thoughts on today and assignments for 11/7/08

Dear Families,

I feel breathless after a busy day. We had fun, learned, and were kind to one another. Many thanks to Amelia's mom, Mrs. Amy, for helping us. She was great!

Somehow I got us off on Bible lessons, so we won't start the New Testament until next week. We enjoyed sharing our favorite Bible stories today. We are pressing on in Latin and are continuing to learn more and more Latin nouns. This seems to be one of our favorite subjects. Grammar is . . .well. . . . .grammar. We concentrated on knowing when a word needs just a "s" for becoming plural and when it needs an " 's " to show possession.

History was interesting--we were all glad to be back studying European history even if it was about a civil war in England. We studied some fact cards that came out of the chapter and then quizzed each other on them. Mrs. Amy put these together and made copies. This can serve as a narration on this part of the chapter. Also, I included a couple of sheets for you to read when you have time. These are suggestions that come from the front of the SOTW Activity Guide that I use. Alot of it may not be applicable but there are some great hints for helping your child with the narrations.

Everyone loves The Three Musketeers! We learned some sword movements from an article on fencing that I brought in. See if your child can show you these three positions: 1. On Guard 2. lunge and 3. parry. I brought in some great foam swords for us to use throughout our study of this book. We discussed the events so far and made a rough picture sequence of some of the adventures in the first chapters. Also we completed a pre-reading activity sheet together.

Science finished our day as we applied "force" and changed a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock. Ask you scientist about it!

Enjoy learning with your students over the next two days.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
Grammar:--3rd
--review lesson 32 on page 86
--complete exercises A and B
--review lesson 33 on page 88
--complete exercises A and B

2nd
--read lesson 17 on page 158
--complete #1--5 of "For You To Do"
--complete #1--5 of "More Practice and Review"
--read lesson 18 on page 160
--complete Oral Drill orally with Mom
--read lesson 19 on page 162
--complete ex. A on pg. 163
--complete handout sheet

Literature:
--show parents fencing positions
--read ch. 5,6,7 and 8

History:
--mapwork
--optional color page
--use class info as your narration after quizzing your family on the facts we discussed in class
--read the rest of ch. 12

Science:
--go over the science handout sheet about testing rocks for hardness
--We will not be conducting Mineral Lab #6 in class. Feel free to do this one at home and bring it in to show the class if your student so desires.

Latin:
--review lesson 7
--complete page 36

Bible:
--read Psalm 119:1--88
--try keeping a tally of how many times the Psalmist talks about listening to God's Word (Note: statutes, precepts, commandments, law, judgements, etc. are all words that also refer to God's Word)