Assignments for October 9, 2007

Dear Parents,

I enjoyed your children so much yesterday. Our class is settling into a rhythm that is familiar and comfortable. Instead of an art project to enrich our History studies, we learned about the life the children of Medieval Paris experienced. Then we went outside and acted it out! There was hopscotch at one end of our play area, marbles at another, an exciting game of hide-and-seek, and a chance to hurl insults and imaginary rotten fruit at those being punished in our pillory! That's right, everyone had a chance to be locked into a very make-shift pillory and experience the punishment dealt out to petty criminals.

We took a few minutes to act out some of the perils our Roger and Alice are experiencing in our literature time. That was fun and I'm in hopes of having some actual scripts we'll use next week. The children's improvisations were excellent, though.

I hope to see all my families at the Trinity picnic this weekend!

Assignments

History:
--produce narration for Ch. 11
--complete mapwork pg. 41
--complete color pages 42 & 43
--read ch. 12 in SOTW

Grammar:
--review ch. 4 and administer test
--complete ch. 5 from the teaching text (we love the jingles!!!)
--Activity/Assignment time at the bottom of pg. 83 was completed in class
--I introduced prepositions and prepositional phrases from pg. 84 & 85. I hope this lays a foundation for your teaching this week.

Science:
--read pgs. 27-39 and follow "Notebook Activity" suggestions on pg. 39 to produce a narration of what you've learned in the second half of Ch. 2
--enter krill, melon in your science spiral
--add to ocean box according to pg. 39

Literature:
--complete pages 16 and 18 that I handed out in class
--finish reading the book