Day's Recap and assignments for 10/3/08

Dear Families,

We had a packed day. Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy. There is so much I want to do in class and sometimes I'm stubborn and insist on doing it all. This was one of those days and poor Mrs. Hatchell (Chloe's mom) was my helper. She will rest well tonight!!! Thank you and God bless!

We wrapped up our study of Daniel by emphasizing his courage and faith. Many of us know people named Daniel because he was such a great Bible hero to be named after. However, we did talk about whether he was perfect or not and reminded ourselves that ALL have sinned and are in need of a Savior. We look forward to talking with him in heaven one day.

Latin was a huge success because candy was involved! The students got a chance to stump Mrs. Tkach. If they asked me a Latin question from any of the lessons we've studied and I couldn't answer it--they won a bag of skittles. They cleaned me out! I'll have to study before doing that activity again.

History was my favorite, as usual. We made a giant map on the floor of Henry Hudson's routes. We took turns sailing a Lego ship trailing some yarn to make a permanent visual of each of the routes. Ask your student why he claimed the New Amsterdam (present day New York) area for the Dutch instead of the English.

We covered two short, easy lessons in grammar and got out to lunch only a little late. When we returned we made pilgrim hats to enjoy our William Bradford celebration in. We had corn, pumpkin, turkey, and sunflower seeds--washed down with cherry juice. Let your child tell you about it. We will miss this great book but I teased them with how they'll enjoy our next one even more.

We conducted Water Cycle Lab #1 and watched water turn from solid to liquid to gas. We also saw it move from gas to liquid by cooling the steam over my boiling pan and seeing it condense on a cold cookie sheet. The page may be filled out a bit sloppy but I think they were able to see the process clearly.

Lastly we talked briefly about fool's gold and a gentleman that gave up promising explorations to retrieve loads of gold for England only to find out it was pyrite. Your child learned some of the tests to prove what is real gold and what is fake. See if they can tell you.

Enjoy your children and learning along side them. Please let me hear any concerns you have.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
Grammar:
3rd: -- review lesson 13 on pg. 42
--complete exercise A pg. 42
--complete exercise B & C for #7--12
--at parent's discretion, complete lesson 14 which is a review. No need to turn anything in.
--review lesson 15 on page 46
--complete Exercise A #7--12 on page 46
--complete exercise B and C

2nd:--review Unit 1, Lesson 14 on page 36
--go over "For You to Do" orally (nothing written)
--complete "More Practice and Review"
--review Unit 1, Lesson 16 on page 40
--complete "For You To Do"
--review lesson 1 in Unit 2 page 68
--complete exercise A pg. 69
--complete exercise B, #1--5

Literature:
--go over and familiarize your student with the vocabulary hand out for the first chapter of Mr. Revere and I
--read the first chapter (The reading level for this book is quite a bit higher than our last one. Probably all my students will need you to read to them at least at first.)
--complete review questions

History:
--put hand out in your history section after reviewing with a parent
--produce a narration on Henry Hudson's last days (what happened, why it happened, who was with him)
--do chapter 4 mapwork
--(optional) color pages
--read first half of ch. 5

Science:
--repair your lab instruments (some students took home supplies I provided for repairs)
--continue making weather observations each day
--bring in lab sheets from your weather journal for a progress check next time.
--go over what we did in class with parents (use Water Cycle Lab Sheet to tell them)

Latin:
--review Lesson 4 on page 18 & 19
--complete page 20

Bible:
--with a parent, read through handout entitled "Ezra Background"
--read first half of ch. 106 (through top right column on page 248)
--choose one of the following options:
1. complete Supplemental Exercise using a KJV of Ezra 9:10--15 OR
2. complete a narration on the reading

I forgot to mention your children reciting the 23rd Psalm. Several had it completely done. I was proud of everyone's effort. Mrs. Nicole joined us and was touched.