Classical Conversations

We have joined a group called Classical Conversations which encourages learning by the classical process of grammar, dialectic and rhetoric. We are learning the peaks of the timeline of the world, American History, American Geography, basic English grammar, Latin, skip counting math, science experiments through the Scientific Method, art and music on Wednesday mornings. Hannah loves it and even does the individual presentations that they are asked to do each week.


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Advertising

Hannah has asked about how advertising works and has tried her hand at it in different ways. This time, her Sunday School class is taking on a service project. They are collecting new or gently used pillowcases to be made into dresses. The organization is "Dress A Girl Around the World." Today, she got to stand up with her Sunday School teacher as they announced the project to the Women's Tuesday morning Bible study using her poster.

Mono prints

For our Park Academy summer birthday cards, we made sand dollar mono prints.

Homeschool links

LInk for cursive writing:

http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/cursive/paragraph/index.html

A Snail Finds A Home

While walking Alyssa to school, we came upon a snail. On our way back, Hannah decided that it needed a new home. So today, we learned all we could about garden snails. His/her name is Hannah Lynne Jaffe.

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Candyland

Driving home from dropping Alyssa at preschool, Hannah was chattering away about what she wanted to do for the morning. Halfway listening to her, I heard her talking about Candyland and the new way she wanted to play the game. She sounded to matter-of-fact and grown up and was saying something about making the colors count for something and I patiently waited too see if she could come up with the word "value". She did. I finally heard what she was saying and laughed at myself as I realized that she had just created our math assignment for the day.

Based on the Cuisenair Rods we often use for Math, she gave the tiles of the board the same value. The pink ones would only get one point. Hannah who likes to be in charge, was in charge of keeping the score. We played until someone made it to 100. Hannah won with a score of 108 while I had 89.

And we never did make it to the candy castle!

Hannah's Art