The boys are enjoying their Apologia science books. Blake has been working through the Apologia Botany book by setting his own pace. This works well with him as he tends to want to read ahead. Last week he learned about classifying plants by sorting shoes from our closets. This was a great hands on project since he could visually see how the shoes ended up grouped when he was finished.
Connor is doing well on his Apologia Land Animals book. He’s working more on his own this year. It still takes some prompting to keep him on track, but once he gets going he’s very diligent in his work. Last week his notebooking instructions were to create a newsletter about dogs. Instead of handwriting it, he asked if he could type it. So we opened up a template in Microsoft Publisher and he went to town! I was really impressed, especially since I’ve never typed anything in Publisher! Here’s the final product. Punctuation and spelling still needs to be worked on.
Laina is finishing up her first module in Apologia Biology. She’ll take her test in a couple of days, so hopefully she’ll do well. I’ve decided only to grade on the tests this year and not on the study guide questions. This will simplify things quite a bit on my end, and hopefully enable her to have better information for studying. I also am not requiring the labs, unless it is one that she absolutely wants to do.
That’s all for now~
You have no idea how blessed you are to have all the great homeschooling tools you have available. When I began homeschooling in 1981, I had to order individual components from school supply stores and compile my own curriculum without the many homeschool catalogs that are out there now. Enjoy it! These years go too fast. :-)
ReplyDeleteI really like Apologia too - my youngest is doing Swimming Creatures of the 5th day.
ReplyDeleteMy middle son is doing advanced biology.
My oldest 2 have graduated, but they did Apologia as well.
Thanks for sharing your kids and their studies with us!
Blessings,
Angie @ Knick of Time