Friday Co-Op Semester 2, January 2015

Semester 2:

(Revised Schedule)

Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30

Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27

Mar. 13, 27

Apr. 10, 17

Break:  

Mar 6 (FAU Spring Break) 

Mar 20 (Palm Beach County Spring Break)

Apr 3 (Easter)

Elementary:

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you are participating in all 3 classes.  Bring a lunch.

Classical Education:  Please arrive at 9 a.m. to help set up!  All hands needed.  

We will be introducing Week 13.  We also have 2 possibly 3 new families joining us!  Please lend a hand to help show them the ropes!  We are spending the majority of our time this semester on Weeks 13-24.  5 minute review each week on Weeks 1-12 to accommodate the new families.  

Mini Toasters:  I'd love to have 3-4 speakers.  Any takers?  2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice.  All about me, My family, History/ Biography,  Book report, you name it.  :)  Goal is to speak at least every other week.

Science Olympiad:  Starting in Full Swing on Friday!  We're all registered for the Competition on May 2, 2015 at FAU in Boca Raton.  Our Team is called Boca Buddies (After our HOPE Homeschoolers 4H Club… seemed easy to remember.)  We still need a few more members to make our team of 12.  Focus group:  Grades 3-5.  Will accept Grades K-2 if we can't get enough older kids.  $20 to compete.  $12 for supplies.  Need to be a member of HOPE, and pay $10 Friday Co-Op Yearly Fee (1/2 price for starting in Semester 2).  We have room for about 4 more kids.  We can have a smaller club… just more fun with a full 12!

http://www.science.fau.edu/scienceolympiad/so_new_002.htm

For New Elementary Families:

Required:  HOPE Membership ($25)

Required:  Friday Co-Op Fee ($10/ year / family if starting in Semester 2)

Classical Education:  K-6 grade.

Classical Conversations iphone / ipad AP preferred method of teaching materials.  Cycle 3.  (About $15)

Purchase Timeline song from Classical Conversations Bookstore. (About $10)

Supply Fee ($12- $1 per class per kid)

They have a ton of helps to teach at home at classicalconversations.com.  I own a ton of them.  Audio CD's, Flash cards, handwriting helps, you name it.  You can make this as big as you want it to be.)

Mini Toasters:  K-5/6 grade.

No materials fee.

Science Olympiad:  K-5 grade.  

$20 Competition Entrance Fee (if you aren't competing, you don't need to pay.)

$12 Supply Fee ($1 per week)

Willing to Teach and help out.

Middle School/ High School:

Shakespeare:  Starting at 10 a.m.   Yes, there is class this week.  Next week, Jan. 16, No class due to the Biology Lab.  

Public Speaking Toastmasters Gavel Club:  

Starting this Friday, January 9th, at the Community Center, from 11:30 am to 1pm.

Additional Details and Updates:

•  Cost of Club Registration, Manuals, Room rental, and End-of-Semester Pizza Party: $30/student

   Cash preferred, or you can make a Check out to Candi or Eugene Lehenbauer.

•  HOPE Membership is not required for this club.

•  Friday Co-Op Fee is not required for this club.

•  We have a new teacher joining us along with Mr. Lehenbauer.  Mr. Davis is a homeschool Dad, who held his own Speaking Club a few years ago.  He will be there with his two daughters, and a few friends to add to our club.  It will be a great opportunity to learn from these two veteran Toastmasters.  •  Class will be held on all the dates listed above, for 12 classes.  If you are unable to attend, due to a Biology lab, or another important reason ;), you'll just miss that day.  Please sign up to do your speeches on days that you can attend. 

*  Work on developing your Leadership and Public Speaking Skills, while working to earn credit toward a Toastmasters International award.  (All certifications earned can be transferred to a Toastmasters Group when 18yrs. old.)

Come join the Gavel Club!

Friday Co-Op Elementary Science Olympiad

Boca Buddies now has a new website:  Visit bocabuddies.weebly.com

Friday Co-Op 2014–15
Elementary Science Olympiad K–5
Corresponds to Classical Conversations Cycle 3

Competition Dates: FAU - May 2, 2015  (They now have one close to us!  No trip to Orlando on May 9th!) Register Team Prior to March 15

GOAL:  REGISTER TEAM BY MID–OCTOBER
              (Possible Training for 2 Mentors?  Unknown location and dates.)
              12 Students.  Goal Grades 3–5.  Will use younger if needed or very willing.

GOAL:  CHOOSE YOUR EVENTS BY FEBRUARY
              See which events children respond to the most.  Assign teams and individuals so they can
              be preparing at home also.


Semester 1:  (Meeting Every Other Week)
CC:  Weeks 1-12  Human Anatomy

Weeks 1     No Class
Week 2       A is for Anatomy:  Skeletal, Muscular
Week 3       No Class
Week 4       A is for Anatomy:  Digestive, Nervous, Sensory
Week 5       No Class
Week 6       Solid, Liquids, or Gas
Week 7       No Class
Week 8       A is for Anatomy:  Urinary, Circulatory
Week 9       No Class
Week 10     A is for Anatomy:  Endocrine, Respiratory
Week 11     No Class
Week 12     Solid, Liquids, or Gas
Break          Bridge Building
                   (Can visit the Bridge Building Competition at South Florida Fair Grounds as a family.  Usually first or 2nd Week in December.)
FYI:  Last Year's Bridge Building Information for Middle/High School:
I just wanted to put out a quick reminder that the bridges are due for certification on Dec. 10 (Tues) between 1 and 5 pm at  the South Florida Fair Grounds. For those of you that are not familiar with the location, it is just off of Southern Blvd. east of 441, in Palm Beach County. If you are headed north on 441, turn right onto Southern Blvd., and when you see the sign for the fair grounds, turn left.  It will be through one of the gates.  The actual testing takes place the next day, starting at 9 am at the same location.

Semester 2:  (Meeting Every Week)
CC:  Weeks 13–18  Chemistry
CC:  Weeks 19–24  Science Theories

Week 13     Egg Drop
Week 14     Mystery Packaging
Week 15     Estimania  (CC Science Lab Appendix for Cycle 3)
Week 16     Mystery Powders
Week 17     Mystery Powders
Week 18     Mystery Powders
Week 19     Starry, Starry Night
Week 20     Who Wants To Be A Biologist
Week 21     Rock Hound
Week 22     Rock Hound
Week 23     Energy Lab
Week 24     Fun Time

Official Events:  Teams will receive the rules manual after registering.

2015 Events.

There are some different ones!  Please refer to link.  Not text from 2014.

http://www.science.fau.edu/scienceolympiad/so_new_006.htm

• A is for Anatomy -The event will consist of questions, case studies, pictures or models that will require an understanding of the structure and function of the following systems: skeletal, muscular, digestive, respiratory, circulary, urinary, nervous, sensory, endocrine.
• Bridge Building - This event tests students' ability to build a lengthy, strong, stable, and reproducible bridge from common materials.BUILT ONSITE.
• Egg Drop - A team of two students will construct and bring a package to protect an egg from breaking. The egg is dropped free fall from a high spot selected by the tournament director. This is a PREBUILT EVENT.
• Energy Lab - The objective is to build a reflecting device that most efficiently uses and focuses the energy supplied to a light bulb. This is a PREBUILT EVENT.
• Estimania - Students will be asked to estimate the answers to approximately ten questions requiring an estimate between ten and one million. Students will be provided a sample of the item to be estimated and will be premitted to measure its mass and the total mass of the container that contains all the objects. No calculators will be permitted.
• Mystery Packaging - At the beginning of the event, teams will be given a bag of building materials and instructions for designing and building a package that will protect a given material from a drop. BUILT ONSITE
• Mystery Powders - A team of two contestants will be asked to identify a mixture of common white household powder.
• Pentathlon - Five physical skills are interspersed with science questions in an obstacle course that will be run in a relay race style where each student passes the balloon to the next student. This year, the concepts will focus on those related to the water cycle and weather.
• Rock Hound - Teams will prepare charts, identify various rocks and minerals, and describe their characteristics
• Starry, Starry Night - A team of two students will identify constellations, planets, and other common celestial bodies in our universe.
• Solid, Liquids, or Gas - Teams of two students will test their abilities to classify materials into one of three categories.
• Water Rockets - Students will build and launch a 2-liter plastic bottle for maximum time aloft. This is a PREBUILT EVENT.
• Who Wants To Be A Biologist - Teams will compete in three game show style events that will focus on various aspects of biology and life science.

HELPFUL LINKS:
http://mrsbaileysbrilliantbunch.weebly.com/elementary-science-olympiad.html

Mystery Packaging
http://www.sciencenc.com/event-help/junkyardchallenge.php

Friday Co-Op ART 2014–15

American Art

6 Artists
Artists Game:  5x7 cards.  Print pictures.  Quiz game.

1.  Mary Cassatt
     American Impressionist— 19th Century
     http://www.marycassatt.org/
   
     Class Project:  Tempera paint print
     Great Artists Book
     http://inthesparrowsnest.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/mary-cassatt-tempera-monoprint/

     Class Project:  Oil Pastels / or Chalk Pastels on Copied Picture Outline
     http://teachkidsartappreciation.com/category/mary-cassatt/
     Printout:  Boating Party
     http://www.doverpublications.com/zb/samples/410404/images/410404-021.jpg

The Child's Bath— Mary Cassatt

The Boating Party— Mary Cassatt

Child in a Straw Hat— Mary Cassatt

2.  Winslow Homer
     Realist— 19th Century
     http://www.winslowhomer.org/

     Class Project:  Seascape.  Tempura Paint.  Large heavy drawing paper.  
     http://www.artforsmallhands.com/2011/09/in-style-of-winslow-homer.html

Breezing Up— Winslow Homer

The Fog Warning— Winslow Homer

Snap the Whip— Winslow Homer

3.  John Frederick Peto
     American Trompe–l'oeil— "Fool the Eye" — 19th Century
   
     Class Project:  Make a collage from scraps.  8x10 White Cardboard.
     Next week, Draw it.  Colored Pencil on Drawing Paper.  8x10 Cardboard.

Old Time Card Rack— John Frederick Peto

Take Your Choice— John Frederick Peto

4.  Edward Hopper
     Realist— 20th Century

     Class Project: Colored Pencil on Illustration paper.

Nighthawks—Edward Hopper

Early Sunday Morning— Edward Hopper

The Light House at Two Lights— Edward Hopper

Reproduction details of Early Sunday Morning
http://www.thomasvanstein.net/thomas-van-stein-blog/2012/9/2/negotiating-with-edward-hopper-september-2-2012.html


5.  Louise Nevelson
     Junk Sculpture Assemblage
   
     Class Project: Junk Art Sculpture- Glue.
     Next week- spray paint black.
     Bring my junk sculpture dog.

Mirror-Shadow VII— Louise Nevelson

"Art of the Sixties" print—Louise Nevelson

6.  Norman Rockwell
     Illustration
   
     Class Project: Saturday Evening Post Cover- Everyday Life.

Triple Self Portrait— Norman Rockwell

Marble Champion— Norman Rockwell

Freedom from Want—Norman Rockwell

Friday Co-Op 2014-15

UPDATED LINK for SEMESTER 2
http://candilandflorida.blogspot.com/2015/01/friday-co-op-semester-2-january-2015.html


This is still a work in progress....

Excited to announce that we will be located at the Community Center this year!
Our room is located right next to a playground for our Pre-school aged siblings.  Hoping to take turns watching little ones if it gets distracting.  The room is also big enough that if a mom wanted to do "5 in a row" curriculum, or a little craft, it would be easy to have them there with us over to the side.

12 weeks before Thanksgiving, starting the first week of September.
12 weeks after the first week in January, with a break half way through for a week.


HOPE Homeschoolers
We hope everyone will join HOPE Homeschoolers.  It provides so much more than I can provide on my own for this Friday Co-Op.
www.hopefamilies.com  Who we are.. How and Why to Join.

Community, Directory, Email, Online Meetings, Mom’s Night Out, Field trips, Co-Ops, Clubs,
Promotion/Graduation Night, Used Book Sale.

Classical Education Cycle 3
Classical Education Co-Op using the Classical Conversations Foundations Curriculum
Kindergarten-6

15 min. Announcements
30 min. New Grammar Introduced
30 min. Grammar Review Games
30 min. Art/Sign Language

*Need to purchase curriculum.  See below.
This is a free Co-Op which means you help instead of pay.


Middle / High School
No Fear Shakespeare group being started for Grades 6+ that would meet at the same time as the CC Foundations group.  More info to come later.  A Biology lab review is later in the afternoon.


Toastmasters International
Public Speaking Youth Leadership Program  (Middle/High School)
11:30 a.m. Fridays
We will be hosted by the local chapter of Toastmasters International, which means that this program will be FREE!  It is a community outreach opportunity to them.  My husband will also be working closely with us as a fellow Toastmaster for the last 3 years.

The program works best with about 15-20 participants.

Semester 2:   Gavel Club which is a free version of a real Toastmaster group.  This means that there will be leadership opportunities for the kids.  Thinking of having elections for Semester 1, and Semester 2 to give more the opportunity to try new roles.

Mini Toasters Public Speaking for K–5/6
If we have a large turn out of K-5, I will break them apart and do a separate Oral Report time for them. I have a rubric that I have been using for a few years that is fun and easy to do.


Elementary Science Olympiad
Fun Science Experiments.  Competition at the end of the school year with other schools.

Lunch
Mom's Support Group
Kids Socialization
One of the best reasons to have a Co-Op is so that you don't feel so lost.  Bounce ideas and ask questions of other homeschool moms.  Pack a lunch, or go grab some local fast food (Wendy's is close by.)  Definitely Stay!  This time is vital for you to feel like you are part of the group.


Looking forward to a new and exciting year this fall!  New families, and new opportunities to learn and to grow!

Ms. Candi

Classical Conversations Memory Master Markoff

Print on 8 1/2 x 11 Cardstock

Color in ribbons that they pass off.

So, I needed something to keep the kids motivated to show their progress.  I made this to give out on the last day of each Quarter.  You color in the ones that they achieved Memory Master in.  Hopefully, it will make them want to try harder to actually become a Memory Master at the end of the Year.  It also makes a good progress report for their homeschool portfolio.

I'm going to give the kids 2 chances to get it.  Last day of each Quarter, and 1st day of the next Quarter.  I figure if they're close, they can still try for it.  There really are no official rules, as I made this up myself. The official Memory Master is hard... so giving Quarter and Semester progress reports can show them that they CAN do it!

CC Week 20, Cycle 3

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 4th movement

Focus on this song:
Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 6, 4th movement,


Best of the Russian Romantic Composers

Also a good listen:
Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 4
St.Petersburg Philharmonica Conductor Erol Erdinç





I found the following on www.squidoo.com, and linked Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.

Study the Master of Romantic Music -- Tchaikovsky

Remember the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies? Even if you think you don't, I'mpositive that you do! Listen to this midi file and you'll instantly recognize the tune. That famous piece was written by Tchaikovsky as part of The Nutcracker ballet.

Peter Tchaikovsky lived from 1840 - 1893 and is considered one of the great Romantic composers of Western music. He took passionate and fanciful tales such as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty and set them to beautiful music that was usually performed in ballets. Because most children are familiar with the stories of Tchaikovsky's music, he is a great musician to begin your habit of composer study.

Studying Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky lived during the Romantic period of music. That's after the Baroque and Classical but before Modern music. Romantic music tends to be fanciful, imaginative, and passionate. Composers were beginning to gain fame and the paying audiences that went along with fame. With a broad market for their music, Romantic composers had the freedom to express themselves how they chose instead of catering to the desires of wealthy princes and kings. Up until this time, no one had created fantastical music about fairies and wicked witches! But Tchaikovsky did!

Some of his most famous pieces, and ones that you'll want to include in your study are:

• The Nutcracker Suite
• Swan Lake
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Sleeping Beauty
• the 1812 Overture
• Symphony #6 - the Pathetique
• the Piano Concerto in Bb.

You can find free midi files (listen online or download) at Classical Midi Connection. (I find the site a bit odd. Look for the part that says, "Right-click here and select "save as" to download file, or left-click to play it on your own default MIDI player." That's where you'll actually get to the midi file.)

Or there are a few MP3 files (better quality than midi files) at Encyclomedia. (Please be aware that this site may have some unseemly links on the right hand side.)Karadar Classical Music also has a few free music files. And the BBC offers some selections in both excerpt and full tracks.