Presentations
I am tutoring a Journeyman/Masters level class of kids and most of them have gone to CC since kindergarten or pre-school. They are used to giving presentations and now they are ready to refine some skills this year. This week we are going to look at this short TED Talk given by a 12 year old. He uses an outline and has clear opening and closing statements.
In class each student will get 3 minutes to talk. Since we do not need to work on eye contact, volume, or being nervous about presenting with any of them, I would like for them to work toward filling the whole 3 minutes, using at outline if needed, and developing short opening and closing statements.
Science Experiment
We have some fun experiments this week. We get to figure out how spiders use their webs and why fish float when they're dead. I'm looking forward to hearing what kind of hypotheses the kids come up with. As a musician I LOVE this spider video.
Art
We are looking at mirror images in art this week. I am trying to keep our art biology related this cycle. We will look at the mirror image/symmetry of leaves this week. Last week we designed our leaves using basic elements of art.
Blobbing/Geography
We are going to add the tropics to our geography blob maps this week! Here is exactly how to do it.
New Grammar
My favorite ideas for the week
Science
English - Prepositions
For History and Latin look back to week ones post. You can click the Classical Conversations label on the right to find posts specific to CC.
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