assignments for May 13, 2008

Hello!

I'm sorry to be so late posting my blog. We had a great day yesterday. I feel we hit all subjects well. We really had three history lessons. A brief review of Queen Elizabeth via a video Chloe shared with us. We spent a larger amount of time with Shakespeare through discussion, making eye-of-newt stew (from MacBeth) and reading the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. We ended by starting another video on the The Lost Colony of Roanoke. I plan to start the day with seeing the end of it next time. Mrs. Joy Avera, Emily's mom, was our helper--many thanks!

I'll be in touch this week (I hope) regarding what our class will be doing at the Open House on May 22. It is hard for me to try to contain all I want to show of our year into a reasonable time limit. There are so many things your students have done that I am so proud of.

HISTORY:
--narration on ch. 40
--map and color page
--read ch. 41

GRAMMAR:
--using reference 54 on page 43, write a narrative on anything you like. First, produce a story element outline like in the reference and like I showed you on the board during class. Then write your story. Have both pages ready to turn in to me.
--do vocab work for ch. 22--definitions and sentences for all eight words

SCIENCE:
--read pages 201 through 208
--produce a narration on this reading
--enter Aristotle's lantern (pg. 179), nematocysts (pg. 186), mesoglea (pg. 188), smacks (pg. 189) planula (pg. 189) and pinacoderm (pg. 203) into your science spirals. Just enter the term and develop a simple definition from the text. We'll enter the last words of the year next time for homework. After studying these we'll have a rousing game of "around-the-world" with the science terms on the last day of school!

LITERATURE:
--read Chanticleer
--on a piece of paper write down 3 similes from the story and the page you found them on
--look for a metaphor (I haven't found one yet but I'm going to re-read looking for one)
--On the second to the last page, the two animals tell the lessons they learned in the story. In your own words, write down what Chanticleer learned and what the fox learned.

BIBLE:
--read chapter 98 which is from Jeremiah 1,20, and 36; 2 Kings 24; 2 Chronicles 36

See you Tuesday!
Mrs. Tkach