Another week of summer homeschool

We've done much better this week about getting our work accomplished. Still working on the light side, we've been doing Lang Arts, Math, Geography and Quiet Reading one day and then alternating, Reading, Geography, and Quiet Reading on the other day. We do a little bit of copy work and a "postcard" every week with the geography curriculum that we are using.

This week we studied the water cycle and why and hows of the seasons.

This Friday for our co-op we did an activity mimicking the salt water in the ocean and the sun heating it up (evaporation), then condensation forming, followed by precipitation and collection of water in one of our bodies of water. It also showed why we can't drink the ocean water (because of the high salt concentration).

The girls watched short movies on Brainpop about the water cycle and the seasons and made a book about the water cycle and filled in a Fill in the Blank on the seasons. We add these activities to our Science notebooks every week.



Water Cycle Activity


Coloring our Water cycle books.

Hannah finished reading Socks this week. You can tell she really liked it because she has made reference to it many times this week. Mikayla has been reading various Dr. Suess books.

We are making slow but steady progress on our Bible Bee verses...but I am sure we won't be ready in time come Sept.

Autumn has been enjoying our new cat- Cupcake.

Cupcake has the sweetest disposition. She is a stray cat that has already been de-clawed. We are growing to love her!!!

Autumn and Cupcake

A Child's Geography-Co-op Day-Hydrosphere Study

"In the hollow of His hand...."





Practicing Longitude and Latitude


Hannah's fist are acting as the moon- pulling the ocean towards it like a magnet-making high tide. (This happens twice a day.)


Paula demonstrating how the moon pulls the water towards itself to create the high tides.



Friday is our co-op day to do activities that coordinate with the chapter we read for the week. This week we read about Oceans, Currents, Gyres, the Coriolis effect, evaporation, gravity and the oceans tides.

We studied this all under the understanding that- "He has measured the waters in the hollows of His hand." Isa 40:12. Each part of our hydrosphere just like every other layer of our earth has been carefully and thoughtfully crafted by our God and Creator. How awesome to think about the intricate detail of each thing He has made!