Weekly Wrap up 1/14/22-- 12th grade update

 12th grade started back up this week after about 10 days of holiday break.  Poor MarioFan had a little bit of school work over his break for a couple of his classes and a test that needed to be completed:(.  But he had plenty of time to rest and relax with his sibling who came home from College for Christmas break!  It is pretty quiet around here now that my Mother and oldest kiddo have left.  I so enjoyed having everyone home.  Although I have to say our oldest is definitely wanting to spread her wings and be more independednt and is enjoying her freedom at school.  I guess I must be prepared to be without her very soon.  

We are nearing the 100 day mark of his last year of high school.  I usually do a post at that point to summarized what he has accomplished and if we are behind or on schedule for things.  That post will probably be in February 

Literature and Composition -  He is reading "The Great Gatsby"

I remember reading this book in high school and not liking it.  I am enjoying it so much better this time around.  

For Social Justice we are reading the book "Broke in America" and discussing how poverty works in America.  Again we are also looking at this book very critically and making sure the authors are backing up their arguments with good data.  

For Human Geography we finished up the topic of agriculture and moving on to learn about Diseases and how they spread.  

The boys were reading agricultural different vignettes and deciding whether it was a type of subsistence or commercial farming was being done around the world.  

We are really enjoying the video series form Great courses that supplement our learning.  I highly recommend this video series.

I use these videos to introduce our topics and then we spend a week or two delving a little further into them using other resources that I find.  

Physics (which is an online class): recently had a lab on Newtons 2nd law of motion.  They are using the homeschool science physics lab which includes all the supplies. 

Directions

looking how fast a cart moves when weight is added

keeping time

recording his results.

Driving:  His driving instructor has begun teaching parallel parking and is already talking about Mariofan being ready to take the driving test.  I am so not ready for that yet!  Every time we need to go anywhere, MarioFan is wanting to do the driving!

He is well past his 60 hours of driving which includes at least 10 hours of night driving. 

We are plugging along in all other subjects: spanish, Pre Calculus, Personal finance, Cyber Security and Piano (still no piano Christmas recitals due to the virus--never thought I would miss those, lol)