Week 5 Recap!

Greetings,
Another great week under our belt.  Valerie, you were missed!

**EiE Event is October 25th.  We are starting to plan the class presentation.  Sometime soon, we will need to get a headcount of who can attend.  I (Corey) cannot attend due to my job, but Kelly will be coordinating our class's involvment.  Please direct any questions to her.

Here is the recap:

DEVOTIONS:
-Discussed the word REMISSION
-Romans 3:25 "Remission of sins that are past"
-from Latin 'remitto' meaning: to send back
-Remission of sins: to send back the penalty of sin, synonym: forgiveness
-Discussed what a scapegoat is in Leviticus 16
-Matthew 26:28, Luke 1:77, John 20:23, Acts 10:43, Hebrews 9:22 and 10:18

LATIN:
-Reviewed gender rules
-Introduced I-Stem and how to tell if a word is an I-Stem
-Declined flumen and pars (flumen has macron over the u, but I can't make it show up right now using my iPad) :-)
-Worked through exercises 43, 48, 49, 50
-used collis to show that Henle will point out words that are exceptions to the rule
-vocab review
-'Gentile' comes from 'gens', and 'apartment' comes from 'pars'.  Hopefully, families are taking time to enjoy finding derivitates in the real world.  That can help motivate and bring some enjoyment to Latin.
-Keep studying those flashcards as much as possible.  Remember to study both ways (Engish to Latin and Latin to English).

RESEARCH:
-Presentations were...again....AWESOME!
-Several students really pushed themselves out of their normal comfort zone this week and I am so proud of them.
-Dialectic discussion about next topic:  Weather.  We discussed the various weather patterns around us and in other parts of the world.  We talked about weather's effect on economy, inventions, military endeavors etc. in the past and currently.   We discussed biblical events involving weather.  This is a great topic to have discussion using the 5 Common Topics.

MATH:
-Mental math exercises on their lap boards
-practiced how to use protractors to draw specific angles
-defined polygons and looked at various polygons
-defined polygon: equilateral, vertex, similar vs. congruent, irregular vs. regular
-compared/contrasted perimeter of a polygon to circumference of a circle
-Introduced exponents and square roots
-Reviewed PEMDAS order of operations

LTW:
-candy sorting exercise that was done at Parent Boot camp
-practiced sorting the ANI that we made as a class the week before
-Brainstorming and sorting were easy and enjoyable for us adults, but dialect skills are still developing in these students.  They still need to be prodded with guided questions as they practice sorting and choosing labels for their categories.  They may get stuck this week and need a little help.
-They should have at least 15 per column on their ANI chart from last week.  If not, have them use the 5 common topics to fill their ANI chart prior to sorting.
-LTW will take more time this week than it has in previous weeks.

GEOGRAPHY:
-Geography Test on United States
-Parents are to grade their students tests but, in class, the top 3 students earned stickers.  They were: Miss Glanzer, Miss Lo and Miss Morse were the class winners
-Introduced Central America, Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles
-Remember to still practice Canada and US

RHETORIC:
-discussed chapter 4
-uniformitarianism verses catastrophism
-played outside game reviewing catechism questions

We ended the day outside in the warm fall day, which was a nice change of scenery!
Have a great weekend!  Please call/email if you have any questions or concerns!


-Corey