5/4, 5/5 - school closed

5/1, 5/2, 5/3

Beast academy: fractions, percentages

4/27

Fractions from Beast Academy

• Finding what is particular fraction of a amount
• Finding what fraction of B is A
• Adding fractions
• Calculations of fraction multiplications and addition

Composition: description of birthday quest project.

4/26

Quest project for father's birthday with path through the house using N, E, S, W

4/25

Beast Academy: fractions

Talked about

• Tsunami
• Jack Ive Custou
• Aqualung
• Great Barrier Reef

4/24

Talked about

• electricity
• magnetic field
• magnetic field of Earth, where is it.
• How to see the magnetic field
• Why we see auroras at Poles but not at equator.
• How induction stove works

Math: Beast academy 4D fractions

4/21

Geometry
Writing
Discussed:

• Earth rotation about Sun
• Why seasons in Northern and Southern hemisphere a little different
• What is Polar circle, why there are Polar day and Polar night.

4/20

Geometry

4/19 - ski PE field trip

Went of PE field trip day: skiing in Sierra at Tahoe

4/18

Ranger Rick's article about cats - history and summary.

4/17

Geometry: theorems
parallel lines, complementary and supplementary angles.

National Geographic educational videos: leopards, orcas of Monterey Bay, tsunami. Summary of what learned.

4/14

Geometry

4/13

Continuation of Geometry.
Fixing composition errors.

Start

Today is the first day of our homeschooling adventure.
We have looked at Khan academy geometry. Learned definitions of angle, line, point.
Watched about Euclid of Alexandria as a father of geometry. Found Greece and Italy on the map.
Ada wrote a composition about why we wanted to home-school and what she expects and hopes to get from it.