This year I am doing individual grade level wrap-up posts instead of all three kids in one. I shared our first month of 5th grade here. This post will share highlights from October!

Here is the post about the curriculum choices we made for him.

 

Our 5th grader has an odd homeschool schedule due to his gymnastics training schedule. He practices most days and we organize his school time carefully to fit it all in. Somehow we get it all done, it amazes me!

 

WRITING

Writer’s in Residence continues to work well, but the “I don’t like writing” has set in. He has told me that if he has to do writing he definitely prefers this curriculum but he would rather just not do writing.

 

Personally, I LOVE it. I am so glad I gave it a try! I don’t like the complaining, but at least it’s less complaining than previous years! Below he was working on a family tree as a part of his recent assignment.

 

READING

See his book list and reading record printable here.

We are almost done with reading The Sign of the Beaver together

He also reads books on his own at night and currently reading Dash.

His completed reading list so far this year…

• Stuart Little
• A Dog Called Homeless
• Rain Reign
• Because of Winn-Dixie
• Shiloh {with me}
• A Dog’s Life
• Duke
• The Seventh Most Important Thing

 

SCIENCE

He does Apologia Swimming Creatures with his 2nd grade sister and his dad.  They often watch videos that Daddy finds for them to bring the sea creatures to life!

A video posted by Carisa (@1plus1plus1) on Oct 19, 2016 at 6:37am PDT

 

HISTORY

He also does The Mystery of History with his sister and Dad. The interest varies depending on the lesson.

 

MATH

Oh how I love Teaching Textbooks and I love that it works for him!  He continues to use just the program with very little help from us! He loves it when the dog snuggles next to him while he is working!

 

VOCABULARY

We are using Spectrum Vocabulary again because it worked well for him last year. Not his favorite, but he does it with little complaining.

 

SPELLING

We are using All About Spelling Level 5 this year and he is doing very well. I continue to love this spelling curriculum!

 

GEOGRAPHY

See our review of Evan Moor Geography here, there’s even a video peek inside. I continue to be so thankful I chose this book for him, we both enjoy it!

 

ALL THE REST

 

Gymnastics

His competition season begins this weekend and we are all excited! Keep up with him on Instagram here where I try to share clips from his training and also from his meets! Here is a video from his recent testing, they test once a week to prepare for meets.

A video posted by Carisa (@1plus1plus1) on Nov 5, 2016 at 1:04pm PDT

Strep Throat and Lots of Play

He had Strep this past month and was wiped out for several days. He did LOTS of building during his downtime while home. He built so many cool things with our Citiblocs!

 

 

EEME Projects

He finished Q the Robot, see our full review here!

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A Recap of his 5th Grade Subjects

• Spelling ~ All About Spelling Level 5
• Vocabulary ~ Spectrum Vocabulary Grade 5
• Writing ~ Writer’s in Residence
• Science ~ Apologia Swimming Creatures {with Ladybug, 2nd grade}
• Math ~ Teaching Textbooks 6
• Reading ~ see tentative {and building list} here
• Geography ~ Evan-Moor Daily Geography Grade 5
• Group Subjects ~ The Mystery of History

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Follow along with us on Instagram to get peeks at our homeschool life {and our life in general!}. Stay tuned for an October wrap-up all about 2nd grade! See 9th grade here!

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