Week 11: of Lemons and Lemmings

What a crazy and fun day!  I knew when I awoke to the rain exactly what kind of day it would be :)  Every now and again, they are great to have to break the levity of all the work.

FYI: Yes, the blue came out easily.....just a few extra shampoos

Next week, some have expressed interest in wearing their costumes.  Once again....this is all if they want to, they do not have to wear a costume unless they choose to :)

Thank you to Addie for bringing snacks this week.  I am so using the pretzels recipe for a treat feast I have on Friday.  Next week Brandon volunteered to bring brownies...YUM!

Each child received a letter concerning an upcoming opportunity to help feed a number of homeless families for Thanksgiving.  Please read this letter.  If you are interested, let Melissa or myself know and we will keep you in that loop.


And onto the day..........

Algebra 1: We spent the first part of the class making sure lesson 40 was to entirely cryptic to everyone.  I encouraged checking their work.  This is how we know, how we are doing.  I also sent home an open book quiz.  I encouraged them to do a little bit of it each day if they need to.
Homework: BRING BACK THE QUIZ! and Lessons #41 - #44

Rhetoric: Great discussion as always!  I encouraged them not to get behind on Catechism Questions.
Homework: Read Chapter 11 both books, complete the study guide.  Add questions #31 - #33 MATCHING QUIZ on these next week.

Science:  Another wonderful week of reports.  Everyone is researching their two sources.  Keep up the good work guys!
Homework: Amphibians with two sources and bibliography and illustration.

Writing: In class I read each of the papers and we tried to guess whose paper was whose. That was fun!  We spent the rest of the time working on our vocabulary with a riveting game of Apples to Apples.
Homework: Lesson 23.  This is the same format as last week concerning creative writing.  I did want them to write on Lesson 23's topic.  The freedom in this weeks assignment is a tad different.  While they all have to write about the days after Jesus' resurrection, they are allowed to change a few details.  They are allowed to make it modern times, change a few of the names.  They are not allowed to change the name Jesus :)

Geography:  We played a quick review game for Europe.  There is work to be done here.  I realize we have more time than the other continents for this, but that is because we need it.  Work diligently every day towards the goal on this one.
Homework:  For Europe, we will test on week 14 with week 15 being a massive review day.  Until then KNOW Europe.  Practice, practice, practice.  Review, review, review.  Do not forget those Geography Terms.  The game we play next week will concern those :)  We now go up to irrigated land.

Latin: In class we worked on the object of a preposition.
Homework: Pages #121 - #132.  Practice with our write on sheets daily.  For our "End of Semester" test I am expecting them to know Vocabulary words, Verb 1st Conjugation endings, 1st and 2nd Declension endings.  Parsing will come.  This first semester comes with a tremendous amount of grace with parsing.  We will delve heavily into Latin sentence structure with the beginning of Semester 2.