Food and Nutrition for Every Kid. She also has been working through Improve Your Survival Skills which is pretty interesting.
Hannah finished Horizons 4 this unit! I gave her a couple weeks off and then we are starting in on Horizons 5. She gets to do Prodigy on Fridays if we have done well on math the other days of the week.
Extras are our favorite part of homeschooling. We have daily piano and Duolingo practice. We have weekly Girl’s Ministries and park days when we are in town. Our homeschool group had a Field Day in May (photo left).
We had a work day at a local food bank with church and all our traveling listed above. Keeps us busy, but life is great!