Please remember to read through the disclosure and sign the back page with your scholar. Also I am accepting donations for the $5 registration fee for the National Junior Forensic League.
Scholars got right down to work this morning reviewing for their first spelling and vocabulary test to take place tomorrow morning. I am certain they will all perform to their best abilities. We spent a couple minutes in Latin and continued with Shakespeare this morning. We will finish up Act 1 Scene II tomorrow before our three day weekend.
We continued on in math today with prime numbers and greatest common factor. We will work with GCF and LCM tomorrow. The scholars seem to be getting into the flow of our the text works and how class time works.I hope by now they have "wowed" you with strategy one in mental math. I am anxious to move them on to strategy 2 next week. If you haven't seen them work yet, please ask them to add together any string of odd numbers starting with 1 and ranging to any other odd number. They can do it in their heads, and they can do it quickly!
The scholars had their first library day today, and seemed to have enjoyed that time, They have cards that they brought home that they can use to browse the school library. Take advantage of doing that from home. :)
Our afternoon was full of science as we performed an experiment dealing with heat transfer. We discussed radiation, convection, and conduction. We then talked about cryogenics and freezing off things like warts! We hypothesized what we thought would be the fastest way to cool a can of room temperature soda. Ask your scholar about the four options that we tried, and which turned out to cool the soda the quickest.
There are no photos to post today. I took a bunch during our experiment but there are a number of families that will not allow us to use photos of their scholars, so I need to refrain.
Have a wonderful evening!
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