- Latin- Caleb completed Lesson 3 in his Henle Latin book. He finished Exercises 46, 47, 51, 53, 56, 57, 58, & 59. He wrote out his vocab words with definitions and and studied grammar rules. He took notes in class.
- Math- He worked Problem Sets 13-16. In class they reviewed all he had done during the week: They talked about common factors, greatest common factors, reviewed vocabulary.
Defined fractions, and talked about fractions in everyday life. The students
discussed how to make equivalent fractions, expanding and reducing fractions.
We converted fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions. The students
reviewed decimal place values!
- Logic- He worked on Lessons 8-10 in his logic book and wrote out definitions. He covered topics such as supported statements, relationships between statements (consistency, implication, logical equivalence, and independence), and consistency and disagreement. He learned to distinguish between real disagreements, apparent disagreements, and verbal disagreements. He continued to work on memorizing Appendix A.
- Science- The scientist this week was Johannes Kepler. Caleb studied his three laws of planetary motion by reading books and watching several videos. He drew a diagram of each law and explained each in class.
- Current Events- The issue for this week was: Whether illegal aliens should be deported. We had really great discussion along with our research. Caleb had support for both the affirmative and the negative and was able to find scripture to support each as well.
- LTW- Caleb wrote an essay on The Phantom Tollbooth. His thesis was: Milo should have opened the package that was in his room. He completed it as a persuasive essay. He read Little Britches: Father and I were Ranchers in preparation for next week's assignments.
- Latin- Caleb is flying through his Latin book. He is still reviewing last year's concepts, but going through and doing a lot of translating. He reviewed the most difficult of all declensions this week- the third!
- Math- He did Problem Sets 9-12 this week. Points, lines, rays, line segments, angles, perimeter, divisibilty, word problems about equal groups, prime numbers and composite numbers, and products of prime numbers were all concepts covered this week.
- Logic- Caleb completed Lessons 6-8 in his logic book. He learned about Statements, Self-Supporting Statements, and Supported Statements. He had to read many statements and be able to identify if they were self-report, tautology, self-contradiction, true by definition, false by definition, or supported. Analyzing statements has been a really great way to learn critical thinking. He is doing well with it!
- Science- This week's study was on Copernicus. Caleb watched two short documentaries on the life and times of Copernicus and learned how important his heliocentric theory was. His discoveries opened the door to many new discoveries by astronomers and mathematicians who came after him. Caleb not only wrote a paper on his life but had to research why the Catholic church rejected Copernicus' theory and if their reasoning was logical or not.
- Current Events- The premise this week was: Whether the federal government should mandate education standards. We all watched the HSLDA video: Building the Machine and Caleb used that, as well as a news article to form his opinions and prepare for discussion.
- LTW- Caleb sorted his ANI chart and wrote his outline for The Phantom Tollbooth
