A Bittersweet Ending---our last day of CC.

Blake Hall, Cailin, Mrs Dabney, Wesley Brewer, on floor--Celia East, Aaron Greenaugh, Elijah North.

It's our last day of CC today...and I shout hurrah!!  'we're so ready for a break...yet, sad, because we know we won't see them again next year. (We will not be joining CC in September.)

Cailin had a super class...Mrs Dabney has been a wonderful tutor...and friend (good thing that doesn't end!)

Silly!!!

Delaney also had a great year....she's particularly sad to not come back next year...but when the Lord directs you in another way...you'd be silly to not go.  She loved lunch time with her classmates and friends.  Here she is with Jackson Brockman, (with the wire glasses on)  Kayla Waters, Emma Schmidt, Luke Schmidt, Delaney, Ansley Ohanian, Stephen Cooley.

Okay, lunch time was the favortie "subject" for everyone.

Sophie Burton, Kayla Waters, Emma Schmidt, Ansley Ohanian, Gayleigh Brown, Delaney, Kaci Ratcliff , Jackson Brockman, Stephen Cooley.

 For Celebration Day (a week after our last day of class) Delaney's class dressed up to present three of the history sentences.  Pilgrims, immigrants and the lone space explorer!

 Cailin has a large English Essentials class this year.  Here, her tutor, Renee East, hands out awards to the class.

 Along with the history sentences Delaney's class also recited the first 12 elements and their mass.  They decorated t-shirts with their element.  Delaney's was Hydrogen!

Cailin's class put on a variation of the poem "The Night Before CC."  and then they sang "The Twelve Days of CC" too

“’Twas the Night Before C.C.”

‘Twas the night before C.C., when all through the house,

not a creature was stirring, not even an…?

Elijah studying his Timeline Cards? Who’s the wise guy that mixed this story up, anyway?

(Elijah is seen reviewing the Timeline Cards, maybe on his computer, but saying them over and over first in the foreground, then in the background while the story goes on…)

Our clothes were laid out by my mom with care,

In hopes that tomorrow we’d know what to wear;

The children were all snug in their beds,

While visions of History Sentences  danced in their heads.

(Everyone repeat week 5’s sentence together…?)

And mamma on the computer with the cat in her lap,

Had just settled down for a Foundation’s class wrap.

When up in her room, there arose such a clatter,

Cailin sat in her bed and studied her English grammar.

(“Why do I have to work on this? Don’t we already cover it in Essentials? Can’t I just work on my novel?”

Groaning and growling, mumbling something about “stinky fish”,

She repeated irregular verbs from Cycle 3 English.

Aaron studied his Math, row after row,

Because he knew what his tutor wanted him to know (say some Math facts, formulas)

When, what to his wondering eyes should appear,

But a new Science song that he wanted to hear.

With a little about tissues, and muscles and systems, he moaned to himself,

(“This is fun and all, but I would rather shoot Airsoft guns or paintball—what fun!”

Quickly, I reviewed weeks one and two

And knew the Respiratory system was the one that I knew.

Now NOSE, and PHARYNX, and LARYNX, and TRACHEA,

And BRONCHI, and  BRONCHIOLES, and LUNGS, and ALVEOLI….

Celia studied her Geography, but not the China Wall

Because she wanted to learn the US features in all….

She started with the East Coat and got to where she knew,

The West Coast, the North, and South capitals, too.

(Pointing to the map she made or pictures she drew…)  

It was time for Latin, but Blake was wary,

Because he didn’t really know it and found it sort of scary,

He began to get sleepy, but little did he show,

Because Latin was next with much he needed to know.

So, he started with prepositions, conjugations, and worse,

And nouns, then rules, and translations of the verse.

(saying some Latin Memory work and tying this info to some of his interests…?)

(maybe first person and all come together to say the following?)

And then, all of a sudden, we remembered to proof,

Our papers of Essentials that we didn’t want to goof.

As we drew in our hands, and were turning around,

Down the paper we read, not making a sound.

We studied the words and tenses we ought.

Many dress ups we needed to add like we’d been taught….

A bundle of ly words, we found on the back,

Of the Student Resource Notebook that was in our backpack.

(Blah, blah, blah….stuff….nor I nor you know what to do with……….)

I sprang to my bed and to my mom gave a kiss.

Because I now knew my memory work like this and like this

Next I said my prayers and thanked God for the light

And for CC and my friends, til tomorrow I said to all a Good Night!