Week behind : October 23-26.

Oh my word, I think I'm starting to get it!

- our eight-year old, excitedly and in reference to a math problem he's been working away on with a bit of frustration. It is exclamations such as these that bring hope and joy to my heart and make it all worthwhile.

Vocabulary

tactless
unprepossessing
prudence
Latin
Amor vincit omnia (Love conquers all)
phobos (fear)
syn (with, together)

repellant
grotesque
fain
modesty
languished
tyrant
enmity
peril

Social Studies

13 colonies geography - colonies, capitals, regions

The Renaissance and what it meant to Europe in terms of technology, ability to explore, and the desire for a better trade and greater wealth

Age of Exploration and the meaning of indigenous. Columbus and his mislabeling of the West Indies, and thus Indians. How about we call people what they want to be called, not what we want to call them?

Science

Earth-moon-sun system

Language Arts & Reading

Romeo and Juliet
Essay writing "Three things of mine"

Poetry

Point-of-view writing - Little Red Riding Hood from the perspective of the Wolf

Bible

Noah and the Ark. The dark side of a children's story.

Math

4-minute drills - multiplication and division (13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
Dividing decimals by decimals (6th)
Arrays and story problems (3rd)

Character

Tolerance

Music

Count Basie
Bela Bartok