Week 7

Another wonderful day at Classical!  Time is a flying, and and I want to post our "finals" schedule for A so that students can prepare.  Now in Challenge A  I am introducing the concept of finals.  Not that they will be easy, but they will not necessarily be overly hard.  As your child's journey progresses, finals will get harder, but this is most likely their first introduction to this concept and you may wish to coach them a little bit.  If they start to prepare now, just a little bit each day, it will not be overwhelming.  Small things done daily is always a sure passage :)

Week 13: We will have a mega geography terms quiz with our Oceania test (this will be the end of studying terms)
Week 14: We will have our Latin Final and Dissection in Science.  I have some mom helpers who have agreed to help out...THANK YOU!
Week 15: Two papers are due.  1) the Rhetoric Final Paper 2) The optional creative writing assignment.  Science Final  (They will pull one of the Science parts out of a hat and have to draw and label that part) And of course...we have talked about it since day 1....the geography final :)

Notes on Finals:

• If you think reviewing all of the science will be too much, you may let me know and I will narrow the pool down to three that they can draw from and let you know what those three are.  BUT I have to hear this from mom or dad, it cannot be them coming and telling me it is too hard ;)
• On geography, set your goals now.  Just countries? Just countries and capitals?  All country, capitals and features?  Mostly Features?  I do have the expectation of them drawing and outline of all continents onto the Mercator map with north America being above the equator :)
• All papers I collect on week 15 plus their geography final will be mailed to you within a month of the last day of class.
• Week 15 schedule: Read papers, science final, geography final, lunch.  After lunch we will be leaving campus for our end of year "fun"  I am looking into laser tag per the boys request.  As I plan end of year, I try to keep the cost under $10.  So if you need to budget know that any cost will not go over that, but hopefully under.  I understand that that time of year can get costly with graduations, home school conference, prepping for next year.  If money is an issue for our end of year plans, please just let me know, we can take care of that ;)

Algebra:  This week we only reviewed three lessons.  Use the extra time to study grammar or to get caught up on lessons ;)
Homework: lessons 89 - 91

Latin: We took our big latin test today and introduced verbs and how we conjugate.  I handed out charts that will help with this...these same charts are in the red latin folders I handed out at the beginning of the year.
Homework: See guide

Lost Tools: OK..... here is the deal.  I could look into everyone's eyes and just see the excitement over writing a paper on what I have lovingly coined "our American Girl".  So we are doing just a bit of a change up here.  We are still writing a paper.  We are still taking three weeks to do it.  I still expect an ANI chart this week. BUT, they can pick any book of their choosing.  It cannot be a comic book or graphic novel.  It must be a book that they have read.  If You Give a Pig a Pancake does not count :)  They must have at least 25 points in each column for "A" and "N".  On the table this week......a candy bar for the most points (max 100) Ties will share the bar.  What a great week to really practice our questions with the 5 topics of Invention.  Really have fun digging in. 
Homework: ANI  chart...min 25 points in the A and N.

Science:  Had fun with our hearing experiments and introduced the ear.  Took our brain quiz and handed back the mouth quiz.  These guys are doing an awesome job in science!!
Homework: See guide

Geography:  Our guest speaker was sick today :( Get well soon Jessica! She should be in by next week.Will let you know what time in case you would like to catch her presentation. (Awesome speaker) We talked about Africa and end of year expectations.
Homework: See guide

Rhetoric:  Let the friendly competition begin......today the buzzboard came out for cat questions.  Do not be surprised to see your child really want to study them now :)  GREAT DISCUSSIONS TODAY!!  These guys are really starting to dig in and work out their salvation!!!  Keep up the good work mom and dad!! You are their ultimate example :)
Homework: See guide