{"id":20826,"date":"2022-04-18T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=20826"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:33:30","slug":"4th-6-weeks-of-6th-grade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/4th-6-weeks-of-6th-grade-2","title":{"rendered":"4th 6 Weeks of 6th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 weeks down for Core G for Benjamin!<\/p>\n<p>For devotions, we are following along with our church and studying The Story. Benjamin also has a school reading each day, a weekly chapter from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">International Children\u2019s Bible Field Guide<\/span>, a weekly memory verse, and adds stickers to his timeline book on Fridays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In history\/social studies, we have\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Story of the World: The Middle Ages<\/span> as a spine and also use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Usborne Encyclopedia of World History<\/span> as a supplement. Every now and then we read a section of a little booklet called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Kingdom Strikes Back<\/span>. We were mostly in Old Europe era. Benjamin does a current event assignment on Fridays with <em>World Kids<\/em> magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/course-benjamin-bentley.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20828 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/course-benjamin-bentley-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\/05\/course-benjamin-bentley.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/course-benjamin-bentley.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/course-benjamin-bentley.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/course-benjamin-bentley.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Alouds this unit were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Single Shard<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Great and Terrible Quest<\/span>,\u00a0and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Hidden Treasure of Glaston<\/span>. Our poetry book selections come from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Favorite Poems Old and New<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In language, he has spelling with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 3<\/span>, grammar with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Keys to Good Language 6<\/span>, vocabulary with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise 3000, Book 6<\/span>, a cursive assignment, and a creative assignment each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin\u2019s readers are pretty interesting historical fictions. He finished up\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Flame Over Tara<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Son of Charlemagne<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Proud Taste For Scarlet and Miniver<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Black Horses For the King<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out science main spines are\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What\u2019s Science All About?<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chemically Active<\/span>. He has been able to do most of the experiments on his own even though we don&#8217;t like this book very much. During this unit we also worked through\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Usborne Encyclopedia of Planet Earth<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Math is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Horizons 6<\/span>. He does pretty well with new math concepts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20831\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter.jpg?resize=1229%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/12-easter.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Benjamin\u2019s main extras are karate and Royal Rangers. He decided not to play basketball but was a good help teaching Joel and Ginny during their season. He helps a lot at Connections and Active Love Church events and has a friend game time on Tuesdays with his buddies. During this unit, our little foster guy went home, we had a tornado watch at Connections, a friend&#8217;s wedding, and a field trip to watch the llamas get sheared. We participated in some fun Easter themed events including a cross walk, seder dinner (Benjamin does not like horseradish), and neighborhood egg hunt. We have a lot of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 weeks down for Core G for Benjamin! For devotions, we are following along with our church and studying The Story. Benjamin also has a school reading each day, a weekly chapter from International Children\u2019s Bible Field Guide, a weekly memory verse, and adds stickers to his timeline book on Fridays.\u00a0 In history\/social studies, we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20827,"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":[201,3879,302,303],"tags":[2062,3907,793],"class_list":["post-20826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-g","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-4th-6-weeks","tag-6th-grade","tag-update","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-3879-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-5pU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19523,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/2nd-6-weeks-of-6th-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":20826,"position":0},"title":"2nd 6 Weeks of 6th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"January 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin is done with 12 weeks of 6th grade!\u00a0 We were still finishing up Hannah's bible reading merit for our morning devotional time and then Benjamin has a weekly chapter from International Children\u2019s Bible Field Guide, a weekly memory verse, and adds stickers to his timeline book on Fridays.\u00a0 In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/46.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/46.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/46.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/46.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/46.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18950,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/1st-6-weeks-of-6th-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":20826,"position":1},"title":"1st 6 Weeks of 6th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"November 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin is finished with six weeks of 6th grade. 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