Challenge A - Week 6

YAY!!! What a much, much better day! They earned their fifth banner, so a treat of some kind is in the works for next week. I am thinking about pizza for lunch...or something! Please watch out for an email to come with details.

Let's get right to business...

Math

Today...
We discussed the concepts from Lessons 25 - 28. We spent a lot of time finding LCM using prime numbers. It was great fun to watch their light bulbs go off throughout the room...(Mine included!) Please spend a little time this week working with the calculator as directed in Lesson 25. It will be helpful for them to know how to use it with reciprocals as they move through Algebra and beyond!

For the week - Follow the guide!

Literature and Composition

Today...
I gave them an enlarged copy of the outline. They can use this or create one of their own using this format for their essays due Week 7. This essay will be more detailed, but just follow the outline. An example is in their Student Book on page 24. You can use some of the IEW dress ups familiar to most of you in order to present a strong case to support your thesis. I can see -ly words, strong verbs, and sentence openers being used. But, you don't have to.

The proofs and the supports come from the inventory on the ANI chart. When writing the supports, you may want to use something from the "Interesting" column. (I told you we would get to this column) Also, when sorting in the future...we do not have to sort the "Interesting" column. We only sort the Affirmative and Negative columns.

We discussed "Parallelism" and looked at the examples on page 20 in the Student Book. They should use this "scheme," or technique, in the essay they write this week. Follow the guide and work on some of the parallelism exercises in the Student Book pages 20-24. Parallelism is defined in the Teacher Book on page 70 toward the top of the page.

If you are struggling with LTW...watch and re-watch the videos. Let your student watch the videos with you. I have found them to be quite useful when I get stuck on a topic. If you get busy this week, let your student watch the videos without you! With only having an hour each week with LTW, I will never have enough time to address every issue, so most of the instruction will need to come from their teachers.

Also...you are welcome to come to class some to learn this with your student.

For the week - Follow the guide!

Latin

Today...
We reviewed the role of nouns in a sentence. Those who are quicker with Latin even enjoyed the review. Once we identified the noun role, we were able to decide which Latin case and number to use. We did not decline them, but we looked at the English and Latin together.

I sent home a paper with about 5 sentences on it. I want them #1 to decide what the case and number is for each noun, and #2 to translate these sentences into Latin. They will be working with 1st Declension noun endings and verb agreement from Lesson 1.

Remember... #1  There are no articles in Latin. They are "understood" with
                          the nouns.
                    #2  The verb is usually at the end of the sentence.


Please feel free to work ahead in Latin with your student. If they are getting it, let them work. I just know that we are all going to be on the same page soon. Once these basics are understood...

Rhetoric

Today...
We had a "Round Room" discussion about the age of the earth. It was really enlightening to see how much of the Bible the students were able to talk about. They did not have specific verses, but they had the idea. I think I will challenge them in the future to find the verse they want to use in discussion.

We all did come to the same conclusion...The age of the earth and the time of a day was not as important as our knowledge and love for Christ Jesus and His undeniable love for us!

For the week - Follow the guide!

Science

Today...
Several students presented their writing and illustration of their trees. They were great...I do like that they all did something different. It makes for interesting listening when the topics are all different. Thank you Katie for the apples off the tree from the campus. Yummy!

For the week - Follow the guide!

Geography

Today...
We located several countries and capitals in Central America. We did not get to the Antilles. We took the Geography Terms Quiz. I collected them and will return them corrected Week 7. We then played Geo Term Bingo. It was lots of fun to watch them try to figure out, once I called out the definition, if they had the word. Keep practicing each week, not only just the week at hand, but all the way back to Week 1! I may pull this game out again sometime. A special thanks to Seth for the yummy Coconut Bread and to Jenny for the yummy Mexican cookies! Wendy, Seth's mom, is going to send me the recipe. When she does, I will forward it to you!

For the week - Follow the guide! Test on Central America and the Antilles.

Thank you for talking with your child about classroom behavior. I do want the during class talking to keep to a minimum, but what a great class to want to socialize with each other. I just love this class...each and every one of them.

Blessings,
Debbie