Homeschool the past couple weeks

Language Arts

Book to Movie Comparisons:
- Nimm's Island - the book is very different from the movie
- Horton Hears a Who - compared with movie, discussed moral in book of how you should never let people make you doubt your beliefs, that you should take care of those who couldn't take care of themselves, and about believing in yourself

Reading/ Language
- 100 Book Challenge: 28 so far
- Phonics, rhyming words, antonyms, homonyms, synonyms

Writing:
- Postcards to Sarah, letter to Mema, typing on the computer


Math:
- Patterns with rubber band grid
- Measuring with centimeters, inches and feet
- Adding diameters

Science:
- Caterpillars, habitats, life cycle, cocoons
- Box Elder bugs
- Crabs, shellfish, ocean
- Time4Learning - Living vs. non living, all about Ants, all about Ardvarks

Social Studies:
- Peanut processing plant - factory tour to see peanuts from the farm to the bag
- Crab processing - workers show how to take the crabmeat out of the shell in a commercial fish market
- Election coverage
- Family traditions - pumpkin carving and fall dinner at Uncle Bill's farm

Geography/ History:
Maryland - C&O Canal, Canal Boats
West Virginia
Virginia - cotton fields, peanut fields
South Carolina - Cape Hatteras, beaches, islands, peninsulas, hurricanes, tropical depression, wind speeds