Eureka

1. Everyone should have an abacus. If you're wondering WHY we are learning how to use an ancient tool, Watch this video.  I know these kids are all young, but the benefits they talk about apply to everyone.

Beginner Abacus Students: first you need to learn how use it to count.  Watch this video and have your abacus in hand. Come to class knowing how to count on the abacus!


If you're ready to learn to add, you can watch this video, and practice.

2. National Number Knockout is coming to Vanguard. Watch the Rules Here.  This is a fun way to have some friendly competition while learning our math facts like a BOSS!  Watch this example example of how it's played.

3.  Learn something interesting about these people and write it in your vanguard book.  Come prepared to share what you learned.  Just a quick summary will do. They can be found online or in the book Mathematicians are people, too.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Martin Behaim (1459-1537)

Gerolamo Cardano 1501-1576

John Napier 1550-1617

                                                             Vanguard Junior
                                                                                                       History October 2017

"Path to the Light"
World Exploration

Study/Learn

1 - Read in "The Story of the World: Vol. 2" Ch. 28 (only the part about Ferdinand and Isabella), 31, 40, 41 
and Vol. 3 Ch. 4, 6, 24 (only the part about Capt. Cook) 

2- Take notes on the chapters in your commonplace book.

3- Read this article by Elder Robert D Hales from Oct 2005.  Journal your favorite parts in your commonplace book.

4- Bring a notebook that you can use for your commonplace book.  We will decorate it!  I will also have a folder for you to decorate and keep other papers in.

   

Become/Serve

In his book, The Great Prologue (1975), Elder Mark E. Petersen quoted Christopher Columbus saying, 

“God gave me the faith, and afterwards the courage.”

How do faith and courage work together?  Have you ever had an experience where you needed both faith and courage to do something?  Write about this quote in your journal for 10 minutes.  Then set a goal of how you can have more faith and courage to beat the obstacles you will encounter in your life.

Vanguard Junior Vision Day

                            Vanguard Junior Vision Day

                                                                       Vanguard Junior

Vision Day September 21, 2017

1. Read the Young Travelers Gift by Andy Andrews.  We will be discussing this on Vision Day.

2. Read in "The Story of the World: Vol 2." Chapters 25, 26, 34(only about Henry VIII), and Vol. 3 Ch. 12,31.  Write down your favorite part about each chapter!  We will discuss and do fun activities about these chapters!

3. Bring your abacus, and we will start learning how to use it together. Watch this video before you come, so you have a head start.

4. Memorize 1 Peter 2:9

Become/Serve

In the Oct 1994 General Conference, Elder Holland told this story:

"The mid-1600s were a terrible time in England. The Puritan revolutionaries had executed a king, and political life—including Parliament—was in total chaos. A typhus epidemic turned the whole island into a hospital. The great plague, followed by the great fire, would turn it into a morgue.

In Leicestershire, there is a very small church with a plaque on the wall which reads: “In the year of 1653, when all things sacred were … either demolished or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley, [built] this church; whose singular praise it is, To have done the best things in the worst times, and hoped them in the most calamitous.”

Sir Robert Shirley was able to "do the best things in the worst times" and bring light into the darkness of the world surrounding him by building a beautiful church.   How can you bring light out of the darkness in your life?  Journal for 20 minutes on what you can do to stay positive and find light in your life even when things seem their darkest.  Commit to do one thing each day this week to brighten the world around you.