CYCLE 1 WEEK 6

 Here is your recap of Thursday's class.  

Don’t forget we are off next week, so you have two weeks to practice the week 6 memory work. 

REMINDERS:

No CC next week on Thursday, October 4. 

 Returning Oct 11.

FAMILY PRESENTATION for Oct 11

Allen Family

Clean up: Stokes Family

FINE ARTS

Tin Whistles are required for weeks 7 - 12, for the music theory unit.  You can read more in Foundations  p 155 - 182

HANDS ON SCIENCE

Crayfish anatomy (wk 7), Owl Pellet dissection (wk 8).  

You may prepare for these topics by reading reviewing Foundations p 139, gathering library books, and internet searches, etc.

PICTURE DAY
Individual and class pictures will be October 18 (week 8) at lunch time - outside.  The pictures will be taken by Mr. Stokes.
Pictures will be emailed to you to forward on to family and friends or for you to print.

THANKSGIVING / CHRISTMAS BREAK

November 26 - (January 10 (review session at the park!)) -  CC resumes January 17.

Timeline:

Week 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsyyYgeNuY&feature=plcp

History Sentence:  We used the song on the CC memory work CD and the following body movements. 

Taxes – rub fingers together, like you’re holding money

Slavery – hold your hands behind your back, wrists “cuffed”

Unemployment – pretend to pull out your pockets and they’re empty

Disease – put hand to feverish forehead

Contributed to – hold out arms like you are giving something to someone

The fall of Rome –Make a ASL "R" and have if fall in front of your body.

Math: Skip counting song from the CC memory work CD. 

11s – to the tune of Ride a Cock Horse to Bambury Cross 

12s – to the tune of Ten Little Indians

Science: 

Fish – ASL for "fish" (Right hand flat, then thumb up, with swimming motions)

Amphibians – Move from "fish" motion to a walking motion with fingers 2 & 3

Reptiles – ASL for reptile. (Peace sign moving up left arm)

Mammals – show off your gorgeous hair and pretend to hold baby

Birds – Make ASL motion for bird (thumb and pointer finger beak in front of your mouth)

  

Geography:  We traced the Roman Empire on the map.

Spain

Gaul/France

Germania/Germany

Alexandria

Carthage

Latin:   We used the song on the CC memory work CD.  We will do 2^nd declension again next week, and again during weeks 17 and 18.

English Grammar: 

down squat down

during continue to squat and make your right arm do a wave in front of you.

except stand up and cross your arms in front of your chest to form an X

for palms up, elbows bent, pretend like you are holding out a gift

from pull arms toward yourself, accepting a gift from someone

Presentations:  

The SKILL for Weeks 6 & 7 is ARTICULATION - Speak clearly so your audience can understand you.

When your child has the previous, INTRODUCTION memorized fluently, work on a new introduction.  It's easy to get comfortable....continue to grow and soon our child's OWN STYLE will emerge.

Introduction: (Wait 3 seconds) Thank you for joining me here this morning.  I'm ____ and I'm here to talk to you about...

Conclusion: (Wait 3 seconds) Thank you

Conclusion: Any questions?

Please practice presentations at home to stay within the 1-3 minute timeframe. I will make a gesture (hold up my watch) to wrap the presentation up if it goes over. Please do your very best at not requiring this prompting. 

Science Experiment: 

To the tune of All Around the Mulberry Bush:

The Scientific Method is Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, (snap or clap!), Results, Conclusion.

We talked about how smell affects taste, using an apple and a cotton ball soaked in vanilla.  We looked at a tongue diagram and the kids all drew one on their lab sheet. http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/rm/s1/Senses/tastebud.gif

Fine Arts/Drawing: Final project.  The kids were excited when I told them to draw anything they wanted as long as they used all five elements of shape and as many techniques from the last five weeks as they could.  I was pleased to see they had no trouble making a choice, and many included perspective and abstract elements in their drawings.  They seemed to really relax and just enjoy the time to draw. Please take a moment to look through their folders to see all their drawings, and to see how they’ve improved! 

 In my final project I drew a horizon line and then across the line, I drew trees with all kinds of abstract shapes (similar to this: http://pinterest.com/pin/10766486580504196/ ).  I also had a large house in the foreground and a small house in the background (perspective).  

At home:  Keep checking my pinterest board for ideas.  http://pinterest.com/learpilot3/  Feel free to follow me if you would like.  If you do a search on "Classical Conversations" within Pinterest, you will find a wealth of awesome ideas!  Here are a couple of my favorites this week.

If you didn’t see the skip counting worksheets from last week, here they are: http://pinterest.com/pin/10766486580459600/

A free drawing book from 1913: http://pinterest.com/pin/119486196334814599/

Mirror Images:http://pinterest.com/pin/119486196334814601/

A way to incorporate nature study during the fall season with classifying and celebrating vertebrate animals (and a little bit of art, fun, and whimsy too! http://pinterest.com/pin/119486196334814571/

Be blessed!

-Cati Stokes