Week 22

Two more weeks and we are done... Hooray! Congratulations everyone for your hard work this school year.  I am so proud of all of you.  Continue on and remember we want to finish strong. Nolan, we missed you!

Thank you Mrs. Thompson for introducing to us Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time. For more on Beethoven, see below.

http://americanbeethovensociety.org/
http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyLudwig.html

This is a fun clip that Dawn and I enjoyed watching so much. Beethoven's Wig is a vocal group that sings lyrics written to the greatest hits of classical music. They have a series of CD that you might enjoy and this is the website http://beethovenswig.com/ The CDs are available in the Delco Libraries.

We began our series for "Egg Protector" project for our Science project.  Thank you Mrs. Herson for explaining the concepts behind the project.  We will have the whole 30 minutes to finish our egg protector next week and on the last week, we will test the project we made. Start thinking about your project because we only have 30 minutes next week (and 30 minutes is not a lot). If you want to search more to prepare for next week,  just look for "egg protector project" or something similar to that.

Presentation today is exciting... getting to know Mommy and Daddy through the eyes of the child.  It seems like the theme is "Mommies are schoolwork/homework and Daddies are fun and enjoyment." It was so much fun (Just so you know, I don't do all housework in one day...I am not Superwoman).  I am thinking of skipping presentation on Week 24 instead of review so they can have more tickets to collect. So, the presentation for next week (this will be our last) is "What is your favorite thing in class and what will you remember on your year of CC?"

New Grammar
History: Song - CC CD
We sang through the song plenty of times with the four bell tolls as guide.  The tune is quite a challenging one so work on it at home. The hand motions are as follows:

·         Communist	Right palm-out fist is raised above the line of vision in the communist salute.
·         Fall…Europe	Left had palm-up, right 2-hand, fingertip “stand” on palm, then the 2-hand falls over. Right-E circles near temple.
·         Soviet…. Gorbachev	Both 5-hands are placed on the waist, hands in repeated movement tapping the waist between the thumb and index finger. G-hand.
·         Refused	Take right hand and sweep down to the left
·         Military force	Both A-hands tap on the chest (left) and lower side of the body (right).

Timeline: Song - CC CD
We sang through the song a lot of times and did the hand motions taught during the opening ceremony.

Latin: Song - CC CD
We reviewed the Pluperfect Tense.  Hint: Pluto loves to play on his drum. For the children doing the Memory Masters, make sure they are pronouncing the words accurately.

Math: Song - NoGreaterJoy
Same as last week, I told them this law only applies to Addition and Multiplication. We substituted the letters with numbers to show that even you switch them around, we still get the same answer. We sang through the song a couple of times and used the same cut outs form last week to form the equation.

Science: Song - NoGreaterJoy
We repeated the three words a lot of times because some of the children were having a difficult time remembering the BIG words. To make it easier to remember I have an illustration (will send via email) for them to remember.  You can see the mountain's reflection on the river and the bridge's poles are uneven because of refraction and of course, the rainbow is the spectrum. I also used my water bottle with the straw inside to let them see how the straw looked like below and above water.

English: Song - NoGreaterJoy
I made a fan with the acronym for the lesson and they filled it out with all the coordinating conjunctions.  You probably saw that in their bags. If they did not bring it home and you want a sample. let me know.

Geography - Point, say and Trace
We continued with Central America and one county in South America. It was short and sweet.  Monika has a memory help for all the countries of Central America which you might find helpful - BiG HEN Cooks in the Pan. Just add Peru (Home of the Incas) and you got both week's done.

Review game was an Easter egg hunt... it was fun and I am so encouraged that the children knows how to answer the questions inside their eggs.  Sorry we added to their sugar high for Easter.  Congratulations everyone!

Reminder announcement for everyone...
1. Please continue on working on the US Presidents, we will be doing that on Week 24. It is good to start now if you haven't so we will not be cramming for all 44 Presidents that day.
2. Auction in two weeks... really am very excited to be rewarding the children for all their hard work this year.  I am not sure how familiar the kids are about auction, I, myself was challenge in explaining it to Dawn. So, if you can sort of explain a little bit about how an auction works, that would be great.  I've prepared quite a good number of prizes and whatever you bring next week will help even more. Thanks so much!  You are welcome to join us for the auction that day... most likely sometime between 11:15am-11:30am until around lunch time.
3. For anyone doing the Ephesians 6 passage, you only have two weeks left to recite it to a parent in the campus that is not yours.  Let me know if anybody wants to recite it to me.  We have two in our class who recited the passage already.

My book recommendation for this week...
The Berlin Wall by Debbie Levy
When the Wall Came Down by Serge Schmemann
Science View Light by Steve Parker
Science Works! Light by Steve Parker
Light (This is fun for littler ones)
But and For, Yet and Nor What is a Conjunction by Brian Cleary
Ludwig Van beethoven Musical Pioneer by Carol Greene
Introducing Beethoven by Roland Vernon
     


That's all for now... have fun and enjoy your week.
Zabrina