Assignments for December 4th

Hello!

It was nice to see all "my kids" after the Thanksgiving holiday. We had a busy and fruitful day. I hope our large Venn diagram comparing Knights with Samurai made it home and you were able to admire/review it with your student. I "Venn diagrammed" them to pieces! Besides this large one, we did another in science comparing the leviathan mentioned in Job with a whale.

Latin was a bit sketchy--however they should be able to tell you the word for red (trill the r!)

Many thanks to Mrs. McBreen. She was called into constant duty and never failed me throughout the day. We started the science project described in the book and will observe results next week. I encouraged the students to perform the "Try this" in the book at home. These are usually easy but enhance the text reading greatly.

Another big thank you to Mrs. Esther from the K-1 class. After dismissing her students at 12:30, she came over and presented a lesson/exercise on haiku to my students. It was well done and she got our minds jogged into action to produce these poems. It was a launch into a discussion of "power under control" that these samurai exhibited--the strongest, fiercest of society that still produced tender poems. We compared this to Christ-- the creator of the universe, calmer of the seas that submissively took the abuse of the crucifixion in order to reconcile us to Himself. I should have done another Venn diagram!!!:)

REMINDER: please have your student bring five unsigned Christmas cards with envelopes next week. We are participating in a school-wide project to send cards to our servicemen.

Here is this week's assignments:

History:
--produce narrations on ch. 17 using information we learned in class as well as the chapter in the book.
--map pg. 72
--color pg. 73
--Knight Word Search pg. 75
--read chapter 18 in SOTW

Grammar:
--administer ch. 9 test after a review
--complete ch. 10 from the teacher's text
--have ch. 10 vocab work complete (word, definition, sentence) and ready to turn in
--we learned about conjunctions, compound parts and interjections

Science:
--polish up your lapbook or report on Lesson 5 to turn in
--be sure to have your science spirals up to date with vocabulary words defined. You can look through my old blogs to see which words you should have in there. We will have a quiz over these words next week. The quiz will only be over the words assigned and due on October 30th up to the present.

Literature:
--review questions for chapter 21-24 in Adam
--bring your copy of our next literature selection, King Arthur... to show me or I'll hand you one in class. We'll have a reading assignment from it next week.

Bible:
--we received new assignments yesterday so I hope your family will enjoy reading them together
--I'm re-stocking on treats to reward those that answer my review questions!

Enjoy this brisk, fall weather with your children. Hey, maybe try producing a haiku about it!

love,
Mrs. Tkach