Here’s an impression of the smaller or individual lessons that have been given over the first six weeks of school. They include but are not limited to:

Using natural pigments and making early human art tools
Parts of speech bingo
Compound versus complex sentences
Decimal multiplication
Using the dissection microscope
Identifying sentences, clauses, and phrases
Similes
Possessive adjectives
Chinese calligraphy
Electricity
Making quick books
Percentage review
Finding the volume of prisms
Finding the area of a triangle
Knitting
Greek and Latin root words
The Earth’s atmosphere
Geometric constructions
Compass art
Analyzing metric feet in poetry
Skulls of early hominids
Hurricanes
Writing a bio poem
Plate tectonics
How to research a topic for a report
Layers of the ocean
Earth’s land and water resources
Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators
Renaming fractions
Pythagorean Theorem
Parts of a circle
What is pi?
Area of a circle
Sentence analysis (subject, predicate, direct object, indirect object…)
Spelling rules
Drawing a human face
Long division
Multiplication review
Memorizing countries on a continent
Animals found in prehistoric oceans
How to measure precisely with a ruler (using the 16th marks)
Printmaking/carving
The human brain
Distance of planets in our solar system
Size of planets and suns in our system
Prime factor trees
Distance, time velocity word problems
Order of operations
Writing topic sentences and paragraphs
Editing
The water cycle
Magnetism