Our Cold, Rainy Day and assignments for 1/16

Dear Parents,

I feel we had a productive day. We missed Woods and tried not to envy him since he was at DISNEY!!! Kirsten was missing and may school at home for a while. She is missed greatly.

After an in-depth grammar lesson during Latin we moved into a lengthy History lesson. We constructed a narration on this lengthy chapter and it took a while. Mrs. Tronda, my able assistant, functioned as a scribe for us. Many thanks! Your child has a copy in their homework folder for you to place in their notebook.

We launched into the be verbs during grammar. The third graders need to memorize all eight of the forms of the be verb. Literature was interesting because we talked about comparing and contrasting. We had a huge Venn Diagram on the board and we stood Amelia and Gamaliel up in front and filled the diagram up as we compared and contrasted them. The "Portraits" page came home again--this time it was suppose to! We read our reports on Rudyard Kipling. Mrs. Tronda and Chloe had found some interesting facts concerning him and the formation of the Boy Scouts. He was a part of that process and certain designations were taken from The Jungle Book. (Wolf Scout, Den Mother, Pack, etc.) I think she has the article if any are interested in a copy.

We finished our day by joining the 4th/5th graders for a video on erosion. As we waited for dismissal we heard some more of Kit in The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

I almost forgot to mention our Black Hole of Calcutta project. It was delicious!!! Ask your student. . .

Sounds like the weather is going to make this week a good one to spend working hard on our schooling. Enjoy each other and maybe try a few "selfless acts" again.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:

Grammar: 3rd:--review lesson 36 on page 143
--complete ex. A on pg. 144--odd only
--complete ex. B
--optional--"Can You Do This?"
--review lesson 57 on pg. 145
--complete ex. A on pg. 146
--complete "Verbs of Action and Being"
--complete Review and Practice (be ready to put one on the board on Friday)

2nd: read lesson 21 on pg. 108
--complete "For You To Do"
--complete ex. B (even only)
--read lesson 22 on page 110
--complete Ex. A and B on page 111

Literature:
--finish reading the book
--complete "Portraits" page ( In class I told my students they HAD to compare themselves to Mowgli. I've changed my mind and want them to choose the character they want to compare themselves to. I remember Amelia, in particular, wanted to be able to choose.)

History:
--read chapter 20
--choose either to write a narration or complete review questions that I will e-mail to you
--mapwork
--optional color page

Science:
--tell you parents something you remember from the video

Latin:
--review lesson 12
--complete page 60

Bible:
--read ch. 18
--write a narration summarizing this chapter