So we had our year end facilitation for Josh today (Noah's is June 4). 

I'll just cut and paste what I gave her and of course Josh ran everything he did through her. 

All in all it was a great year!

Facilitator Meeting

Joshua Desrosiers

November 11, 2008 - May 19, 2009

Reading: 

Literary World Project completed November 30, 2008 (A Ranger’s Apprentice Series), A Door Within Series – Rise of the Wyrm Lord, A Spell Behind Bars, Lightening Thief Series (The Lightening Thief, The Sea of Monsters, Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian), WW I My Stories Series (Flying Ace, Battle of Britain, D-Day, The Trenches), The 39 Clues Series (1,2 and 3 and will read the 4^th one), H.I.V.E., Josh keeps a Book Log on his computer.  The Fallacy Detective and Information Right or Wrong, Homeschool Sharing Showcase (The Fallacy Detective) (public speaking)

Writing: 

Bravewriter Dictation Notebook (see writing samples), Moving from copywork (Titan’s Curse) to dictation (The Battle of the Labyrinth) and freewriting (Bionicle Mix Up), Research - Study Starters – Vehicle, Instructions – How to Play Wii, Bionicle Mix Up freewrite story (Scribbler), Cursive practice (Spell Behind Bars, 39 Clues Book 1), Song Lyrics Copywork, H.I.V.E. Copywork, Newspaper Ad: Robo Sock Monkeys, Spelling Games: Huggermugger and Quiddler.

Math:  Was at 92% grade level in November, Topics covered since November include Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Geometry, Statistics and Probability, Graphing, Equations & Inequalities (Pre-Algebra), Units of Measure, Metric System, Powers and Exponents, Square Roots, The Pythagorean Theorem, Working with Negatives, Adding and Subtracting Negatives and Multiplying and Dividing Negatives.  Lessons: 85%, Quizzes: 89% Overall Mark: 87%

Science: 

Dissection Class; Apologia General Science Chapters 1-9:  History of Science, Scientific Inquiry, How to Analyze and Interpret Experiments, Science, Applied Science and Technology, The History of Life (Archaeology, Geology and Paleontolgy), Foundations of Geology, The Fossil Record, Uniformitariansm and Catastrophism, Classifying Life.  Scientists Study Notes and Test for Module 1 Matching Scientists to descriptions.  Module 3 Test, Other chapter tests done orally, Mad Scientist Day – Chemistry and Planet Earth

Geography and History:

Greece (Art, Olympics, Democracy, Cooking Greek Food), Reading and Discussion: Great Explorers and Explorers Who Got Lost, WW II reading, You Wouldn’t Want to be A Series…, Canadian History Tellers class and DVD review, Horrible History Series

Phys Ed:  kayaking lessons, lazer tag, swimming, homeschool hockey, skating, paintball and biking

Art: finished painting dragon from dragonolgy exhibit, ceramics, mask making,

Other:  Planned Spontaneity Box, helping Dad teach Lego classes, Science Center field trip, Bernard Callebaut Chocolate Tour field trip, Working for Doug (cattle management), Tracking Bank Balance (Excel), Computer Programs <1701 A.D. Age of Empires, Lord of the Rings, Battlefield 2, Flight Simulator>, Typing, Tuesday Teatime, Camp Little Red Horse Camp and Horse workmanship

General Comments:

I feel this year has been a successful year for Joshua.  His reading ability and love for reading allows him to read on a variety of topics and interests as well as for information and enjoyment.  He is able to discuss what he reads with others and openly gives and receives recommendations to and from others. 

Joshua’s writing showed much improvement this year in both quality and speed but mostly in quantity!  It could still show more improvement with continued focus next year.  Josh completed a variety of writing assignments and is not as reluctant to write as he once was.

Josh was VERY successful in his Math this year not only completing the entire curriculum but in achieving very good marks in understanding what he was doing.  His recall of basic facts could still use some work but moving to a calculator has aided in much quicker understanding of concepts rather than being bogged down by calculations.

Josh has completed the Apologia General Science and I feel he has a good understanding of basic scientific principles.  He also enjoyed the Dissection, Chemistry and Planet Earth classes he took.

Josh has an excellent and extensive grasp of history!  He loves to read about anything history especially if it involves humor.  Josh could use some review of Geography which we will do next year.

Josh enjoyed a variety of physical activities this year as well as some great Art classes!  Josh has had a great year and looks forward to paint balling and doing some horse workmanship this summer. 

Next year will include a focus on writing and geography and continuing on with his other studies as interests indicate. 

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Posted by Jill

Yah!! Your year is done!!! We have finished our final facilitation and all Owen needs to do is hand in one more thing on grammer!!! whoohooo Sarah is a trooper and is in the home stretch with her stuff and is almost done....I hate high school!! Have I said that lately?
hugs
Jill

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