Jarrett started 4th grade on August 29th. He also gets up at 5am on Mondays to get to class by 8:45. It is amazing that he never complains about getting up so early. I know he is very excited to be in the Essentials class for the first time.
Jarrett is in his 5th year of Classical Conversations. He has Foundations class from 9am-noon. During these hours he goes over memory work for history, timeline, science, math, Latin, geography, English, do a science experiment, fine arts, and hopefully play some review games. There is an emphasizes on memorization of facts to train the brain to retain information. I will give you an example of this weeks memorization.
Timeline: Age Ancient Empires, Creation and the Fall, The Flood and the Tower of Babel, Mesopotamia and Sumer, Egyptians, Indus River Valley Civilization, Minoans and Mycenaeans
History Sentence: Tell me about Charlemagne. In 800 AD, during the medieval period, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor of Europe.
Geography: Continents/Oceans Continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica Oceans: Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific
English: 8 Part of Speech noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, adjective
Latin: 1st Conjugation Endings Present Tense Singular: o~(I) s~(you)~t~(he,she,it) Plural: mus~(we) tis~(you) nt~(they)
Math: Skip count the 1s and 2s skip count the 2s up to number 24
Science: What are seven types of biomes? Grasslands, deserts, scrublands, tundra, deciduous forests, coniferous forests, and tropical rain forests
These are the hands on classes:
Science Experiments: from VanCleave Science book usually 2 experiments are done
Fine Arts: Drawing basic shapes-----OiLS
Lunch/Recess from noon-1pm
He attends Essentials class from 1-3pm on Mondays. He will learn English grammar, writing, and play math games.
He will learn different material each week for 24 weeks. He only attends class once a week and then I go over everything he learned Tuesday-Friday.
Here are the subjects he will study at home this year:
- Math-Math U See (Delta & Epsilon)
- Grammar- Essentials of the English Language (Classical Conversations), Our Mother Tongue and Junior Analytical Grammar in the summer
- Writing- IEW History Based Writing Lessons and Teaching Structure and Style
- Handwriting-from Classical Conversations
- Spelling- Spelling Plus (spelling rules)
- History- Veritas Press self-paced online program (New Testament, Greece, and Rome)
- Reading- various books
- Presentations- a different topic each week (Classical Conversations)
- Vocabulary- from Classical Roots
- Memory Work- Classical Conversations
My goal is to read more history books aloud this year. I enjoy reading to my children, but sometimes it is hard to fit it in.
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