{"id":462092,"date":"2008-01-15T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/01\/15\/homeschool-highlights\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T03:56:00","slug":"homeschool-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/01\/15\/homeschool-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, for math, we talked about how ancient people used body parts to measure items.  I measured the boys’ handspan, footprint, and pace (toe to toe a step ahead).  We measured the bedroom, door width, and window width, using these elements.  It was a bit of a challenge explaining to the boys why something was 15 handspans for ‘A’  and 18 handspans for ‘R’.  ‘A’ thought that he should have the higher number, bcause a higher number is bigger.  He had a hard time understanding that we needed more of ‘R’s handspans because his handspan is smaller.<\/p>\n

Also, measuring a ‘pace’ was hard because they wanted to either take a huge step or something tiny.  A regular step just was not going to happen!<\/p>\n

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\nFor science, we read, "A Year at Maple Hill Farm", and learned about seasons and how animals respond to the changing of the seasons.<\/p>\n

We continue to read Bible stories about Jesus’ miracles and teachings.<\/p>\n

I will add more later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, for math, we talked about how ancient people used body parts to measure items.  I measured the boys’ handspan, footprint, and pace (toe to toe a step ahead).  We measured the bedroom, door width, and window width, using these elements.  It was a bit of a challenge explaining to the boys why something was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}