Our busy Friday and assignments for 3/10/09

Dear Families,

It was a whirlwind of a day! We had our picture taken with the entire Trinity student body. We enjoyed a great pizza party thanks to the Hatchell's generosity. Also Gamaliel brought in cupcakes for today was his birthday. We had show and tell after a two week wait. Mrs. Bachtel was our helper and was great. Another sweet lady with no child in our group but willing to help us. Many thanks!

Boy, I heard such stories about being blind! Hope you enjoyed that activity. In Latin, we played stump Mrs. Tkach and I did pretty well. We then played stump the students and I'm proud of how they did. We are plowing along in learning the Lord's Prayer in Latin. History was interesting as we learned about China, heard a story from Chinese literature, and read about Confuscious. You knew we'd have fun kowtowing to each other.

We jumped into adverbs in grammar and spent more time with poetry during literature. We are creating poetry books that they will be proud of. I think we're learning alot, too. We read an expample of a ballad today and began trying to write a limerick. In science, we joined the 4th/5th grade class to watch a video that showed the different sizes of celestial bodies. It gave great perspective and emphasized that the God that loves and pursues a relationship with each of us and notes each tear we cry is the powerful One that breathed the vast cosmos into existence. Wow!

It was a good day and I hope you have an even better weekend. My Citadel Cadet is bringing two buddies home so I'm loving that I'll be cooking and doing laundry all weekend (I really mean that, too!)

God bless,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
Grammar: 3rd--review lesson 84 on page 214
--complete ex. B and C and Review and Practice

2nd--read lesson 11 on page 204
--complete Oral Drill with Mom
--complete For You To Do

Literature:
--continue reading; 30 minutes a day minimum. Your book report is due next Friday. I don't want anyone to "sweat" the reports, I just want to hear what the book was about.

History:
--finish your kowtow picture and explain it to your family. Hang it in your room or some approved place. Try to convince your family to kowtow everytime they pass it!
--read the first half of ch. 29
--produce a narration

Science:
--tell parents about the video
--a couple of students still need to bring in their 2-liter bottle cut in half

Latin:
--review lesson 18
--complete page 89

Bible:
--read chapter 40