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Octavio’s Sixth Graduation Ceremony

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:20:11 +0000

Hello:

Today, we celebrate the end of the Sixth Year of Homeschooling.

Next, of the knowledge and skills that Octavio (9 Years and 2 Months old) has win in the past sixth school year.

PROGRESS – SIXTH SCHOOL YEAR:

- The last school year, Octavio memorized the Apostles Cred in Latin.
- We make a deep review of Ancient and Medieval History. He read several books in Earth Science, Physics and Mechanics.
- In Spelling, he is about to finish Level J. Also, he finished 7 books of language from Critical Thinking including Language Mechanics, Editor in Chief Level 2 and two levels of Word Roots.
- In Latin, he finished Lesson 40 of Visual Latin; Third Year of Elementary Greek and Chapter 11 of The First Hebrew Primer.
- Octavio finished Fifth Grade Math Curriculum by Critical Thinking and made a complete review Mathematics 3er and 4th grade in IXL.com
- He keeps receiving Piano lesson two times, he enjoy it, his teacher gives me good report of his progress.

Here, the video and picture of his Sixth Year Homeschooling’s graduation ceremony.

Octavio in i-Fly Dubai

admin — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:38:45 +0000

New Year, New Abilities: Wall Climbing

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:31:52 +0000

Happy New Year 2013

admin — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:28:33 +0000

May the Lord bless you this New Year 2013

In The Hall of The Mountain King

admin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:42:44 +0000

Octavio’s performance in a Piano Party where he was invited. It was his first public performance. He did pretty good. He was confident and eager to play.

Note: The edition’s mask is to be respecful with the local customs. This party was a only-ladies party.

The Actuarial Fundation-Youth Program

admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:43:31 +0000

The Actuarial Fundation-Youth Program offers several math books to help children develop math skills. The Student’s Books and Teacher Guides can be downloading for Free in PDF format. Also, they can be order in print for a small donation of about $ 2.50 per book.

Check the whole list of materials. For grades 4 to 8 they have books in topics as Probability, Conversion, Algebra, etc. For higher grades 9 to 12, there is a nice collection call Building Your Future Financial Literacy Curriculum Resource, its cover Financing, Banking and Investing.

If you download the books in PDF, please, consider give a donation.

Scratch

admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:48:28 +0000

I like software, so does Octavio.

I ask my friend Minnie about how to introduce Octavio in programming. She recommends me Scratch. There are several tutorials on YouTube. The program is simple but effective. It is a nice tool to allow children to develop their first projects.

Scratch: overview from andresmh on Vimeo.

“Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web”

Octavio has been watching some tutorials and now he is working in a project. One year ago, he was playing in Adobe Flash. Flash is professional software, so requires more time and knowledge. Scratch is the right tool for his age and level. By the way, Adobe gives 80% off to Students (Including Homeschoolers).

One of Octavio’s first animation in Adobe Flash CS5.5

Note: If you believe Computers and Internet are harmful for children, please, omit this post.

2 Million Minutes

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:09:49 +0000

…The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped and,
to show his contempt for the Tortoise, lay down to have a nap…

2 Million Minutes” is a series of documentary films exploring how students in the United States, India, and the People’s Republic of China spend the nominal 2,000,000 minutes of their high school years.

The World is Flat & Creating Innovators

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:25:11 +0000

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster that the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It does not matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.

Two books that are helping me to decide to where orientate my son’s educational resources and time for the next homeschooling years.

Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators

Waiting for Superman & Declining by Degrees

admin — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:24:28 +0000

Two interesting documentaries:

Waiting for “Superman”, The film analyzes the failures of the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into a charter school.

Declining by Degrees ,looks at what’s really going on in higher education.

The documentaries are divided in 11 parts. Look for the playlist button to locate the Part 1