Week 17

Hello everyone.  It was a wet and dangerous start for most of us but we made it through. Cosmo, we were glad to see you before the end of the class.  Nolan, we missed you. Hope everything is okay.

We started with presentation and I have to say I am very impressed with everyone's preparation, we heard about Queen Elizabeth, Billy Graham, Beatrix Potter, Ben Franklin, James Cook and a special shell... Thank you very much for the great presentations every week.  Next week's presentation: Persuasion: Create a commercial that would persuade your audience to buy your real or imaginary product.  Enhance your presentation with props, gestures and expression. Happy preparation.  The girls asked me if they can do their presentation together, I said it is fine as long as they can do it together during the week... the beginning of group projects. Thoughts anyone?

Science experiment for this week is testing for starch. We had fun trying to figure out which item has starch and which ones does not.  The children were surprised that the paper has starch. I told them if they are interested, they can try the experiment at home.  Have fun.

New Grammar
Timeline: Song - CC CD
We went through the timeline a lot of times with hand motions as I remembered from last year.  We might go over the hand motions during the opening ceremony next week.  We reviewed from Age of Industry and they are doing really well.  Keep on reviewing at home.

History: Song - CC CD
I briefly explained the story of the journey of the Lusitania during World War I and how the United States joined the world war.  We sang through the history sentence a lot of times and did the following hand motions:
 President Wilson - trace outline of glasses
 Congress - C-hand touches the left side of shoulder and crosses over to touch the right shoulder
 war - palm-in curved 5-hands move from side-to-side 
Central Powers - (Central) bent right hand makes a circular motion and then lands on the center of the palm of the opposite hand
 German - right and left palm in five hands cross at wrists and fingers wiggle
 sank -  right 3-hand moves downward while opposite hand remains stationary above it with palms facing down
 American - fingers of both hands interlocked and move in a semi-circle from left to right in front of the body and hands separate and comes down to the sides of the body

Math: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy
Same as last week, I drew a grid of a square and told them the area is all the little squares inside.  Technically, it can be length times width but since the sides are the same, it is the side squared.

English: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy
Finally, this is the last of the irregular verbs...Hooray!  We reviewed the definition of infinitive, present participle and past participle.  Because i told them, I don't want them to just memorize the series of word but to really used the definition to figure out the tenses. 

Science: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy
We continued with the second four element while reviewing the first four.  I gave them an easy way to remember this week's memory work by telling them the atomic mass is doubled the atomic number for most of them except Boron. Keep on reviewing... I am impressed that the kids are memorizing this already, I didn't even know the Periodic Table until I was in High School (Junior Year).

Latin: Song - Opening Ceremony Song
We continued with John 1:4.  We use the signs for in, Him, life, light and men. See the previous post for hand motions or come see me during the lunch hour.

Geography: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy
We learned about the Eastern River. Keep on reviewing the physical features at home and have fun.

Fine Arts
We learned about Roy Lichtenstein.  The children seemed to enjoy the project.  We used q-tips to make the dots (pixels). If you want to do it at home, you can use markers (less mess) or q-tips and acrylic paints. We will continue with the last lesson on the Great Artist in two weeks. An important announcement for next week - We will be learning about the orchestra (Great Composers) at the beginning of the day from the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, so please make sure to be in the sanctuary at 9am. 

Review Game
Bowling... the children had so much fun...I did, too.  What touches me the most is that they know most of the answers, and for the ones that they were unsure of, a little hint made a lot of difference. Keep on reviewing and I am hoping I will see everybody in Memory Masters (fingers crossed).  Hooray for everybody especially for all the parents.  I will continue to say, #bestparentsever.

Book Recommendation:
The books I found in the library for this week are the following:
Woodrow Wilson, Boy President by Helen Albee Monsell
The Wilsons by Cass Sandak
Roy Lichtenstein By Mike Venezia
The Art and Life of Roy Lichtenstein by Susan Rubin
        



Have a wonderful and fruitful week.  See you all next week hopefully in a better weather situation.

Miss Zabrina