History Highlights Q&A Week 20

History Highlights Q&A Week 20

Name  _______________________

1.  What is the current number of associate justices?  

2.  Who gets to nominate the justices and who needs to consent?

3.  The ___________Court is the highest judicial body in the nation.  

4.  T or F  Segregation was a policy, and in some cases a law, which kept black and white people from associating with each other in our society.

5.  Laws based on __________ were passed to determine which schools children could attend.

6.  Which Amendment is violated by racial segregation?

7.  T or F It was a smooth easy change after the courts ruled that segregation was unconstitutional.  

Answers
1.  8
2.  The president chooses them and the congress consents.
3.  Supreme
4.  T
5.  Race
6.  14th
7.  False

History Highligts Q&A Week 19

History Highlights Q&A Week 19 pdf.

Name  _______________________

1.  What does NATO stand for?

2.  How many nations signed the treaty?

3.  Who was President when the NATO treaty was signed?

4.  What country is Winston Churchill from?

5.  What term was used to describe how the Russians were isolating smaller European countries from the West?

6.  T or F Only countries in Europe signed the treaty.

7.  Can you name 4 of the countries that signed the treaty?

8.  Where is the headquarters of NATO?

9.  T or False The NATO treaty states that, “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.



Answers
1.  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2.  Twelve Nations signed the treaty.
3.  Truman
4.  England
5.  Iron Curtain
6.  F
7.  Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, England and the U.S.
8.  Brussels, Belgium
9.  T

How To Make an Eight Page Book Out of a Single Sheet of Paper

How To Make an Eight Page Book

Out of a Single Sheet of Paper

I found this tonight and can't wait to use these with my kids!

Classical Conversation Week 19 Supplements

We had a busy week so the supplements are a little sparse.   


History
Go to Half a Hundred Acre Woods for some History ideas


English Grammar
Subject Predicate worksheet free
Simple Subject and Predicate worksheet
More Subject and Predicate Worksheets
Subject and Predicate Online Game
More Subject and Predicate online games
School House Rocks Grammar- Predicates and Subject




Geography
Historic Trails of the West Reading
Wild Detectives: Gila Monster

Tour of the Mormon Trail - youtube video

The Oregon Trail landmarks and photos

Science

Probability Worksheet

Orchestra
Peter and the Wolf- thanks to (http://www.wisdomandrighteousness.com/)
Peter and the Wolf by Sergie Prokofiev
Zin! Zin! Zin A violin by Lloyd Moss
Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes
I Know A Shy Fellow Who Swallowed A Cello by Barbara S. Garriel
New York Philharmonic Kidzone- a fun website to explore different musical instruments
The Jazz Fly by Matthew Gollub
Children of the Storm, Carr.
Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel, Marrin
Collapse of Communism (Witness to History)   

Speech Therapy 101 Session 3

Here is what was covered at speech this week.

They played a game that I think (possibly)   is in the book called "Focus on Fluency".  The game consists of different circles that have different kinds of speech....ie.  baby speech, creepy speech, squeaky speech, whispered speech, high speech, rough speech, smooth, fast, silly, low, mean, bumpy, loud...you roll the dice and whatever you land on that is the kind of speech you use.

The homework that we have this week
1.  Say "p" as fast as you can (more like PUH)
2.  Say "t" as fast as you can (more like tuh)
3.  Say "n" as fast as you can (more like nuh)
4.  Say "pt" as fast as you can( PUH-TUH)
5.  Say "tk" as fast as you can(TUH-KUH)
6.  Say buttercup as fast as you can
The therapist explained that each of these sounds are made in a different part of your mouth, the front, middle and back.  The word buttercup includes all three areas.

We are increasing the gum chewing to 2 minutes on each side.  She encouraged us to do the exercise then spit the gum out and brush teeth.  We are also going to continue the exercises from session 1.  

Speech Therapy 101 Session 2 Chew that gum

I don't feel like we got our money's worth this week, but I'll share what the therapist reviewed.  She had a diagram of the different parts of the body that are used when we speak.  i.e. the tongue, mouth, brain, voice box and diagram.  Ethan's homework is to learn these parts and their locations (which we already did in our homeschooling).
The second part of the session was aimed at chewing gum.  Apparently, part of the reason some of the sounds my son cannot articulate well,  come from having a weak tongue and lips.  His homework this week is to chew gum on the left side for 30 seconds then using only his tongue move the gum to the right side of his mouth for 30 seconds.  After that he is to practice moving the gum from side to side using only his tongue.  We are also supposed to practice everything we went over in lesson one.  


Other resources I found
The Tongue Story

ee-oo glide

Classical conversations Week 18 Supplements

I can't believe it's week 18 already!  Only 6 weeks to go!  I have mixed feelings, I look forward to our summer material but I know I will also miss spending time with our CC friends!

History
Attack on Pearl Harbor Video Clip the History Channel
Slideshow Of Pearl Harbor
Allied Military Leaders Slideshow
World War II: How Did It Start? this video goes very quick, but the beginning really reiterates the History Highlights.
How did World War I End?
Secrets Of World War I

Geography
River Location Game



Science
Fluorine Video
Neon Video
Sodium Video
Sodium Explosion Video
Magnesium Video

How it's Made Fireworks Video- Fireworks have magnesium them that's how it relates

English Grammar- 
Find the subject worksheet

Jim Davis Garfield Comic strips- the kids can read and scroll through some of his work.


Reading Supplements
D-Day Landings, Platt. 
Pearl Harbor, Krensky. 
Hey, Mac!, McMurdie. 
Hiroshima, Hersey
WWII for Kids, Panchyk
Mercedes & the Chocolate Pilot,Theis Raven
The Good Fight, Ambrose. 
 If I Perish, Ahn Kim. RA: 4-A; R:6-A
Air Raid – Pearl Harbor, Taylor. 
Land of the Morning, McMurdie. 
It Began With a Parachute, Rang. (V)
Jennie’s War-The Home Front in WWII (RR) 
You Wouldn't Want to be a secret agent during World War II by Malam, John

What's so great about the Tuskegee Airmen  Orr, Tamra. Grade 3-4

The doll shop downstairs  McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Grade 2-4

Sky high : the true story of Maggie Gee  Moss, Marissa.  Grade 1-4

Honey Cake By Stuchner

Wind flyers  Johnson, Angela

I'm still scared / written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola

Speech Therapy 101- Our first therapy session

After years of struggling with speech, going thru the public school systems program without any success and praying the issues would just resolve on their own, we finally bit the bullet and hired a highly qualified therapist.

My son struggles with articulation, fluency and some mild stuttering.  

Since I hate to waste money, I will be sharing everything we learn at therapy with everyone in cyber-space, hoping to help other moms and children out there.  

After the evaluation we were told my son has weak lips and tongue....I never would have come up with that myself, but after hearing that it totally made sense.  So the therapist gave us some Oral-Motor Exercises to do at home this week.

1.  First,  get a mirror and open your mouth as wide as possible and close it, making sure there is symmetry in the shape of the mouth.  She told us to do this 5X ( I call this one the Home Alone Face)

2.  Second, smile a big smile, again look in the mirror so that if the child's mouth is not symmetrical so he can adjust it.  (Smile big because we are about to kick some robbers out of our house)

3.  Third, pucker the lips like giving a kiss to a frog. 5X (Those robbers can kiss my tush)

4. Combo- OPEN< CLOSE<SMILE 5X

5.  Here is an extra one that she mentioned 

5.  Combo- OPEN< CLOSE<SMILE<PUCKER 5X

6.  Tongue depressor taps- tap the tip of the tongue against a tongue depressor (I told my son to pretend he is a frog catching a fly, quick and precise)

7.  Tongue depressor with resistance.....Push tongue out of mouth with tongue depressor against lips .  (I told my son to pretend he was tied up by the robbers and the only way to escape is to push the tongue depressor away from his lips)

She also wants my son to drink from straws and make sure his lips form a even seal, I think the larger straws are better.  

She gave me this sheet, which I hung on my fridge called 7 tips for talking to your child 

What we are up to....

Ethan's working on cursive with a little "help" from Noah

Noah is learning to say, "cheese" when we pull out the camera.

Hannah is giving her presentation on this cute book at CC.

Ethan's is giving his presentation on this book about Dragons.  

We get this book every once in a while its pretty funny.

A little additional art to go along with week 17. 

I found this at the library.

Ethan read this to me today to practice reading out load.  

History Highlights Q&A Week 18

History Highlights Q&A Week 18 pdf

Name  _______________________

1. The three main causes of World War II were
A.  the problems left unresolved by __________ ____________
B.  the rise of various _____________________
C.  the desire of these 3 countries for more territory?______________________,______________._____________
2.  True or False  Most American wanted to go to war again.  ______________

3. __________________’s_attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into war on the side of the Allies.
4. What 3 countries did Japan plan to attack?  ___________,_______________and ___________________.  
5.  What mistake did Japan make when they bombed Pearl Harbor?    ___________________________________________
6. Name some of the countries which were Allies of the U.S. _________________________________________


Answers
1.  A.  World War I
B.  dictatorships
C.  Germany, Italy and Japan
2.  False
3. Japan’s
4. America, Thailand and the Phillippines
5.  They left our repair facilities largely undamaged and they didn't destroy the navy base completely which allowed the U.S. to regroup and go to war
6. Great Britain, Canada, India, China, France, the Soviet Union

History Highlights Q&A Week 17

History Highlights Q&A Week 17 pdf

Name  _______________________

1.  Who was President during World War I ?__________________________
2.  True or False  Woodrow Wilson was sneaky, dishonest and tried to trick people?

3.  When World War I broke out how did most Americans feel about it?  ___________________
4.  What was the first major event that happened and turned many Americans against Germany?  _______________
5.  Did President Wilson want to go to war immediately or did he try to make peace with Germany?  ___________________________________________
6. When Wilson was negotiating with Germany, what did he persuaded them to do ?   _________________________________________
7. When the Germans resumed their unrestricted submarine warfare against all merchant ships  including American ships, what did Wilson do?  _________________________________________________________
8.  Who were the German’s plotting  to get to go to war with the U.S. __________________________________
9.  What final event enraged the Americans into declaring war?_____________________________________________________
10.  Did Wilson make the decision to declare war on his own or ask Congress?______________________________________


Answers
1.  Woodrow Wilson
2.  False
3.  Americans wished to remain neutral and stay out of the war.
4.  German U-boats sinking the Lusitania
5.  He tried to negotiate with Germany rather than go to war.
6.  He persuaded them not to allow their submarines to attack neutral passenger ships.  
7.  Wilson immediately broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.
8.  Mexico
9.   The Germans sank 5 American ships.  
10.  He asked Congress.

History Highlights Q&A Week 16

History Highlights Q&A Week 16 pdf

Name  _______________________

1.  What is an immigrant and how can you remember it? _______________________________________________________
2.  What is an emigrant and how can you remember it?  
____________________________________________________
3.  Which two areas did most of the immigrants come from?________________________ and _____________________
4.  What two main reasons did people start to immigrate to the U.S. ?___________________________________________________
5.  Why did the U.S. want the immigrants to come? __________________________________________________
6.  True or False.  During 1820 to 1930,  the largest movement of people in the history of the world occured.  
7.  How did the immigrants get to the U.S.?
_____________________________________
8. Which harbor did most of the immigrants come through to enter the U.S. ?___________________________________
9.  Why did the first and second class ticket holders only get a cursory inspection aboard the ship and not go through Ellis Island?__________________________
10.  What was traveling like for 3rd class passengers?_______________________
11.  What does the term “melting pot” mean?_____________________________

Answers
1. A person who comes into a new country, into starts with the letter i
2.  A person who leaves a country, exit also starts with the letter e
3.  Europe and England
4.  Population expansion and improved methods of transportation
5.  Cheap sources of labor and profits
6.  True
7.  On ships
8.  New York
9.   The officials thought is a person could afford the price of the ticket they were not likely to be sick.  
10.  It was crowded, with unsanitary conditions in the bottom of the ship.
11.  The term “melting pot” refers to the different cultures becoming more like each other by coming to the U.S..

History Highlights Q&A Week 15

Back by popular demand :)
History Highlights Q&A PDF

History Highlights Q&A Week 15

Name  _______________________

1.  Which rulers were the Cubans rebelling against? _______________________
2.  What was the name of the battleship that was blown up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba?  _________________
3.  Who blamed the Spanish for blowing up the battleship and encouraging the Americans to go to war?___________
4.  Which branch of the armed forces did Roosevelt work to strengthen?
5.  Roosevelt became impatient with which President and compared him to a chocolate eclair?  ________________
6.  Why did Roosevelt resign from his position as assistant Secretary of the Navy?   _____________
7.  What kinds of jobs did the Rough Riders have before going to war?_____________
8.  Because of this war, Cuba gained independence from ______________.
9.  The U.S. gained additional territories which had belonged to Spain, can you name any of them?___________________________
10.  Who did McKinley chose to be his vice-president running mate in the next election?____________________________

Answers
1.  The Spainish
2.  U.S.S. Maine
3.  The newspapers.
4.  The Navy
5.  President William McKinley
6.  He wanted to go to war and fight.
7.  They were mostly cowboys and former college athletes.
8.  Spain
9.   Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillippines
10.  Theodore Roosevelt

Classical Conversations Week 17 Supplements

History Supplements
The Lusitania - reading
The Lusitania Video documentary
President Woodrow Wilson- video clip
Woodrow WIlson Timeline important dates
Woodrow Wilson Coloring Page


Math
Circles: Radius, Diameter and Circumference- Khan has a beautiful way of explaining math


Science Thanks to Brandie at http://halfahundredacrewood.blogspot.com/
Boron Video
Carbon Video
Nitrogen Video
Oxygen Video




Reading Supplement
War Stories, Dowswell. 
Hero Over Here, Kudlinski. RA:1-6; R:4-6 
A Father’s Promise, Hess. 
Raoul Wallenburg, Linnea. 
After the Dancing Days, Rostkowski. R2-6 
Sergeant York & the Great War, York & Skeyhill. 
When Christmas Comes Again (World War 1, 1917). Gr.4-9 

3 Actions You Can Take Now to Shift your emotional state

3 Actions You Can Take Now to Shift your emotional state

My sister sent me this link today, I thought it was helpful:)