reflections on today and assignments for 4/27/09

Whew! We had a packed day and it was great to be back with my students. Many thanks to Mrs. Tronda for being my able assistant.

We've decided to keep the same pace with Bible (3 lessons per week). Today we heard the story and did a Word Search to go along with it. In Latin, we got a good start in making our flashcards. They will finish these for homework and study for Friday's test.

In history, we had a fun competition to see who could record the most facts from a video on Simon Bolivar. We were all rewarded with chocolate (a major product of South America!) but Chloe was the grand prize winner of a huge Hershey's bar with around 30 facts. Everyone did a great job! In literature we did a fun kick-off activity in which we made up our own adventure stories using props we drew from a bag. Ask you student about it--we had a lot of fun. We tasted watered down gruel, which Riddock loved(?) and watched 30 minutes of the musical Oliver.

In science, we finally conducted our Neptune lab. I explained that we will pull all these pages together into a folder to create a Solar System Book. They will receive a grade on the book so I encouraged them to start looking over their pages. If they rushed or did some of them sloppily, I can make more copies for them to re do. I had a great project planned in which we would cook Peruvian Rice Pudding, but we ran out of time. I will probably do it on Friday even though we will have moved out of this chapter.

Lots of plans are being laid for next year. It is an exciting time for Trinity. Let us all pray for God's Wisdom over the planning and that we will know the decisions and paths He has for our school.

Much love to all. . .
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
Grammar: 3rd: Look at lesson 77 to help review the B section on Review One. Complete section C and D of Review One orally.
--Complete Review Two on page 252 to turn in. Study any difficult sections so that you will be ready for Friday's test.

2nd: --complete Review Two of Unit Four on page 236. We will test on Friday.

Literature: --make a list of names for orphans using the letters of the alphabet. I included a sheet to do this on and explained the assignment in class
--read chapter 8 through ch. 13

History:--complete map work for ch. 34
--read chapter 35
--produce a narration on one of the sections of the chapter.
--complete mapwork for ch. 35
--optional color page

Science:--show parents our lab page. Explain how for 20 or so years out of Pluto's revolution around the sun, it is closer to the sun than Neptune.
--begin looking at your pages to see if they are in good shape. I can provide you with copies of any you want to re do. (More about this project soon)

Latin:--study lessons 16--20
--complete page 100
--finish making flashcards from page 98
--choose study method that best suits you: reviewing flash cards or completing page 99
--bring flash cards to class Friday

Bible:--read chapter 53
--draw a picture about the lesson. Do good work, not fast work! (Originally, I wanted a narration so make this picture nice.)