Week Seven & Eight

From 4 am to 5pm yesterday we drove heading West... As we are driving, it suddenly dawned on me, it is November and Fall will be over soon.  I have not even enjoyed my favorite season yet.  Thank you Lord for the long drive to enjoy the changing of colors... the nice weather... and most especially, the time we have together.  We arrive safely in Berrien Springs, MI and my husband is off to his big exam.  So before we drive to Chicago, I'd like to be able to send this out to you.

My sincerest thanks to everyone for helping make the class a wonderful learning environment.  So proud of the class because everyone seem to know their memory work.  Tin whistle is going great, the kids are making real music... can you believe that?

For a quick run down on New Grammar for the last two Monday...

History
 Music - CC CD
 Hand Motion for Week 7
  Matin Luther - sign for letters M and L
  Protestant Reformation - Both hands letter R, right fingers pointing left, left fingers pointing right, and wrist touching. Wrists continue to touch while twisting to reverse hand position.  Left palm down, right hand ends on top. (I can demonstrate this for you if this is not clear)
  95 Theses - Left hand is an imaginary nail and right hand imaginary hammer
  Pope Leo X -  letter L
  excommunicate - cross both arms
  John Calvin - letterJ and C
  Reformation - same as above
 For Week 8, I have a diagram which I will try to post as soon as I can figure out how to add photo for this blog.

Geography
 Music - NoGreaterJoy CC Connected
 Week 7 & 8 - we mainly just say, point and draw the European Peninsula and the Mid Atlantic World,  I was given an assignment about the Treaty of Tordesillas and here is the  link . The first three paragraph should be sufficient enough.

Timeline
 Music - CC CD
 Hand Motions - whatever is taught during the Opening Ceremony

Latin
 Music - CC CD
 Hint for these two weeks - Present Perfect vision starts with the i (eye).

Science
 Music - NoGreaterJoy CC Connected
 Hand Motions for Week 8 (you can always come see me for demonstration)
  Core - make a fist on the right hand
  Radiative Zone - letter R on the left hand goes to the fist
   *note that in the music it says radioactive zone, so we change it to ra-di-a-tive)
  Convective Zone - letter C on the right hand goes to the R
  Sunspots - left pointer finger point anywhere on the letter C
  Photosphere  - make a sphere using both hands by joining fingers
  Solar flare - open the sphere leaving the thumbs together and wiggle fingers
  Corona - keep the thumbs together but open the rest of the fingers

English
  Music - NoGreaterJoy CC Connected
  Hand Motion is the same for all Pronouns
   I, me, mine, my, myself - single hand on chest
   You, you, yours, your, yourself - single hand going away from chest
   He, him, his, his, himself - single hand going to the right
   She, her, hers, her, herself - single hand going to the left
   It, it, its, itself - pointer finger going wherever
   We, us, ours, our, ourselves - both hands on chest
   You, you, yours, your, yourselves - both hands going away from chest
   They, them, theirs, their, themselves - both hands going to the sides
  Week 7 Possessive Pronoun Adjectives
    It was agreed upon by the campus that instead of Possessive adjective, it is Possessive Pronoun Adjective.  My, your, his, her, its, our, your, their.
  Week 8 Reflexive Pronoun (imagine a mirror on your hand, who do you see?)
    myself, yourself and so on....

Math
  Music - CC CD
  Keep on reviewing because as the number goes higher, the trickier it is to remember the numbers.  My suggestion still is use a number chart and color in the numbers.

Fine Arts
  I gave a piece of paper with two music in it.  The music are in the key of C, but we are concentrating on the left hand these past two weeks so the notes we need to work on is just B, A, and G.  encourage them to practice even for just 10 minutes everyday.  You'll be surprise how much they will improve.  Please stress the proper posture and proper holding of the tin whistle (45 degree angle) so that you will not hear the high pitch whistling sound.
Some of my favorite sites for music theory...
Making Music Fun is the one we used a lot last year and is still using
Opus Music is fairly new to me and I love it.  If you want more in depth music theory, this is good because you can go lesson by lesson on music theory self-study.  If you have younger kids, there are theory sheets for younger children as well.
Color in my Piano  is more for piano students but still is a good site
Susan Paradis is new to me but I found she has a lot of fun stuff.

I still have other sites I'd like to share.  I will probably do it next time, if that is okay with all of you as I am not using my own computer and I have to check out of this hotel soon.  See you on Monday.

Don't forget...
Presentation for next week - a pet you have or would love to have.
Tin Whistle - practice left hand well because we are going to right hand next week.

Me,
Zabrina