Geometry Week 10

Yesterday’s class was fun. We added ASA and AAS to our list of shortcuts to proving triangles congruent. We also expanded our proofs to add CPCTC, to use the parts of a congruent triangle to prove more parts of a triangle congruent. Later we will use this to prove other things, like that lines are parallel, and more. We did many proofs together. We covered sections 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6. The assignment for 4.5 is all proofs. There is no review for that day. There is plenty of review on section 4.6. Proofs are getting more straight forward, since we have to prove each part of the shortcut. That helps us have a better strategy. We finished Unit 4, but will not have the test until next week. I have started to prepare for Unit 5. Here is the quizlet link for the Postulate/Theorems/ and Terms. They can start writing them in their postulate book if they want.

We did a construction on section 4.4 here is a link to help you with it. 

Here are the videos:

Geometry Week 9

Class was so fun today. Everyone is feeling comfortable to talk, ask questions, and work together. The students worked ahead on their work. I did examples from their homework, but they didn’t want to stop. They kept working on the other homework problems. That tells me that they want to get it done, and understand the concept. We did 2 constructions and they didn’t need me to explain it to them. They just did it. I supervised to see that they were doing it correctly. We copied a triangle and then did the SSS construction. These were very similar to each other

We started a new unit, Unit 4, today much of the time was spend on the basic grammar (terms) of triangles. Then we started the basic proofs for triangles. These proofs will be more straightforward than previous chapters.

Today I handed out a tri-fold page for the notes sheet on 4.1. They filled it out as we went. This kept this sections notes confined to one page.

 

Below are the videos for today's class. Here are all the videos for Unit 4.

Geometry Week 8

Ten weeks ago, I started a Geometry class in my home. I teach my daughter and 4 other students. I have been posting my class videos on the Geometry page. This morning I decided that I have not posted on my blog in a very long time. I will be putting the recaps of each class here as a post and include the video also. Here is  yesterday's class overview.

Class went well, but we missed ??? today. I hope he is well. I got a consensus today that “Proofs Are Hard”. They are a new way of thinking for most. Today I walked them through the planning stage. We discussed methods to start making a plan. Here is what we talked about:
1. Mark your diagram with what you know.
2. Find relationships with the given and what is in the diagram. They noticed that we often use…

•  Vertical angles
•  Transitive
• Corresponding angles

If I could give some advice for proofs, make sure they are going over the postulates and theorems each day. They should read them each day. The first day of a unit when I give the term sheet out, they should write them in their postulate books. You can’t use the reasons if you don’t know what they are. Then each day when they do their homework they should read over them again. Repetition is the way our brains remember.

There is more algebra in the second section today. We have been talking about parallel and perpendicular lines, so we are relating this to the graphs of them.

There will be a test this week. There will be 2 proofs on the test. They are the exact proofs that are on the review. I encouraged them to work hard to do the proofs and struggle with them before they looked at the answers. God brings good out or our struggles, there are lessons in our struggles!

I am so proud of the hard work that everyone is putting into Geometry.  Here is what we covered in class yesterday.

Geomerty

About 5 weeks ago we started a Geometry class here at my house. I teach several home school students about 3 lessons, they go home do the lessons, take a quiz or test, then come back in a week and we do it again. So far I feel it has been working out well. The students do the homework, then look over it for  any mistakes, the parents grade the quizzes and tests. I record the grades for the tests and quizzes for the parents, and give the students points for completing the homework, after seeing that they showed work and did the assignment. The students have access to the videos that we do in class on YouTube, because I record my lecture. Here is the link to videos on the blog, and to the right on the Geometry link.

Challenge A Geography Helps

Drawing the world can be a daunting task. This part of Challenge A intimidated my daughter the most. Most of the time I had to encourage her just to get started and that the map didn't need to be perfect. My goal was that she learn the countries and if drawing skills were improved then that was icing on the cake. As the year went on I found some videos that helped her draw the countries. I will list them below

Canada- The Challenge tutor covered this one in class.
U.S- We purchased the U.S. portion from this website. My daughter thought it was a but childish, but I had to encourage her that she could make it more detailed if she wanted. Be careful that you don't squish out the eastern United States. I folded my paper in half (and also used a large piece of paper) so that I made sure that there was line to keep North Dakota and Texas to the left of it. This gave room for the eastern half.
Central America- The Challenge tutor covered this one in class. My daughter looked at maps to draw the countries
South America- My daughter looked at maps to draw the countries
Europe- We used this video. There is no spoken words. The artist first walked her through several simple shapes. This seemed classical to me. It helped her remember how to draw them later.
Asia- She used this video. The same artist as previously.
Africa- This video is the same man as before.
Australia- I helped her form a plan for this country. Australia has many horizontal and vertical lines making it easy. Your scholar should have so much experience by now, Australia will not be difficult.
Oceania- My daughter looked at the map and did this one all by herself. 

Cycle 2 Latin Memory help

I am a tutor for Classical Conversations. This year is Cycle 2 and Latin is verb conjugations.  For those memorizing them for Memory Masters it could be difficult knowing what Latin conjugations goes with which tenses. Throughout the year I had several places I gathered ways to remember these, so I designed this document to have all in one place. I hope it is helpful for you.

Cycle 2 Latin Memory Helper

Latin Charts & Vocab

My daughter is in Classical Conversations Challange this year and is learning Latin. There are so many charts and vocabulary cards to flip through. There are times of frustrations because of having so much stuff in front of her. We needed to get organized. 

 I have helped her get organized. We have made this chart book. Each of the charts are in paper protectors. In addition to the charts there is a vocab list. We have been practicing the vocab on Quizlet. I have printed them out in both English to Latin and Latin to English. Now while she is doing her assignments she has a quick reference in front of her to help her. Some ideas for you is that you can print blank declension pages to go in the back to practice. Your student then could fill them out with dry erase marker on the paper protector and then check him/herself with charts in the front.  The dry erase then can be erased for another day of practice. I want to share these with you.

Challenge A

Declension Chart

Verb Conjugations 
     First Conjugations
     Second Conjugations
     Third Conjugations
Pronoun Charts 

Challenge B

More Latin Verbs
Conjugation of SUM
First Conjugation Perfect Indicative
First Conjugation Present Subjunctive

Quizlet Vocab List