One Busy Day!!! and assignments for 5/12/09

Dear Families,

Whew! It's May and we're all so busy with all the things that culminate in May. It is a struggle to keep the children focused so that we may finish well. I'm in complete sympathy with them. We keep marching on. . .

Bible is always a great time. We heard another story about the miracles of the Early Church and then had fun with a word search. In Latin we stumped Mrs. Tkach and it cost me a lot of Air Heads. Almost everyone recited the Lord's Prayer and we finished learning the First Declension. (All we really need to remember at this point is that declensions go with nouns. Next week we'll learn about conjugations which go with verbs.)

History was packed today! We heard two books: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky and The Trail of Tears. We went over our review questions and learned some Indian sign language. We then plowed on into the next chapter. I read it to them (ch. 39), we did the map work, received a color page, and got a narration together to keep their notebooks complete. My plan is to have all of next week on TEXAS!!! We'll have some fun and learn as well.

Literature was the best! The first preacher I had upon moving to Beaufort taught me "It is much easier to ask forgiveness than permission." Frederick came to our room and was Mr. Crockett. We went across the street and he taught us to shoot at a coon skin cap with his air-soft gun. We even rested our elbow on a stool as Davy did in the book. The gun wasn't very authentic but with this age, no one cared. Everyone got two chances and no one (not even Frederick) hit the target. We made an effort to clean up the plastic pellets but couldn't find them. They are glow in the dark, so if any of you want to go look for them in the graveyard tonight, please, by all means. . . When a carriage of tourists stopped in our line of fire, I decided it was time to end the activity. In literature we ate cornbread, turnips and hominy just like Davy's family. Riddock LOVES turnips. Mrs. Nicole stopped by and tasted her first ever. What a great sport!

I forgot to mention that Mrs. Brenda Gudzan was our helper and she did a great job. We moved through three easy grammar lessons of which there won't be much homework. In science, I collected the beautiful Solar System Folders and we heard some of the student's reports. Two are coming in on Tuesday. I am so very proud of how everyone did on this project and with these reports. We invited the 4th/5th grade class over to watch "The Magic School Bus gets Lost in Space".

We ended a bit early so we could sign yearbooks in the courtyard. I'm moving one college boy home this weekend and one next week. Remember I will be out on Friday to enjoy Thomas' graduation.

Work hard on your studies. Only four more classes. Happy Mother's Day!

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS: grgr
Grammar: 3rd: --scan lesson 112 on page 280
--complete Review and Practice on page 281--2
--review lesson 113
--complete "Writing Directions" on page 283
--complete "Review and Practice"
--review lesson 115
--complete Working With A Friendly Letter

2nd: read lesson 7 on page 312
--complete ex. A, #1 and 2
--complete ex. B
--read lesson 8 on page 314
--complete ex. A
--read lesson 9 on page 316
--complete ex. A

Literature: --define vocabulary words; BE SURE your definition makes sense in our text.
--read page 74--110

History:--read first half of ch. 40
--produce a narration (I plan to send an e-mail with some hints on making this easier.)
--map work
--optional color page

Science: NONE!

Latin: complete page 115

Bible: read chapter 61