South Family Homeschool - 6th Grade!

  Week 14 Daniel’s Aunt Bonnie came into town to cheer for Oklahoma! The mascots were super excited about this picture, lol.  It was cold, wet day but we were so close to that win! Daniel loves to cheer for our BYU Cougars! It took so much concentration to finally get the drone through all the obstacles he set up! Daniel swiping our “tickets” for the drone show! This week got away from me picture-wise! But Daniel did math - he’s learning to recognize patterns right now - and social studies - he’s learning about New York City right. now! - and Night Zookeeper - plus we are reading Rise of the Wyrm Lord together right now - he finally conquered the drone obstacle course he set up for us which he gave us tickets and assigned seats and treat buckets for, lol - and he is practicing for his piano recitals and choir recitals! It was a busy week with very few pictures, lol. 

 Week 13 Working on his math! Earning money by assembling magic wands for our company! Daniel created an elaborate obstacle course for his drone This is Daniel’s snake on feeding day! We’ve moved him up to a full size mouse.  It’s crazy to see how those stripes on his neck stretch out sooo much once he’s gotten the mouse in! Rocking the rock wall! This is 65 lbs!! Daniel was so proud of himself.  One of our favorite things to do at the BYU football games is to listen to the drum line perform before the game starts! Recovery is going well! We are slowly easing back into our normal schedule, but we have been able to make progress in every subject this week, even if we’ve been a bit slow!

  Week 12 A black cat always brings donuts on Halloween morning! Daniel getting into his ninja-ness We are a: - Teenaged mutant - Ninja - Turtle Daniel at his Moana play practice The cover of Daniel’s bug report! The body of his report A map, showing where to find the bug 2nd draft First draft Building a water fountain! He did this all by himself - and loved it! I am recovering well and planning on a more normal week next week!

 Week 11 Grappling hook! Daniel and his dad made this grappling hook - and it works! A quick picture of one of the poses in the Moana play Daniel is in - this is from the “Shiny” number.  Building a Halloween clubhouse in our front yard! Daniel decided to build a food chain! Daniel bought this insect photo book in the homeschool store this week. He’s going to do a report on one of the bugs he is learning about! He also bought this replica dagger from Medieval Times - he was soo happy to have finally earned this!  In this lesson, he was supposed to see if he could play with his eyes closed - he can! We have started learning about decimals and how they relate to fractions - and Daniel is nailing it! In this piano lesson, Daniel had to play blindfolded! Daniel has a pet snake and whenever we get new mice for him, we also get dry ice! Daniel got to go through an amazing Jumanji VR experience! It was awesome! Daniel’s highlights! On a personal note, next week I am having surge...

Week 10 Fourth grade pictures came in this week! So handsome.   Daniel found this snake in our yard!!  I think there was some kind of "emergency" here, but this picture showcases some of Daniel's Lego creations - some are made from instructions, most he just put together himself. He is very creative and loves building with Legos! Lots of Mancala this week - he wants to do a round robin tournament, lol. The weather was great this week! Daniel went to the park and found all these wasp nests that he knocked down and then brought home. Being a boy mom is no joke! We found this mushrooms on our walk and used the Seek app to identify them as Shaggy Mane mushrooms. Still working on fractions! They are coming to him easier now though. Cheering at the BYU football game! Zipline! Rock climbing! Brian and Daniel with our favorite football player, Tyler Batty! He used to be our neighbor before he left for college. Daniel's highlights! PS - Daniel said that he thinks the mystery a...

 Week 9 In math, we’ve been going over fractions and comparing them when they have the same denominators or numerators. Our fraction blocks have come in handy! This is our second monarch! From caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly! This butterfly was a little weak so we tried to help strengthen it by giving it sugar water and letting it rest while it’s wings dried.  Daniel used the Seek app to identify the butterfly as a monarch! In social studies Daniel has been doing some map reading. He’s been switching between physical maps and political maps in order to answer questions about US regions. He was pretty excited when he found this world map so he put it up in his “Harry Potter” room (room under the stairs in our basement).  Daniel made a staff and a note to put on the staff out of Play Dough as part of his piano lesson this week! Daniel needed new shoes and it turns out he needed them to be two sizes bigger than the ones he has been wearing! We decided to compare our fe...