Week 12

It's at this point of the year I always say, if we were in Foundations we would be done :)  So close, 3 more weeks!  I cannot believe how the time has flown by!!  Too fast :(

• Please see the separate email sent out concerning location change.  This will not be until Spring semester.
• We have one more week if you wish to turn in picture forms.  If you have foundations students, you can put them in Erin's folder.  Or you can turn your forms directly to myself and I will get them to her.  As always you are not obligated to buy anything ;) (If you need an order form please email me and I will PDF it back to you)
• Week 15 will be a pizza party, I will be springing for plain and pepperoni pizza's and bring paper products.  If a couple people could bring a 2 liter or drink that would be great.  This will also be an optinoal PJ day.
• Yes it is almost lunch time, the kids knew yesterday that I would be blogging late.  So this should not have been an excuse for not completing work this morning.  We discussed plenty that could be done without the blog :) On that note, David Crowder was a fantastic evening of worship and praise!! Although, getting in at 1am I was reminded that I am no longer in my 20's LOL
• Thank you Mullins for snack!  Next week the Gaines have snack.
• The tentative date for our holiday get together is December 6th.  I am looking at the little rink that they create in downtown Greensboro.  As soon as someone calls me back with details I will pass them along. (Last year it was like $5 a skater and we skated from about 4 to 6pm)

Math:  We discussed the next four lessons.  I asked if anyone was needing help with anything, and you could hear crickets.  So please, if you know your student is struggling let me know, I am here to help.  They do seem to understand quite well in class.

Homework: Lessons 53 through 56 and they have permission to use a calculator with decimal problems

Latin: We took our vocabulary quiz. And practiced vocab with pictures.  We also practiced our parsing.

Homework: pgs. 64 - 71 in the purple book.  Ex. 75, 83 Review grammar rules, vocabulary, endings 

Accelerated Homework: pgs.  99 - 108 Keep up with grammar rules.  We are now introducing verbs! YEAH!  Exercises are at the discretion of the teacher.  

IEW:  We read our papers and everytime I think they cannot get better....THEY DO!!  We have a very talented writing class, hence me "upping the bar" this week in our assignment.
Homework: You will notice homework is lighter in other subjects  Lesson 25.  They will read the book of job as a source.  I told them to pay special attention to the instructions at the bottom of page 103 that tell us the difference between a report and an essay, THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT.  Essay writing is what we will be doing for the rest of the year.  Also a possible outline:

I Job's sufferings (intro)

A. Topic A

1. detail

2.details, more details

B. Topic B

1.Details

2. More Details

C. Topic C

1. Details

2. More details

Conclusion  

Rhetoric:  Great discussion and we talked about Ms. Bonnie playing more and more "angel's advocate" and "arguing with them" to help them learn how to defend their point of view. We also took a pop quiz with Rhetoric Questions.  I loved hearing, "Well, we should always be prepared to give an answer!"  LOL
Homework: Chapter 12 both books filling out the study sheets and workout in blue book.  Add questions 37-39

Science:  Great reports!! Some frogs were so cute!!  Not cute...the snakes.  And if I haven't stated, I am not encouraging anyone to bring in any "pets" :)  And Mollie got us all! She taught us about copperhead snake bites.
Homework: If they did reptiles this week, then amphibians or vice versa.  As always, two sources with a bibliography.

Geography:  We drew Europe as a group effort.  They are really coming along!!
Homework: Keep practicing Europe.  Test is week 14 (2 more weeks) Mid Term Week 15 Add terms.