Week 2

• Latin- Caleb is still reviewing what he learned last year.  This week he did all the Essential Exercises between exercises 10 and 26.  He wrote out all of his vocabulary and grammar rules.  He took notes in class.
• Math-  He worked on Problem Sets 5-8 this week. Topics covered: addition and subtraction word problems, reading and writing decimal numbers, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimal numbers,rounding decimal numbers, estimation, multiplying and dividing by powers of 1, and ordering decimal numbers.
• Logic- Caleb completed Lessons 1-5 in his logic books.  He wrote out all required definitions. He learned 3 methods of defining a word: defining by synonym, defining by example, and defining by genus and difference.  He learned that when defining by genus and difference, the definition should: state the essential attributes of the term, should not be circular, should not be too broad nor too narrow, should not be unclear or figurative, should be stated positively if possible, and should be of the same part of speech as the term.  After mastering those guidelines, he was able to identify errors in definitions.
• Science- Caleb studied Archimedes in depth.  He watched a NOVA documnetary The Infinite Secrets of Archimedes.  He also watched a National Geographic Kids episode Absolute Genius-Archimedes and Archimedes the Great Mathemetician.   He also used the books Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick and Archimedes by Claire O'Neal as sources.  He wrote a 5 paragraph paper on the life and discoveries of Archimedes.
• Current Events- The premise of this week's topic was: whether euthanasia should be legal in all 50 states.  Caleb prepared to present two articles to his class on this topic. He used this one and this one.  He found verses to back his opinion that God values life and both giving and taking it is up to Him. He was part of an excellent discussion in class.
• LTW- Caleb filled in 20 items in each column of his ANI chart.  His issue is: whether Milo should have opened the package. He did some great brainstorming!  It's not easy to think like that, but he's doing a great job training his mind to think that way.