a recap of our day and assignments for 10/14

Hello!

We had another action-packed day. Bible discussion is always surprisingly deep. I wish all could hear your children's thoughts on our Bible talks. You should be very proud and touched by their simple honesty. I believe everyone officially has the Sanctus memorized except for me. Your children are gifted in their language abilities. Keep it up.

We read some great books about life in Plimouth Plantation. Now, for my surprise! We are so familiar with the information we read in SOTW that we produced a narration as a class. Mrs. Joy, who was my helper, was our scribe. We produced a summary and she copied it down for us. You will find it in your child's assignment folder. It can be put in their notebook as a summary instead of having to do one for homework. Gamaliel had already done a narration and read it to us. We used alot of his ideas for our class summary.

We had a brief, but important grammar lesson about showing possession or ownership by using apostrophe s ('s). The lesson was straightforward and I think everyone "got it".

After lunch, we had to have a heart-to-heart talk about play that is appropriate at Trinity. I called it "rough boy play" although, often girls like this play, too. It is perfectly fun and enjoyable but just not at Trinity. We cannot have slapping, hitting, swatting bottoms, etc-- even if it's just for fun. These have their place, just not at school.

I had so many activities I wanted to accomplish with our literature time. We did go out for a picnic like the British soldiers enjoyed. We played rounders and hopscotch and shot chickens. We ate turnips and talked about how this was all some people had to use for money. They were even used in betting on the horse races! We went outside and saw that a furlong is roughly the distance around the block of St Helena's sanctuary. Sherry would have raced around 12 times to equal the distance she ran in the race on Boston Commons. Lastly, Mrs. Joy weighed us and we converted our weight into stones--a unit for measuring weight in old England.

We joined the 4th and 5th graders and viewed a video about weather for a short while then finished off our day with our science quiz.

Slow down. . .enjoy your little ones. . .your middle ones. . .even your big ones. (I'm talking to myself!) I'll see you on Tuesday.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
Grammar:
3rd:--review lesson 19 on page 53
--complete exercise B
--complete "Review and Practice" on pg. 54

2nd:--complete handout sheet
--read and review Unit 1, Lesson 22
--complete "For You To Do" #1--7
--complete "More Practice and Review" orally with Mom

Literature:
--finish "Sons of Liberty" report
--review vocab then read ch. 5
--answer review questions

History:
--mapwork
--(optional) color page
--read "The Dutch in the New World"
--be sure and wear long pants next Tuesday

Science:
--continue weather journal

Latin:
--review as needed
--complete pg. 25

Bible:
--read the rest of ch. 106
--illustrate the Jews rebuilding the wall