Classical Conversations
of Broken Arrow Week 15 Recap
Proverbs 11:1-3 "A false balance is abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them."
I would have to say that the Great Artist segment is my favorite quarter of fine arts!! I was very impressed with your children's drawings of Linnaeus this week. The first six weeks of Art gave them confidence that they can draw!
Thank you Mrs. Collins for providing the lilies for us!!
Classical Chats
In her book The Core, Leigh Bortins explains:
“It’s difficult to evaluate an historian’s analysis of world events if you don’t know the names of the people and places and the dates he’s referring to. You can’t analyze the causes of historical events if you don’t first know who did what, where, and when, just as you can’t analyze the causes of any subject until you have a basic grasp of its terms and the main ideas associated with it.
Classical Conversations’ students can study the grammar of history in four ways:
Memorize a 204-point time line of world events and U.S. presidents in kindergarten through sixth grade.
Memorize six short stories of twelve sentences each that summarize a major era.
Read lots of stories relating to the memorized time line and short stories of #2.
Copy and rewrite paragraphs from histories.
To learn more about this read The Core's chapter on History.
For Week 16
Family Presentations - Lee (Erin) Family
Playground Duty - Patton/Anderson (if you need someone to cover for you just ask another family)
Suggested Oral Presentations: (remember you can always choose what you want your child to present, this is just a suggestion)
ABC/Apprentices: Invention Describe the best invention and tell how it made the world a better place. Bring pictures or a prop.
Journeymen/Masters: Invention
Describe the best invention and tell how it made a better place. Bring pictures or a prop.
Skill to practice: Volume - Speak with appropriate loudness so your audience can hear you.
Great Artists: We will be studying Gainsborough this week during the Great Artist segment. We will be using oil pastels to draw a landscape. Please have your child come prepared with a landscape that he/she would like to draw. This will give him/her more time to draw their work. Bring a smock or old T-shirt.
Community Handbook Reminders
Lunch room clean up
Kitchen Clean up
Also, last week we noticed there were a lot of crumbs on the countertops. If you do heat something up please wipe after yourself. In the kitchen is a solution you can use to spray the counter down or just use the clorox wipes I provide. Also, make sure you rinse out the sink if you dump something down it.
Thanks for helping in this matter!
Prayer Requests
- Pray for our pregnant moms (Rachel, Katie, Kristin, and Erin).
- Please pray for the Waddsworth family. They have a military friend that committed suicide last week. Their friend has a two year old son. Please be in prayer for this family.
- Aly Chupp's husband's aunt has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Please pray for Delores Cantu and her family.
- Pray for strength and encouragement for each of our families as we are in the winter months where homeschooling can be harder.
- Pray that our marriages would be healthy and strong. Pray for vibrant marriages.
- Pray for God to show all of us how to reach our children and give them each what they need.
- Pray for our future leadership in this community (Future Challenge Directors and Foundation/Essential tutors).
Community Announcements:
Mom's Brunch Feb 11th
Info Meeting February 2nd
Enrollment for the 2017-2018 school year
Open House Feb 8th
Midwinter Break Feb 22
Valentine Party and Fundraising luncheon
The Map Challenge is On!
This week we reached over 1,200! The challenge kids are adding their maps to our count which brings us up to around 1,900!!
Students will be handing maps into their tutors each week. Mrs. Wilson will come around and get a count. Then at lunch we will announce which class brought in the most maps. Parents, the maps you do with your kids will count towards our 2,500 goal of maps. I know that we can do this!! The reward is a pizza party for the entire campus. If a tutor wishes to reward her class for maps they bring in that is up to her but not required or necessary. The goal is to practice geography at home and to work together to reach a community goal.Week 15 and Beyond
Foundations to Challenge
This week our students learned metric measurements and the meaning of the prefixes. Outside of the United States, the metric system has been broadly adopted because it uses units of tens. A decimeter is 1/10 of a meter, a centimeter is 1/100 of a meter, a millimeter is 1/1,000 of a meter, etc. Because of it's wide acceptance, the metric system is used for all scientific calculations. Students will encounter these metric prefixes throughout their math studies and will use them heavily during their study of chemistry.
Online Extras
(Please preview video clips first to make sure they are appropriate for your family)