Math
The name of the math curriculum Ledet students use.
What is Math U See?
the abbreviation is APS
What is Arcadia Park Schole?
English folk song written in 1728 used for Morris dancing in which dancer's costumes are filled with bells. It ends..."don't forget the robin..."
What is English Country Garden?
wrote the play Mid Summer's Night Dream
Who is William Shakespeare?
the second president of the United States
Who is John Adams?
the firsthand observation of plants, animals, and natural phenomena in their local environment
What is Nature Study?
the program in which Sophia and Wyatt complete classes and receive high school and college credit.
What is dual credit?
The instructor of Math U See
Who is Mr. Steve Demme?
an ancient Greek word that translates to "leisure," but with a specific, noble meaning. Unlike the modern idea of idleness, this refers to a restful, undistracted state of learning, contemplation, and deep reflection.
What is Schole?
What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
What iis the first line of the poem Leisure by WH Davies
Lily's daily bible reading came from this book
What is the Jesus Storybook Bible?
a defiant political protest by American colonists on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts
What is the Boston Tea Party?
the natural science that studies everything beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
What is Astronomy?
the 3 classes Sophia and Wyatt completed for dual credit.
History1, History2, Government
the branch of mathematics that studies the size, shape, position, and dimensions of figures and spaces
What is Geometry
the founder of APS home school co-op
Who is Megan Heep?
the liturgy passages for term 1 and term 2
Proverbs 3:1-12 and Ephesians 3:14=21
Wyatt and Sophia's Leadt favorite book this year
What is the Sea Around Us?
a period of massive political and societal upheaval in France that dismantled the absolute monarchy and feudal system
What is the French Revolution?
a large, natural stream of freshwater that flows continuously or intermittently along a defined channel, driven by gravity from a higher elevation (like a mountain or lake) to a lower elevation, ultimately emptying into an ocean, lake, or another river. [1, 2]
What is a river?
The extra curricular class all Ledet children are involved
what is piano?
a broad branch of mathematics that uses symbols (like letters) to represent numbers and quantities in equations and formulas.
What is Algebra
a new content area taught to Nate this year in which the students explore an area using a compass to gather information
What is scouting
benediction song sung along with ASL
What is the Doxology?
Nate learned about the World during this presidents lifetime while reading this book
Who Is George Washington and what is George Washington's World?
a massive political and military uprising in which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies rejected British imperial rule.
What is the American Revolution?
a group of stars that appear to form a specific pattern in the night sky.
what is a constellation?
the activity Nate tried for the first time this year
What is ice-skating?
a number that uses a dot to separate a whole number from a fractional part.
What is a decimal?
the book Mrs. Ledet used to teach drawing this year
What is Drawing Textbooks by Bruce McIntyre
Shakespeare's poem from A MidSummer's Night Dream that all students learned together in large group
What is Puck's Farewell?
this book was read to Wyatt and Sophia several years ago and reread to Nate this year. It is a touching story about friendship, family and childhood mischief.
What is Adventures with Waffles?
a brutal internal conflict between the United States government (the Union) and eleven Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America.
What is the American Cilvil War
It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma powered by nuclear fusion in its core. It radiates light and heat, providing the gravitational pull that holds our planetary system together
What is the sun?
the library in New York Sophia got to visit for her 16th birthday trip
What is the JP Morgan library?
a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100
What is a percentage?
numer and last names of families in APS
15: Armstrong, Borges, Brace, Brown, Ceraldi, Faber, Heep, Ledet, Lewis, Lovell, Morris, Muscatell, Ratzlaff, Silva, Wallace
Crown Him the Lord of Love is a line from this Hymn we sang in large group this year
What is Crown Him With Many Crowns
a book about Astronomy assigned to Wyatt and Sophia to read this year.
What is Signs and Season?
a trailblazing advocate for women's rights, an early abolitionist, and the closest political advisor to her husband, John
This is Abigail Adams?
an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Name of the schools where Sophia and Wyatt took dual credit courses
What is TCC (Tarrant County College) and Gracewood Academy?