2009 Year in Review

A long but not exhaustive list of our doings and learnings in 2009
Zoe
Music
Achievement in Music Test - Got the highest score you can get
Choir concerts - June, September moved up to Concert Choir
Piano Recitals - April - August - October
Started with new piano teacher - Nov
Mary Poppins musical
Talet show - solffeggeito
Sang and modeled at Asian Festival



Languages
Started Hebrew School
Japanese - moved up to year two college text

Physical Education
Promoted twice in Gymnasics


New
OnlineG3 for Lightening Literature
Continue the Story and Mini-World
First role-playing game

Saw
The Miracle Worker and asked a question of Sean Astin
Star Trek original series and all the movies
Children's Film Festival
Native American Pow Wow
Folkloric Dancers
Shakespeare Festival
Farscape (censored for content)
Firefly (censored for content)


The Language Arts - some of the things she learned with Michael Clay Thompson

Poetry- simile, metaphor, rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, eye, rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, near rhyme, end stopped and end jambed, iamb, trochee, personification, dactyl, anapest, spondee,

The 5 paragraph essay, formal writing, sentence diagramming, mood and tone, show, not tell

Vocabulary - placate, retort, benevolent, importune, tacit, sanguine, mortify, ignominy, verdure, orthodox, ostentatious, inexorable, obsequious, and equivocal.

Latin stems - vita, paterm pop mar, luc, tempor, curr, migr, plu, germ, rupt, junct, amat, stell, tang, clam, medi, grat, trans

Literature - Lightning Lit with OnlineG3
G.K. Chesterton, Issac Singer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathanial Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Gerald Durrell, J.R.R. Tolkien, and lots of poetry

Wrote a book called The Two Stars



Reading - Treasure Island, A Day of Pleasure by Issac Singer, Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Christmas Carol, My family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, The Hobbit, Julie of the Wolves, From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Westing Game, The Moffats, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Swallows and Amazons and Peter Duck, The Name of this book is Secret and If you're reading this its too late, the Percy Jackson series, Anastasia Krupnik, The Children of the Green Knowe, Five Children and It, The Sword Thief, Odd and the Frost Giants, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables


Social Studies
History - Ice Age in the Americas, Inuit, Anasazi, potlatches, Plains indians, The Mound-Builders, The Indians of the Eastern Forests, Iroquois, Vikings in America, Gutenberg's printing press, Christopher Columbus, Zheng He, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Mesoamerica, Conquistadors, Cortez, Aztecs, Incas, Coronado, Queen Elizabeth, Roanoke, Sir, Francis Drake, Protestant and Catholic religion, Martin Luther, Jamestown, Caesar's Rome, Attended seminar on history of Panama and Costa Rica
Culture - Aruba, Panama, Costa Rica, Columbia, Mexico, Australia
Geography - Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, the 50 nifty United States, map skills, Caribbean
Research report on the endangered koala
Traveled through the Panama Canal



Science
Water Cycle, humidity, states of matter, freezing point, boiling point, melting, condensation, evaporation, plant reproductive cycle, developing a hypothesis, measuring data, writing a lab report, the scientific method, chromosomes, DNA, RNA, Ethics in genetic modification,
Critical thinking, energy sources, solar energy, Industrial Revolution, the nervous system - autonomic/somatic, meiosis, eukaryote, prokaryote, four phases of mitosis, passive transport, genetics, solstice and equinox, Brain (and nerves, neurons, sight sound, taste and smell), digestive system, 6 kingdoms, Thomas Edison, extremophiles, types of rocks, mineral identification, crystals, space, photosynthesis, respiratory system, cellular respiration,



Math
Summer Math Academy - Solved Rubix cubes, Origami, base 5, base 2, binary calculator,
Math Center - two math presentations: Fractals and Binary
Singapore Math (decimals, percentages, angles, average and rate, data analysis, geometry, measurement, )
Go Figure,
Life of Fred Beginning Algebra- (numbers and sets, integers, equations, motion and mixture



Technology
Voice Threads, Glogger, Xtimeline, Eluminate, Garage Band

Art
Space, line texture, form,shading, value, local value

Other
Asked the four questions at our Passover Seder
Shooting an air rifle
How to whittle with a knife
How to make soup out of a can
Got a new bicycle
Open Book Festival volunteer
Met Mary Jo a.k.a. Mrs. Puff from Spongebob
Astronaut theme birthday party


Pere:
Was accepted into Notre Dame MBA program
Wrote 5 songs
Learned to bake bread
Won singing competition on cruise
Attended seminar on MBTI
Attended seminar on history of Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica
Successful year at work


Mere:
Hosted niece's graduation party, Passover, Halloween Party, Astronaut theme birthday party
Started writing novel
Painted the castle lavender
Researched Myers Brigg Type Indicator, INTJ, HSP, Dabraowski's theory of Positive Disintegration, Dabrowski's overexcitabilities, Introversion, Gifted Women, Dreams,
Blogged
Attended seminar on MBTI
Attended seminar on history of Panama and Costa Rica
Volunteered as a Wild Thing for the Open Book Festival
Happy year homeschooling Zoe


All of us.
Travels
Florida - Kennedy Space Center, Los Angeles
Shedd Aquarium in Chicago
South Bend Zoo
Tubing down Turkey Creek River
Lake Michigan Beach
Cruise - Arbuba, Cartegena, Columbia, Panama Canal, Panama, Costa Rica, Hayltaco Mexica, Alcapulco Mexico, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - Saw howler monkeys, iguanas, crocodiles and a Coati on Jungle River Raft in Costa Rica
Jet Skied through Lands End in Mexico
Harry Potter exhibit in Chicago
Informal Davidson Gathering in Chicago




Got a baby grand piano
Planted a Hemlock Tree
Finished Zoe's castle