Week 19

We are counting down the days... we are close to the end.  Congratulations everyone for doing a wonderful job.  Keep on and finish strong!  Nolan, we miss you! Happy Birthday!

We had to divide the time for art, as we need time to allow the background to dry.  We learned gradient (ombre) painting first thing in class.  The kids were wonderful...they followed instructions really well.

Presentation was fun.  Everyone seems to love Aesop fables.  Aside from the moral lesson of the stories, we learned something special this week.  We learned two special words - "adaptation" and "sour-graping".  Ask the kids about the two words.  Next week's presentation is on geography:  Tell us about a country/city in Asia.  Where is it on the map? What is the climate? What type of government does it have? What is the official language? Add anything interesting about the country/city. Have fun preparing!

New Grammar and Review
English: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy5
While learning gerund, we reviewed the definition of a present participle.  Everyone gave an example of a gerund.

History: Song - CC CD
I briefly discussed a little history of Korea ending in Korea being under Imperial Japan, and how after World War II, it became divided into North and South. If you want to read more on the Korean War, check this site out. This is an interesting site for more facts.

Science: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy5
I briefly discussed the first law of thermodynamics by giving them an example. The kids seem to understand the concept of energy not being destroyed or created. For more about the laws of thermodynamics, check out this and this.  Just a fun fact... there is a zeroth law of thermodynamics, which was not really recognized until the 1930's.

Timeline: Song - CC CD
We played our usual game, what is before this time period.  Continue on working on the Timeline at home. Again, I encourage them to know the dates, it will be very helpful in the future.

Latin: Song - CC CD
Present Perfect Tense conjugation - they know well.  We worked on the "to be" Perfect Active Indicative.  We will have another opportunity to review next week.

Math: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy5
The area of a circle.  I briefly discussed hoe pi (ratio of the Circumference and diameter) came to be.  I encouraged them to go home and measure the Circumference of any circle they find at home and divide it with the diameter and they will always get 3.14.... We also worked on the application of the formula.  A lot of them struggled with the application, so you may want to work on this at home.

Geography: Song - CCC NoGreaterJoy5
We continue looking into countries in Asia. This time it is Southeast Asia.  We did not encounter any problems identifying the countries this week. 

Verse
We worked on last week's and this week's verse.  We were even able to review from v. 10-19. The kids are doing great. Keep on encouraging them.

Science experiment was short.  We learned Bernoulli's principle by blowing over the top of  a strip of paper.  I discussed a little bit about how an airplane fly using just four words - lift, weight, thrust and drag.  We did not have time to fold paper airplanes for fun (paper airplanes does not really describe lift), but we might have the opportunity next week. To learn more on how airplane fly, check out this site.

The second part of the art project was the real project. We learned about Berthe Morisot, one of the few women artist in the 1800's.  The interesting thing we learned about her is that she is married to Eduoard Manet's brother, Eugene.  We focused on texture painting. I made two colors of texture paint (1/2 cup cornstartch, 3 T white glue and 2 T white paint) - white and gray (added a tinge of black to the recipe). We painted circles with the textured paint. The project came out really marvelous! The kids were so proud of their work, and I am proud of them.

This is the end of our Art Projects, but I hope the kids will continue to be inspired to do more art projects on their own.  As long as they have the tools, they can learn anything.  It has been a wonderful six weeks of art projects. I am inspired to continue painting. Next week, we will continue with our Great Composers.

Have a wonderful week!

Zabrina