History/Ancient Civilization: I am excited because I am enrolled in the Minecraft Homeschool Castles and Cannons class, which starts next week, but this week is orientation week where I learn out how the class works. This is an Ancient Civilization class, so it is part of history. Here is what I’m going to learn (I copied their description): Join us…
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What I Learned Today 10/03/2014
Fiction Writing: I entered a contest in a Homeschooling magazine my mom gets. Each month they give out a topic, and the 10 kids with the best stories get published and win a prize. This month's prize is a spaceship sticker book. Topic: Your long-lost great uncle left you enough money to open your own store. Tell us about it.…
What I Learned Today 9/12/2014
Today, I finished my Wordly Wise unit 1. The underlined words are my vocabulary words I used in a paragraph. One day, my step-Dad's boss decided that he was compatible with his co-workers and deserved a promotion. He was able to assign himself at North Carolina! He was burly enough to move the furniture into the car and go! Some…
What I Learned Today 9/10/14
By Sage Hamilton The Big History Project In The Big History Project, I learned about Before Earth, or the Hadean Eon. Named after the Greek god Hades, the Hadean Eon happened around 2.4 billion years ago. Like in one of the videos, if you went through a time machine and took a walk down earth in the Hadean Eon. First…
What I Learned Today 9/9/14
By Sage Hamilton Erosion by Water Yesterday my mom and I went out into our backyard in a forest near a creek. We looked around at everything that was weathered and what was eroded. The things that were weathered were wet and easy to break, like old branches. The things that were eroded were already broken and had been moved…
Learning Java Programming
Sage is thoroughly enjoying his Youth Digital Mod Design I course. I highly recommend this course to anyone with Minecrafters! Mod Design 1 Our mission is to teach kids real coding and design skills by creating awesome projects with cutting-edge technology. In this online course, kids learn the fundamentals of real Java programming by creating their own Minecraft Mod for…
Curriculum Tweaks
Of course, being new to un/homeschooling, I couldn't expect every choice to be perfect. I found the Geography book we ordered will be good to test rote memory, but I didn't feel it would give Sage an in-depth understanding of Geography, so I went back to the drawing board and did more research. We have decide to use Mapping the…
Our 2014-2015 Curriculum Choices
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