Daily & Weekly Work Summary

Like every new schoolyear, we're still working out our new schedule, goals, and daily schoolwork.
Here's a summary of Sophie typical schoolweek:
Monday-- 7 x7 assigned, due Tuesday.
8:45-9:45  look over all assigned work--Sophie chooses 1 or 2 lessons to complete before we leave for skating.
The workbooks, activities, and other materials needed to complete the 7 x 7 are laid out.
Skating 9:45-12:30 (travel time included) She reads in the car on the way to the rink.

12:30-1:00 lunch
1:00-2:45 more schoolwork. Her goal is to complete at least 3 sections of the 7 x 7 by the end of the day.
3:15 home with Lily--Sophie uses the last bit of schooltime to read or listen to her audiobook.

Tuesday--finish 7 x 7
8:45-9:45 this can be a good time for me to "lecture" or work with Sophie on making sure she's understanding all her subjects and lessons and to see if she has any questions. This morning she did a chapter in her Latin workbook and read aloud in Latin. Then she completed her Language part of her 7 x 7 and then did one page in her Writing workbook.
9:45-12:30 travel & skating--read another chapter in her Teddy Roosevelt bio.
12:30-1:45 read aloud from Roll of Thunder while we ate lunch together. She finished her Writing and Reading parts of 7 x 7.
2:00 Voice lesson at Midcoast School of Music
3:00 Finished 7 x 7 DUE

Wednesday --no skating day!  7 x 7 assigned with new workbook pages, books, and materials
She works all day with some breaks.
She also watched Gypsy today with Bette Midler!
By the end of the day she completed 4 of the 7 parts of her 7 x 7.

Thursday--skating in afternoon, so a chance to get a lot of work done
Worked through most of the morning, then had a nice break to dance and listen to music and get outside. She will finish her second 7 x 7 by the time she leaves for skating @ 2:45.
3:00 Finished 7 x 7 DUE

Friday--7 x 7 assigned--due Monday morning.
8:45-9:45 Goal is to finish at least 2 of the subjects before she leaves for skating.
9:45-12:30 skating--reading in the car on the way there and back--doing workbook work doesn't work as well bc handwriting is pretty messy in the car.
12:30-1:30 lunch & read aloud Roll of Thunder
1:30-2:00 Math lesson from Math & Literature book using Roll of Thunder
2:00-3:15 continue to work on 7 x 7--whatever doesn't get finished by the end of "school" on Friday, she has for "homework" bc it's DUE on Monday morning.

*Next week Sophie will start & Finish her first History project for the unit, which is a Can You Find? book about the Industrial Revolution~
We will also complete our first Science Lab working with the microscope!

For readers of the blog, keep in mind that we're not posting all the work that Sophie completes each week. The 7 x 7 works as a summary of her work and what she's learning by working in the workbooks, reading and listening to her novels, the long talks and discussions we have, and also working with the Daily Spark activities.

Days 9 & 10

7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned  September 17 & 18, 2012   Days 9 & 10

1.       Math

a. The test I took about math says that I am cool as a cucumber! Even if math isn’t my strongest subject I’m comfortable with it

b. I learned about multiples and the Lowest common multiple using the birthday cake method from the last chapter.

c. I learned that 9 and 12’s LCM is 36

d. Today I worked a lot about multiples, I learned that multiples of numbers come SUPER easily to me, I think that is because in fourth grade we spent a lot of time on multiplication and it comes naturally to me

e. I learned that to find multiples of 12 it’s really easy when you add ten to a number like 72 and then add 2 to get 84

f. I learned that 4 and 16’s LCM is 16

g. I learned that 6 and 7’s LCM is 42

2. Science

a. I took a science quiz and got 100 percent!

b. I learned that cells conduct photosynthesis in order to create glucose; this was a question on my quiz

c. I remembered that I learned that the process of photosynthesis is primarily chemical; this was a question on my quiz

d. I remembered that I learned that Cells arrange themselves to form tissues which form organs, and that is why they are all related; this was a question on my quiz

e. I learned the other day that the inner lining of the Aorta’s passageway is made up of endothelial cells; this was a question on my quiz

f. Microorganisms are living things that are unicellular

g. This statement in my quiz was false: “Cells form spontaneously in between other cells”

3. History

a. I learned that for my first history project we are making a can you find industrial revolution book

b. Did you know that the shuttle in a power loom travels about as fast you can throw a softball?!

c. By 1848, each year, the mills of Lowell were producing more than enough cotton to circle the globe twice!

d. I learned about Sarah Bagley who was a reformer in the early nineteenth century America.

e. I learned about Union strikes and how union members would sign petitions and now would pay union fees.

f. Between 15 and 40 workers lived in each boarding house, they would share the beds.

g. Mill girls earned 2.000 to 3.50 dollars each week, the boarding house fee was 1.25

4. Language

a. The surgeon was pleased to see the growth was benign; the man’s life was not in danger, This Latin root is benigna which means kind.

b. I’m collecting for charity and am hoping to get plenty of donations; the Latin word out of the sentence is Dona, which means presents

c. The stain is so bad that I will need a strong detergent to remove it; the Latin word is detergit which means “he cleans”

d. Now that my sister has had her baby, she must take him to the post natal clinic; post in Latin means baby

e. I learned that Roman people celebrated Saturnalia in December, which is Saturn’s festival

f. Vocabulary word: invenire, definition, “to find”

g. The slaves of this family were granted their freedom in this chapter and they wore the pilleus, the cap of freedom.

5. Reading

a. I learned from my reading workbook more about Mathew Brady’s career, he was a famous photographer that used the daguerreotype and later transformed it into a camera.

b. Mathew Brady then put together a corps and put them around battlefields of the civil war and took pictures of battle scenes and generals

c. Brady’s photographs are now considered national treasures and his photos from the war are priceless.

d. People were really shocked by Brady’s photographs because most of them had never seen a battle field of war.

e. In Harry Potter, Chamber of Secrets Gilderoy Lockhart has become the defense against the dark arts teacher at Hogwarts and both Harry and I have a bad feeling about it! Harry has begun to hear snake voices coming from Lockhart’s classroom and he becomes a little frightened.  

f. From reading my reading I learned that Teddy Roosevelt had a son named Kermit!

g. I learned about Teddy Roosevelt’s campaign and about when he was a Civil Service communist.

6. Writing

a. In my writing workbook I had to write a paragraph about my dream field trip, in the paragraph I said that my dream field trip would be to go to the Boston Science museum in Massachusetts. 

b. After I wrote my paragraph I asked myself, “ Does each sentence express a complete thought?” then I did a little bit of re-writing and my paragraph was finished.

c. Before I wrote the paragraph I listed all the details I knew about the Boston Museum of Science, I looked up some details online that I did not know to make a complete paragraph.

d. From my Shakespeare Daily Spark I learned about oxymorons. Oxymorons are when you put two total opposite words together to describe something, such as tragical mirth, or hot ice.

e. In my spelling and grammar daily spark I learned how to create different spellings of words like ghoti can be a spelling for fish, GH sounds like f in enough, O sounds like an I in women, TI sounds like sh in station, so it spells fish basically!

f. It was hard but in spelling and grammar daily spark I learned how to create another spelling of the word mouse, MUC!

g. I learned before I publish a paragraph to make sure all words are spelled correctly.

7. Music

a. I learned about standing up straight when I’m singing, keeping your shoulders down and right foot in front

b. I learned about singing from my diaphragm on lower notes and singing from my head on higher notes

c. I learned how to sing “Own my Own” from Les Miserables

d. I learned about voice representation and to know when that’s happening, you get a buzz feeling in your lips and nose when your singing high notes in your head.

e. I learned warm-ups before singing that are really cool

f. I learned how to tell the difference between cords and accompaniment

g. I learned how to sing Once upon a dream from Sleeping Beauty

Day 8 Providence Open & Lowell Mills National Park

Sophie spent the second week of school with her Grandpa Mike and Grandma Linda in Mystic, CT. She competed at the Providence Open over the weekend, winning Gold in her Interpretive skate, and earning more point for Freestyle.

Sophie did all kinds of fun things with her grandparents: golfing, working on the crossword, visiting a National History Museum, helping Grandpa cook, and then going out to see Carousel!

Lily and I met Grandpa Mike and Sophie in Lowell, Mass. and visited the National Park for the mills there. We learned a lot and plan to go back when we have more time to visit.

Sophie did schoolwork every day she was gone and really did an excellent job on her own! (see previous post for days 4-7)

Day 4-7 Mystic Trip & Providence Open & Lowell Factory

Assignment for Days 4-7

Complete 7 x 7

Math: Read Chapter 2

In notebook:   Doing the Math, page 17       1, 2, 3  *demonstrate Method 1 on paper with illustrations, * choose one of the problems you solved (not the example provided)

Doing the Math, page 20     1, 2, 3, *same*

Doing the Math, page 23  1, 2, 3, 4 *same*

+  7 things I learned

1. I learned 3 different methods to find the greatest common factor. The greatest common factor is the biggest factor two numbers have in common.  

2. A vocabulary word that I learned is prime factors. A way to remember prime factors are by calling them monkeys, get it primates!

3. Using the greatest crush factor method here is a problem: using 10 and 30 I listed all the factors of both numbers, the GCF is 2!

4. I learned how to find the Greatest common factor method through factor trees, method 2 multiplying monkeys!

5. Using the factor divisibility trick I learned that if the sums of the numbers add up to 9 or 3 then they are factors of that number.

6. In the greatest crush factor method you have to list all the factors or else you’ll have an incorrect answer.

 

7. My favorite method is the birthday cake method

Science: Tissues of the Heart, page 19-22  in workbook

+ 7 things I learned

1.       I learned that connective tissues help give the heart support and structure.

2. Nerve tissue allows the body to communicate with the heart and control the speed of pumping.

3. Vocabulary word: Cardiac muscle cell: The heart beat is caused the contractions of the cardiac muscle cell.

4. Q. According to Dr. Birdley what is one reason cells are important to a tree?

A. Because micro-organisms cells dive the tree sunlight, carbon-dioxide, and water, all it needs to survive.  

5. Vocabulary word: Endothelial tissue: The Aorta’s inner lining is made up of endothelial tissue which is designed for protection.

6. Photosynthesis is a chemical reaction that occurs within a plant cell

7. Vocabulary word: Glucose: Glucose is a sugar that plants store to maintain a steady food supply.

History: Lowell MillGirls Field Trip, Thursday September 13

+  7 things I learned

1. I learned that women working in cotton mills would make about 6 dollars a week which means they had money to spend this started the movement of the suffrages.  

2. Public schools were a major invention of the industrial revolution it meant that the law of child labor would be passed and more jobs for woman as their teachers.

3. Another major invention of the industrial revolution was the discovery of medicine, it helped a lot for owners of factory’s so they wouldn’t loose as many workers to sickness or even death.

4. Believe or not the invention of the middle class was discovered during the industrial revolution, people who worked in mills or factory’s that made between 5 and 10 dollars a week were considered the middle class.  

5. Workers rights were somewhat invented during this time as well, workers who were treated unfairly always had another person behind him that could take his job so if he and the union made a strike or spoke to their boss than they would probably get fired and immigrants would come in behind them and take the job.

6. Transportation was invented kind of early in the industrial revolution, the train and steamboat were major transportation inventions, and they both led up to the car and the planes inventions.

7. The telegraph was also invented early in the revolution, the telegraph was using a variation of the Morse code to communicate it made postal systems much faster, the industrial revolution also led up to the invention of the telephone.

Writing: Lesson 4, page 10-11   and   Lesson 5   page 12, 13

+ 7 things I learned

1. In writing I learned that you need to know all about the ages of my audience, if you do it will be easier to appeal to them.

2. By listening to “The Hunger Games” I learned that the book is set for teenagers through older aged audiences, because of the longer sentences and larger words.

3. I learned how to appeal to two different audiences; first graders enjoy little words, short sentences, and jokes adults, the complete opposite.

4. One question to ask yourself before you write is, what will make them want to continue reading, what are they interested in, what do they already know?

5. Vocabulary word, Proofread: This is where writers usually type a neat new copy with all the grammar mistakes corrected.

6. I learned that you should stagger facts, jokes and what characters say between paragraphs to keep audiences interested.

7. The first line of a paragraph is indented

Reading: listen to audio book of your choice—keep reading journal in notebook

Read Chapt 1-3 in Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt

Workbook: Mealtime Manners, pg 10-11

Family Tree, pg 12-13

Pirates, pg 14-15

+ 7 things I learned

1. I finished Hunger Games this week, I really enjoyed listening to it because it is very interesting and an amazing book; I listened closely to find the topic sentences of

2. In the first three chapters of my book “Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt” I learned that he was a naturalist had a museum in his house when he was a kid of stuffed birds, rat skulls and more!

 3. In Harry Potter Chamber of secrets which I am re-reading, I think that you can figure out the personality of each character by when J.K Rowling describes them; I learned that she is a very good Author!

4. From my reading workbook, I learned that during the first Thanksgiving feast, pilgrims had awful manners like, they ate with their hands, and you were supposed to toss any bones or leftovers across the table!

5. In the second chapter of my reading workbook I learned about family trees, the girl in the story’s family is from Germany.

6. In my last page of my reading workbook I learned about pirates, I le4anred that a black flag means, “mercy for cooperation” and a red flag means “no quarter given”

7. In Roll of Thunder hear my cry I learned about what the KKK or the night men did to the poor black families when they were treated unfairly, it is absolutely not right and an AWFUL part of our history, I am not proud to be an American because of what they did to those people back then it was NOT RIGHT.

Latin: Chapter 5

+ 7 things I learned

1. In this Latin cartoon story Iiulius sends a letter to Lepidina (his mother) after a battle.

2. I learned how to tell Latin impersonal verbs, most impersonal verbs end in cet if masculine or cit if feminine.

3. In the military, the standard bearer was in charge of the soldiers pay.

4.Demeter the goddess had a daughter named Persephone she was beautiful, So beautiful that one day when she was helping picking the crops Hades came up from the ground and grabbed her to give six years to him as his wife. Zeus sent Hermes down to trick Hades into giving up Persephone and she got back to her mother once again.

5. Latin vocabulary: ningit, impersonal verb, definition: It is snowing

6. Latin vocabulary: titulus, noun, definition: Inscription

7. Euge! amare dumus ludus sum. Translation: Hooray I love being home schooled!

Music: Carousel , September 12

 

Write good 3 paragraph summary of story and experience seeing it on stage. *can do this at home*

    The Goodspeed Theater is the third oldest theater in the whole country. It is located in Hartford Connecticut and Grandpa Mike and Grandma Linda took me to see “Carousel” in it on Wednesday night. The show is about a barker on a Carousel name Billy Bigaloo in Bangor Maine! He falls in love with a girl named Julie Jordan and she somehow she loves him too. They get married but Billy isn’t so much of a good husband. Julie tells him that she is going to have a baby and he is so happy. He sings a soliloquy about his baby and realizes throughout the song that he needs money to give the child all that it needs.

    In Act two he realizes that the only way to get money is to become a criminal which is the total opposite of what he needs to do, the man that they were trying to rob had a gun and he shot Billy in the stomach and he ended up dying, Julie was absolutely heartbroken.  Now her baby had to grow up living without a father and Julie will miss the only man she ever loved so much. She never even got to tell Billy how much she loved him. Now Billy has an angel take him to the sky where he meets the Star keeper who says that Billy can go back to Earth for one visit, and that his fifteen year old daughter is having trouble with growing up. Louise, Billy’s daughter, always gets teased by the other kids about her father and she is really sad. Her graduation is coming up and Billy goes down to talk to Louise about himself and accidently ends up hitting her. Louise runs inside and starts crying, Billy is upset and asks the angel if he can go to her graduation and there he makes Louise happy again, and then he gets to go to heaven.

The actor, who played Billy, was in over 15 different Broadway shows and was in about 12 TV shows!

James Snyder who played Billy in Carousel and sat next to us at a restaurant!   

The actress who played Julie was in Jekyll and Hyde on Broadway for many years as Emma and she was wonderful. Julie’s best friend Carrie was my favorite character, she was really funny she was on Suite life of Zack and Cody.

Days 1 & 2

September 4 & 5, 2012  Day One and Two

7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned

1.       Math                     

a. Factors are whole numbers that can be divided evenly with no remainders

b. prime numbers are primitive, like monkeys, they’re less evolved

c. factor trees are ways to solve factor problems by using divisibility tricks and making the problems easier

d. If the sum of the digits is divisible by three or nine then you know that those are some factors

e. If the last digit of a number is even then you know two is a factor

f. a prime number is a numbers whose only factor is 1 itself

g. Factors of 1134 are 9 and 2 nine can be divisible by 3 so 3 and 2 are 1134’s factors

2. Science                 

a. All living organisms are made up of cells

b. shapes of living organisms are determined by the organization of tissues

c. micro-organisms are made of one cell               

d. cells are on all living things even as big as whales or as small as fly’s or even barnacles

e. cells are the smallest unit of life

f. There are also living things called micro-organisms that is nearly impossible to see with a naked eye

g. A cell can reproduce itself

Link to book

3. History

a. The Industrial Era lasted from 1865 to 1915

b. immigrants from all over the world traveled to America looking for jobs

c. The industrial era had some problems though; wooden railroad bridges could not hold the heavy trains and the bridges would collapse, so they made the iron brides to hold the weight

d. A telegraph is how people communicated; using the Morse code the telegraph was a big invention of the industrial era, dot dot dash!

e. The Railroad was a huge invention of the industrial era however in the middle of when they were building it most of the workers went to Nevada to search for gold and they needed to hire Chinese immigrants to finish the job

f. In the time of the industrial era 35$ a month would be a lot of money

g. I learned that at the end of the industrial revolution planes were invented, they came a long way.

4. Language    

a. Ferrarius = blacksmith

b. Flumen = river  

c. I learned about pro-nouns and that Latin doesn’t use pro-nouns as much as English

d. The queen likes to watch equestrian events, equitat means horse in Latin

e. feminine nouns in Latin end in A while masculine nouns end in um

f. I learned about Hercules and hydra the snake headed plant

g. titulus is a masculine noun and it means “inscription”

5. Reading               Link 

a. Roll of Thunder hear my cry’s main character’s names are Cassie, Little man, Stacy, and Christopher John Logan.

b. I learned that Cassie and Little man did not like that the books that they were given from the school because they were not good enough for the whites so now they get handed to the blacks.

c. I learned that you can find the main idea of a story by just reading the first or last paragraph

d. You can usually find a supporting detail in the second or third paragraph of a short story

e. A vocabulary word that I learned from my reading workbook is corridor which means passage

f. Another vocabulary word that I learned is permafrost which is a layer of mixed ice and soil

g. I learned that houses sometimes disappear in Yakutia

6. Writing      Link

a. I learned that the topic sentence of a paragraph or story is in the beginning of a paragraph

b. The other sentences in the paragraph support or include details of the topic sentence

c. The main idea in a paragraph could be in the middle end or the beginning

d. Find the main idea of this paragraph: I was awakened by a bird this morning. It wasn’t the sweet little “chirp, chirp” that you read about in children’s stories. It was the “squawk, squawk” of a crow. He was right outside my window and he was loud let me tell you. Why did he choose my window? What was he squawking about? It was not a good start to my day.

e. when I wrote a paragraph about birds I put my main idea at the end of the paragraph.

f. the supporting sentences of a paragraph usually include one of the words from the topic sentence

g. The main idea is not stated in the beginning paragraph all the time

7. Music     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049055/   

a. vocabulary word: Soliloquy, A soliloquy can be part of a musical in which the character is talking to his or herself and reveals his thoughts without addressing a listener

b. today we watched musical clips from carousel, there is a lovely duet we watched called “If I loved you”

c. I am going to see Carousel with Grandpa and Grandma in Connecticut on Wednesday

d. Carousel is a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical

e. The dances in Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are usually long and ballet like

f. I learned that Carousel is set in Boothbay Harbor Maine

g. There is a recurring song in Carousel called you’ll never walk alone it is super pretty and almost all of the cast sings it

Sophie's Blog: My Summer

My summer

My summer, my summer was exciting this year, my summer was beaches and camps and of course skating. This summer I was determined to see if I could make new friends which happened, and to see if I could give back the friendship I had with old friends from years ago, which happened. I feel like I have grown up this summer quite a bit, well I am twelve years old!

My favorite part of summer was all the camps that I did probably. I went to many camps and each of them were truly wonderful and I loved everything about the three camps I was at. At Bowdoin college summer day camp I went for two weeks of athletic fun. I learned how to play basketball, newcome and all sorts of SUPER fun activities and sports and games that I now love doing. I also went to skating camp like every year but this time with new people I went with Charlotte, Leah, Shania, and Makayla. We all had a great time and completed all of our skating goals. Two weeks ago I went to a theater camp in Portland that was phenomenal it was a lot like the theater project except they sang and danced as well as acting. It was an amazing experience and I definitely want to do more shows there throughout the school year and summer.

 

Unlike last summer we took a lot of time to go to many beaches throughout Maine, We went to beaches such as Reid State park, Popham beach, Winslow Park and they were all a lot of fun. I went to a whole bunch of MSMT shows I went to nine in total! My favorite was probably 42^nd street or a chorus line. It made me really miss the theater though. However next year they will be doing three shows with children parts in them I would really love to be baby June or baby Louise in Gypsy or maybe even Cosette in Les Miserables. This school year I will really be looking forward to watching all of these shows and learning parts for the auditions.

 Last Friday was my birthday and today my first day of school, summer went by fast. 7^th grade, I cannot believe it has been seven years since the first day, which Lily is experiencing right now, of school. I remember every detail, I was wearing a magenta short sleeve top and a pink floral skirt, I was starting first grade. Seven years since that.

This year I am excited for learning about old England and old whales and especially excited to be going there in a little over a month. What an experience it will be, my first time out of the country and all the way around the world to London and Whales. It will be amazing to go to the 2,000 year old castles right across the street from my cousin’s house! It will be so much fun!

I’m really looking forward to the new format of school this year, it will feel like I’m actually in middle school. I’m so happy to be in 7^th grade and to learn about all of these great subjects from a great teacher thank you mom!

 

Sep. 4, 2012 Day 1 Seventh Grade

Seventh Grade! Middle school! Junior High! Twelve!

Sophie decided to homeschool for seventh grade. The decision was not hers alone but I began the process by asking Sophie what she wanted for her seventh grade year. Her resounding answer to my question to homeschool another year was "Yes!"

Our "plan" for our future homeschooling has always been not to but rather approach each new year as it came with consideration and thoughtfulness. Besides, Sophie has a lot of important skating, theater, and traveling goals and adventures to look forward to this year and truthfully, "school" gets in her way.
Sophie is a mature, hard-working, earnest, independent, considerate, and excited learner--the best student any teacher could desire! This year I've upped the anty for her and my expectations and her goals are significantly increased.

I've planned this 175 school-days year as a three-and-a-half unit year (Sept--June). We will build on the 5 x 5 and 6 x 6 model and will post blogs accordingly.
As I explained to Sophie this morning, one of the things that makes 7th grade different in most public school models is that student start switching classes and can have many different teachers throughout the day depending on the subject and not just one or two teachers in the same class with the same kids. Now, we can't mimic that format at home--there's only one of me and one of her--but we can adapt to a 7-subject learning model.

The Seven Subjects for Seventh Grade are (not in any particular order of schedule or importance):
1. Math
2. Science
3. History/ current events / geography
4. Language: Latin / Spanish
5. Writing/ Grammar
6. Reading / Literature
7. Music / Theater / Art

Sophie will complete three 7 x7s each week. A 7 x7 will be "due" each Tuesday, Thursday, and Monday morning. A typical week:
Monday--start 7 x 7 Seven Subjects with Seven "Things I learned."
1. Math
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
2. Science
a-g
etc.
The first 7 x 7 of the week is due by the end of the day Tuesday. The second 7 x 7 is due by the end of day Thursday. The third is due NO LATER than Monday morning. This plan should give her some "homework" opportunities.

Her goal and my expectation is that each of the "seven things I learned" for each of the seven subjects will be thoughtful, smart, interesting, critical, and impressive. The 7 x 7 format continues to be an opportunity to organize her own learning while having the chance to teach our blog readers too!
*One of the seven things for each subject should include an image or hyperlink to video, website, or reference.*

 Sept--Nov. 20, 2012   Unit One  * I will expand my thoughts and plans in a future post*

1. Math--Danica McKellar    and Kahn Academy

2. Science--Cells--using workbook and microscope


3. History--post Civil War America to 1910, then British history in preparation for Sophie's trip to England and Wales in late-October.

4.Language--Latin, Minimus Secondus

5. Writing / Grammar--workbook and Daily Spark












6. Reading/ Literature--Harry Potter, workbook, Daily Spark

7. Music/ Theater/ Art--Voice lessons TBD, Theater--Musicals history and catalog, and Art--styles, history, artists

EACH subject will include one major project for each unit. Sophie will therefore complete and present 7 Subject-based projects at the end of each unit.

Sophie will work hard again this year and will conclude her seventh grade term with an impressive catalog of learning and experiences.

Part of her homeschooling will also include skating 3-4 times a week during the schoolday for a couple of hours with her coach as she prepares for Regionals on October 20th. Skating fulfills not only her passion but also her physical activity part of her education.

Sophie will also have the opportunity to travel to England and Wales for a couple of weeks at the end of October with her grandmother to visit her aunt and uncle and triplet cousins! What an exciting year!