Nicky completed a thorough practice exam that will allow us to better understand what he has retained over the past year. This took up the entirety of our session.

Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. Fractions were a weak point on Nicky's assessment, so we reviewed and practiced different operations of fractions and simplifying fractions. Once we started, he quickly remembered how to solve fractions.

Area of triangles and trapezoids. Reviewed his assessment and discussed his weak points on the test. We continued our instruction and practice on area of the triangles and trapezoids. What is the best way in finding the area by drawing a picture.

Today we reviewed the days of the week and began to study the months of the year.

Lesson 1: Forms of Energy – We learned about the types of energy that are classified as kinetic energy and potential energy such as electrical, thermal, nuclear, radiant, and sound energy. We identified kinetic electrical energy as current flowing through appliances and flashlights. We identified kinetic thermal energy as being present in all objects in which the particles are moving such as in hot water, burning wood, and steam. We learned about potential nuclear energy as in the sun, stars, and fuel rods in nuclear power plants. Then we learned that kinetic radiant energy comes from the sun, light bulbs, fire, x-ray machines, and radios. Next we learned that kinetic sound energy comes from voices, musical instruments, and machinery.
Lesson 1: Forms of Energy – We learned about energy carried by waves. A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter. Sound energy is energy carried by sound waves which are waves that move through matter. Electromagnetic waves are electric and magnetic waves that move perpendicularly to one another. The energy carried by electromagnetic waves is radiant energy. Electromagnetic waves travel through matter and also through spaces with little or no matter. Forms of electromagnetic waves include visible light, ultraviolet waves, x-rays, gamma rays, and infrared rays.
Discussion Question
What is the difference between a sound wave and a light wave?
A sound wave requires matter, but a light wave can move through matter or through empty space. A light wave is an electromagnetic wave and a sound wave is not.

2 ways to find area of a parallelogram - Dividing the shape into a rectangle or square and 2 rectangles.

Today he started to work on his vocabulary notebook, and he added all the words we have been learning.

Nicky read through a lesson page on the regions of the United States, learning about what traits unify the states in each region as well as important landmark and geographical locations for each. Nicky then turned attention to the placement of individual states within each region.

We reviewed the course plan and major Business components. Nicky completed a Case Study assignment in class on Amazon.

Review order of operations.
Area and perimeter of rectangular and square figures -