09-29-17

SHOW AND TELL Bring a simple machine. (Think egg beater, hammer, or pliers.)   Topic: Machines How machines make our work easier The value is self-reliance, which is confidence in your own ability. For cooking we’ll make orange/banana shakes with our machine....

09-22-17

SHOW AND TELL Bring a small mirror Topic: Physics All things have a “what” and a “how” The value is justice. We’ll work on seeing our values as objectively as justice does. For science we’ll learn about how light bends, how magnetism works, and how energy is...

09-15-17

SHOW AND TELL Bring a thing made from something that came out of a mine or the ground (copper wire, clay brick, asphalt shingle, gypsum sheetrock, etc.). Topic: Geology Understand about how the ground works and how we use materials from it The value is self-reliance,...

09-08-17

SHOW AND TELL Bring something brown. Topic: Prehistoric About an Earth we never knew The value is humility, which means that we don’t boast or brag about ourselves. In the Earth’s history, we’re only a very small part of time. For science we’ll learn about how fossils...

09-01-17

REACHING FOR THE STARS The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; . . . who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, . . .who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and...