Week 7

I want to take a moment and thank you again for the awesome opportunity to work with each of your children. Each week God blesses me through them and I am always left in awe of our Father's work in each of these young ones :)

Great week! Great pancakes! Thank you Debbie for helping out and for my favorite breakfast treat...bacon. YUM!

Jordan, thank you for snack this week. Anyone want next? If I don't hear from anyone, I can provide :)

Algebra: After I finished coughing we had a productive week! (Got my inhaler refilled, cough is doing much better) We had our quiz, and moved forward only 3 lessons. I also gave a handout on what a classical student looks like....this was a hard one for me to read, but a good reminder.
Homework: Up to lesson 87. KNOW THE GRAMMAR!

Rhetoric: It was a very quiet morning today. We discussed Chapters 21 - 23. We also played a buzz board game with the catechism questions.
Homework: Read Chapters 24 - 26. CATECHISM QUESTIONS ALL.

Geography: I handed out Asia. Everyone did a stellar job! We discussed study skills for Geography and started in on Africa. Please check out the web links I have on this page. They have some fun Geography games.
Homework: Work on Geography Terms up to shoreline. Practice drawing Africa at least three times a day. Use the notebook and dry erase and trace it or use paper.

Science: We took our test on the brain. Everyone's heart diagram looked fantastic. We introduced the ear and performed a couple science experiments.
Homework: Study for heart quiz. Draw ear in notebook and label.

Literature: Once again the room was quiet today. (I think it was just one of those days) We discussed Amos Fortune and freedom. I challenged each of them to think of one word they would like their lives to represent. A theme that showed up in both rhetoric and here was relationship vs. religion.
Homework: Write an essay on how living in a Christian home influenced Amos Fortune. Start reading Secret Garden.

Latin: I introduced the latin notebook :) This notebook, along with the packet I handed out first semester should help the students understand parsing a bit better. (If you need me to send this packet again, let me know I can email it to you) In order to decline a noun or Conjugate a verb students can: look up word in back of notebook to find declension/conjugation. Look up that declension/conjugation in notebook and use that to help decline/conjugate the word.
We also practiced parsing sentences in class YEAH!!
Homework: There is a lot...A LOT to memorize in Book 4. Start with the endings and vocabulary. We are adding new vocabulary this week, up to page 104. Will try to post a link to a study stack for vocabulary up to this point :)Decline 3 of the new vocabulary. Conjugate 3 of the new vocabulary. Turn these pages in. Open book quiz #2, BRING BACK. We will go over in class next week.