challenge A

Fun day yesterday!  I think the desserts made by our class 'master chefs' were greatly enjoyed!!  Homemade brownies, pumpkin/chocolate cake, red velvet cake and pineapple upside down cake---all made by the two young men in our class!!  We never even got to the birthday cake for Cameron!! but we did get in lots of singing!!

 

This week we will have visitors in class for our open house!!  We will be doing reviews and games and prepping for our mid-term exams!!  I reminded the class that there will be work due when they come back from Christmas break...make sure they check for what will be due in January.

 

Last class is December 3-we will have mid-term exams in Geography, Latin and Math.  We will also share a pot luck lunch with the Challenge B class and participate in a gift exchange/white elephant thing.  Plan on bringing a $5 gift of some sort-fun coffee cup, bag of good chocolate candy, pair of socks.....

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Math-keep working and review terms for this week.  We will be playing bingo or something similar with our terms.

 

Geography-we are drawing all of Europe now.  Keep practicing and work on the features-seas, rivers, mountain ranges, etc

 

Latin-we are starting on the 4th declension this week.  The students have 8 exercises to complete this week.

 

Biology-We are researching fish this week.  Have your student continue to follow the 'hamburger' outline for their papers.  We are refining our papers to 5 paragraphs and making every sentence contain vital information.  These papers will be read for our visitors and we will be listening for meaningful subjects, exordium, excellent definitions and active verbs!!

 

Lost Tools of Writing-the students will redo some worksheets for the latest book, Amos Fortune, Free Man.  The worksheets are the Similarities and Differences, and  the Circumstances sheet.  I encouraged them to begin thinking in these terms as they read their books-what is similar and different about main characters, what was happening in the world while this book was going on, etc, etc?  An ANI chart with 30 in each column is due this week.

 

Rhetoric-good discussion and work on catechism questions yesterday.  We will continue to work on hand motions to help us remember the catechism questions.

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It's been a good semester.  It is inspiring to see how the students writing, drawing and discussion skills are improving each week!!

 

See you next week!!

 

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