Man Oh Man

I consider myself to be a very tolerant person, who can see both sides of a story. However, the line stops at pedophiles and I don't mean the 17 year old that has sex with the 16 year old and then has to register as a sex offender. No, I am talking about predatory sex offenders, that have no use whatsoever to this society. In case you have not heard the former defensive coach for the Penn State football program has been arrested on several counts of child rape of young boys. I will not share the grand jury indictment because it is very graphic and disgusting. You can, however find it on Twitter very easily. Before you make an opinion read it. These are not just accusations but results of a three year investigation into the allegations. It is very difficult to read and if you are not disgusted by the time you are done, then I feel sorry for you. To make it worse it appears college officials covered it up, rather than dealing with it properly. I was so disgusted that it just makes me realize how low humanity really is. Society reviles people who abuse animals more than people who abuse children. Society finds it disgusting and abhorrent to torture and abuse a dog, yet child molesters, child abusers, and pedophiles very often get off with a slap on the wrist. Will we never see the error of our ways? Beware for your children these pigs are everywhere. They hide behind the foil of being educated, kind and lovers of children who only want to help them.


Lesson Plans For 11/08/11:

DJ:
Cursive writing
Science: Chemistry, vertebrates test
Reading: The Golden Serpent
Analogies
Persuasive Writing
Reading Comprehension

Caitlin:
Head of the Class: Two cycles
Language Arts: Words ending in ed, word order in sentences
Math: Saxon 1
Science: Clouds
Cursive Writing
Printing Practice
Sight Words: Fill in the blanks

Meet the Elements

Do you remember learning about the elements and The Periodic Table, in school? How much of it do you remember. I do remember a few of them, but in no way could recite them all. DJ is just starting to learn about Matter and the Elements and all that goes with it. The cute song below may help you remember them.

Coming up this week we have our second trip to the nature refuge for volunteer work. That will be on Wednesday. Because DJ is doing book two of The Story of the World, I have picked some extra American history to add in to Social Studies days. We have begun learning about The Constitution. DJ had a writing challenge on the Constitution that will be posted to his blog. I can't share the whole challenge because I got it from Edhelper which you have to pay for. But it is only 20 bucks per year, so it is well worth it. I use it all the time.

Lesson Plans For 11/7/11:

DJ:
Math: Saxon 65 Chapter 46
Writing: Constitution challenge
Social Studies: The Constitution
Reading: Chapters one and two of Darien's Rise

Caitlin:
Head of the Class: Two Cycles
Language Arts: Words ending in ed, and telling sentences
Sight Words: Fill in the blank sentences
Printing Practice: Sight words
Cursive Writing
Social Studies: The Constitution
Math: Saxon 1, and counting pennies

Nothing Exciting Today

I guess all the excitement for the week is over. I have to work tomorrow night, so no lessons tomorrow except grocery shopping. I am in a bit of a mood because someone started some trouble and I am now being asked to forget about it. This is not easy for me, but I will try to be the better person. Oh, and I ran out of printer paper so I can not print any of the extra lessons I wanted to print, grrrrr.

Lesson Plans For 11/3/11:

DJ:
Cursive Writing
Health: The muscular system
Math: Saxon 65 chapter 45
Science: Elements
Language Arts: Commas

Caitlin:
Cursive Writing
Head of the Class: Three cycles
Social Studies: Mayflower Compact
Language Arts: Action words
Math: Saxon 1, telling time
Shape Words: Crossword puzzle
Word Play: Worksheet

Painting Class #3: Turkeys

OK, first off let me explain what you are looking at. I thought we were painting turkeys on glass bottles today. I got my cable communications mixed up with my mom, the teacher, and we were going to draw and then pain the turkeys on paper so we got an idea of how it would look and if it is what we wanted. So that is what we did. Since we are concentrating on learning to blend in one stroke, I saved one of the blending plates to share. I would have taken pictures of them all, but the kids already threw them away. The yellow and purple feathered turkey is mine. I figured since this was a sort of experiment kind of turkey that I would practice strokes taught on the video. It was going great until I got to the face where I practice her fancy leaves and his face looks like a giant pansy, LOL! He also has eyebrows and a vine type mouth. Oh well at least I got the strokes better. DJ is doing well, and I am going to have him start practicing the strokes with a dry brush in the instruction book. That way he can follow the strokes without making a mess, and get a feel for how the stroke should go. That has helped me a lot too. Caitlin is still working on blending and has not moved to strokes yet. But she is having a ball painting and I don't think she much cares about the rules of it all. If you are not familiar with the Donna Dewberry method, you are supposed to be able to load a paintbrush and blend your colors all in one stroke of the brush. If you look at the turkey feathers that are yellow and purple, each feather is one stroke of the paint brush, so you can visualize what I mean.