We have gotten quite a bit done in class the past few weeks.
Week 7: We did a book study of "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe".
Week 8: We studied the document - Fragments of Thales. Logical Suzanne also did a short presentation on logical fallacies and we practiced recognizing "red herrings".
Week 9: Science Experiments: This has probably been our most enjoyed week so far. We did a few different experiments. I think that the magnetic "goo" was extremely popular. We also did a logical experiment where we had to figure out how to get water from 4 cups to 3 others without touching the cups. We then made paper airplanes and tried to figure out more effective ways to fold them. Thank you to Josh for bringing his cookies to test. I think we all approved.
Homework for next week:
Document Study: John Tyndall's The Position of Science. Please be prepared to discuss it next week in class.
Reading: The Magician's Nephew, we will be discussing it on March 31st.
Taster's Table: Keep working on making your recipe for the Taster's table.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Remember to keep working our your science project. Keep up the good work!
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
Week 6
In class this week we studied a document entitled Food and Temper written by Julien Offray de Lamettrie. This document discussed Mr. Lamettrie's theory that diet is related to a person's soul and character. We finished up the day by watching a couple of inspiring videos.
Homework for next week:
Reading: Finish our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, we will be discussing it this coming Thursday.
Essay: Why does character matter?
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Document Study: None this week.
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Keep up the hard work. These document studies can be difficult, but learning how to find lines of logic will definitely help you in your current and future studies. Keep up the good work!
Homework for next week:
Reading: Finish our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, we will be discussing it this coming Thursday.
Essay: Why does character matter?
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Document Study: None this week.
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Keep up the hard work. These document studies can be difficult, but learning how to find lines of logic will definitely help you in your current and future studies. Keep up the good work!
Friday, February 19, 2016
Week 5-Mathematical Experiments
In class this week we started out by watching a Studio C video highlighting some of the ideas of Immanuel Kant. We then did some mathematical science experiments. For example, we learned why when 23 people are in a room, there is a 50% chance of two people having the same birthday.
Homework for next week:
Document Study: Please read and study the document Food and Temper by Julien Offray de Lamettrie. Look up any words that you are unfamiliar with. We will be discussing this document next week.
Essay: Those of you that did not complete your essay need to get those turned in next week. If you are wondering what we look for in a good essay, just make sure it is “quality”. (Think about how quality is defined in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".)
Science Project: Start working on your projects. Do some brainstorming and some research. Keep records of both your research as well as your experiments.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Reading: Continue reading our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (due March 3rd)
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Also, if you find any good and/or obvious lines of logic, please feel free to share them in the comments. We can help each other out learning how to find them more effectively.
Homework for next week:
Document Study: Please read and study the document Food and Temper by Julien Offray de Lamettrie. Look up any words that you are unfamiliar with. We will be discussing this document next week.
Essay: Those of you that did not complete your essay need to get those turned in next week. If you are wondering what we look for in a good essay, just make sure it is “quality”. (Think about how quality is defined in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".)
Science Project: Start working on your projects. Do some brainstorming and some research. Keep records of both your research as well as your experiments.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Reading: Continue reading our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (due March 3rd)
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Also, if you find any good and/or obvious lines of logic, please feel free to share them in the comments. We can help each other out learning how to find them more effectively.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Week 4, in which we learn that some philosophers are crazier than others
In class this week we discussed the document entitled Natural Science written by Soren Kierkegaard. It discussed his reasoning why natural science was not a topic worthy of study.
Homework for next week:
Essay: Write an essay answering question #4 for the Kierkegaard document. It's the question about what play was Kierkegaard referencing about Socrates that was written by Aristophanes.
Goal/School Tips Worksheet: SIGNED by mom or dad. (past due)
Science Project: If you have not decided upon a project, please do so ASAP, so you have enough time to complete it by the end of the semester.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Reading: Continue reading our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (due March 3rd)
Homework for next week:
Essay: Write an essay answering question #4 for the Kierkegaard document. It's the question about what play was Kierkegaard referencing about Socrates that was written by Aristophanes.
Goal/School Tips Worksheet: SIGNED by mom or dad. (past due)
Science Project: If you have not decided upon a project, please do so ASAP, so you have enough time to complete it by the end of the semester.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Reading: Continue reading our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (due March 3rd)
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Week 3 - Houston, we have a problem...
In class this week we philosophized about Zen, motorcycles, motorcycle maintenance, quality = truth, education vs. training, and why this was the hardest book most of us had ever read. Then we saved the Apollo 13 mission in our simulation and experienced the importance of focusing and listening to the right voices.
Homework for next week:
Goal/School Tips Worksheet: SIGNED by mom or dad. (past due)
Science Project: What "problem" are you going to use the Inteligro Method to try and solve? DUE THIS WEEK.
Document Study: Read the document by Kierkegaard. Look up any words you don't know.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Reading: Start acquiring/reading our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (due March 3rd)
Homework for next week:
Goal/School Tips Worksheet: SIGNED by mom or dad. (past due)
Science Project: What "problem" are you going to use the Inteligro Method to try and solve? DUE THIS WEEK.
Document Study: Read the document by Kierkegaard. Look up any words you don't know.
Core Book: 5+
Math Lessons: 4+
Log Booking: 10+ minutes, 4+ per week
Patterns & I Wonders: Keep looking for these and bring them to share.
Reading: Start acquiring/reading our next book-- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (due March 3rd)
Thursday, January 28, 2016
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.
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!
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!
Thursday, January 21, 2016
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
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
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