Week 1

Hello again everyone,

My apologies for this later post.  I hope the first post helped you in some ways and allowed me to share my plan for the year. We missed you, Ruthie.

We started with Presentations.  I asked the kids to share something about themselves. It was fun getting to know them and I am excited to get to know them even more as the weeks go by. Next Monday's suggested presentation topic "What you did over the summer?" For those who already shared about their summer, you can choose your own topic.

Thank you Mr. Herson for the super fun Science Experiments.  If you want to learn more about satellites you can go to this site.

New Grammar
I am so impressed that the kids knew their materials so well, all we have to do is review most of them.  I will try my best to make class exciting and "new" for the kids. I will include suggestions for reading and worksheets on my posts, so you can access them anytime you need.

History - Song: CC CD
I briefly introduced Charlemagne and what his name means.  If you want to read more about him, you can go to this site. Worksheet here.

Latin - Song: CC CD
For the 1st conjugation present tense, I drew a present (gift) as a reminder that when you see a present, your reaction would be, "Oh, a present", which starts the first "letter" of the song.

English - Song: CCC NoGreaterJoy5
We chanted the 8 parts of speech with hand and body motions with it.  Ask the kids, they know. If you are interested in worksheets, you can try this or this.

Science - Song: CCC NoGreaterJoy5
I briefly gave them examples of each biomes. Jayven, thank you for helping me with the scrublands example. We read it a few times and we tried our best to memorize it. If you want to learn more about biomes, this seems like a good site to go to and this is a nice game to play. You can complete this worksheet when you're done with your readings.

Timeline - Song: CC CD
We did the hand motions we learned from the opening ceremony. They did really well.

Geography - Song: Continents and Oceans by Kathy Troxel
I gave them a sheet of tracing the continents while we sang through the song.  We added the Southern Ocean in the song as well.  If you are interested for them to practice more of blobbing, please go to the half a hundred acre wood site. Don't forget to label the blobs...

Math
Since most kids will be 10 by Memory Master time, we chanted through the multiplication table. I gave them a sheet of paper and told them to write while they chant.  Practice this at home and make sure they are writing it by the whole equation, i.e., 1 x 1 = 1.

Fine Arts
Today, we practiced OiLS. The kids has been doing this for a long time,but I found a wonderful project for this in this site. They called my drawing on the board a "taco" turtle. I believe this is a fun way of practicing OiLS and they came out with wonderful artwork.

Review
Since there is not much to review, we went through the memory work again and this time we included the Ephesians 6 passage.  I told them there are 24 verses in this passage, and if we do one verse every week, we will be able to memorize the whole passage.  The kids all said they want to do it.  I am very happy about this.

Some books I found in our local library...
Leaders of the Middle Ages Charlemagne: The Life and Times of an Early Medieval Emperor by Tehmina Bhote
Planet Earth by Kathleen Reilly
An Inside Look The Environment by Michael Allaby
Amazing Biome Projects by Donna Latham

       

It is going to be an exciting year for all of us.  I am a little bit scared and anxious in doing this again, but I know with God's grace and the kid's encouragement, I will be able to do this. Together, we can make this into one of the best learning opportunity of their lives. God Bless!

Sincerely,
Zabrina