Week 14 - Flowers and Fizzy Drinks

Hello Masters!
I hope you are enjoying a blessed week of homeschooling. We enjoyed a shorter, yet very productive day on Tuesday. Our new seating was taken on with enthusiasm by the students and I believe we will continue with the arrangement of the tables and just adjust where the students are sitting on a week-by-week basis. Thank you to all of the students for participating, listening, and learning together so well. We covered a wealth of information in a short time! Our science was filled with three awesome examples of acids and bases and their pH values. We then ended with a refreshing conclusion. Our time in art class produced some beautiful watercolor paintings - great concentration and effort among all of the students. Caleb we missed you and look forward to your return next week!

Presentations - Thank you to all of our presenters. Interestingly all three chose to present on Bible cards from our timeline and revealed detail and great visual aids to communicate their message. Jonathan, Harrison and Carlyssa you demonstrated excellent eye contact, volume, and articulation. The audience also showed great attention to the presenters. We are looking forward to all of the presenters for next week! Parents remember that I provided the students with an outline sheet to prepare their presentations, you can find this in their binders behind the sheet "Masters Presentation Schedule".

Week 15 presenters - Mollie, Shawn, Sam, Zachary
Caleb and Hannah you are welcome to present Week 15 on a timeline card or you can jump back in on Week 16 and present on a science question.

Memory Tips and Techniques for Week 14:
History Timeline - Pilgrims build Plymouth Colony (saw back and forth), Massachusetts Bay Colony Home of the Puritans (hold up right hand in an L shape to represent the shape of the bay and use left hand to point to it), Roger Williams, Founder of Rhode Island (step forward and bow), Salem Witch Trials (hold up both hands and say "witch" in a scary way), 13 Colonies formed (hold up a 1 and a 3), The First Great Awakening (Hold up 1 finger for "first" and then use same hand to open your eye wide for awakening), Colonial Trading With England (left out palm up and then take item out with right hand), The French and Indian Wars (place left fist next to right fist in front of body then push forward)
History Sentence - Tell me about the leaders of World War I... Clemenceau of France, Lloyd George of England, Nicholas II of Russia, Wilhelm II of Germany, and Wilson of the United Stated were leaders during WWI, which started in 1914 and ended in 1918. Each student was provided with a handout picturing all of the leaders of WWI - use this to color silly faces on each of the leaders as your student listens to the audio CD. We also pointed to all of the locations on the map to reemphasize the countries involved in the war.
History Peg Dates - Otto I and the Holy Roman Empire 962-973AD, The Crusades 1095-1291AD/1250AD either will be accepted. I had several students indicate they are interested in going the extra mile and learning the peg dates. Please let me know if your child is interested in mastering these dates so that I can recognize their extra effort at the end of the year. The dates for this semester are much more familiar to our students and I know they can tackle these!
Bible - We added the drill sheet for Ephesians 6 :13-24 to their binders continue to learn this at home, it is not required for Memory Master, but can be used for a subject for Memory Power or Excellence.
Geography - We labeled the following Baltic Europe Countries on the map - Estonia (E), Latvia (Lat), Lithuania (Lith), Former East Prussia (EP), Poland (P)
At home we are working on the Map Drawing Exercise #2 Europe/Asia found in your student's binder.
Latin - Present Tense "God is AMOpresent" Memorize these conjugations orally and you can use the additional drill sheet in your binder to write and identify the conjugations and their meanings.
Math - The area of a square is the length of it's side squared. We completed a practice sheet to accompany this mathematical formula.
English - What are the four types of sentences? D. I. I. E. The students enjoyed this memory tip!
Declarative (.), Interrogative (?), Imperative (.), Exclamatory (!)

BINDER UPDATE - Caleb, we will give you all of the handouts that we added to each of the student binders this week. The following drill sheets were added to their binders to aid you in drilling memory work at home .
Review Race Sheet - I am using this sheet at home to help prepare my girls for the testing at the end of the year. It is a fun way to encourage your child to race against themselves each week and improve their speed and accuracy. You can start new times over at the beginning of each week as we add new material. It greatly improves the amount of time needed to review each day - ENJOY!
We also added - Bible (Ephesians 6:13-24), History Peg Dates (Semester 2), Latin Drill Sheets for remaining conjugations, Math Formula Sheets for the rest of the semester, and Copywork sheets for Weeks 14-18. I will provide additional Copywork sheets when they become available on the forum.
Thank you Mrs. Mohl, Mrs. Lilly and Mrs. Varnell for helping load the binders on Tuesday!!!!

Classical Cash and Memory Marbles:
We added 35 Memory Marbles to the jar on Tuesday after the students eagerly completed their Latin drill sheets, geography, and answered questions to earn these marbles!
Continue to complete your Learning Logs each week as you drill and prepare your presentations at home. We are planning to open the CC store on February 1st!

Have a blessed week, I will see you all on Tuesday!
Mrs. Gaines