A Stellar School Day!

A pretty good day in our Homeschooling adventure! This is what we did today.

RELIGION -

• Faith and Life Chapter 19 - The Acceptance of the Father's Love  
• Preparing for Sunday's Mass - At lunch we read Sunday's Gospel as a family and discussed it. We used Scott Hahn's post @ Catholic Notebook as a guide and, of course, we watched the Godspell clip!  
• We also discussed today's reading (Matthew 15:29-37) and the significance of the Loaves and Fishes as a foreshadowing of the Eucharist.
  

MATH - Investigation 4 (Statistics 101 - Data Collection and Surveys) Cool stuff!
There are 5 data gathering assignments - including surveys, quizzes and population samples. This gives Pablo the chance to work with "hands-on" statistics basics -- qualitative and quantitative, closed and open-option surveys, and representative samples. Two of the surveys require collecting and analyzing survey data over time (10 days and 12 days). 
SCIENCE -
pgs. 68, 69 in our science book: Insects by Jean Henri Fabre
Internet research: Fabre's Narbonne Lycosa or Black Bellied Tarantula 
READING -   
PETRONIUS AND THE TWO-FACED JANUS via The Baldwin Project
I found a wonderful resource that organizes a collection of eTexts, links and tools for educators and students 
SearchLit.org 
HISTORY - PETRONIUS AND THE TWO-FACED JANUS via The Baldwin Project

	Augustus Caesar aka Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus  BC 63 - AD 14

LANGUAGE ARTS -  The Witch of Blackbird Pond - study guide pgs 15 and 16    
  VOCABULARY - Wordly Wise; Lesson 9 
  2 BICs 
  POST @ Red Door 
GEOGRAPHY - Review - finding Barbados (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)  
SPANISH  - on-line - para mi (for me) and tiene (it has)  
KEYBOARDING - 32wpm j,f  & 33wpm d,k  
TECHNOLOGY -
Surveys conducive to online communication were distributed via a FB Note
Red Door post with graphics   
P.E. - w/ neighborhood kiddos 
LINK SOURCES:  

• Heritage History  (used for Augustus Caesar) An on-line library that contains hundreds of entertaining and easily-read history books which were written for students and non-specialists many years ago.
• Roman-Empire.net (used for Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ) The Children's Section is fun!
• The Baldwin Project - Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children    (used for PETRONIUS AND THE TWO-FACED JANUS) 
• Fabre's work @ eFabre.net - Welcome to the Amazing World of the Insects / Life of Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (used for Narbonne Lycosa)
• Fabre's work @ The Baldwin Project  (used for Black Bellied Tarantula) 
• Catholic Notebook for reflection on Sunday's readings (used for Scott Hahn's post)
• USCCB NAB online - Book of Matthew; chapter 15   (used for today's Gospel reading)
• Wordly Wise
• Spanish on-line
• Keyboarding