reflections and assignments for 12/9/08

Good Morning!

I hope that my not getting the blog up until Saturday won't affect your schooling. We had a great Friday. Mrs. Stokes was with us again--what a trooper! Thank you! (She and Riddock brought us pop rocks to enjoy while studying rocks in Science--what a treat!)

We mixed our schedule up a bit and gave grammar a bit of earlier attention. It wasn't any more fun but I do think the children were more attentive. Our book had a great science lab that we conducted. We applied two different forces to "sediments" and observed the results. Ask your scientist about it. (It involved using a 5 pound hammer!)

In Bible, we illustrated the story and have it up on our classroom wall. Please stop by to admire it. Latin is always fun when we have partners to work on flash cards with. We learned about farming then and now in History and read through a play of A Christmas Carol in lit. They love plays! We may do more along those lines next week.

Enjoy your children this weekend. I heard much excitement about this being Christmas Tree weekend. Ya'll have fun. See if you can look back through your student's Bible work and find their Christmas narrations to read again. They warmed my heart.

love to all. . .
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENT
Grammar
3rd--review lesson 48 on page 117--118
--complete ex. A and B and Review and Practice
--review lesson 49 on page 120
--complete ex. A (even numbers only)
--complete ex. B
NOTE: We will review Unit 2 in class Tuesday to prepare for a test on Friday.

2nd--read lesson 8 on page 140
--complete ex. A # 1 and 2
--complete ex. B # 1 and 2
--complete ex. C
--read lesson 9 on page 142
--discuss the exercises on page 143 orally with Mom
NOTE: We'll have a "mini" quiz as well on Friday. I'll provide a study guide Tues but it will be VERY simple.

Literature:
--do vocab exercise (these are for the remainder of the book because your reading is light for Tuesday)
--read through page 39
(I accidently sent home a sheet comparing character traits. I ran out of time to do that in class and wanted to save it for next time. There's nothing to do with it at home. Your child can bring it back or I will have more copies for Tues.)

History:
--finish narration of Scientific Farming
--read first half of ch. 17

Science:
--describe and discuss our lab with your family
--study the guide for Tuesday's quiz. We'll go over the study guide completely before taking the quiz.

Latin:
--complete page 49--51 (not derivatives)
--study for quiz. Be sure you have the prayer memorized

Bible:
--read chapter 10
--optional word search