US1 High School:
It felt good to have a full week of school in after all of the schedule changes over Christmas and New Year's Eve! It also felt good to be healthy again, as we were sick with the flu after Christmas and New Year's Eve. We were sad to have missed spending precious time with my oldest sister, who came to see us from Texas. That time always goes too fast, but God has a plan for everything, and He had a reason for us to be sick. I do think we grew closer as a family from it, and we also remember to once again thank God for good health! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year's Eve, and that you too are enjoying getting back to the comfort a good school routine brings.
This week in history Wyatt learned about the Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania colonies. He used multiple resources to research answers to his U.S. Map Activities questions and map. I like the meshing of using the globe, the "U.S. History Atlas," the "US1 History Notebook" maps, and information from his various US History living books/resources. It's a good thing he has a table he can spread out on!
For those of you doing previous HOD guides, all of those 'geography' activities the dc do lead up to them being able to do high school level geography activities well independently - so worth the time and effort earlier on to do well!
He also did a Talking Points Narration on Enlightenment, where he prepared an index card with headings/details and gave an oral narration using his notes/narration along with reading and interpreting a quote by Franklin. On another day, he gave a Detailed Narration by listing out topics to include in his written narration, and after reading it to me and editing it as he did, highlighting all of the topic words/headings he included in his written narration. Again, those younger HOD guides' oral and written narration activities all prepared Wyatt well for these higher level narrations he is doing in high school. For Living Library, Wyatt is reading "Ben Franklin's Almanac," and he is loving it! He finds Franklin to be very witty and clever, as well as very quotable. He had no trouble finding quotes he wanted to use for his double-entry journal format assignment.
Wyatt's Common Place Book continues to have lovely pages of quotes added to it each year of high school. He likes to write them in cursive, as he thinks they are special. Many of them are Scriptures, so I find that pretty special too. He also highlights the questions he uses for his prayer time from his prayer starters, and it helps him model his prayers in his Bible Quiet Time after the Lord's Prayer in a personally applicable way...
Wyatt told me just yesterday that he is especially loving his Chemistry this year. Hooray! I was worried about my ability to help him with Chemistry, as it's been awhile since I've done chemistry, and as it was never my thing.
Well, no worries! The textbook is so clear, is also Christian, and is very narrative. It also has a fantastic answer key!
Government is another interesting course Wyatt is taking this year, as is Constitutional Literacy. He is learning to research various Supreme Court rulings, and though it stretches him, he is really enjoying it!
Finally, Foerster's Algebra 2 and R & S English march on. He is doing well in both, though both are difficult and require him to stay on top of what he is learning each day. We both appreciate Chandler's 'help' and schedule of the most important problems to do each day in Algebra, and we also both appreciate HOD's recommendation to do much of R & S English orally/independently, and then write only 1 section...
In Christ,
Julie
