{"id":19844,"date":"2022-03-05T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=19844"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:32:29","slug":"2nd-6-weeks-of-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/2nd-6-weeks-of-bc","title":{"rendered":"2nd 6 Weeks of B+C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ginny is making good progress on Core B+C. We got weeks 7-12 done over the course of two months. It is easier to keep on trucking after the holiday distractions are over.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny is working on learning how to find the passages in a regular bible. In January, Active Love Church started studying &#8220;The Story&#8221; so that is what we have been doing during our morning devotions as a family. Then Ginny still has a school reading each day and a memory assignment each week.<\/p>\n<p>In history\/social studies, our main spine for the year is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Usborne Book of World History<\/span>\u00a0and we add in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Usborne Time Traveler<\/span>\u00a0as a supplement. We use\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Window on the World<\/span>\u00a0for social studies as well as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Geography Songs<\/span> for geography.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9674.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19846\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9674-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9674.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9674.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9674.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9674.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For read alouds, we read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Little Pear<\/span>. We started <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Detectives in Togas<\/span>. We also have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Aesop for Children<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">104 Poems of Whimsy and Wisdom<\/span> for our extra reading\/poetry selections each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginny is fast tracking through LA2. I just let it roll over as we finish each week&#8217;s worth of work (got 8 weeks done vs 6 of core). We are trying to catch some gaps and work on work ethics. She has spelling lists, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Explode the Code 6<\/span> for grammar, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise A<\/span> for vocabulary, and a weekly creative assignment. During this unit she read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Frog and Toad All Year<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daniel&#8217;s Duck<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Amelia Bedelia<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nate the Great<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Frog and Toad Together<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Big Balloon Race<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Sword in the Tree<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For science, we are using a new experiment book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Discover and Do: 2nd Grade<\/span>. She also read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Magic School Bus: At the Waterworks,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What is the World Made Of?,<\/span> and finished <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DK Findout! Earth<\/span>. We have a book called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See How It\u2019s Made<\/span> that shows how different items are produced and we read about one item a week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9874.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19847\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9874-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9874.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9874.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9874.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9874.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ginny is still working through Horizons 3 for math. We are still filling in some gaps and she needs to practice her multiplication so we have Prodigy for some supplemental work.<\/p>\n<p>Extras for Ginny include weekly piano lessons as well as daily practice, karate on Mondays and Wednesdays (belt testing in Feb and now orange belt), and Royal Rangers on Wednesdays. During this unit we had church events like pancakes at the park and missionaries, Connections events like crafts and winter day camps, and family birthday events (Lilly, Hannah, Nate, and Joel all have Feb birthdays!). We had a few snow days (5th year in a row for Waco) and planned\/hosted a Daddy Daughter Date for McGregor area families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ginny is making good progress on Core B+C. We got weeks 7-12 done over the course of two months. It is easier to keep on trucking after the holiday distractions are over. Ginny is working on learning how to find the passages in a regular bible. In January, Active Love Church started studying &#8220;The Story&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19845,"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":[585,905,1293,302,303],"tags":[1672,3167,4591,1983],"class_list":["post-19844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-core-b","category-core-c","category-sister","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-2nd-6-weeks","tag-4th-grade","tag-ginny","tag-progress","wpcat-585-id","wpcat-905-id","wpcat-1293-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-5a4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21221,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/4th-6-weeks-of-4th-grade-3","url_meta":{"origin":19844,"position":0},"title":"4th 6 Weeks of 4th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"June 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ginny completed week 24 of her 4th grade core the first week of June. 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