{"id":18622,"date":"2021-09-05T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=18622"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:29:19","slug":"last-6-weeks-of-5th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/last-6-weeks-of-5th-grade","title":{"rendered":"Last 6 Weeks of 5th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benjamin finished up strong for 5th grade. We really enjoyed Core F &#8211; Eastern Hemisphere. There were a few books that were different from when Hannah did it and it had some difficult content, but I feel like Benjamin handled it well.<\/p>\n<p>In bible, he had daily bible selections and weekly memory sections.<\/p>\n<p>For history, we read a missionary story about Mary Slessor and had a few cities a week from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">100 Gateway Cities<\/span>. We finished up our spine <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Journey to the Eastern Hemipshere<\/span>. Once a week, he would have a current event assignment with his World Kids subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/24-nate-benjamin.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18624\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/24-nate-benjamin-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/24-nate-benjamin.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/24-nate-benjamin.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/24-nate-benjamin.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/24-nate-benjamin.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For read alouds, we finished up\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Long Walk to Water<\/span>, read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aladdin,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call it Courage<\/span>,\u00a0and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Journey to Jo&#8217;burg<\/span>. I added in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Island of the Blue Dolphins<\/span>. We had poetry selections from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All the Small Poems<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In language, we have spelling with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 3<\/span>, grammar with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key&#8217;s to Good Language 5<\/span>, vocabulary with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise 3000, Book 5<\/span>. He has a weekly dictation, creative assignment, and cursive assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin read to himself for his readers. During this unit he read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Listening for Lions<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Red Sand Blue Sky<\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Water Sky<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin does well for math. We are still finishing up Horizons 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/60-benjamin-victoria.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18625\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/60-benjamin-victoria-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/60-benjamin-victoria.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/60-benjamin-victoria.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/60-benjamin-victoria.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/60-benjamin-victoria.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>In science, Benjamin finished up\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Improve Your Survival Skills<\/span> and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Exploring the History of Medicine<\/span> as well as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Food and Nutrition for Every Kid<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Extras are fun. We have weekly karate and Royal Rangers. We got a puppy named Samwise that has been requiring lots of walking and playing. We ran a VBS in July and Benjamin was a group leader. We also had kid&#8217;s camp, a reunion in Wisconsin, and a Diltz TN trip. Ben loves to play with the little cousins and had a great time seeing all the new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin finished up strong for 5th grade. We really enjoyed Core F &#8211; Eastern Hemisphere. There were a few books that were different from when Hannah did it and it had some difficult content, but I feel like Benjamin handled it well. In bible, he had daily bible selections and weekly memory sections. For history,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18623,"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":[201,3620,302,303],"tags":[2862,81,3770,482],"class_list":["post-18622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-f","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-6th-6-weeks","tag-benjamin","tag-core-f","tag-finished","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-3620-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-4Qm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18556,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/finished-5th-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":18622,"position":0},"title":"Finished 5th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"August 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin finished 5th grade today! 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I am enjoying this core once again, it is eastern hemisphere and I appreciate that Sonlight adds this in. We are continuing with our regular morning devotions. 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