The Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool Way for Aaron

Easy Peasy went something like this for Aaron at the Eighth Grade level:

Bible Topics were the same for him as they were for Sydney. I posted them in my last blog.

Math – Pre-algebra

• Order of operations
  Decimal place value
  Equivalent decimals
  Adding, multiplying & diving decimals
  
  

Science – Zoology Level M

• Intro/animal classification videos/meaning of zoology
  Mammal classification printable activity
  Invertebrate classification printable activity
  Vertebrate movie/quiz/animal classification reading worksheet
  
  

Computer Skills: Reviewed the following terms: browser, desktop, window, crash, loading, refresh, download, internet safety, kid friendly search engines, ad blockers, etc.

P.E. – Stretching Exercises

History – Early American History Level M

• Reading Discoverers & Explorers
  Writing assignment – what did people believe 400 years ago
  Reading chapters on Christopher Columbus
  View Columbus’s route on the map
  Read about John Cabot
  View Cabot’s route on the map
  Research Jacques Cartier, write about him.
  
  

Thinking Skills: Aaron chose to play a game of checkers to try to beat his opponent.

Reading: Grammar Land – a fun book to read about the parts of speech with some crazy characters in it.

Writing: Grammar Land notebooking pages

Grammar: subjects/predicates, clauses/types of sentences, subjects/verbs/clauses, phrases/prepositions

Art: He also worked on a complementary colors project, primary and secondary colors.

Vocabulary - learned meaning of 20 new words, note taking, spelling edits

Not bad for a four day week. Aaron, of course, worked on many side projects that you could easily say were "educational" in nature. He is also reading two biographies on Walt Disney.


That's the Easy Peasy week!

~Tracy