{"id":15163,"date":"2020-07-13T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:48:20","slug":"finished-with-6th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/finished-with-6th-grade","title":{"rendered":"Finished with 6th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We finished up the core studies for World History I &#8211; Sonlight Core G.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah is still working on reading through the full bible for Girl&#8217;s Ministries, but we had additional reading selections and memorization passages throughout the unit. We also finished up the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Children&#8217;s Bible Field Guide<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In history\/social studies, we closed out our study of the middle ages. We finished our spines:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The World of Columbus and Sons<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Story of the World: The Middle Ages<\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History<\/span>. We also did one current event study each week using <em>World Teen<\/em>, usually on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Read Alouds were fun. We finished\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Second Mrs. Giaconda,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Westing Game<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Shakespeare Stealer<\/span>,\u00a0and read poetry selections from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Favorite Poems Old and New<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reading \/ LA continued on patter. We used <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 4<\/span> for spelling, had a cursive assignment, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Keys to Good Language 6<\/span> for grammar, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly wise 3000, Book 6<\/span> for vocabulary, and a creative writing assignment each week. Her last assignment was a persuasive paper on why she should get a cell phone! It was well written, but not sure if it will work. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/18.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/18-1024x768.jpg?resize=688%2C516&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/18.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/18.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/18.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/18.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a>Hannah read these books to herself: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beduins&#8217; Gazelle<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Samurai&#8217;s Tale<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shadow of a Bull.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Science was mostly evolution related. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Evolution: the Grand Experiment<\/span> was our spine with the movie\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Icons of Evolution.<\/span> We were disappointed with our experiment book,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chemically Active<\/span>, will have to try something different when Ben gets there.<\/p>\n<p>In Math, Hannah finished up Horizons 5 and went straight into Horizons 6. We&#8217;ll keep working that this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/03.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15170\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/03-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/03.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/03.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/03.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/03.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Extras are still the best part about homeschooling, even though a lot of things are not running right now and plans have been changing. We still do piano for music, Duolingo for language. We play on our land, the creek was running nicely for awhile and we enjoyed that. We have been getting to know sister, took a week long short term mission trip, and had a family visit for Joel&#8217;s baptism.\u00a0<br \/>A great ending to a great year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finished up the core studies for World History I &#8211; Sonlight Core G. Hannah is still working on reading through the full bible for Girl&#8217;s Ministries, but we had additional reading selections and memorization passages throughout the unit. We also finished up the\u00a0Children&#8217;s Bible Field Guide.\u00a0 In history\/social studies, we closed out our study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3879,11,302,303],"tags":[3907,3964,482],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-core-g","category-hannah","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-6th-grade","tag-core-g","tag-finished","wpcat-3879-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-3Wz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14782,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/5th-6-weeks-of-6th-grade","url_meta":{"origin":15163,"position":0},"title":"5th 6 Weeks of 6th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"June 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Only 6 weeks left! 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