Week in Photos ~ Week 13

Week 13 Overview

Week 13 flew by this past week! Here are some highlights of our learning:

• Octavian, Julius Caesar's nephew, wins over the people, becomes Consul, then transitions to a "princely" role. He was called Rome's "First Citizen" instead of king. His name was also changed to Augustus Caesar.

• The beginning of Christianity, the birth of Jesus, His crucifixion, His resurrection, the end of the Ancient Jewish Nation, and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel and 1 Kings- David was a great king, David sinned, David confessed and was forgiven, why Uzzah died, those who liked David and those who didn't, David's son is killed, God's promise to David, David's son (Solomon) becomes king, Solomon builds God's temple in Jerusalem, Solomon was wise in many things, but not in some things.

• This week, our 3rd graders worked on fractions with some fun games: paper pumpkin pies, fraction pie cards, and using the math fact app.

• Simplifying fractions, equivalent fractions, and comparing fractions

• More than animals in the sea: hurricanes, tsunamis, boats and ships, "crittercams" in the deep sea, tide, currents, tide pools, shipwrecks, sunken treasure, and fishermen.

• We finished Flame Over Tara and we love how it ended! This book was about the spread of Christianity into Erin (Ireland) by Saint Patrick and new Christians discovering what it means to pledge their lives to God in comparison to the beliefs of the Druids and their superstitious beliefs.

• Our 6th grader is learning about the amazing human body in science

• We took a break this week from grammar, spelling, and most of our writing, but we will get back to those in week 14 with some fun Thanksgiving themed activities. Our 3rd graders did write a poem. This was just a rough draft and was done independently. They really did a great job! Reading poetry everyday has helped them understand different kinds of poems, themes, and the importance of word choice.'

• We had a little fun this week playing games on our Thanksgiving write-on activity table cloth, watching Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Charlie Brown Mayflower, going to co-op and the park, and we had Snoopy's Thanksgiving meal (popcorn, pretzels, toast, and jelly beans).

Be sure to check out our Usborne Quicklinks and our Week In Photos!

Usborne Quicklinks ~ Week 13

Check out these extra resources for what we learned this week in history and science:

History: 12,000 Years of World History

Pages
94-95 Living in Ancient Rome, Pompeii, Life of a boy in Roman Britain, Roman waterworks
96-97 Chariot racing, gladiators, the Colosseum
98 Spread of Christianity, the catacombs under the city of Rome

3rd Grade Science: The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans

Pages
36-37 tide, currents, and wind
38-39 how waves wear away rocks and cliffs
40-41 life in tide pools
42-43 hurricanes, tsunamis, and waterspouts
44-45 boats and ships
46-47 crittercams in the deep sea
48-49 shipwrecks and sunken treasure
50-51 fishermen

6th Grade Science: What's Science All About?

Part 2- How do human bodies work?

Website 1- the body and medicines, teeth and eating, micro-organisms and the brain and senses.
Website 2- animated movie about how the human body works

Week In Photos ~ Week 12

This is a teacher's dream!

When they have all finished their reading time long ago,

but you find it so quiet in the car...because they are all reading.

Open House

Why did we not get a photo of our families? Whoops!

Recess sidewalk chalk

Snap chatting before pick-up

They all love this new multiplication card game.

This 3rd grader and the teacher tied FIVE times in a row!

We're so glad to be able to use the church library when we are in need.

Paper pumpkin pies to learn fractions

SOME students (all) are afraid of strange insects.

Surprisingly, the teacher was the one to rescue them.

(Note: the teacher has irrational fears of certain bugs, but not this one)

 Friday's lunch and the rest of the day were a real treat for our 3rd graders!

We have the best parents at the Coleman Academy!

Stepping in while the teacher is camping with the church youth group.

Week 12 Overview

I am so excited that we were able to have our very first Coleman Academy for Girls Open House! Our amazing girls recited Scripture from memory, read papers they wrote about their moms and dads, showed off their notebooks, and played some wonderful piano pieces. Mrs. Dix played some duets with the girls and had positive comments about their growth in reading music and playing. We discovered that pretty much everyone loves brownies!

We had a substitute on Friday (who spoiled the 3rd graders for sure- haha) while our 6th grader and teacher went on a church youth camping trip.

Here are some highlights from week 12 in regard to our studies:

• Ocean animals: whales, sharks, dolphins, rays, deep sea creatures, sea creature migration, Arctic and Antarctic animals, and waves
• Ancient China: Great Wall, Silk Road, terracotta army of Qin Shi Huangdi, Confucius
• Rome: The rise of Julius Caesar, consuls of Rome, Senate of Rome, Caesar fights the Celts, "You're about to cross the Rubicon", Caesar and Cleopatra, "Et tu, Brute?"
• 1 Samuel: Israel's last judge, Saul's struggles as king, David appointed as king, trusting and obeying in God's Word
• Fractions: identifying equivalent fractions
• Multiplication fact memorization x0, x1, x2
• We started practicing our multiplication memorization on an app that can track our progress and adjust practice problems to the quizzes each student takes. We are starting off slow with the easier facts and will work through all the facts. Each student will go at their own pace.
• Our 3rd graders took time to read a variety of genres in their independent reading time this week
• Vocabulary- we are on to lesson 6 with some great words, such as: loathe, meddle, grim, escalate, monstrous, steadfast, agony, inflict, abolish, etc...

A short list this week, but the learning was not short.

We hope you enjoy the photos of the week, coming soon!

Usborne Quicklinks ~ Week 12

Science

3rd grade science

Book: The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans

Pages
20-21 Different kind of sharks
22-23 Different kinds of rays
24-25 Whales
26-27 Dolphins
28-29 Deep sea creatures
30-31 Migration of sea creatures
32-33 Arctic and Antarctic sea life
34-35 Waves and energy in waves


6th grade science

Book: All About Science

Biology- Part 1 What's Life?
Seven life processes, 5 kingdoms, explore a cell, be a medical lab technician, and microbes


History

Book: 12,000 Years of World History

Pages
71-72 Ancient Chinese tomb, street, map, Confucius, and more
73-74 Great Wall, Qin Shi Huangdi, and terracotta warriors
75 Silk road, Han Dynasty, and some of the greatest inventions from Ancient China
92-93 Map of the growth of the Roman Empire, Roman Army, and Roman dress, weapons, and forts

Week In Photos ~ Week 11

Week 11 Overview

What a week! Our 6th grader turned 12 years old on Wednesday and the Coleman Academy for Girls building went under construction for another week. We are happy to report that our walls are finally repaired from the repiping and that turning 12 hasn't changed our sweet girl. Haha!

We look forward to sharing some learning and dessert with everyone this Sunday at Open House. We will begin at 2:00. For now, here's our weekly update after finishing 11 weeks or 55 days of school.

Language Arts

• Flame Over Tara: our new read aloud is all about Saint Patrick traveling to share the Word of God
• Writing: Thank you notes and the beginnings of "thankful" papers
• Grammar: 6th has reviewed and 3rd is taking more time to study identification of subject, verb, and adjectives and to diagram sentences with these parts
• Spelling: 3rd is studying patterns, including ay, oa, and ow
• 3rd grade finished Nancy Drew Book 1
• 6th grade finished Mystery of the Roman Ransom

Bible/History

• Judges and Ruth (Who were the judges? How does Ruth's life show that God provides? What happened when people obeyed God? What happened when they didn't? Where did the judges power come from?): Without God, we can do nothing.
• Aryans control the Indus Valley (modern day Pakistan) 1500-500 BC
• Guatama Buddha founds Buddhism, 563-483 BC
• Mauryan Empire rules India, 321-233 BC
• Period of warring states in China, ca. 500 BC
• Qin Zheng unites China, 221 BC
• Great Wall of China, 221+ BC
• We have finished memorizing Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24! How wonderful!

Mathematics

• 3rd grade: interpreting data on a pictograph and bar graph
• 3rd grade: identifying fractions and what makes a whole
• 6th grade: adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators and unlike denominators

Science

• 6th grade finished their study in the book titled Evolution: The Grand Experiment Vol. 1! This is a great accomplishment since this is a 300 page, large textbook. A lot of time was spent on this book that "challenges one's view on life and demands a verdict".
• 3rd grade continues their study of sea life, including coral reefs, strange deep sea creatures, symbiosis, camouflage and other methods of protection from predators and beneficial methods of predators

Other

• At co-op, 3rd graders studied force, including throwing an egg onto a blanket verses onto the concrete
• 6th grade made a bull whip out of duct tape in backyard ballistics

See you Sunday!

Usborne Quicklinks ~ Week 11

We are excited to start a new Usborne science book, as we continue our study of sea animals. It is titled Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas & Oceans. You will be sure to enjoy our links this week!

Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans

pages
4-5 Mariana Trench, creatures in the depths of the sea, underwater volcanos, continents & oceans
6-7 Unusual looking sea creatures, fish scales, how fish breathe, & swim underwater
8-9 Predators & prey, plankton, humpback whales feeding
10-11 Camouflage of sea creatures
12-13 Coral reefs
14-15 Protection from predators and tricks of predators
16-17 Sea animal relationships (symbiosis)
18-19 Poisonous sea animals


12,000 Years of World History

 pages
80-81 Emperor Asoka, migration of early Aryans, Ancient India, the Mauryan Empire, the beginnings of Hinduism and Buddhism,