Week 7

This week was full of work for Caleb.  He had lots of reading and writing to do!  We started our week with fixing the dishwasher.  It wasn't getting the dishes even close to clean so we went to work to find out why.  Youtube and a trip to the hardware store for a torx wrench were key in discovering the problem.  Broken glass and some bones were clogging things so the water pressure was little to none.  Caleb took things apart, cleaned things out, and put it all back together!

• Latin- Caleb drilled his vocab everyday on Quizlet.  He completed exercises 84-91 in his Henle book.  
• Math- Topics covered this week: area as a difference, mode, median, means, and range, average in word problems, areas of triangles, improper fractions, mixed numbers, and decimal numbers.  
• Logic- Logic is not for the faint of heart! I am doing it right along with Caleb because it is beginning to get very difficult.  Thankfully he has a naturally logical mind, but the terms and concepts are taking me a long time to grasp!  Caleb did the review exercises for Lessons 6-18 and then moved on to Lessons 19-21.  
• Current Events- This week's topic was whether it is a prisoner's right to have a comfortable life in prison.  We found a very interesting article on a prison in Norway that is more like an island resort than a prison!  There are many different points of view on this topic and they discussed both the affirmative and negative sides in class.  
• Science- This week Caleb researched Michael Faraday and wrote a 5 paragraph essay on his life.  He also conducted an experiment at home based on some of Faraday's findings.  He was able to light a candle by lighting the smoke!  It was fascinating.  He gave a presentation in class on Faraday's life, discoveries, and conclusions.
• LTW- This week the assignment was to read Where the Red Fern Grows and write an essay on Little Britches. He watched the movie of WTRFG and began listening to the audio CDs.  He wrote an essay including parallelism, amplification, and exordium.