First off, your children are a pleasure to have in community day! Our first week went well and we all tried to shake off summer and dig into our studies conversation style!
Here is a rundown of how our community day went and expectations for this week.
8:30- 9:30 we discussed lessons 1-2 for Rhetoric: Introductory Logic and did some of each exercise in class. At home, their assignment is to finish lessons 1-5 with the exercises and create flashcards for vocabulary- drilling vocabulary each day.
We'll review some and introduce the next set of lessons 6-10 this week. It's a lot so please do this with your child and focus on vocabulary!
9:30-9:40 Bible/prayer Focusing on the Book of Matthew. Each student is creating their own poster about Matthew using the video I posted earlier. Who is Emmanuel? What does Emmanuel mean?
9:40-10:30 Logic: A Math discussion. Our discussion was about Real Numbers: irrational, rational, integers, whole numbers, and natural or counting numbers. We are doing mental math, memorizing squares 11-20 & 25 and will play some games from time to time. Each week I'll cover math topics from Saxon 1/2 and a book called UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICS: from counting to calculus by Keith Kressin
10:30-11:30 Grammar: Latin. We played trasketball for vocab review, introduced new lesson and grammar and did some exercises together.
11:30- noon LUNCH break
12- 1 pm Research, Introducing Famous Astronomer/Scientist: ARCHIMEDES. Follow the guide for a research assignment.
1- 2 pm Debate/Current Events, looking through the lens of our Christian world view. Looking at pros/cons of right to life issues. Follow the guide for the assignment. We will probably do this strand last this week.
2- 3 pm Exposition and Comp, The Phantom Tollbooth. ANI chart and issue. Follow guide for assignment. We are going to have hot cocoa while I read a portion of Tanglewood Tales outloud to them at the end of the day.
that's all folks! Miss Dara
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