Assignments for November 6th

Hello,

We had a busy, hectic, enjoyable day yesterday. Many thanks to Mr. Walt (Emma's dad) for being our volunteer. Mrs. Dominique (Noah's mom) had done two weeks in a row--WOW. A belated thanks to her as well.

We want to wish an extra HUGE thank you to Mrs. McBreen (Ayla's mom) for holding a workshop for us yesterday about lapbooking. They are marvelous tools and she spent much time preparing materials for us and teaching us. Also, thanks to Brendan, her son, for his help as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I've only just learned that she spent all this time with us while enduring a migraine. What a "trooper"!

Hopefully you've received my e-mail about characters for the medieval feast. If not, please stop and check your e-mail right away. Time is of the essence.

There is no need for the students to haul their huge notebooks back and forth each week. Just have all the assignments they've completed in a folder. When they arrive, they (or my parent volunteer) will transfer the homework from their folder into a manilla file with the students name on it that is for that purpose. They'll then move to the other box and retrieve the assignments they turned in the previous week which will now have been graded and put those into their folder to take home. We spent almost half an hour going over this new procedure yesterday. They seem to understand but I know it may take another week to smooth the "bumps" out.

History:
--complete a narration for each section of Ch.14 using what you learned in class as well as from the SOTW
--complete mapwork pg. 56
--complete coloring page 57
--read ch. 15 in SOTW

Literature:
--answer review questions (my printer has now been repaired as of Tuesday night!)
--read through ch. 15 "St. Giles' Fair"
--continue working on memorizing Roger's thoughts on a road from last week. Way to go, Woods!
--One parent asked to get the vocab before the reading which makes sense. If you get it done by next week, great, but I don't require the vocab exercise for ch. 11-15 to be turned in until November 13th.

Grammar:
--review then administer the test for ch. 7
--complete ch. 8 from teaching text
--we learned about the possessive noun adjectives and classified sentences in class with this new skill
--study the vocab words from chapters 5 through 8 carefully for a quiz next class.

Science:
--read pgs. 61 to the very top of pg. 67
Two Alternatives to Choose from:
1. -produce narrations from the above reading and illustrate(one for the eight sea turtles and one for sea snakes)
-enter oviduct, ovovivipacous, antivenin, neurotoxin, hemotoxin in your science spiral
2. -instead of narrations, complete your lapbook on sea turtles. Remember to include mini-reports on the turtles; don't just glue the pictures in.
-re-read the section of the reading assignment about sea snakes (pgs 64 --top 67)
-enter the above vocab in science spiral

Reminder
Here is what your student should have in her folder to turn in next week:
--history narrations, mapwork, color page for ch 14 in SOTW
--literature review questions completed (optional vocab done for ch. 11-15. If you choose not to, it will be due the next week)
--grammar vocab for ch. 8 and any for ch. 7 that I haven't received yet
--either a lapbook or a narration on the assigned reading and I plan to check science spirals to be sure vocab is current.

Until next week,
Mary Ann