Week 11...(and counting!)

Hello All...

This week, I let the students sit where they wanted to, and they made excellent choices regarding their behavior. Please applaud their decisions...baby steps! :)  We didn't do anything out of the ordinary yesterday to report! I love those steady constant days when things are predictable!

There were several questions about the apologetics paper. Please contact me if you have specific questions about the apologetics paper. I think the papers/essays should be a page or two, because I know that is what this group can deliver. It is an opportunity for the student to elaborate on a topic defending their point-of-view about any idea regarding their Christian worldview. I suggested they look in one of the apologetics books we have been using...Don't Check Your Brains at the Door or It Couldn't Just Happen . They will share their papers on the 29th!

As for this week's work...follow the guide.

A few items to LOOK forward to as we approach the end of the semester:

• I have opted to do a dissection, which we will do on the last day of class Week 15 instead of a end-of-the-year body systems test in Science. (I am thinking about a shark! 2-3 children per shark.)
• There will be a drawing and labeling test of the whole world on the last day of class Week 15.
• There will be an apologetics paper due on Week 15. You can choose any topic that we have discussed this year, or one of the students own choosing.
• The Bronze Bow is the last book we will read, and it will be assigned to start during Week 13. We will walk through the process and learn new elements, but it looks like this is an essay that will be finished at home. I cannot see in the guide that I should collect it, so there is some freedom in finishing this paper.
• In the guide, it states to give a Latin final. I will give the students an open book review test on the main topics they have learned this year. Hopefully, we will have time to check it that final day and you can see what their strengths and weaknesses are.
• Nothing really to prepare for in Math.

Remember that April 29th will be our last day!

Have a great week!
Blessings,
Debbie