Little Homeschool Blessings: Year 1, Term 3 Exam: Homeschool exams and tests for first grade

We've been reworking how we are doing exams. We include some fun things in the afternoons and work diligently and purposefully on the handful of questions that I ask in the mornings. I thought I'd share them with you!

Year 1, Term 3 Exam

SS: government, citizenship, history, geography, Science: experiments, nature study, Bible & Service: readings, hymn : The Greater Meaning with creative expression (handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

God’s world is miraculous and wonderful. We’ve learned a couple of hymns this term that talk about God’s wonderful creation. We’ve read about how Paddle traveled from Lake Nipigan across the ocean to France. We’ve learned how Robin Redbreast sings when he gets his daily bread and that he is provided for even in the dead of winter. We’ve heard how the little spider in Cobwebs learned of miraculous things while building her web in the church. We’ve studied how the whole world comes alive in the spring and God has set the seasons in motion (tadpoles to frogs, trees, nests & eggs to birds, goslings to geese all show these things). All of these things cry out the goodness and miraculous wonder of his creation.

Create something to show how God’s creation is miraculous and wonderful.

Literature, poetry, and additional reading: Viewpoint with written expression (narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

We’ve heard a lot of great stories this term. All stories are told with one person’s or character’s point of view at heart. Like in the stories by James Herriot, he tells us stories from his view or the Just so Stories are told to tell of a punishment that one of the creatures receives. Can you tell one of the stories from a different point of view?

Choose one of these characters…

Duke Orsinio from The Twelveth Night.

Oscar from Cat about Town

Smudge from the Little Lost Lamb.

The Bear from In the East of the Sun and West of the Moon

The Crab from the Crab that Played with the Sea

The Cat from the Cat that Walked by Himself

The Butterfly from the Butterfly that Stamped

Pretend you are that character and write the story as you see it.

Art: artist, technique, Science: experiments, nature study: Action (Drama, Movement, Change): with oral expression (presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Choose one of our scientific experiments or art pieces that we have done or studied and tell what kind of change takes place.

SS: government, citizenship, history, geography: Background with analytical expression (game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code)

Using your maps, timeline, and what you know about Buffalo Bill create something from the list to show…What did it mean to live in the same time in the west as Buffalo Bill?

Music: composer, folk song, hymn: Mood with movement (play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

We’ve been listening to lots of music this term. We heard compositions by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf. We learned the song Greensleeves. We studied 3 hymns and even listened to music by the Piano Guys.

Choose one of these pieces and show how it makes you feel?

Literature, poetry, and additional reading, Bible & Service: readings, hymn: Characterization with visual expression (diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

We’ve learned lots of versus from the Bible that give us direction for how we should live a life that honors God and we’ve read lots of stories about people with good character and people with bad character. We’ve read about King Lear and his daughters (Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril), Ali Baba, the 40 Thieves, and Baba’s maid, the stubborn trees in the Law of the Wood, St. Patrick, Pope Gregory, Boniface, the Vikings, and Alfred the Great.

How do they react or act that honors God and doesn’t? Who will gain and who will lose?