Science, a Spider and Much Ado About Nothing

Math

We did a couple of lessons each day. Landen is working on Subtraction and Multiplication. I am working on highest common factor and Table Of Values, which is a sequence of numbers. You divide, multiply, add or subtract to fill in the blanks of the sequence. Once I got the hang of it, it was fun! 

We also played Blink several times this week. It is a fun and fast card game that helps us practice, colors, shapes and counting.

Language Arts

This week we read "Much Ado About Nothing." It was a Tragicomedy. (We like the sound of that word. It means "tragic comedy.")

We made this week's reading more interesting because we got up each day and made a pot of tea. We sat around the kitchen table and sipped our tea (or hot chocolate) while our mom read Shakespeare. We called it, "Tea with Shakespeare." It was perfect with the cooler weather we have been experiencing in the mornings.

Science

Spa Chemistry (Kaylee):

This week I took a break from making things... cause how much soap and bath bombs do a person need?? (Or so mom says...)

I watched a video on Mystery Science about Chemistry. It was called: "Are Potions Real?" It had an experiment about using different liquids to clean dull pennies. We tried many different liquids: dish soap, bleach, Coke, fresh lemon juice, vinegar and baking soda, vinegar and salt, and 2 different cleaning sprays. The one that worked best was the salt & vinegar mix. Dish soap also worked very well, but not perfectly!

A Little Taste of Fall

Math

We finished our assessments and started our first lessons this week. We found out why other homeschool families like CTC math. The assessments test us for ALL of the things we should've learned in our previous grade. That way, mom can look at our test scores and assign us the lessons we need to do to fill in any gaps that we have in our learning. Finally, we can get back on track!

Language Arts

This week we read A Midsummer Night's Dream from our Shakespeare book. This story was very funny and smart. There were 4 love-tangled people- Lysander and Hermia, who love each other, Demetrius, who wants Hermia, and Helena, who wants Demetrius. One day they all go into the woods. Lysander and Hermia plan to fly away so that Hermia doesn't have to marry Demetrius. Demetrius plans to kill Lysander and win Hermia over. Helena follows Demetrius and tries hopelessly to get Demetrius to love her. But Forest King, Oberon, and his henchman Puck have different plans!

Week 3 - Cinnamon and Great Weather

It was another great week at KLEOS ACADEMY. The weather has been so nice. We set up a tent in our backyard and slept in it throughout the Labor Day weekend. We also went Swimming on Monday before the pool closed for the season. This is what we did this week..

Math

We are finishing up our assessments. We are so close to being done!

Emberly has been doing lessons on Mathseeds and practicing her shapes with hands on play.

Language Arts

We finished our book and had our party over the long weekend. In case you missed it, here's the post. Now that it is a new month, we have started our September book, Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories. This is a book of short stories and we will only be reading 4 of them this month. This week we read "Romeo and Juliet."

Emberly works on her handwriting everyday. She also has been doing Reading Eggs and Fast Phonics. She read the "Cinderella Goes to the Ball" book to mom.

August Book Club Party - Amari and the Night Brothers

It's party time!! Our monthly Brave Writer guidebook gave us suggestions on what to wear, eat and do. We had so much fun!

For internet safety reasons, we blacked out our address.

Week 2 - Gemstones and Dumplings

Creative Writing

We spent most of the week listening to the remainder of our August Book, "Amari and the Night Brothers." We planned and celebrated with our first Book Club Party!