Mid-year progress report

Homeschooling two beautiful children with a two-year-old and a one-year-old (not pictured)... what could go wrong?  Easy peasy, right?

Third Grade

On very rare occasions, the outdoors is Jed's classroom.  

Here, he's drawing a diagram of a vanillin molecule.  Science is chemistry this year.

Here, he's inspecting an experiment that didn't work right until the third try.

I like that our math program has lots of manipulatives.  Here, he does a lesson on area using pattern blocks.

He also has plenty of math worksheets.

We've done lots of chemistry experiments this year.  This one involves yeast.

Sometimes, Mom gets sick and everyone climbs in her bed for a lesson.

Science is disproportionately represented here because it's the most interesting subject to take pictures of.  Grammar work, reading books, writing history reports... not so photogenic.

This is an experiment about hard versus soft water. 

And one about density...

Sometimes Jeddy recruits help with his grunt work.  The sisters are helping him cut and paste a graph.

We're working on focus and concentration.  Why does he ever gets distracted during school??

Kindergarten

Ada's very favorite thing is cooking for her math lesson.  Fractions, measuring, temperature... and brownies

...which can then be frosted and arranged to learn about repeating patterns.

Ada also loves practicing her handwriting.

More cooking.  Banana bread this time.  Ada also does various other things for math as well as daily reading lessons.  

And when kindergarten is done, she helps to comfort her little brother.

They are lovely children, aren't they?  And pictures are so beautifully noiseless.  Just like our homeschool.


A good half-year's work!