What We Are Learning

Here is an update on what we are doing in our Little Homeschool. We are just finishing our second term, and I am hoping to be done by the end of April.



Benjamin is in 2nd grade this year and doing great. Here is a list of what he is learning in each subject.



History: Studying the Middle Ages with a focus on England's history during that time.

Resources: Our Island Story, A child's History of the World and The Little Duke



Science: Studying the different mammals of North America and making an animal notebook.

Resources: The Burgess Animal Book



Geography: Focusing on the countries of North America and the Santa Fe Trail

Resource: The Tree in the Trail



Shakespeare: Plays I read to him are Romeo & Juliet, and All's Well that Ends Well

Resource: Tales from Shakespeare



Literature Reading list:

Wind in the Willows,

Understood Betsy,

Pilgrims Progress,

Parable of Nature



Poetry: read poems from Walter de la Marc and Eugene Field.
Learned to recite The Window and The Duel



Composer Study: He listens to music selections from the composer for that term.

Composers studied are Maurice Ravel, Beethoven & Antonio Vivaldi



Artist Study: He observes painting by the artist for that term.

Artist studied are Monet, Durer, Carivaggio



Writing: Benjamin has been improving his printing and now he is starting to learn cursive.

Resource: Handwriting without Tears



Math: He is mastering subtraction and starting to work on multiplication through skip counting.

Resource: Rightstart



Carter is in Kindergarten this year. He is focusing on the 3 r's and doing great.



Writing: He has learned all his letters and has moved on to copywork.

Resources: Handwriting without Tear and Draw Write Now



Reading: Carter is working on learning his phonograms and has started reading simple books

Resource: Teach America to Read and Spelling



Math: He is learning simple addition, grouping numbers to make ten and odd & even.

Resource: Rightstart.



Family Subjects: These are ones we all do together



Bible Study: We read a the story from a child bible, then the next day out of the KJ bible

Old Testament: Reading about David and Saul

New Testament: Jesus getting Baptised

Book of Mormon: The start of Nephi's journey



Verses: We are working on memorizing Psalm 23



Nature Study: Focusing on Flowers, mammals, and birds. We spend a hour outside and then making a journal entry on what we observed.