Curiosity Sloth Life

James
I went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity.

The sloth hang, I hung upside down for 111 seconds. My next try I got 130 seconds. My little brother then tried it and hung right side up and beat me. He got over 420 seconds.
Kaelyn
In dance class, my group and I created a warm up dance. Basically we all do 2 cartwheels. We do a trust fall. Our song is How Do I Say Goodbye. We fall on "Goodbye" and push ourselves back up on "Life." Then we do this arm stretch sticking our elbows out to each side. We all switch sides.
Luke
I was so strong that I got 420+ seconds/7 minutes! on the Sloth Hang. It wasn't very hard. It hurt my back a little. I beat my older brother! My brother only got a little over 2 minutes. I beat my first time too.

I also went to splash pad to cool down after basketball practice. I got really wet, but had lots of fun. I love basketball!

Back to Homeschool 2023/2024

First Day of School we decided to do a day earlier than planned since James and Kaelyn had "practice"days at the middle and high schools for 7th grade and 9th grade.

Kaelyn is excited to do split enrollment this year. Since we use My Tech High for funding for our homeschool, 7th grade and above can do split enrollment where they can take up to 2 classes at their local school.

Kaelyn is doing College & Career Awareness and Dance.

James is doing Seminary (doesn't count for a MTH class) and Science. He was hoping to do another class but it was hard to get a class he wanted for the time he needed.

This is Luke's first year with Kindergarten!
This year is pretty unique where I can say I have an elementary schooler, a middle schooler, and a high schooler!

Back to Homeschool - Let's Go!

Freshman

7th Grade

Kindergarten

Rundown of what we have planned this school year...

James - CTC Math, Barton Reading, Pickleball Club, Advanced Chess Club, Tribe Makerspace, Teen Tribe, Unity Game Design

Science and Seminary at the high school

Kaelyn - CTC Math, Barton Reading, Pickleball Club, Advanced Chess Club, Tribe Makerspace, Performing Arts Club, Tribe Choir, HipHop Dance Club, Tinikling Dance Club, Basketball, Volleyball, Shakespeare Club, Craft Club Advanced, Teen Tribe, Photography Club

College & Career Awareness and Dance at the middle school

Luke - CTC Math, Barton Reading, Stem Jr. Club, Tribe Choir, Basketball, Soccer, Craft Club, Shakespeare Club

Me - Tutoring 9 students in Math and Reading, Basketball Jr. Coach, Tween Basketball Assistant Coach, EMSS Head Tribe Leader, Craft Club Leader, Advanced Chess Club Leader, Hip Hop Dance Club Leader, Tinikling Dance Club Leader, Stem Jr. Club Leader, Homeschool Mom

Here are their sentences about their first week. 

James
I played pickleball. I am the best in my group. I'm really consistent in my playing. My favorite part of pickleball is when I win.

Kaelyn
I played a new game called Cover your Cookies. It's similar to Cover your Assets and Cover your Kingdoms, but with cookies. They use images of Crumbl Cookies.

Luke
I practiced reading sight words. I started basketball and soccer this week. I learned about tally marks.

Valentine Ready

MONDAY
We played with some new things from Rainbow Resource Center. 

My oldest really loved the geoboards. 

I grabbed a lot of Geography things for the site. 

We played at a local park after our walk. 

The kids are into an Uno game run. They've been playing so often.

Ouch! Lots of points!

Do you read the rules to old games? It was interesting to look at the rules for Uno compared to when I played as a kid. It's funny to hear what house rules friends have had with old games. =D

The kids worked on Beast Academy workbooks.

I got out the beans for my son to play and dig in. 

The kids also worked on their Big Life Journals. 

TUESDAY

In the evening, my daughter participated in my Parenting Good Choices class. They have a section for the kids to role play. It was pretty awesome. Then my kids got $5 Walmart gift cards for role playing. 

My daughter has been working hard on this coloring page. 

Science Club through My Tech High.

They played around with static electricity. 

It was National Pizza Day so I grabbed our favorite Dominos toppings.

WEDNESDAY

The kids learned some magic tricks with the Homeschool Support Group. My daughter was able to try it for the group and she was surprised she was able to do it.

She finished her coloring page. 

My oldest creating on the geoboard again.

THURSDAY

My daughter started a new coloring page during her art club with My Tech High.

We tried a funny, old ---- new to us game called Funglish that we grabbed from the library. 
It was quite difficult. I guess we need to work on our vocabulary more.

Can you guess the words we were trying to describe?

Granted it was for 12+ so my oldest did the best with it, but I struggled too with some.

Coloring pages in her affirmations book.

My daughter working on her latest Doodle Crate with embossing.

Another geoboard creation. It's so interesting to see their favorites things to use and create with.

FRIDAY

If the kids were in public school, they would have had their Valentine's party so we decided to put their Valentines together and deliver it to some of their friends. 

We then worked on a density experiment from a science kit from the library. The kids loved this experiment. 

J:
This week we tried a new game called, Funglish. We try to describe a word using specific adjective cards. One person puts up this sign that has adjectives on them with 3 sections: definitely, kind of, and not. It was really hard to get the word maybe because it was a 12 and up game. My mom won with 4 correct. My sister had 2 and I had 3 right. 

K:
I made cookies (on Friday night). I had to measure everything correctly it would mess up the cookies like I sorta did last time, but at least they still tasted good. My mom helped me and so did my little brother (he poured in stuff).

Start of February

MONDAY

We are still reading our Tennis Shoes among the Nephites book. They learned a bit of geography in the pages talking about Amerigo Vespuci which was pretty neat. 

My oldest then watched a science video and wrote a summary about it while my daughter started on her Exact Path work. 

So much complaining, fighting, yelling today. Hopefully the rest of the week is better. I blame it on them not going to bed on time last night.

My daughter is reading the book called Bingo Summer and to summarize, she drew pictures about events from the book.

TUESDAY

Morning Routine
Games
Valentine Ideas
Own It Webinar

Walk

One of my daughter's favorites to create and play with is slime. We have several different slime kits, but today they tried a Play Doh one. 
They created some thing from the modeling clay she got for Christmas. 

WEDNESDAY

The kids worked on their Hearts to put on everyone's doors. 

One of our favorite games to play is Cover your Kingdoms.

My oldest worked on his Own It course. More Clay & Slime fun for the youngest. 

Then they played Outside in the yard with the Ninja Warrior Course. 

Then they had PE Class with the Homeschool Support Group.

I went on a walk with the youngest later. 

THURSDAY

Morning Routine
They worked on Night Zookeeper which they still really enjoy.
They watched Mystery Science to learn more about chemical reactions.

This game is pretty funny with kids: Apples to Apples Freestyle.

Check out some of our answers. 

FRIDAY

The kids worked on their Big Life Journals and then Beast Academy

We played Apples to Apples Freestyle because it was so fun. Then they watched a Geography video and a video on Mystery Science about making money.