Director's Details-Week 7
Classical Conversations of Burien
No CC on Thursday, October 20! See you on the 27th.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalm 8:3-4 (KJV)
Family Presentation: Cassarino Family
Tin Whistle!!
Planetarium Field Trip
CC Burien Field Trip to UW Planetarium
When: Friday, October 28th at 11am
Cost: Free
Plan to pack a bag lunch to eat afterwards on the UW campus
Imagine a huge Google maps projected on a ceiling that can take you into space. This place is great. Shows are generally about 45 minutes in length. With their digital World Wide Telescope software, their planetarium shows are about much more than just constellations: you can “fly” your audiences through the solar system and through distant galaxies!
Directions
Located at the corner of 15th Ave NE and NE Pacific Hwy, in the University District. The planetarium is located on the second floor of the Physics/Astronomy Auditorium in room A220 at the far end of the hall.
If you are driving from:
- North or South: I-5 to NE 45th Street exit (University of Washington). Take 45th St. East to 15th. Make a right on 15th. Follow this to the intersection with Pacific. If you are bringing a bus, you can let the students off at the stop on 15th (right before Pacific).
Parking
Plan to pay to park on campus. To find parking on campus first visit one of the Gatehouse locations, let them know your destination, and ask what the nearest parking to the Physics/Astronomy Building is at that time of day. The closest Gatehouse to our building is the West Gatehouse. - 15th Avenue Northeast and Stevens Way by Meany Hall. It is $3 hour and they take card.
Science Service Project - Operation Christmas Child
The service project will be moved to week 9, November 10. We will be doing Operation Christmas Child boxes. Each class will put together two Christmas Child boxes. The tutors will be sharing more details about this project.
Here are some ideas for things to pack: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/what-goes-in-my-shoebox-suggestions/
Truman - 2 to 4 year old boy and girl boxes
Millheisler - 2 to 4 year old boy and girl boxes
Streff - 5 to 9 year old boy and girl boxes
Harter - 5 to 9 year old boy and girl boxes
Gelinas - 5 to 9 year old boy and girl boxes
Braga - 10-14 year old boy and girl boxes
Holiday Events - on the horizon
Moms' Christmas Party - Sunday, December 4 at 7 pm
Favorite Things -
This annual event has been a hit every year! Mark your calendars and join us for fellowship and fun. We'll mix it up a bit this year and ask you to bring 3 items with a maximum of $10 per item. They should all be the same. (For example, I love to have a cozy blanket for tv watching and reading and I see blankets on sale at Ikea for $8 a piece. I may pick up 3 and bring them as my favorite thing). I'm putting this out there early so you can watch for sales and grab some favorites! more details coming soon.
PJ Brunch and Mid-Year Review - Thursday, December 15
Week 12 of CC is on December 10, but since Challenge has to meet one more week, you are invited to come review and fellowship on the 15th.
Here's a great chance to do double duty. We'll do a low key, game centered mid-year review to end our first quarter and then, celebrate Christmas as a community by enjoying fellowship and brunch. We've done the PJ theme once already, but we'll do it again to mark the end of our first quarter and enjoy a relaxed morning together.
Nikki Shaw still needs a cohort to help plan and put on this super fun event! Sign up on the community jobs signup genius
Park Days
Since transitioning my kids from public school to home school, there has been a mourning in our home. Kids are missing their enjoyment of recess.
So here is a park play schedule for the next 7 weeks:
1pm-3pm
Monday's :: Marvista Park ( 19900 4th Ave SW
Normandy Park, WA )
Tuesday's :: Westcrest Park in West Seattle ( http://www.seattle.gov/parks/find/parks/westcrest-park )
Wednesday's :: Lake Burien (not my favorite, but they have bathrooms, a track, and a green space
14660 18th Ave SW
Burien, WA 98166
Rain or shine. Bring a snack. Bring your bikes. Stay for as long or as little as you like.
Hope you can join us. We will begin "recess" on Monday, Oct 10th.
Opening Assembly
Latin Club
Join us every other month for Mom's Latin Club. The next meeting of this year is Monday, December 5 from 7 to 8:30 pm at Diane Streff's house: 20925 4th Ave S, Des Moines
We will be using Latin Alive! Level 1: https://classicalacademicpress.com/product/latin-alive-book-1/
We will be covering Chapter 4.
It is your choice how much work you do outside of our bi-monthly meeting. During our time together, we will watch the teaching video together.
Mom's Book Club - November Read
http://www.classicalconversationsbooks.com/gaofdaneweng.html
Start reading now and join us on November 7 for an evening of discussion at Diane Streff's house: 20925 4th Ave S, Des Moines
Serve our Community
Or let me know if you have an idea for another way you would like to serve.
Another way to bless our community is to offer a playdate to one of the tutors during on of our quarterly planning meetings: October 8, December 10 or February 18 from 8:30-12.
Foundations to Challenge Connections
On week 7, your students will memorize the five kinds of stars. In the past, astronomy formed an integral part of a classical, Christian education. We can reclaim that by beholding the heavens with our families. The Greeks spent much time looking at the stars and studying their patterns. In the Middle Ages, astronomy became one of the seven liberal arts. Students studied the arts of language (the Trivium) comprised of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric; they studied the arts of number (the Quadrivium) comprised of music, geometry, arithmetic, and astronomy. Your family can study astronomy by making time to go outside and look at the sky. In addition, you will encounter famous astronomers later in Challenge B. You can learn about the connections between Christian faith and astronomy by reading Nancy Pearcey’s book The Soul of Science.
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.”
—Johannes Kepler, discoverer of the elliptical orbits of the planets Quoted in Soul of Science (126)
"For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain." - Dorothy Sayers, "The Lost Tools of Learning"
Classical Conversations of Burien
Amber Ronningen, Challenge A Director
Email: lynettechang.cc@gmail.com
Website: www.classicalconversations.com
Location: Grace Church, 28th Avenue Southwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Phone: 206-890-9882
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ccburienwa/