musings on 4/29/08 and assignments for 5/6/08

Good Morning!

I think it was a great day in our class yesterday. Messy, a bit disorganized, loud, even chaotic at times--never the less, great! Woods' mom, Mrs. Beth, helped us and I'm sure rested well last night! Many thanks!

We listened to a book-on-tape of Queen Elizabeth's diary. Ask you child about how King Henry VIII got on his horse. Also, ask them King Henry's thoughts on his son's physique! It was interesting and we were using our Medieval coloring books and decorating an E-shaped building while listening. Ask you student why there were E-shaped homes. We touched VERY little on Shakespeare for which I'm sorry. We'll do him justice next morning first thing before proceeding into chapter 40 of SOTW.

Mrs Esther shared a music lesson with us that was fun. We reviewed our Veritas history cards and finished the ones we'd not gone over. These later ones were easier because they meshed well with what we've been studying from SOTW. We then rolled up our sleeves and finished those timelines. I know they are not very well organized and not too "pretty". However, I think your child can sit down with them and review each bubble and I think they will have their memory's "jogged" as to what we've studied this year. I certainly hope so!

We still didn't get our science spirals updated. Please bring them back one more time and we'll be sure to next time. We did make a few "critters". It sounds like most ocean boxes have been kept up at home. Way to go families!!! I think there are plans for them to decorate our end-of-year open house.

We finished the day by acting out parts from our literature selection. This was the chaotic part of the day! We had a good time and a laugh as well. There was more practice of working in groups as we presented our different jobs to the class. I hope we are learning "give and take" through this as well as patience and selflessness. We'll do it one more time next week.

Spring fever is creeping in. I try to hold him at bay but he's relentless! Let's commit to each other that we will finish well. Enjoy each other and I will see you in May!

love,
Mrs. Tkach

SCIENCE:
--finish study guide. We'll go over these and then have a test.
--bring your science spirals

LITERATURE:
--finish or re-read the book
--do your assigned job and be ready to work with your group to present to the class next week
--NOTE: Our next book will be handed out next week. It is Chanticleer and the Fox and the ISBN # is 13: 978-0-06-443087-6. If you do NOT need one from Trinity bring yours in to show me. Otherwise, I'll hand everyone a book next week. The last book of the year will be the next week. It is A Midsummer Night's Dream, ISBN# 0 7845 1077 9.


GRAMMAR:
--look for an email today for your child to read. It will be an example of a persuasive paragraph. We ran out of time for grammar in class.
--produce a 3 point, persuasive paragraph on this topic: "Why Education is Important" Use page 221 through 223 in the teacher's manual to help your child with this assignment. Reference 40 on page 34 of their book will be of help as well
--complete vocab work for ch. 21 (all eight words!)

HISTORY:
--using your reading of ch. 39, produce a narration
--color page and map work
--read ch. 40 in SOTW


BIBLE:
--read chapter 97 (II Kings 22,23 and II Chronicles 34, 35)