On the Fridge
May 22, 2006
Quote of the Week: see post for 5/23. I’m too lazy to type it over!
Latin Phrase of the Week: Caritas Deus est
Spelling Rule of the Week: C = /k/ unless C = /s/ before E, I or Y
Root Word of the Week: PHOTOS
Math of the Week: Formulas for perimeter, area and volume of rectangle and formula for perimeter of triangle.
Science of the Week: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
May 29, 2006 - Memorial Day
Quote of the Week:
Four Things by Henry van Dyke
Four Things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow-man sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.
Word Root of the Week: TELE - far away, distant. television, telephone, telegraph, telephoto, telepathy, telescope, telethon.
Latin of the Week: Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant, (read Quis me amat?)
Spelling Rule of the Week: G usually says /g/ (game, fragment, bag), but G MAY say /j/ only before E, I or Y (germ, giant, gym).
Science of the Week: Becky started telling me about Food Chains which she had learned about from Magic School Bus. So I asked her if she would like to put that On the Fridge for our science category. She was very enthusiastic! So she explained that grass seed was at the bottom of the food chain. Mice ate the seed, snakes ate the mice and eagles eat the snakes. So I drew a picture of this and this is what we have up for science this week.
June 4, 2006
Quote of the Week:
Since this Sunday is Pentecost, I thought the following quote would be appropriate:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galatians 5:22)
Latin Phrase for the Week:
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen (Lingua Angelica)
Spelling Rule of the Week:
A, E, O, U usually say A, E, O, U at the end of a syllable (la-zy, me, go, u-nit).
Word Root of the Week:
GRAPH - to write or draw (Greek) (photograph, phonograph, telegraph, graph, lithograph, graphite, autograph, phonogram, hologram (gram from Greek work gramma meaning letter which comes from graphein.) Ideas: read about Thomas Edison, morse code, make potato block prints (lithograph).
Art - N.C. Wyeth paintings (postcards, also look at The Black Arrow and The Scottish Chiefs books)
Science - something inspired by Thomas Edison perhaps?
Math - a hundreds chart (Becky has been wanting to learn to count to 100 and Sean can use it for subtraction purposes.)
June 12, 2006
Quote - Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires” James 1:19-20
Latin - practice sign of the cross in Latin, take quia quiz. Dictum: Ego sum via et veritas et vita, Johannes XIV:VI
Root - TROPOS - turning (tropics, tropical, phototropic, heliotrope, tropophilous, thermotropism. (review Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn on globe)
Spelling Rule - I and Y usually say /i/ at the end of a syllable (cli-nic, cy-nic) but may say I (li-on, cry).
Math - Pythagorean Theorum - a^2 + b^2 = c^2. Read: What’s Your Angle, Pythagoreaus? (right title???)
Art - N.C. Wyeth postcards. Let’s look at all of them and the kids can pick three they like to put up on the fridge.
Religion - play new Saint Bingo game
June 19, 2006
Quote of the Week - ????? Kids can come up with one?
Latin - Credo in Unum Deum. (I believe in one God) review 1st conjugation (Amo), review sign of the cross, find Minimus!!!!
Spelling - English words do not end in I, U, V or J. At the end of English words Y stand in for I. (find examples)
Root - METRON - (gr.) - measure (meter, geometry, optometry, symmetry, brometer, thermometer, diameter, centimeter, anemometer).
Math - tied to the root word - we’ll measure things. We can also do weather observations. Measure rainfall, make homemade barometer and/or anemometer. (I”d also like to install Quarter Mile Math on the computer)
Language Arts - again tied to the root word - we’ll study meter in poetry and maybe write a haiku or cenquain of our own.
July 3 - July 7
Quote: He must increase; I must decrease.
Latin: review signum crucis, first conjugation chant.
Spelling rule: Silent final e’s. 5 reasons for final silent e. 1)dime (magic e rule) 2)love, true (English words don’t end in U or V) 3)dance, large (silent e softens the C or G) 4)ap ple (every syllable must have a vowel) 5) are (odd job e!).
Word Root - PHOBOS, Greek, means fear (phobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, hydrophobia, phobophobia, zoophobia, toxikophobia, Phobos)
Math - read the story about Archimedes from Mathematicians are People, Too.
August 20th,
I hadn’t realized I was updating On the Fridge. We haven’t been consistent all through the summer at posting but we have done some. Anyway, tomorrow begins a more formal routine for us so I am going to, once again, begin fridgschooling in earnest. So here’s for the week of 8/20:
I am mostly just going to review all previous fridgeschooling items. I think it’ll go Mon. - Latin/Greek roots, Tues. Spelling Rules, Wed. Latin Quotes, Thurs. we’ll discuss quotes and start on our commonplace books, Fri. Latin quotes.
August 28, 2006
Word root - thesis
Quote - A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Latin - felix dies tibi sit, felix dies tibi sit, felix dies care/cara ____, felix dies tibi sit.
Spelling - SH is used at the beginning of a base word (she) end of one (fish), but not at beginning of any other syllable but the first (na-tion) except for suffix -ship.
Grammar - (from How Not to Write; The Essential Misrules of Grammar by William Safire). No sentence fragments!
Math - (for the benefit of Becky and review for Sean) skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
Week of September 4 - 9
Word Root - Kinesis (Greek)
Quote - Prayer by St. Ignatius Loyola: Teach us, good Lord, to serve thee as thou deservest, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do they will. (from PACE).
Latin - Happy Birthday in Latin (same as last week) as well as Ora et labora and Labora omni vincit (from PACE).
Spelling - same as last week, we really didn’t study it well enough.
Grammar - Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read (How Not To Write).
9/11 - 9/15
Word root - Phone - (Gr) Sound
Spelling rule - Ti, ci, si can spell /sh/ at the beginning of any syllable after the first one (nation, facial, tension)
Quote - I have discovered the secret of happiness-it is work, either with the hands or the head - something to do.” John Burroughs
Latin - Pie Jesu, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, don eis requiem, sempiternam.
Grammar - A writer must not shift your point of view
Week of 9/18 - 9/23
Word root - Sonus - Latin - Sound
Spelling rule - contractions (study them with worksheets from Enchantedlearning)
Grammar - Do Not Put Statements in the Negative Form
Quote - Do what you can do and pray for what you cannot. St. Augustine (contributed by Josh).
Hebrew quotes (instead of Latin and in honor of Rosh Hashanah) - Rosh Hanshanah (literally means head of the year); Shanah Tovah (May your year be good and sweet); Shofar - ram’s horn blown on Rosh Hashanah (though this year RH falls on the Sabbath so they won’t blow it.)
Week of 9/25-9/29
Word Root - Skopeo - Greek - look at, inspect, consider, examine
Spelling Rule - 1-1-1 rule - When a one syllable rule ends in one vowel then one consonant, double the last consonant before adding a vowel suffix (get, getting)
Latin quote - Rident stolidi verba Latina. Ovid
Grammar - Don’t use contractions in formal writing.
Quote - The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upona red wheel
barrowglazed with rain
waterbeside the white
chickens.
