Weeks 9 & 10

Hello everyone... Sorry for the long hiatus.  What happened?  Life happened!  I really am very sorry for this very very late update.  Anyway, here goes.

I would like to congratulate everyone for being on their best behavior most of the time in class.  I appreciate everyone (parents included) for trying their best to keep the class a very good and conducive learning environment.  Just so you know, I enjoy every moments I have with your children no matter how tiring it may be.  Thanks for keeping them all ready for class on Monday mornings.  Again, my kudos to everyone for knowing their materials really well.  Keep on reviewing your memory work everyday.

Here are what we did in class the last two Mondays (if I remember them correctly).

History
Music - CC CD
Week 9 - Absolute monarch
 We sang through the song and enumerated the monarch
Week 10 - History of Russia
 We clapped through the history sentence

Timeline
Music - CC CD
Hand Motion - what we do during opening ceremony (You can actually see this in CC Connected Timeline Videos with Handmotions.  just so you know, we changed some of the hand motions in our campus so there may be slight differences)

Geography
Music - CC Connected NoGreaterJoy
Week 9 & 10 Carribean and Southwest Asia
We memorize the places in order and point to where they are.

Science
Music - CC Connected NoGreaterJoy
Week 9 - Planets
 Everyone is assigned a planet and we arranged ourselves by the order of planets from the closest to the farthest
Week 10 - Phases of the Moon
 I made a black paper plate size circle and taped it on a stick (paint stick from Home Depot will work well).  We used it as a shade and our face(s) is the moon; slowly move the shade out of your face to make the phases of the moon.

Math
Music - CC CD
Week 9 Skip count 15
 We sang through the 15's while we erase the numbers
Week 10 Skip count the squares
 We sang through the Squares and I drew a visual aid similar to this.


Latin
Music - CC CD
Week 9 & 10 Pluperfect Tense
  We sang through the first conjugation pluperfect tense (I can't think of a way to remember the beginning of this.  If anyone has a suggestion... I'm open for it.  Or we can just use the one that half a hundred acre wood's suggestion - I'm tapping eram, eram, eram on my pluperfect drum)
**Please take note that the campus, for wanting to be teaching what is right, has decided to use i with the sound /ee/ for the 1st conjugation Present Perfect tense (Week 7 & 8) instead of i with the sound /eye/.  So, for remembering Present Perfect Tense, we can use this from halfahundredacrewood "When the present day is perfect, we jump and shout '(Wh)ee!'" Sorry for the delay in relaying the information.

English
Music - CC Connected NoGreaterJoy
Week 9 Interrogative Pronoun
 Handmotions
  Who - right pointer finger on right forehaed
  Whom - left pointer finger on left forehaed
  Whose- both pointer finger on both sides of the forehead
  Which - right hand out with palms facing upward
  What - left hand out with palms facing upward
Week 10 Demonstrative Pronoun
 Handmotions
  This - right pointer finger pointing here
  That - right pointer finger pointing out
  These - both pointer fingers circling around you
  Those - both pointer fingers circling around away from you

Fine Arts (Tin whistle)
 Week 9 - We learned the right hand and we played "London Bridge", I send the music with them.
 Week 10 - We played the D scale and we learned the song "God is so Good"
For music theory, we review what we learned the past weeks and learned something more (please refer to your foundations manual pp. 157-170 for what we have learned so far in music theory. Please review it with them.  They can play "Twinkle, twinkle.." for practice).

Christmas program announcement
The class decided to do a history sentence (Reformation).  Unfortunately, a younger class chose that, too.  Since we are older (and wiser), we'll have to do something else.  It is still up for discussion or I can just decide what to do (I am actually thinking of doing the Timeline beginning from the Middle Ages), we will finalize the decision on Monday.   For the last three weeks, I have been looking for a song (where the class can be divided into 2 groups for harmony... am I too ambitious???) to play on the tin whistle, so we can do something on the tin whistle plus the history sentence.  But it was difficult to find a Christmas song on D scale that can be harmonized that is simple enough.  Late last week, I finally found something where I have to rewrite some music and put the tin whistle code (really am ambitious, right???...hahaha) I will make sure to get the music to them on Monday, if not earlier, so they can practice it for the next three weeks (in time for our program).  For right now, I would appreciate it if they can practice the scale going up and down, because the music will start with the scale (beginning from the high D) and a lot of the music goes up and down the scale throughout the piece.  Thank you so much.  Even just 10 minutes a day will be really helpful.

Thank you so much for bearing with me,
Zabrina