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!