Items of Business:
- Ice Skating Party Monday the 5th, see separate email for details
- Over the break, please feel free to send me any email requests, I love to pray for our group
- Any papers that did not get turned in, or need correction, please send to me. In a couple weeks I am going to post a blog entry with everyone's papers :)
- I will be posting a separate blog entry just for a thread on what everyone is doing this break. Please feel free to let your child post in the comments if they are catching a movie, or going bowling. Maybe some others can join in :)
- At the end of the blog entry today is a list of books you need for 2nd semester
Here's What:
With no vacations, no sickness this would look like the perfect schedule. This is just to give you an idea, please adjust to fit your needs. This is the perfect time to catch up on Catechism Questions, Geography Terms, Geography, Latin....anything that may have slipped through the cracks that you wanted to get done. This is also a good time to get ahead on reading. MOST OF ALL THIS IS A TIME TO REST :) Take a break, relax and refresh. I ask a lot of these guys for 15 weeks. They need this time to recharge for the next 15 weeks.
From now to the weekend NOTHING!
Nov. 28th - Dec. 2nd : get Science done completely; one math lesson a day; Start reading Carry On Mr. Bowditch (FYI Ms.Bonnie is re-reading this one again too, it's been too long!) try to finish in a week if you can, it's good practice; Spend 10 - 20 minutes a day reviewing Geography terms and Geography; Spend 10 minutes a day reviewing Latin, 5 min. on endings, 5 min on vocabulary; 5 min a day on catechism questions DO NOT DO RHETORIC
Dec. 5th - Dec. 9th : Continue reading Bowditch if necessary; One math lesson a day for 3 days; 5 min on cat questions DO NOT DO RHETORIC!; 10 min. on Latin (same as 1st week); Spend 10 to 20 min. Geography same as first week;
Dec. 12th - Dec. 23rd : NOTHING!!! Make incredible family memories that makes your mother cry when you go to college!
Dec. 26th - Dec. 30th: finish Bowditch if need to; Latin and Geography as in previous weeks....adjust as needed for what we call holiday funk (I think it's too much junk food LOL); DO RHETORIC, YES NOW! If done before this week it will not be in your head on January 3rd.
Which brings me tooooooo OUR NEW FACILITY WOOT WOOT! I feel the need to reiterate (for myself as well:) We cannot act like we did today at the new facility. Week 15 in spring we take off campus (that's a good thing LOL) We really have to work on the extra chatiness come 2nd semester. We may want to talk about this with our kids and really emphasize that we are a bridge here for hopefully future dealings with this church. Our children have such precious hearts, I would hate for that to be a dark spot put on us. I will have to work on this myself :)
And I bet you thought this part was never coming.....LOL
If anyone's math intentions are changing come 2nd semester I need to know ASAP. Right now we have 3 and any less and we do not bring in a tutor.
Math: We took a short quiz which we graded in class and flew through 8 lessons
Homework: Lessons 61 - 68
Latin: We took our monster Latin Exam
Homework: Just review those endings and vocabulary.
Accelerated: Work through Lesson 14 and review.
IEW: BTW This will be the last time we see IEW as a subject YEAH!!! or BOOOO!! Depending on how you are feeling right now LOL We read our creative writing papers, which were so, so, so, good and ended up being so, so, so, long....which was awesome but threw me off in the time dept. I wasn't expecting it after the big essay last week. So in a couple weeks I am going to post a blog with everyone's paper son there, I want everyone to enjoy them !
Homework for LITERATURE: Read Carry on Mr. Bowditch keeping in mind that we will be writing an essay contrasting what Bowditch accomplished as a teen in school, work, and recreation with today's teens. reading the handout a passed out a few weeks ago Reading a Book for Understanding will help. If you choose to you can go through Words Aptly Spoken. This is what I will be using in class to jump start discussion.
Geography: THE TEST!! WOW these guys rock!!!
Homework: From here on out we need to be practicing drawing our outlines of countries on the mercator map. We need to practice and learn where things are by the equator, tropic of cancer, and tropic of Capricorn. It's a skill that can be hard...practice, practice, and practice :) Review, please do not lose what you guys have worked so hard for. It will disappear if you do not touch Geography at all on the break. The guide also mentions memorizing the Earth's diameter and circumference.
We read more papers :)
Science: We got out our notebooks and showed off our pictures. I am sorry, this is where the time came from :(
Homework: Marsupials. At least 2 sources, bibliography as always.
Rhetoric: Rhetoric was shorter, but still the points were hit dead on. I tell you these guys are smart cookies ;) The only discussion we did get to was my famous Planet of the Apes.....no ground lost there though.
Homework: Chapter 15 both books, filling in the workouts and study pages. We are now up to question 45! If you have gotten behind on these, please use the break to catch up. Starting a few weeks into 2nd semester we will be playing Jeopardy EVERY WEEK! You want to know your stuff and have fun with this :)
Books Needed for 2nd Semester: (BOLD ONES ARE NEW)
Don't Check Your Brains
It Just Couldn't Happen
Henle 1 Blue/Purple
Science Notebook
Biology (PURPLE BOOK IN CATALOG)
Atlas
Saxon 8/7 or 1/2
in Order of Need:
Carry On Mr. Bowditch
The Magician's Nephew
Number the Stars
Amos Fortune, Free Man
The Secret Garden
the Door in the Wall
The Bronze Bow
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