Saturday, April 16, 2011
Thank You All!!!
Well, last night was the Year End Celebration Event and what an evening it was!!! The kids did great showcasing their skills and the time of fellowship was precious! It was great to get to see everyone again and it is a night I will cherish forever :) I wanted to thank my class for the wonderful and thoughtful gift!! I will get much use out of the perfect size Bible and I LOVE Beth Moore and will be sure to listen to the CD over and over again :) I was a bit overwhelmed by the love and the sadness I feel for having to move on. Each of you hold a very special place in my heart and I wish you all the very best!! CC of Decatur is a great blessing and is a TRUE community!! My family has felt so loved and cared for during our time there and I just can't thank you all enough!! Please keep in touch, and by all means if any of you are in Monroe, LA we would love to see you!!! Love and many blessings, Stacey (Mike, Lucy, and Clara)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Week 24!!
Wow---we made it!!! One whole CC year DONE!!! Way to go each and every one of you! I may be a tad bit biased, but I feel this was the best class EVER :) Today we unfortunately did not get to all of our subjects, but here is a review... Science: This was done to the tune of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" What units are use to what units are used to what units are used to measure electrictricity? Volts, Ohms, Amperes, and Watts These are the units to measure electricity. Math: I showed them a visual using one of our students, and also a picture of a dog (both represented A). For identity law if I add 0 or multiply by 1 that person (or dog) stays the same---they keep their same identity. History: We sang the song using instruments. Presidents: We had a race to put them in order. Both teams did a great job! Latin: We did not get to this, but we would have just reviewed the song. English: We did not get to this either, I was just going to have them chant it out and then each child would have a different interjection (Wow! Hey! Cool! etc). and would pop up and yell it out. Geography: We did not get to this either. I didn't have anything special planned for this other than locating and repeating. We had a great time today in Science with our bridges, egg protectors, and paper airplanes! You all did a great job---and most importantly we all learned a lot doing it!! I hope everyone enjoyed the concert for Orchestra! Well, this is it! I made it through the day without crying, and to be honest it hasn't fully hit me that the year is over and this is it. I believe each of you know that we will not be returning next year, as we are going to have to relocate to where there is a job for my husband :) A paycheck is a nice thing to have :) I have appreciated your support, prayers, and love through this time of uncertainty in our lives! This class has ministered to me in so many ways and I am so thankful! It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know all of the Apprentice kids and their families!! I am going to miss you all terribly----but I thank God that we have the promise of an eternity---so this is by no means good bye---simply a "see you later!". Of course there is always next week for fun day and the end of year celebration too :) Have a fun week with the last of Cycle 2 :) Blessings, Stacey I have tried several times to separate this out and it keeps clumping it together----how annoying! Sorry about this!!!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Week 22
Only two more weeks to go, and you would think I have this schedule down by now, but as you can see I am quite late on getting this posted----I am so sorry!!
We had a great week!!
Math: I had a visual of "commuters" waiting on a train to go to work. In the morning they go from station A to station B, but when they go home they go from station B to station A but that is the same distance and everything is the same but just backwards. Same with the commutative law. I did have a minute to plug some numbers into the numbers and show them that way too.
Science: We used hand gestures for each. Pretend to use your hand as a mirror and primp while looking in it---that is "reflection". Take a fist and bounce it off the mirror hand (if you hit it hard enough it will "fract"ure and also it shows how it bounces off) and that is for refraction. Then move your hands like you are making a big rainbow for spectrum.
English: To the tune of Bad Boys (from Cops)
Fanboys, Fanboys
Coordinating Conjunctions
for
and
nor
but
or
yet
so
Latin: We did the song and since it goes to the tune of London Bridge we played the game while singing.
Presidents: We only went to Hayes (I know it says to go to Garfield, but the natural break in the song is Hayes). I also had a deck of cards with the Presidents on them and had two teams race in putting them in order. The team with the "easy" deck didn't catch on that theirs actually said the number president they were, which worked out well. LOL
Geography: We found each on the map and sang them to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance
Some countries in Central America
El Salvador and Honduras
Nicaragua and Costa Rica
and Panama cha cha cha
History: we had some hand gestures. We held up 9 fingers for 1989. Communist dictators we saluted as though we were saluting to Hitler, with an outstretched arm (it feels so wrong!! I just couldn't think of anything else), we used sign language "e" for Eastern Europe, for Gorbachev we patted our heads because of the birthmark he has on his head, we did an exaggerated NO with our heads to signify refused and for military force we used our hand like a gun.
We began our egg protectors this week and will work on them more next week and they will be tested week 24. Remember, a REAL egg will go in there for the test, and the protectors that succeed in keeping their egg from breaking is a winner :) We discussed again about how triangles are the strongest shape. It was fascinating to see the different ideas that they were coming up with. I can't wait to see these tested out!!
Mrs. Diana Light is doing a great job with Orchestra and I know my children are captivated which is awesome!! It truly has given us a love and appreciation for Classical Music that we didn't have before!
I hope this didn't mess you all up too badly having me post so late. I will try my best to do better for the next couple of weeks. I am shocked (and quite saddened) that there are only 2 more weeks to go!! I am going to miss our class (kids and Moms) so very much!!!
Blessings,
Stacey
We had a great week!!
Math: I had a visual of "commuters" waiting on a train to go to work. In the morning they go from station A to station B, but when they go home they go from station B to station A but that is the same distance and everything is the same but just backwards. Same with the commutative law. I did have a minute to plug some numbers into the numbers and show them that way too.
Science: We used hand gestures for each. Pretend to use your hand as a mirror and primp while looking in it---that is "reflection". Take a fist and bounce it off the mirror hand (if you hit it hard enough it will "fract"ure and also it shows how it bounces off) and that is for refraction. Then move your hands like you are making a big rainbow for spectrum.
English: To the tune of Bad Boys (from Cops)
Fanboys, Fanboys
Coordinating Conjunctions
for
and
nor
but
or
yet
so
Latin: We did the song and since it goes to the tune of London Bridge we played the game while singing.
Presidents: We only went to Hayes (I know it says to go to Garfield, but the natural break in the song is Hayes). I also had a deck of cards with the Presidents on them and had two teams race in putting them in order. The team with the "easy" deck didn't catch on that theirs actually said the number president they were, which worked out well. LOL
Geography: We found each on the map and sang them to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance
Some countries in Central America
El Salvador and Honduras
Nicaragua and Costa Rica
and Panama cha cha cha
History: we had some hand gestures. We held up 9 fingers for 1989. Communist dictators we saluted as though we were saluting to Hitler, with an outstretched arm (it feels so wrong!! I just couldn't think of anything else), we used sign language "e" for Eastern Europe, for Gorbachev we patted our heads because of the birthmark he has on his head, we did an exaggerated NO with our heads to signify refused and for military force we used our hand like a gun.
We began our egg protectors this week and will work on them more next week and they will be tested week 24. Remember, a REAL egg will go in there for the test, and the protectors that succeed in keeping their egg from breaking is a winner :) We discussed again about how triangles are the strongest shape. It was fascinating to see the different ideas that they were coming up with. I can't wait to see these tested out!!
Mrs. Diana Light is doing a great job with Orchestra and I know my children are captivated which is awesome!! It truly has given us a love and appreciation for Classical Music that we didn't have before!
I hope this didn't mess you all up too badly having me post so late. I will try my best to do better for the next couple of weeks. I am shocked (and quite saddened) that there are only 2 more weeks to go!! I am going to miss our class (kids and Moms) so very much!!!
Blessings,
Stacey
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Week 21
Yet again, we had a great day at CC today!
Here is the recap:
Time Line: We are using the first song on the CD (track) 25. We sang the song and the kids took turns pointing to the presidents we were singing about.
History: We had fun, fun, fun dancing to this one (well, at least I did LOL). This song just screams "DANCE!" We had a few signs we worked in to the dance----for 1980's we held up 8 fingers, put and end to...., we did our hands like a "you're safe" sign in baseball, lesson the gov't we had our hands going down, for strengthen we did strong arms----otherwise we just danced, danced, danced :) I did use some of the kids as puppets and had them really get down---that's always fun :)
Latin: We did the song and repeating it without singing too.
English: we repeated the sentence several times while a few kids were designated conjunctions and they would go and hook arms (connect) to students that were words, phrases, or clauses (ho, ho, ho!).
Science: Just some hand gestures----impossible we did the same sign like in the history song for "your safe" in baseball, and then held up a 0 with our hands. Make sure they don't try to add in "degrees" to the sentence, as it is possible to be 0 degrees, but not absolute zero temp.
Math: We wrote it out and then followed along as we sang a song. I am told there is a song the tune is from but I can't remember it to be honest----I will have to find out again. Hopefully your child remembers it--- it did help mine this week (and me :)
Geo: Cuba looks kind of like a cigar, Jamaica is right below "No problem!", Haiti is to the West of the island that it shares with Dominican Republic.
I can not believe that there are only 3 more weeks of this CC year!!!
I hope you each have a wonderful blessed week!!
See you Tuesday!
Here is the recap:
Time Line: We are using the first song on the CD (track) 25. We sang the song and the kids took turns pointing to the presidents we were singing about.
History: We had fun, fun, fun dancing to this one (well, at least I did LOL). This song just screams "DANCE!" We had a few signs we worked in to the dance----for 1980's we held up 8 fingers, put and end to...., we did our hands like a "you're safe" sign in baseball, lesson the gov't we had our hands going down, for strengthen we did strong arms----otherwise we just danced, danced, danced :) I did use some of the kids as puppets and had them really get down---that's always fun :)
Latin: We did the song and repeating it without singing too.
English: we repeated the sentence several times while a few kids were designated conjunctions and they would go and hook arms (connect) to students that were words, phrases, or clauses (ho, ho, ho!).
Science: Just some hand gestures----impossible we did the same sign like in the history song for "your safe" in baseball, and then held up a 0 with our hands. Make sure they don't try to add in "degrees" to the sentence, as it is possible to be 0 degrees, but not absolute zero temp.
Math: We wrote it out and then followed along as we sang a song. I am told there is a song the tune is from but I can't remember it to be honest----I will have to find out again. Hopefully your child remembers it--- it did help mine this week (and me :)
Geo: Cuba looks kind of like a cigar, Jamaica is right below "No problem!", Haiti is to the West of the island that it shares with Dominican Republic.
I can not believe that there are only 3 more weeks of this CC year!!!
I hope you each have a wonderful blessed week!!
See you Tuesday!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Week 20
I am sorry I am posting this later than usual. I have to apologize too that we did not get to time line yesterday. I did it after class with a few of the children, but not everyone was there, so if you have the video use that, or you can come up with your own ways to remember it---or give me a call and I will walk you through the signs for each card.
Math: We had another race to put together the numbers in the proper order of cm in an inch.
Geography: for South Central Asia we talked about how South Vietnam looks like a ladle with north Vietnam being the top of the ladle. The soup inside the ladle is not Campbell's soup, but Cambodia soup. The steam coming off the soup is Thailand (it looks like a lump of steam) and kind of looking like the hand grasping the handle of the ladle is Laos. These are harder to see and it may be beneficial to look them up online or if you have another map at home that shows them better. We have a place mat with the world on it (that I had in class) that shows the distinction better, so use what you have :)
Latin: We did the song.
English: We did a Cadence like we were in the military. The Sargent yells out "An appositive is a noun" and the troops yelled that back. Then "That follows another noun" and lastly "and explains or identifies it." I showed them a visual of one child being a noun and another being the appositive and following the noun.
History: We acted this out and had some hand motions for north we put our hands up in the air and then put our hands south and hugged ourselves like we were capturing S. Vietnam. Make sure the kids make the distinction in the song that unlike last weeks song, the UN troops were not sent this time, however, it was the US troops.
Science: We had a song with some hand gestures. Heat will always fffflllllloooooowwwwww, to an area of higher (hands up in the air and sing this with a high pitched voice) temperature to an area of lower (hands down low and sing in a deep, low voice) temperature.
Science lab: We began building our bridges using marshmallows and toothpicks. Discuss this week how some shapes are stronger than others (the triangle being the strongest as it evenly displaces weight). Feel free to look things up online or at the library about bridge building and see if they can alter their plans next week when finishing their bridges to make them even better. It was fun to see what they were coming up with. Remind them that the bridge has to support weight and will be tested to see how strong it is.
Fine Arts: we had another great class with Mrs. Diana and learned a lot about the types of classical music and different composers. I know my kids were eager to share their new knowledge with their Daddy last night as it was the dinner table discussion here :) They like listening to the music laying on the floor in the dark too. It is very cool to see the kids getting excited about classical music :)
I have to manage the class time a bit better as I did have to stick to a strict 2 min presentation schedule and I hate to do that as I know how much the kids love to present! I will try to do better :)
It was a great class and your children minister to me each week in ways I can't even describe!! Each child is so special and I am so thankful for the little bit of time I get with them each week :) Keep up the good work Moms!!
Have a blessed week!
Stacey
Math: We had another race to put together the numbers in the proper order of cm in an inch.
Geography: for South Central Asia we talked about how South Vietnam looks like a ladle with north Vietnam being the top of the ladle. The soup inside the ladle is not Campbell's soup, but Cambodia soup. The steam coming off the soup is Thailand (it looks like a lump of steam) and kind of looking like the hand grasping the handle of the ladle is Laos. These are harder to see and it may be beneficial to look them up online or if you have another map at home that shows them better. We have a place mat with the world on it (that I had in class) that shows the distinction better, so use what you have :)
Latin: We did the song.
English: We did a Cadence like we were in the military. The Sargent yells out "An appositive is a noun" and the troops yelled that back. Then "That follows another noun" and lastly "and explains or identifies it." I showed them a visual of one child being a noun and another being the appositive and following the noun.
History: We acted this out and had some hand motions for north we put our hands up in the air and then put our hands south and hugged ourselves like we were capturing S. Vietnam. Make sure the kids make the distinction in the song that unlike last weeks song, the UN troops were not sent this time, however, it was the US troops.
Science: We had a song with some hand gestures. Heat will always fffflllllloooooowwwwww, to an area of higher (hands up in the air and sing this with a high pitched voice) temperature to an area of lower (hands down low and sing in a deep, low voice) temperature.
Science lab: We began building our bridges using marshmallows and toothpicks. Discuss this week how some shapes are stronger than others (the triangle being the strongest as it evenly displaces weight). Feel free to look things up online or at the library about bridge building and see if they can alter their plans next week when finishing their bridges to make them even better. It was fun to see what they were coming up with. Remind them that the bridge has to support weight and will be tested to see how strong it is.
Fine Arts: we had another great class with Mrs. Diana and learned a lot about the types of classical music and different composers. I know my kids were eager to share their new knowledge with their Daddy last night as it was the dinner table discussion here :) They like listening to the music laying on the floor in the dark too. It is very cool to see the kids getting excited about classical music :)
I have to manage the class time a bit better as I did have to stick to a strict 2 min presentation schedule and I hate to do that as I know how much the kids love to present! I will try to do better :)
It was a great class and your children minister to me each week in ways I can't even describe!! Each child is so special and I am so thankful for the little bit of time I get with them each week :) Keep up the good work Moms!!
Have a blessed week!
Stacey
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Week 19
Hello everyone!! It was another great week, and I have to tell you that I really needed this today---just being around all these great kids who are all so eager to learn, and all their Mom's--I was truly blessed today!!
To recap our day:
History: We acted out and sang our song. I love that our history ties in so nicely to our Geography this week too with N. and S. Korea.
Latin: We reviewed the song and said each conjunction a few times.
English: our song this week was to the tune of the Brady Bunch
A g g gerund
is a present participle
verb form used as a noun.
Even though most of the kids do not know who the Brady's are and have never heard that song, it does seem to stick.
Math: We had races today to see who could put the numbers in the right order first of how many feet there are in a mile and when they had it they had to yell out "1 mile". We did this at home this week too and my girls loved it, even if it was just them solo and I would time them.
Geography: no clever way to remember, but at least 2 of the places are repeats of history :) for Taiwan we talked about needing an anchor (to "tie one" to the island). Plus that is like the dot in a lower case i with the Philippines being the lower part of the i. Then what looks like a tiny bit of ink mistakenly in the middle of the ocean----that is not a mistake but in fact Guam. Mrs. Jonica showed us too how close Guam is to Hawaii which was pretty cool!
Science: we had a lot of fun with this sentence all week----we sang it (there isn't a tune that it goes to---but read it and a song will emerge). We used sign language for "make" which is the same same for "creation" in our timeline going all the way back to week 1. This represented "energy cannot be created" and then throw your hands down for "or destroyed". What is the first law of thermo dynamics?
Our lab attempted to bring that to life, which is difficult as it is such an abstract concept. The kids really enjoyed making the paper airplanes :) We did see how ice would melt in our hand, and even though it changed forms from solid to liquid, it still had the same energy, just different. The only One Who can create or destroy energy is the Creator----God!
Fine Arts--Mrs. Diana did an awesome job teaching us about orchestra today!
Time Line---we went through the signs for each one.
As for anything extra---we did enjoy the experiment of putting ice on a kitchen scale (if you have one) and allowing it to melt. I had the girls hypothesize what the weight would be after the ice melted. One said it would be heavier and one said lighter (neither said stay the same :) Of course, it does stay the same as the energy is not created or destroyed just altered to a different state.
Also, I have found myself recording a lot of programs from the History channel. I don't like a lot of what is on there, but I am finding that the history (not necessarily the Biblical based shows) are really good. We watched one on the assassination attempt of Hitler. We watched about the assassination of Lincoln. One on Sherman's March during the Civil War. I have one I just recorded on Reagan as I know a history sentence is coming up about him. Things like that we are enjoying. They are usually 2 hours long, which is a big much for some kids----but I allowed my youngest to do something else while in the room and I would pause it and discuss things I thought were key and she was a part of those discussions and she did get something out of it. My oldest (10) has enjoyed them for the most part.
I hope that helps!!
Have fun with it all this week!! See you next week! If you need anything in the mean time please give me a call!
Blessings,
Stacey
To recap our day:
History: We acted out and sang our song. I love that our history ties in so nicely to our Geography this week too with N. and S. Korea.
Latin: We reviewed the song and said each conjunction a few times.
English: our song this week was to the tune of the Brady Bunch
A g g gerund
is a present participle
verb form used as a noun.
Even though most of the kids do not know who the Brady's are and have never heard that song, it does seem to stick.
Math: We had races today to see who could put the numbers in the right order first of how many feet there are in a mile and when they had it they had to yell out "1 mile". We did this at home this week too and my girls loved it, even if it was just them solo and I would time them.
Geography: no clever way to remember, but at least 2 of the places are repeats of history :) for Taiwan we talked about needing an anchor (to "tie one" to the island). Plus that is like the dot in a lower case i with the Philippines being the lower part of the i. Then what looks like a tiny bit of ink mistakenly in the middle of the ocean----that is not a mistake but in fact Guam. Mrs. Jonica showed us too how close Guam is to Hawaii which was pretty cool!
Science: we had a lot of fun with this sentence all week----we sang it (there isn't a tune that it goes to---but read it and a song will emerge). We used sign language for "make" which is the same same for "creation" in our timeline going all the way back to week 1. This represented "energy cannot be created" and then throw your hands down for "or destroyed". What is the first law of thermo dynamics?
Our lab attempted to bring that to life, which is difficult as it is such an abstract concept. The kids really enjoyed making the paper airplanes :) We did see how ice would melt in our hand, and even though it changed forms from solid to liquid, it still had the same energy, just different. The only One Who can create or destroy energy is the Creator----God!
Fine Arts--Mrs. Diana did an awesome job teaching us about orchestra today!
Time Line---we went through the signs for each one.
As for anything extra---we did enjoy the experiment of putting ice on a kitchen scale (if you have one) and allowing it to melt. I had the girls hypothesize what the weight would be after the ice melted. One said it would be heavier and one said lighter (neither said stay the same :) Of course, it does stay the same as the energy is not created or destroyed just altered to a different state.
Also, I have found myself recording a lot of programs from the History channel. I don't like a lot of what is on there, but I am finding that the history (not necessarily the Biblical based shows) are really good. We watched one on the assassination attempt of Hitler. We watched about the assassination of Lincoln. One on Sherman's March during the Civil War. I have one I just recorded on Reagan as I know a history sentence is coming up about him. Things like that we are enjoying. They are usually 2 hours long, which is a big much for some kids----but I allowed my youngest to do something else while in the room and I would pause it and discuss things I thought were key and she was a part of those discussions and she did get something out of it. My oldest (10) has enjoyed them for the most part.
I hope that helps!!
Have fun with it all this week!! See you next week! If you need anything in the mean time please give me a call!
Blessings,
Stacey
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Week 18
Another great class today. A rowdy bunch today :) I usually don't have to do much disciplining, but I did today (hope I didn't scare anyone :)
Here is a review of what we did today:
History: We acted out the sentence and sang the song.
Latin: Song. We tried to get creative by having half the class go and the other half come in a little later. I think it sounded good LOL
English: Hand gestures
subject----like a submarine, one hand goes under the other.
direct object (remember there are 3 objects)--are goes straight out like you are going directly.
indirect object---arm goes out but in a wavy manner----going indirectly.
object of preposition----move hands away from each other since this is our long one.
possessive---give yourself a big hug.
Math: To the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
One foot equals 12 inches, 12 inches, 12 inches
One foot equals 12 inches
12 inches in a foot.
Geography: longest name is the smallest country----Luxembourg, shortest name is the largest country---USSR (former). Luxembourg is like a flea on Belgium. Ireland (think of being on the beach there ironing "iron land").
Time line: we went over the hand motions.
Fine arts: great painting again today playing with texture like Morisot!! This was our last week of great artists, I know everyone really enjoyed these projects! I am sure we will have lots of fun starting next week learning about composers and orchestra.
Science: Hand gestures: using a sign language "a" for "action", bring the other hand with an "a" together to be our equal and then for opposite have your "a" hands go away from each other.
Science lab: We got to see how force effected such things as playing tug of war, and throwing a ball at someone who is sitting on a skateboard. When two balls are dropped into our hands of the same size, but of different mass (i.e. a wiffle ball and a tennis ball) we noted that the ball with more mass felt different landing in our hands.
Well, believe it or not, we are half way through the second semester!! It is really flying by! I hope everyone has a great week and I look forward to seeing you all again next Tuesday!!
Blessings,
Stacey
Here is a review of what we did today:
History: We acted out the sentence and sang the song.
Latin: Song. We tried to get creative by having half the class go and the other half come in a little later. I think it sounded good LOL
English: Hand gestures
subject----like a submarine, one hand goes under the other.
direct object (remember there are 3 objects)--are goes straight out like you are going directly.
indirect object---arm goes out but in a wavy manner----going indirectly.
object of preposition----move hands away from each other since this is our long one.
possessive---give yourself a big hug.
Math: To the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
One foot equals 12 inches, 12 inches, 12 inches
One foot equals 12 inches
12 inches in a foot.
Geography: longest name is the smallest country----Luxembourg, shortest name is the largest country---USSR (former). Luxembourg is like a flea on Belgium. Ireland (think of being on the beach there ironing "iron land").
Time line: we went over the hand motions.
Fine arts: great painting again today playing with texture like Morisot!! This was our last week of great artists, I know everyone really enjoyed these projects! I am sure we will have lots of fun starting next week learning about composers and orchestra.
Science: Hand gestures: using a sign language "a" for "action", bring the other hand with an "a" together to be our equal and then for opposite have your "a" hands go away from each other.
Science lab: We got to see how force effected such things as playing tug of war, and throwing a ball at someone who is sitting on a skateboard. When two balls are dropped into our hands of the same size, but of different mass (i.e. a wiffle ball and a tennis ball) we noted that the ball with more mass felt different landing in our hands.
Well, believe it or not, we are half way through the second semester!! It is really flying by! I hope everyone has a great week and I look forward to seeing you all again next Tuesday!!
Blessings,
Stacey
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