What an amazing day we had!!! I sure hope you've heard some about it. It started with show-and-tell so you know it was great. We had a few visitors--Emily and Sarah Avera and Annie Martin. They were a great addition to our class. Many thanks to Mrs. Joy Avera for being out helper.
We hammered away at Latin and I was most impressed. Memorizing those chants is vital and it seems everyone has them down. Yeah! We've moved to the second conjugation and I actually feel I know what that means this year!
For lit, we went outside and pretended to be walking on the moving earth of Krakatoa. We tried to get out "mountain legs". After lunch, we brainstormed ideas for inventions. We will spend time next week creating inventions. Some children want to make one at home to bring in. That is fine. They can do both.
We added muscles to our bodies in science and listened to some facts from our book about muscles. We were able to connect this learning with our memory work about the three types of muscles from earlier in the year. Hooray for connections!
I have to get to the highlight of the day. My dear friend, Sharon Mansell, brought her precious family in to class to share with us. Stephanie Fowler's class joined us. Sharon and her husband, Mark, adopted six children from Ethiopia. They came in dressed in their traditional clothes and the oldest, Maddie, shared much about her life in Ethiopia--both in the orphanage and before when they were still with their Mom. Her tender story and her pure love for her Saviour shone through and there were very few dry eyes in the room. The children sang a couple songs for us then led us in prayer--Ethiopian style! Ask your child about it. The name of the six children are: Maddie, Eska, Bethlehem, Hattie Hope, Yordie, and Hoptamu. Two of Sharon's non-Ethiopian children joined us as well--Elaina and Jillian. Of course we had Ethiopian food to try and we ate it as the Ethiopians do. Ask your child how.
What fun it is to be part of a school that can expose our children to these kind of learning experiences.
I didn't even tell the children Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you each have a wonderful, relaxing holiday. I am traveling with my family to Texas for the week. I will see you in December!
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read chapter 25 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Learn week 11 memory work. Here's a link for the hand motions for weeks 11--20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
3. Finish reading our lit book. Bring in any boxes, cardboard tubes, misc. "stuff" to create an imaginary invention with next time.
4. For history, prepare to teach your section per my e-mail.
5. Complete lesson 8 exercises in latin. Don't forget to utilize the exercises in the back of the book. Also, I forgot to assign writing the vocab three times each for this lesson. It would probably still be beneficial to do so. On Monday, November 30th, write the vocab for lesson 9 three times each.
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