Summer Preparations

Starting with the challenge levels, students do have work to finish in the summer to prepare for their fall schedule. Thankfully, the Challenge A summer workload is fairly simple!

1. Memorize the following chart for Latin:
nominative  = subject
genitive = possessive
dative = indirect object
accusative = direct object
ablative = object of the preposition

The order above is extremely important. These five cases are ALWAYS listed in this order. Please review with your student so they understand what each of these items signifies. (example: can they find the direct object in a sentence, the subject, the object of the preposition?) We will review this on week one, but it will help if they already understand a bit.

2. Read Lesson 1 in the Latin purple book and rules #1, #6-33, and #1018 in the Latin blue book.

3. Review the fifty states and their capitals.

4. Think about your favorite place in the world. It might be a favorite vacation spot, a place in your backyard, or somewhere you visited on a missions trip. Try to gather a couple of pictures or items from that place. You will be giving a short presentation on this place in week 4. We'll go over in class what this presentation will look like.

5. Read the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Optional: with your parent, work on filling out a story chart (look in links list on the right side of this page for a story chart form). Even if you have read this book earlier in your life, please read it again before the first class :) If you really love reading and want to get a jump start on our other book we will be discussing in August, read Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. Or if you really, really love reading, go ahead and read all of the Challenge A literature!! Then when you read them during the year, it will be more of a review.

6. Complete one lesson from your 2016-2017 math curriculum. On week one, bring in one of the problems from that lesson that was difficult for you or one that you couldn't solve. If you thought all the problems were easy peasy, then just bring in a problem from an older sibling's math book that you don't understand :)

7. Read pages 210-215 in the Challenge A guide and answer all the autobiography questions! We will use this on the first day to get to know one another better :) You will receive the guide later in July 2017.

8. Peruse the sciencebuddies.org website section on science fair project ideas. You don't have to pick an idea until November, but at least look through and see all of the possibilities. Our campus science fair is in late January 2018.



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