Week 9

A lesson in be careful what you pray for, I asked for a more talkative class this week.  God blessed me abundantly :)  Let me not be misleading, it was a great day!

Thank you Brandon for snack this week.  Addie has picked up snacks for next week.  And Hannah, we hope you feel better soon!

Algebra:  They have a take home. open book test.  THIS MUST COME BACK TO ME NEXT WEEK.  (Did I say it loud enough?)  I need this to determine if we can keep moving forward.  We went over four lessons this week.
Homework: Lessons 91 - 94.  Complete take home test and bring back.  Glance over lesson 95.

Rhetoric: Fantastic discussion this week and a fun game of Jeopardy.  In the next few weeks I encouraged your children to start conversations with you. There are a couple chapters in the homework they will be reading, but we will not be discussing in class.  Don't pass out when they approach you :)
Homework: Catechism questions...more Jeopardy to come :) Read chapters 30 -32

Geography: In class we just reviewed...the world!  We also emphasized, small things done daily = big results  My expectations for final Geography is to know countries/capitals (states/capitals).  I encouraged them to make flashcards.  the final will be label the countries and complete a match page of capitals to countries.
Homework: continue to work on Africa daily.  Pick a section of the world each day to review.  Do not wait until the last two weeks to review the world.

Science:  We all touched a chicken bone ...ewwwww! There was plenty of hand sanitizer:)  We have to wait until next week to see what happens to it in the vinegar.  (may be posting some pics on Facebook, we will see how gross it gets) This was all to introduce the bones.  We took our quiz on the ear as well.
Homework: Study for quiz on skin next week. Draw bones in sketch book and label.

Literature:  Lots of discussion....some of it even on the book! LOL The boys did all learn one does not call a girl fat in modern times, most valuable lesson.  We made a "sketchy" outline in class.  I am trying to wean them off a hand fed outline and get them to structure it more themselves. 
Homework: Write paper on how as the garden changes, the characters changed as well.  You may wish to start reading Door in the Wall.

Latin: We took our Vocab quiz and discussed how to find the stem of a verb.  We also reviewed the four principal parts.  then we parsed, parsed, and parsed :)  I encouraged them to used the flash cards in the back of the book.  Please bring your purple folder and book to class next week.
Homework: pages 113-122 in our book.  Keep working on vocab and flashcards.