Greetings!!!
Here are the assignments--please check this blog again tomorrow for further "news"! Enjoy your children today!
Mary Ann
HISTORY:
--go over the "web" we made in class on the Black Death with a parent. Read and explain each of the "clouds" and see if you teach them something! Be ready to tell me what your taught them.
--map
--color
--read ch. 26
--note: no narration. Perhaps you can trim up the web, fold it, punch holes and put it in your notebooks in place of a narration for this chapter. This isn't required for me but I know some want a complete notebook by the end of the year.
GRAMMAR:
--review ch. 13 and administer test
--complete ch. 14 from text
--complete ch. 14 vocab (definitions and sentences) to turn in
LITERATURE:
--complete Arthur review questions
--read through 41 in Robin Hood
SCIENCE:
--read through top of pg. 126 in lesson 8
--produce a narration on what you learned
--enter exoskeleton, chitin, mandibles, maxillae, maxillipeds, and chelipeds in your science spiral NOTE: beginning THIS WEEK WITH THESE WORDS everyone needs a science spiral--no loose papers please. Label this weeks entry of words and definitions with the date and Lesson 8. If you've been doing this, great. If you've been using loose paper and turning it in to me please buy a spiral (I think they're $0.25 at Big Lots) and begin entering each weeks vocab in it. The narrations need to be done on loose paper so they can be turned in. I'll only call for a spiral check once a month or so.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
thoughts and reminders from our class time on 1/22
Hello!
We had a busy day on Tuesday!
I found myself fascinated with a study of the Ottoman's. Mainly because I knew nothing about it before beginning my research for teaching your children. One of the facts that I couldn't stop thinking about was how the Turks managed to drag 70 ships across land and float them into the Golden Horn. We talked about this in class and even set up a rough model of how it was done. We pushed a brick across the carpet with one finger. Then we took a board and greased it with Crisco and pushed the brick across that. It was much easier! We viewed 18 minutes of a video I got at the library about the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of Suleiman's reign. We were all a bit saddened when we saw the beautiful Hagia Sophia, the most magnificent Christian church in the world converted into a Mosque. But our spirits were lifted when we thought about the time frame of these events. Our mighty God was busy in the new world as Columbus was preparing for his adventure to settle what would some day be a mighty country founded on Christian principles and freedom of religion. HE wasn't conquered when Constantinople fell!
The art activity that I hope arrived home safely was a geometric figure that Moslem's decorated with. Their religion forbids making or even drawing figures of people or animals. Circles are often seen on top of the spiers of their mosques.
In science we borrowed a model of a shark from Mrs. Lynn. We read interesting facts about sharks and put the model together as a class. I'm excited about seeing the reports/lapbooks next week. Speaking of which...several students handed in venn diagrams comparing sharks and rays to me. I was confused as to why these came to me. I went back to my original assignment to be sure I'd been clear. REMINDER: You are to turn in a full report or lapbook to me covering lesson 7. It is to include illustrations, a large enough summary of what you learned in this chapter to show you've mastered all the information, and a comparison of a shark and a ray. We'll present these in class on Tuesday. I'll have those venn diagrams to give back to you so you can put them with your complete report. If anything is unclear, call or e-mail me.
We recited the knight's oath for Mrs. Esther's class. We each read a passage of scripture to show where each of the qualities for a knight are based in scripture. We also gave her class the book we made for Adam of the Road. They were a great audience and appreciated the gift. I want to hear each of the children recite the oath to me individually next class period.
We'll finish Arthur and receive our next book on the 29th. It is: Robin Hood and the ISBN number is 0-7534-5817-9. If you have that one, bring it to show me next time. I'll have one for all that need a copy. We played a game called "Hide the Slipper" that children in medieval days often played. We'll play again next week.
In grammar we discussed direct objects and pattern 2 sentences. We labelled several sentences. Remember there are EIGHT vocab words in each chapter for homework. I'm planning to spend time in a few weeks modeling and teaching writing techniques. (I have to brush up on them first!)
The third quarter of a school year is always a great time to buckle down and do some serious learning. There are no holidays to interrupt, its often messy outside and we're stuck inside, and spring fever hasn't hit yet. I want our class to take advantage of this time and step up our school work. We've all gotten use to Trinity and this learning environment and I want to be sure you're ready for the next grade. I will still accept late work this quarter. However, there will be points off. Alot of your work will now receive a grade instead of just a check that it was done. Let's be sure we're "working at our education as if working for the Lord". I'm talking to myself as I have a homeschool student as well.
I hope you have a wonderful week.
love,
Mrs. Tkach
We had a busy day on Tuesday!
I found myself fascinated with a study of the Ottoman's. Mainly because I knew nothing about it before beginning my research for teaching your children. One of the facts that I couldn't stop thinking about was how the Turks managed to drag 70 ships across land and float them into the Golden Horn. We talked about this in class and even set up a rough model of how it was done. We pushed a brick across the carpet with one finger. Then we took a board and greased it with Crisco and pushed the brick across that. It was much easier! We viewed 18 minutes of a video I got at the library about the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of Suleiman's reign. We were all a bit saddened when we saw the beautiful Hagia Sophia, the most magnificent Christian church in the world converted into a Mosque. But our spirits were lifted when we thought about the time frame of these events. Our mighty God was busy in the new world as Columbus was preparing for his adventure to settle what would some day be a mighty country founded on Christian principles and freedom of religion. HE wasn't conquered when Constantinople fell!
The art activity that I hope arrived home safely was a geometric figure that Moslem's decorated with. Their religion forbids making or even drawing figures of people or animals. Circles are often seen on top of the spiers of their mosques.
In science we borrowed a model of a shark from Mrs. Lynn. We read interesting facts about sharks and put the model together as a class. I'm excited about seeing the reports/lapbooks next week. Speaking of which...several students handed in venn diagrams comparing sharks and rays to me. I was confused as to why these came to me. I went back to my original assignment to be sure I'd been clear. REMINDER: You are to turn in a full report or lapbook to me covering lesson 7. It is to include illustrations, a large enough summary of what you learned in this chapter to show you've mastered all the information, and a comparison of a shark and a ray. We'll present these in class on Tuesday. I'll have those venn diagrams to give back to you so you can put them with your complete report. If anything is unclear, call or e-mail me.
We recited the knight's oath for Mrs. Esther's class. We each read a passage of scripture to show where each of the qualities for a knight are based in scripture. We also gave her class the book we made for Adam of the Road. They were a great audience and appreciated the gift. I want to hear each of the children recite the oath to me individually next class period.
We'll finish Arthur and receive our next book on the 29th. It is: Robin Hood and the ISBN number is 0-7534-5817-9. If you have that one, bring it to show me next time. I'll have one for all that need a copy. We played a game called "Hide the Slipper" that children in medieval days often played. We'll play again next week.
In grammar we discussed direct objects and pattern 2 sentences. We labelled several sentences. Remember there are EIGHT vocab words in each chapter for homework. I'm planning to spend time in a few weeks modeling and teaching writing techniques. (I have to brush up on them first!)
The third quarter of a school year is always a great time to buckle down and do some serious learning. There are no holidays to interrupt, its often messy outside and we're stuck inside, and spring fever hasn't hit yet. I want our class to take advantage of this time and step up our school work. We've all gotten use to Trinity and this learning environment and I want to be sure you're ready for the next grade. I will still accept late work this quarter. However, there will be points off. Alot of your work will now receive a grade instead of just a check that it was done. Let's be sure we're "working at our education as if working for the Lord". I'm talking to myself as I have a homeschool student as well.
I hope you have a wonderful week.
love,
Mrs. Tkach
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
correction!
The information on what is required for the science report or lapbook is in my blog from last week not two weeks ago!
Sorry! More info/thoughts/reminders still to come.
Sorry! More info/thoughts/reminders still to come.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
assignments for 1/29/08
Greetings!
I'm exhausted, as usual, after a day of learning with your children! Here are the assignments. Please check this blog in the next day or two for more updates, thoughts, and reminders.
Mary Ann
SCIENCE:
--lapbook or report on lesson 7 is due. Be ready to present yours to the class. Refer to the blog two weeks ago for info on what is required.
GRAMMAR:
--review ch. 12 and administer test
--complete ch. 13 from text. I taught direct objects and pattern 2 sentences but they will need your re-inforcement this week.
--complete ch. 13 vocab definitions and sentences
HISTORY:
--using what we discussed in class (please!) and your SOTW reading, produce a narration on ch. 24
--map 100
--color pg. 101
--read ch. 25
LITERATURE:
--review questions for pg. 70--106 (the extra credit is really hard--can you do it?!?!?!)
--finish reading the book
--be ready to recite the knights oath by yourself to me
I'm exhausted, as usual, after a day of learning with your children! Here are the assignments. Please check this blog in the next day or two for more updates, thoughts, and reminders.
Mary Ann
SCIENCE:
--lapbook or report on lesson 7 is due. Be ready to present yours to the class. Refer to the blog two weeks ago for info on what is required.
GRAMMAR:
--review ch. 12 and administer test
--complete ch. 13 from text. I taught direct objects and pattern 2 sentences but they will need your re-inforcement this week.
--complete ch. 13 vocab definitions and sentences
HISTORY:
--using what we discussed in class (please!) and your SOTW reading, produce a narration on ch. 24
--map 100
--color pg. 101
--read ch. 25
LITERATURE:
--review questions for pg. 70--106 (the extra credit is really hard--can you do it?!?!?!)
--finish reading the book
--be ready to recite the knights oath by yourself to me
Friday, January 18, 2008
additional thoughts and reminders for Jan 22
Hello!
We had a great day this week. Mrs. McBreen (Ayla's mom) was a tremendous help. She stayed busy helping us blow eggs and experiment on a fish, etc. Many thanks!
I attended a 3-day conference here at Trinity that was helpful, inspiring, intimidating, and mind-stretching. I hope to implement some of the things I learned to be a better teacher to your children. It did, however, take from my preparation time. I was at Wal-mart buying a goldfish and other supplies around midnight Monday night! I still think we had a good day and the children seemed engaged and they encouraged me throughout the day.
My odd last name comes from Ukraine so the lesson we talked about was of a personal nature to me and I was able to share a few family possessions and traditions that originated in the Russian/Ukraine area. Your student was greeted with bread and salt as is traditional. We discussed how precious salt was at times and was even used for trade. We blew our own eggs and decorated them after studying the pisanky that are so important to Ukrainians. We looked at and read an opera from the Bat Theatre in Moscow called Katinka. I had hoped to move to a room with a piano and pick out the tune for them but time ran out.
Also in History, a huge chunk of time was devoted to updating our time-lines. At the beginning of the year we aspired to memorizing these dates and events. At times it has been difficult to "mesh" this information with SOTW. Take a look at the timeline with your child and discuss it. Mrs. Esther and I are working on coming up with an abbreviated chart that should be easier to memorize.
In science we conducted the experiment from the end of lesson 6. We concluded we need to improve our scientific method because we did not have an adequate procedure for measuring the effect of the changing temperature on our fish. We did discuss the scientific method a bit. It is okay if your hypothesis is wrong. You have still gained valuable information. My competitive students seem to think you've "lost" if you hypothesized wrongly!
We labelled a few sentences in Grammar and then I decided to take a week off in hopes that you can bring your students up to date and polish up what we've learned so far. I myself need to refresh my memory after the Christmas break. We'll start off next time with new, big concepts.
(direct objects and pattern 2 sentences)
I estimate next week and one more in King Arthur then we'll begin a Robin Hood book.
Report cards will be ready next week. This is my plan (which I haven't gotten approved by Nicole yet): If your student has everything turned in to me through last week (week 16) their report card will be ready for distribution on Tuesday. If there are items you're planning to turn in on Tuesday, I'll need to check those and will have your report cards ready for pick up on Thursday of next week. I know this may present a problem for families that don't come to Trinity on Thursday with an older sibling. I think you could choose to either stop by around 1:45 on Thursday the 24th to get them from Nicole or just wait until next class period and receive your child's report card then. I wanted to offer one last chance to those who still have work from this grading period to turn in.
Thank you for the time you gave to reading the Bible lesson. I had lots of participation. I let them tell me the "so what" of the lesson. If you haven't picked up on our discussion method yet, here is how we do it. After spending time in God's Word and reviewing it, we ask ourselves--"So what?" We then try to apply the passage to our present day life. What can we do differently or how are we effected because we spent time in God's scripture? I encourage them to do this anytime they study the Bible.
I love your children and look forward to next Tuesday!
Mrs. Tkach
We had a great day this week. Mrs. McBreen (Ayla's mom) was a tremendous help. She stayed busy helping us blow eggs and experiment on a fish, etc. Many thanks!
I attended a 3-day conference here at Trinity that was helpful, inspiring, intimidating, and mind-stretching. I hope to implement some of the things I learned to be a better teacher to your children. It did, however, take from my preparation time. I was at Wal-mart buying a goldfish and other supplies around midnight Monday night! I still think we had a good day and the children seemed engaged and they encouraged me throughout the day.
My odd last name comes from Ukraine so the lesson we talked about was of a personal nature to me and I was able to share a few family possessions and traditions that originated in the Russian/Ukraine area. Your student was greeted with bread and salt as is traditional. We discussed how precious salt was at times and was even used for trade. We blew our own eggs and decorated them after studying the pisanky that are so important to Ukrainians. We looked at and read an opera from the Bat Theatre in Moscow called Katinka. I had hoped to move to a room with a piano and pick out the tune for them but time ran out.
Also in History, a huge chunk of time was devoted to updating our time-lines. At the beginning of the year we aspired to memorizing these dates and events. At times it has been difficult to "mesh" this information with SOTW. Take a look at the timeline with your child and discuss it. Mrs. Esther and I are working on coming up with an abbreviated chart that should be easier to memorize.
In science we conducted the experiment from the end of lesson 6. We concluded we need to improve our scientific method because we did not have an adequate procedure for measuring the effect of the changing temperature on our fish. We did discuss the scientific method a bit. It is okay if your hypothesis is wrong. You have still gained valuable information. My competitive students seem to think you've "lost" if you hypothesized wrongly!
We labelled a few sentences in Grammar and then I decided to take a week off in hopes that you can bring your students up to date and polish up what we've learned so far. I myself need to refresh my memory after the Christmas break. We'll start off next time with new, big concepts.
(direct objects and pattern 2 sentences)
I estimate next week and one more in King Arthur then we'll begin a Robin Hood book.
Report cards will be ready next week. This is my plan (which I haven't gotten approved by Nicole yet): If your student has everything turned in to me through last week (week 16) their report card will be ready for distribution on Tuesday. If there are items you're planning to turn in on Tuesday, I'll need to check those and will have your report cards ready for pick up on Thursday of next week. I know this may present a problem for families that don't come to Trinity on Thursday with an older sibling. I think you could choose to either stop by around 1:45 on Thursday the 24th to get them from Nicole or just wait until next class period and receive your child's report card then. I wanted to offer one last chance to those who still have work from this grading period to turn in.
Thank you for the time you gave to reading the Bible lesson. I had lots of participation. I let them tell me the "so what" of the lesson. If you haven't picked up on our discussion method yet, here is how we do it. After spending time in God's Word and reviewing it, we ask ourselves--"So what?" We then try to apply the passage to our present day life. What can we do differently or how are we effected because we spent time in God's scripture? I encourage them to do this anytime they study the Bible.
I love your children and look forward to next Tuesday!
Mrs. Tkach
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
assignments for Jan 22, 2008
Grammar:
--no homework; review and take a week to get caught up
History:
--produce a narration on ch. 23 with your SOTW reading and our class activities
--map pg. 95
--color pages 96 & 97
--read ch. 24 in SOTW
Literature:
--complete review questions
--read through pg. 106
Science:
--begin a lapbook or a report on lesson 7. These will be presented in class on Jan 29.
Include:1. illustrations with labels (see pg. 104)
2. a comparison of a typical shark with a typical ray (similarities and differences)
A Venn diagram would be great!
3. The goal is to show your mastery of ALL the information in the lesson. Your
lapbook will probably have to be an extended, fold-out kind.
I'll have additional thoughts to add with reminders by tomorrow, so re-check the blog then.
Mrs. Tkach
--no homework; review and take a week to get caught up
History:
--produce a narration on ch. 23 with your SOTW reading and our class activities
--map pg. 95
--color pages 96 & 97
--read ch. 24 in SOTW
Literature:
--complete review questions
--read through pg. 106
Science:
--begin a lapbook or a report on lesson 7. These will be presented in class on Jan 29.
Include:1. illustrations with labels (see pg. 104)
2. a comparison of a typical shark with a typical ray (similarities and differences)
A Venn diagram would be great!
3. The goal is to show your mastery of ALL the information in the lesson. Your
lapbook will probably have to be an extended, fold-out kind.
I'll have additional thoughts to add with reminders by tomorrow, so re-check the blog then.
Mrs. Tkach
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
assignments for January 15, 2008
Hello Families,
I apologize that my blog was not posted before now. I pledge to do better so that you can have the assignments for your Wednesday school day.
We had a great day yesterday. I didn't realize how much I missed my students until I had them around me again. It was great to be learning together again. Many thanks to Michelle Owens, Luke's mom, for assisting me. She worked hard and made the first school day of 2008 run a lot smoother.
A few notes/reminders:
--Report cards are coming out soon. I will send each of you an e-mail about missing work in the next day or two. I can make copies of anything you need. As we adjusted from homeshooling solely to a "school environment," I decided not to penalize for late work this quarter. If you get the work into me it gets full credit.
--Please read the Bible lessons with your family. This curriculum was chosen by the board of TCA. I dedicate at least 20 minutes at the first of each class discussing it. Sometimes I'm the only one who's read and it's not much of a discussion. I enclosed a new copy of the curriculum in case your old one is misplaced.
--With the papers your student brought home yesterday there is a handout about a reading program Trinity is participating in. The handout should be fairly self-explanatory. Any questions can be forwarded to Nicole.
History:
--Re-read ch. 19 in SOTW and produce a narration ( we studied this before Christmas)
--Using our classroom reading and discussion about The Diaspora (ch. 20 in SOTW), produce a narration showing all you learned. (We read this chapter in class as well as enriched it with activities so your student shouldn't need to read it again for homework.)
--Mapwork pg. 84
--Color page pg. 85
--Read ch. 23, The First Russians, for next week (NOTE!!! we're skipping a few chapters to stay on schedule)
Literature:
--Read through pg. 70 in King Arthur. If your child has finished the book but it's been a while,
have them refresh their memory by skimming or re-reading these pages.
--Begin memorizing the Knight's oath on pg. 70 We'll take two weeks to accomplish this but if anyone is ready by next week--great!!!
Grammar:
--Review ch. 11 and administer test.
--Complete ch. 12 from the teaching text this week.
--Have ch. 12 vocab with definitions AND SENTENCES ready to turn in next week.
Science:
--Read pg. 96--101.
--Produce a narration on this reading.
--Enter fusiform, nares, monocular vision, lateral line, hermaphrodites in science spiral.
--Bring science spiral to show you've kept it up to date with our vocab words.
Highlights and My Thoughts on our School Day--January 8, 2008
I had a "surprise" root canal on Monday morning so I called Mrs. Esther and bowed out of Latin for yesterday to lighten my load. We will be back "at it" next week.
I know I'm asking for two narrations in history in one week, but I also know my students can do it. This will help us stay on track with our SOTW schedule. We enjoyed our in-class study of The Diaspora. "The Clever Rabbi" story included in the chapter was very enjoyable and your student brought home the makings of finger puppets to act the story out for your family. If anyone wants to bring theirs back in next week, I'll try to make time for us to act it out in class.
After sitting still and listening to the chapter we got the wiggles out by going outside and taking turns pretending the be Yohanan ben Zakkai being smuggled out of Jerusalem in a coffin. It was a lot of fun.
Mrs. Michelle read the students a version of Esther recommended by SOTW author, Susan Bauer. They enjoyed it but several noted differences between it and the story from scripture. An excellent exercise this week would be to read the book in the Bible and have your student note differences and similarities.
We celebrated and discussed a Passover meal together (complete with candles for mood!) This was to enrich our knowledge of Jewish rituals. Ask your child about it and what they learned. I had a blast myself. Questions for you to ask: 1. Why a lamb bone? 2. How many cups of wine? 3. What did the apple/nuts mixture represent? 4. Why salt water? 5. What did the boiled egg represent? How about the bitter herbs? greens? I sent you a copy of the activity to look over.
Grammar was a bit dry. They were amazing, though, as we classified sentences, sang jingles, and reviewed all the different parts of speech we've learned. Luke earned a reward for "stumping Mrs. Tkach". I owe him a candy bar!!!
I didn't have a very exciting science lesson but your children were "tuned in" and I think we learned a lot. We produced a narration together in class. Look for it and be sure it gets into the science section of their big binders.
We tried to find common ground for where we had all gotten in our reading of King Arthur. We discussed Arthur's innocence which turned into a discussion of how we can be made innocent, no matter how sinful we've been, by accepting Christ as our savior. We researched and discussed the characteristics outlined in the knight's oath and how each of them can be traced back to Holy Scripture.
My college son is laughing over my shoulder at the size of my blog and the fact that such a technologically handicapped person even has one so I'll close and remind you that I love my students and will be praying for each them this week. I always covet your prayers as I prepare each week.
Until the 15th,
Mrs. Tkach
I apologize that my blog was not posted before now. I pledge to do better so that you can have the assignments for your Wednesday school day.
We had a great day yesterday. I didn't realize how much I missed my students until I had them around me again. It was great to be learning together again. Many thanks to Michelle Owens, Luke's mom, for assisting me. She worked hard and made the first school day of 2008 run a lot smoother.
A few notes/reminders:
--Report cards are coming out soon. I will send each of you an e-mail about missing work in the next day or two. I can make copies of anything you need. As we adjusted from homeshooling solely to a "school environment," I decided not to penalize for late work this quarter. If you get the work into me it gets full credit.
--Please read the Bible lessons with your family. This curriculum was chosen by the board of TCA. I dedicate at least 20 minutes at the first of each class discussing it. Sometimes I'm the only one who's read and it's not much of a discussion. I enclosed a new copy of the curriculum in case your old one is misplaced.
--With the papers your student brought home yesterday there is a handout about a reading program Trinity is participating in. The handout should be fairly self-explanatory. Any questions can be forwarded to Nicole.
History:
--Re-read ch. 19 in SOTW and produce a narration ( we studied this before Christmas)
--Using our classroom reading and discussion about The Diaspora (ch. 20 in SOTW), produce a narration showing all you learned. (We read this chapter in class as well as enriched it with activities so your student shouldn't need to read it again for homework.)
--Mapwork pg. 84
--Color page pg. 85
--Read ch. 23, The First Russians, for next week (NOTE!!! we're skipping a few chapters to stay on schedule)
Literature:
--Read through pg. 70 in King Arthur. If your child has finished the book but it's been a while,
have them refresh their memory by skimming or re-reading these pages.
--Begin memorizing the Knight's oath on pg. 70 We'll take two weeks to accomplish this but if anyone is ready by next week--great!!!
Grammar:
--Review ch. 11 and administer test.
--Complete ch. 12 from the teaching text this week.
--Have ch. 12 vocab with definitions AND SENTENCES ready to turn in next week.
Science:
--Read pg. 96--101.
--Produce a narration on this reading.
--Enter fusiform, nares, monocular vision, lateral line, hermaphrodites in science spiral.
--Bring science spiral to show you've kept it up to date with our vocab words.
Highlights and My Thoughts on our School Day--January 8, 2008
I had a "surprise" root canal on Monday morning so I called Mrs. Esther and bowed out of Latin for yesterday to lighten my load. We will be back "at it" next week.
I know I'm asking for two narrations in history in one week, but I also know my students can do it. This will help us stay on track with our SOTW schedule. We enjoyed our in-class study of The Diaspora. "The Clever Rabbi" story included in the chapter was very enjoyable and your student brought home the makings of finger puppets to act the story out for your family. If anyone wants to bring theirs back in next week, I'll try to make time for us to act it out in class.
After sitting still and listening to the chapter we got the wiggles out by going outside and taking turns pretending the be Yohanan ben Zakkai being smuggled out of Jerusalem in a coffin. It was a lot of fun.
Mrs. Michelle read the students a version of Esther recommended by SOTW author, Susan Bauer. They enjoyed it but several noted differences between it and the story from scripture. An excellent exercise this week would be to read the book in the Bible and have your student note differences and similarities.
We celebrated and discussed a Passover meal together (complete with candles for mood!) This was to enrich our knowledge of Jewish rituals. Ask your child about it and what they learned. I had a blast myself. Questions for you to ask: 1. Why a lamb bone? 2. How many cups of wine? 3. What did the apple/nuts mixture represent? 4. Why salt water? 5. What did the boiled egg represent? How about the bitter herbs? greens? I sent you a copy of the activity to look over.
Grammar was a bit dry. They were amazing, though, as we classified sentences, sang jingles, and reviewed all the different parts of speech we've learned. Luke earned a reward for "stumping Mrs. Tkach". I owe him a candy bar!!!
I didn't have a very exciting science lesson but your children were "tuned in" and I think we learned a lot. We produced a narration together in class. Look for it and be sure it gets into the science section of their big binders.
We tried to find common ground for where we had all gotten in our reading of King Arthur. We discussed Arthur's innocence which turned into a discussion of how we can be made innocent, no matter how sinful we've been, by accepting Christ as our savior. We researched and discussed the characteristics outlined in the knight's oath and how each of them can be traced back to Holy Scripture.
My college son is laughing over my shoulder at the size of my blog and the fact that such a technologically handicapped person even has one so I'll close and remind you that I love my students and will be praying for each them this week. I always covet your prayers as I prepare each week.
Until the 15th,
Mrs. Tkach
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