Week 12 - Rockets and Review

Hello Masters families,
What an action packed day today! We kept on pace and covered an immense amount of material summing up an amazing semester. We began the day with a blast. All of the students had a great time launching their rockets and experienced success forcing their balloon rockets up, down, and across. Great teamwork! The stomp rockets were also explosive fun! Great work to all of the masters students today for a successful science adventure. Following the science time you all blew through tin whistle grammar and played a beautiful symphony of tunes together. It was fun to gather around the piano and play together for our last week of tin whistle. Thank you Mollie and Hannah for the accompaniment, you did a great job! All tin whistlers played with skill and knowledge.

Memory Tips and Techniques for Week 12:
History Sentence: Tell me about the Battle of Waterloo - Napoleon Bonaparte (stand up straight and tall) of the French Empire (put your hand over your eyes and look over your empire) was defeated (sad face) at the Battle of Waterloo (hit your sword down twice for the 2 O's) by British General Wellington (salute and make a W with your right hand) soon after the War of 1812 (draw your sword again) in the United States (point down to show you are in the U.S.).
History Timeline: Gutenberg Prints the Bible (open left hand - slap right hand over to mimic a printing press) The Renaissance (paint the Mona Lisa in the air) The Inquisition (flatten left hand open and point INto palm with right pointer finger) Columbus Sails to the New World (make a C with your hand and sail it in front of your body) Martin Luther Begins the Reformation (Nail the 95 Theses to the wall) Magellan Circumnavigates the Earth (rotate your right hand around your left fist/earth) Ulrich Zwingli and the Anabaptists (draw a large Z in the air) The Act of Supremacy (Put both fists on hips)
Science: What are some names of U.S. space missions? Mercury Gemini Apollo Shuttle
Each student received a coloring sheet of each of the NASA spacecrafts to color or attempt to replicate by drawing.
Math - Sing to the tune of BINGO "B-I-N-G-O" One-thou-sand-me-ters (sing 3 times) "and BINGO was his name-0" e-quals-one-kil-o-me-ter
English: More Indefinite Pronouns - we sang the grammar song from Mrs. Varnell to learn these pronouns. BOTH, EACH, NEITHER, EITHER, NOBODY, NONE!!!
Latin: Future Perfect Tense - In the FUTURE I'm aware o' a PERFECT heaven. (Amavero)
Each student received and placed in the front of the Latin section of their binders a handout with each of the tips to remember the Latin conjugations. Please use these to help your child remember the differences between the conjugations. We will repeat all of these conjugations during semester 2!
Geography: Eastern European Seas - Baltic Sea, White Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea
We located and labeled all of the seas on a blank map.

Zachary, great work on your "All About Me" speech and poster. We really enjoyed your detail and fascinating facts. Keep up the great work!

Today I was so thankful for an abundance of review time! We used the first 20 minutes to completely review 12 weeks of timeline, geography and science and then we dove into the awesome game "Will the Winner Lose???" We recited the 12 weeks of timeline and science as a group and individually labeled blank maps with all 12 weeks of geography!!! Amazing work. I think all of the students enjoyed the element of chance in our review game and did a great job reciting their memory work in all of the subjects. On Week 13 we will play this review game again to survey semester one.

Great work on a job well done this semester - our cups have overflowed with blessings. Enjoy the CC break over the holidays with your families. For the best success with your Foundations memory work, set aside time weekly to review through games, binder work, copywork sheets, and map drawing and labeling. I know at our home we will be working on our map drawing skills by drawing our Map of Europe more over the break as we rest from all of the new material. Any memory drilling you do over the break can be recorded on your Learning Log and turned in for tickets/CC Cash when your return from the break.

Thank you so much for the kind and generous gift today. The card was beautiful testimony to the CC family I am so blessed with. I hope you know my gratitude to all of you each week as you graciously support me in class and your children bless me with their smiles and unending effort and enthusiasm. This Thanksgiving I will be thanking God for each of you and our entire CC family - God is so good.

With much love and wishes for each of you to have a blessed holiday season,
Mrs. Gaines