Week 2

Hi Everyone!

Today in class we welcomed our new assistant mentor -- Philosopher Suzanne.  We also had an unexpected guest, Deborah, who is an exchange student from Brazil who got to come hang out with us as her school was closed for the day.

We shared some fun math patterns -- "times 9's" and the hypotenuse of a right isosceles triangle is always the length of one of the other two sides times the square root of 2.

We also did our first really in depth document study.  It was a bit of a slog, but we managed to figure out what Immanuel Kant was saying and we learned that we can do it!  The snacks were a bonus, too!


How is your reading coming?  Don't forget, Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is due for our next class.  We're also going to be doing a simulation.

HOMEWORK:

CORE BOOK:  Minimum of 5 each week.  Spend at least 10 minutes each time you study your core book.  You want to work up to at least 20-30 minutes of study each day.

MATH LESSONS:  Minimum of 4 each week.

LOG BOOKING:  Continue writing in your Log Book.  This semester, you can start using a commonplace book to record your impressions, patterns, feelings, quotations, principles, questions, essays, I wonders, experiments, ideas, etc.  You should be spending a minimum of 10 minutes per day, 4 days per week writing in your logbook/commonplace book.  This is separate from the writing you will be doing during your core book studies and the essays that we will be doing on our document studies.

PATTERNS/I WONDERS:  Continue looking for patterns and I wonders to share at the beginning of class each week.  Remember to log them, too.

GOAL WORKSHEETS:  Complete your Goal and School Tips worksheet.  GET IT SIGNED by a parent.  It was due last Thursday.

DOCUMENT STUDY:  Finish up reading thru and understanding the last paragraph that we didn't get a chance to finish in class.

BOOK:  Finish reading Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.  It’s due on Feb. 4th.

PROJECT:  Have you given any thought to your project for this semester?  You have until Feb. 11th to decide what "problem" you want to do your project on.

See you all on Thursday!

Week 1 -- Second Semester

Hi Everyone!

How’s it going on your homework this week?  In case you missed it, here’s a recap of what you should be working on…

CORE BOOK:  Continue reading and annotating your core book.  Minimum of 5 each week this semester.  Remember, it doesn’t count unless you write down at least one equation and write at least one other thing — summary, ah-ha’s, definitions, importance & meanings, personal commentary, patterns, I wonders, etc…

MATH LESSONS:  Continue working on  your math lessons.  Minimum of 4 each week this semester. (John, I know I have your math.  Maybe brush up on your math facts until Thursday??  Review order of operations and manipulating equations — play Dragon Box??)

LOG BOOKING:  Continue writing in your Log Book.  This semester, you can start using a commonplace book to record your impressions, patterns, feelings, quotations, principles, questions, essays, I wonders, experiments, ideas, etc.  You should be spending a minimum of 10 minutes per day, 4 days per week writing in your logbook/commonplace book.  This is separate from the writing you will be doing during your core book studies and the essays that we will be doing on our document studies.

PATTERNS/I WONDERS:  Continue looking for patterns and I wonders to share at the beginning of class each week.  Remember to log them, too.

GOAL WORKSHEETS:  Complete your Goal and School Tips worksheet.  GET IT SIGNED by a parent.  It’s due on Thursday.

DOCUMENT STUDY:  Prepare for our document study on Immanuel Kant’s “Judgments”.  Please read all the way through it.  Please look up any words you don’t know and write the definitions on the document paper or in your commonplace book or separate piece of paper.

BOOK:  Get started reading Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.  It’s due on Feb. 4th.

PROJECT:  Have you given any thought to your project for this semester?  Remember, we’re using the Inteligro Method this time, so you need to work on solving a problem.  I can’t remember what the deadline was that I set in class last week for having chosen the problem you want to work on.  So, let’s make it Feb. 11th.

This week in class, we’ll get to welcome Mad Scientist/Philosopher Suzanne Shumaker as an assistant mentor to our class.  We’ll also get to munch on tasty things while we’re really digging into our document study. 

See you all on Thursday!
~Logical Lisa