thoughts on 4/8/08 and assignments for 4/15/08

Hello families!

We had a great day of learning. It was a relaxed day with time for reading some books and reviewing Latin and playing outside. We enjoyed all those things.

We spent time studying the Reformation in history and sea stars and sea urchins in science. We discussed Robin and the "doors" he's encountered so far in our book and hammered away at Shurley. We already recognized that sentences with double negatives just don't sound right. Now, we know why and how to correct them. We visited, again, verb tenses. I hope this helps your week with grammar go more smoothly. Bible time was interesting as we tried to keep the Northern and Southern kingdoms straight in our thoughts. We decided that not getting prideful and to always obey God were the lessons we took from our time with God's word.

Here are next weeks assignments. (I'm excited that my Music and Worship Leader from church will be joining us to enhance our study of Martin Luther. Join us, if you can, at 10:30!)

HISTORY:
--be sure to put your "web" into your notebook to take the place of a narration on the reformation this week
--map work and color pages
--Each student is to produce a report on their assigned Reformer. This report must be at least a half page in length. It is to include : 1. His life span 2. his country 3. his contribution to the Reformation 4. any interesting facts you discover 5. what you liked or disliked or what impressed you about him. The second page is to be an illustration. This can be printed off the internet or your own drawing. We will present these reports in class next week and then bind them together to form our own book on the Reformation. I promise I drew the names from a hat to decide who had who!!!
John Wycliffe--Libby
Martin Luther--Whitney
Philipp Melanchthon--Emily
Huldreich Zwingli--Woods
Conrad Grebel--Kitty
John Calvin--Chloe
Henry VIII--Noah
John Knox--Ayla
William Tyndale--Luke
Elizabeth I(Queen Elizabeth)--Ona
Sources of information can be the World Book, library books, internet, etc.
--read ch. 37

SCIENCE:
--produce a narration on the first half of lesson 11 (pgs. 173--178)
--read the rest of lesson 11

LITERATURE:
--complete you section of the study guide
--read pgs. 86 through the end of the book

GRAMMAR:
--administer test on ch. 18
--complete ch. 19 from the teaching text
--be sure to complete the vocab from ch. 19 with definitions and sentences

BIBLE:
--read ch.93 from our Bible book. This story is taken from II Kings 16, 17 and II Chronicles 28

Did everyone notice a new name sprinkled throughout our assignments? We may have a new student next week named Chloe. Let's make her welcome as she joins us for the rest of this year.

I love each of my students. Enjoy them and treasure them this week.

Mrs. Tkach