reflections on our day and assignments for 9/19

Dear Families,

My youngest, Arianna, is ill so this will be short and sweet. We had a VERY busy day. Great lessons in Bible (ask about our SO WHAT) and Latin. We're struggling through memorizing those rules in Lesson 2 about dipthongs and soft or hard consonants. Then the projests started! We painted Scottish tartans to wear as kilts. (These weren't dry by departure time so they'll come home next time.) We experimented with making ink as William Bradford had to and writing with a quill. Lastly, we made weather vanes.

Mrs. Beth unexpectedly became our helper and she was worked hard! Many thanks.

Have a great couple of days and pray for my Arianna if you think of her.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:

Grammar:
3rd grade:
--review lesson 7 on page 29 & 30
--complete exercises A & B under "Working With Sentences"
--Do "Can You Do This?"
--at parents discretion, complete lesson 8 which is a review (no need to turn anything in to me)
2nd grade:
--review lesson 11 on pg. 30
--complete handout sheet (about diagraming)
--complete "For You to Do" on pg. 31
--complete exercise B on pg. 31
--review unit 2, lesson 24 on pg. 114
--complete #2--5 under "For You to Do" on pg. 115

Literature:
--continue memorizing Psalm 23
--look up Puritans in a child-friendly encyclopedia. Write down a small paragraph explaining who the Puritans were
--read ch. 7 & 8
--do review questions on these chapters

History:
--review and report to your parent/teacher what we discussed about Mary, Queen of Scots.
--produce a narration on The Queen Without a Country, ILLUSTRATE
--read ch. 3, James and His Enemies

Science:
--explain and demonstrate weather vane to family
--read through "Keeping a Science Journal" paragraph on handout
--skim through seasonal suggestions in handout
--pick one of the suggestions or make up one of your own and make your first science journal entry. Only 3 requirements for the entry: 1. date 2. weather 3. who you went with. (The one spiral I put on the supply list is for this purpose. I tried to send home one to those students who brought back their supplies to me. We are now in our final room assignment, so if anyone else wants to bring in their supplies, I have a shelf to keep them on now. Also, there is no need for the students to haul the big notebook back and forth each time. Just put the returned papers in it when they get home.)
--bring you science journal to class next time and volunteers can share

A final comment. We have a loving, kind, and VERY chatty group of students. I'm trying a new reward system. We put marbles in a glass when I observe positive behavior and remove some if we're too talkative. When the glass is full, we'll have a party. I was a bit lax today but I'm going to tighten up from here on out. We're losing too much valuable class time. Warn them for me.