Week 7 Recap!

Yay--A break is here!  These kids have accomplished so much in the last 7 weeks.

I look forward to seeing most of you at Outdoor Camp this week!  If you and your student are attending camp and would like some review time with me, Kelly and I would be happy to arrange time for that.

Here is our Week 7 Recap:

**DEVOTION TIME (EiE):
This time was spent planning our Geography Presentation for EiE.  Students were broken down into smaller groups and must coordinate time together to prep during the week.  Each group needs to prep a 2 minute presentation on their portion of the US (state boundaries, plus features and/or capitals).
Groups are:
Abigail and Giu Giu:  Introduction, Draw outside of US and some major features
Brody and Averi:  Northeast US (ME, VT, MA, RI, CT, NH, NJ, NY, PA, MD, DE, VA, WV, OH, KY, IN)
Valerie and Tyler: Southeast US (NC, TN, AK, OK, TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, FL)
Emily L, Emily G, Hailey: The rest of US, Conclusion

**EiE event info was sent by email.  Please let me know if you need that resent.  Please make sure you student spends time practicing their portion of the presentation. 

LATIN:
-Introduced 5th Declension
-Some nouns are used in the plural but have a singular meaning such as camp and baggage
-Some nouns have different meanings in the singular and in the plural
-Went through Exercises 70 and 74
**If you are behind in Latin, this break is your chance to get caught up!  I highly recommend all students still review flashcards/ending during the break!

RESEARCH:
-Very interesting presentations on Oceans.
-Introduced next topic, Protozoa and Algae, with a dialectic discussion.  Students are less familiar with this topic so the actual researching may take more time/effort.

MATH:
-mental math exercises to warm up
-discussed dividing fractions by multiplying by its reciprocal
-discussed multiplying and dividing mixed numbers
-Explained shortcut to finding Least Common Multiples using prime factorization
-teams tried to stump each other with story problems they created

LTW:
-Reviewed parallelism.  Students did a great job with this during the week.
-discussed Comparison (1 of the 5 common topics of invention) by practicing completing the following 3 sentences:  Both are....   Both have....  Both do....
-Made class ANI chart from The Magicians Nephew.  We used comparison to discuss our thesis and added those things to the Interesting column.   Students can take items in the Interesting column and move them to Affirmative or Negative columns if applicable.
-students need to have 20 items in each column of the ANI Chart this week which is based off of The Magicians Nephew

GEOGRAPHY:
-students were tested on how well they could draw Central America from memory.  Top 3 were chosen...Congratulations Miss Lo, Miss Glanzer, and Master Richardson.
-Remember to grade your students test drawing.  Parents need to be checking in on this strand to make sure students are practicing and progressing in their map drawing/labeling skills.  I asked students if they are drawing 4 or more times per week and only half the class said yes.  They will only reach their goal of drawing the world if they put in the time each school day practicing the current location and continuing to draw previous locations.  This strand also involves memorizing geo terms and features of the locations that are being drawn.  If parents are unsure how to be involved in this strand please contact me and I would be happy to answer any questions.
-Introduced South America with drawing and discussion.

RHETORIC:
-What is science?
-Compared hypothesis, theory and law.  How are they same/different.
-What is the cause and effect of ruling theory?
-Do we as Bible Believers go wherever the evidence leads?  Should we?  What is our source of authority?
-Played NERF game with Catechism questions.
-Please make sure students are fitting Catechism Memorization time into their school weeks.  If this is a weak area for your student, the break will be a good opportunity to catch up.

I will be praying for you and your students!  Even though I will be at Outdoor Camp, I will have my cell phone and am happy to answer any questions or address any concerns during the break.

-Corey

Week 6 Recap!

Hello,

I was very proud of level of class participation today!  Abigail, you were missed!

Every Thursday the day flies by!  I am trying to balance the amount of class time spent on dialectic discussion, game, and explanation of the material.  If you have feedback and/or expectations regarding this, please let me know.

Today, we spent some time getting more familiar with our Challenge A guide.  All assignments are listed in the guide by week so that students can look ahead for planning purposes.  This is particularly helpful for the Research strand.  I recommend that students look up the topics that are a couple weeks ahead in order to reserve books at the library.  They will feel more successful if they start their week with their resources in hand.  Remember, we are not the only Challenge A class using Fort Vancouver Libraries.  We also reviewed the weekly Latin planning sheet that is in their guide.

Here is the Week 6 Recap:

DEVOTIONS
-word SANCTIFICATION: set apart, holy
-In the Bible different things are sanctified by God (Gen. 2:3, Ex. 19:10, 22, 23)
-Believers are sanctified: Positional Sanctification (1Cor. 1:2, 6:11, Hebrews 10:10)
-Condition of Christian walk: Practical Sanctification (2Cor. 6:17-7:1, 1Thes. 4:3-4, 2Tim. 2:19-21)

LTW(Exposition and Composition)
-students read their outlines from the previous weeks
-reviewed proofs and subproofs
-Introduced, defined, and discussed Parallelism
-dialectic discussion on the words in LTW's definition of Parallelism
-reviewed parts of speech in order to use Parallelism
-assigned essay (See LTW Teacher guide)

GEOGRAPHY (Debate)
-Team contest of USA and Central America (See pics on previous post)
-Students still need practice on the middle of the US and Eastern US
-Team Pictionary game to review features

RHETORIC
-Discussed key points in the chapter
-lengthy dialectic discussion of radiometric dating and the geologic column
-Catechism Cornhole game

LATIN (Grammar)
-As a class, worked through Exercises 57, 58, 62
-reviewed I-stem
-Reviewed LANCET, SOX ERROR
-Introduced the new vocab
-Introduced 4th Declension

RESEARCH
-Very polished presentations this week!  It was evident that the students were more interested in their topics this week.
-Introduced next topic, OCEANS, with a dialectic discussion about oceans.

MATH (Logic)
-mental math exercises
-Introduced and discussed Prime Numbers
-Practiced Prime Factorization using a factor tree and 'division by primes'

Have a great week!  Contact me by phone or email if you have any questions/concerns.
-Corey

Week 6 Geography Competition

Team 1

Team 2 **WINNERS

Sent from my iPhone

Spirit Week this week!

This week is CC Spirit Week. If possible, we recommend wearing your Challenge T-shirts this Thursday!

Field Trip to Cedar Creek Grist Mill Apple Pressing Day Oct. 29

Cedar Creek Grist Mill Apple Pressing Day Oct. 29 

The mill will process about 8,000 pounds of apples into apple cider. They will start distributing cider at 9 AM and until all 8,000 pounds are pressed! They just ask for a donation for the cider you will be taking home. Younger children are welcome inside the Mill to help press the cider as well. Here is a little tidbit of history I copied from their website. Feel free to read more about this historical Mill before you go.

“The Cedar Creek Grist Mill is a working museum, showing visitors the inside workings of a grist mill of the 1876 time period. It is the oldest building is the state of Washington that is still doing the job that it was built to do 126 years ago.”

It will be a whole lot of fun to get together with the younger foundations group as well. 

Get details here below for important parking instructions and directions. 

http://www.cedarcreekgristmill.com/special-events/the-apple-cider-pressing

Address:

43907 NE Grist Mill Rd, Woodland, WA 98674

When to Meet up:

8:45 am  

**Christina Lo has thoughtfully planned this!!  Sounds so fun!  Richardson's are looking forward to attending! :-)