A Great Day! Assignments for 3/2/10

Dear Families,

I'm not sure why I feel the day was such a success but I do. It seemed the children were really focused and we had meaningful learning! The day started with a very informative guest. Mr. McCoy of Lowcountry Horology visited our class to inform us about the profession of watchmaking. He was awesome. He went into the history of keeping time and told us about watchmaking during the time of Casper ten Boom. He brought samples and tools that we were allowed to handle. He was great. His shop is in a small building next door to the Barber shop that is across from the Bi-Lo shopping center near Paris Island. Several students want to pay him a visit. Many thanks to Mrs. Victoria for being our helper. We enjoyed having Spencer's little brother and sister with us today, as well.

I shared some of my Dad's stories from his time in the Marines in the South Pacific. Our discussion did get political as I defended out country's actions during WWII. Try drawing out from your child what he/she learned today. You can correct any misconceptions I may have imparted. We read a book about a Japanese/American girl being sent to a camp from her home in California. I explained my understanding of the rationale behind this policy. I also distributed information about the leaflets we dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the bombs were dropped. We also planted our Victory Garden. The plan is for it to live at everyone's house each week. We'll play that by ear. It went home with Chloe today.

We are about finished with our unit on the human body and I am considering ways we can show off our knowledge. Latin went extremely well--your students are amazing. If they could each do the work at home, I know they could be soaring above the group in the next class older than us. For those putting in the effort, it really shows--keep it up!

We pressed on in memory work and tested ourselves on states and capitals.

Enjoy each other this week and call anytime with questions or concerns.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read lesson 47 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Practice Week 18 memory work.
3. Finish reading Corrie and read first two chapters of Twenty and Ten. Be sure to read the Preface page and About the Author at the end.
--in conjunction with this reading, research what a DP is. Research the Biblical Account of the Holy Family fleeing into Egypt in all four Gospels. Be ready to tell all you know about it.
--Don't read ahead! Speculate about the relationship between Henry and Janet.
4. In History you're going to be the teachers again! Please read the following assigned sections of Chapters 30 and 31 of SOTW and be ready to thoroughly present/teach the information contained in your pages.
Woods--1st section of Ch. 30, pages 329--332
Spencer--2nd section of Ch. 30, pages 332--336
Amelia--Ch. 31, pages 339--1st 4 lines of 341
Talia--Ch. 31, starting with the first paragraph on page 341 through 343.
Chloe--2nd section of Ch. 31, pages 345--349
Mills--Help Woods by illustrating his pages.
5. Complete Lesson 18 exercises in Latin. Suggested breakdown for the week:
Wed--exercises B and C
Thurs--exercises D and E
Fri--exercises F and G
Mon--exercise H and write lesson 19 words and meanings 3 times each

assignments for 2/23/10

Dear Families,

We had a HUGELY busy day! I hope some bread made it home to you. We worked hard but I'm afraid it was removed from the oven before its time. You might try finishing baking it at 425 degrees for 10 minutes or so. We did get an idea of how hard Sarah Pucket had to work to earn coins to help her family in the Great Depression. We missed Woods and prayed for you! Mills was in and out with doctor appointments. Many, many thanks to Mrs. Tronda for being our very busy helper.

We had a great discussion on WWII and the different effects from all over the country. The Hatchells brought in letters from the government (one even signed by FDR) about an Uncle killed in the war. We will continue the study next week. We will also plant a Victory Garden (the seeds were accidentally left at my home) next week. Ask your student why they came about.

I hope you each have a great week studying. See you Tuesday!

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Ch. 45 in the Bible Story Book. Be ready to discuss how Moses showed meekness and a merciful heart.
2. We did not watch the memory work power point. However, we did learn the Veritas Cards for week 17. Please move on into the lesson 17 work this week. We will spend time in class on it as well as moving on into week 18 next week.
3. Read the first 7 chapters of the Corrie ten Boom book.
4. Show your parents the hand out from Spencer's book about the lungs. Finish the drawing on the second page.
5. Tell your parents about Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics and his German friend. Read ch. 29 in SOTW.
6. For latin do the review that follows lesson 17. Here's my suggested breakdown for the week:
Wednesday: Complete ex. A of the review
Thursday: Complete ex. B
Friday: complete ex. C
Monday: complete ex. D and E and write lesson 18 vocab three times each

assignments for 2/16/10

Good Evening Families!

I will be short and sweet tonight. We had a great day with an awesome Valentine Party to cap it off. Many thanks to each of you for donations and to Mrs. Irvine for pulling it all together for us. Thanks also to Mrs. Joy for being our very busy helper. We had the honor of having 4 guests--Jacob Beach, Anni Martin, Emily and Sarah Avera.

Please ask you student to recount the day for you--squirrel stew was the highlight. Mrs. Joy was merciless and shamed anyone not willing to taste. Life in the depression was hard!

I love you each and hope you have a great week. Happy Valentines Day!

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Lesson 43 in the Bible Story Book and illustrate how it might have been to regain your land when you heard the trumpet. Be ready to show your picture next week.
2. Practice Week 16 Memory Work.
3. Finish The Bread Winner. Write a 1/2 page reflection on this book. Here are some questions to get you thinking: How would you have felt if you were Sarah? What would you do differently? We don't know if they were Christians. How would that have made a difference?
4. Read Chapter 27 in history.
5. Latin: Wednesday: Teach/show Mom how we did exercise E of lesson 17 in class. Do exercise B of lesson 17
Thursday: do exercise C
Friday: do exercise D and F
Monday: do exercise G and do exercise G of the Review that comes next.
6. Share with your parents about our talk about sin never being in the presence of God and what hope we sinful people have of heaven.

assignments for 2/9/10

Good Evening!

A note about report cards. I was a bit out of my league because I designed the report cards (not my area of expertise). Next was filling them in which is always difficult. I have two to put in the mail tomorrow and I'm sorry to those families that I didn't have them ready today. A part I left off is the following key: E=Excellent, S=Satisfactory, N=Needs Improvement, and U=Unsatisfactory. Study Skills is a vague area that just entails if your student seems ready for class each week. Also, in subjects like Science and Geography that don't have homework, everyone received an S. I hope these give you a snapshot of your students work and will be helpful to you. Please contact me with any questions.

I AM EXHAUSTED! I don't even know why--it was a great day. Two huge highlights were visiting Mrs. Fowler's class to hear Mr. Charles Aimar, 92 years old, tell about the Great Depression in Beaufort. He was awesome! I was so proud of my students and their polite behavior during a long session. We also "showed off" for the entire school our memory work. I spoke with Mrs. Fowler this evening and she told her class not to even hint about complaining about some memory work she plans to require of them after hearing my students today.

Here are some hints to use as you have your student tell you about the highlights of our day: baking soda, incense, spleen, Mao Zedong, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", the Holy of Holies, spending a dime on the movies.

Enjoy your week!

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read chapter 41 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Read Chapters 6--12 in The Bread Winner.
3. Read Chapters 27 in SOTW.
4. Complete Lesson 16 in Latin. Here is a suggested schedule for the week:
Wednesday: Complete exercises B and C
Thursday: Complete exercise D
Friday: Complete exercises E and F
Monday: Complete exercise G and write lesson 17's vocab and meanings three times.

Answers to Latin Exercises for after you've completed Lesson 16 this week:
A. 1. Jesus
2. Christ, Christmas
3. diurnal/natal, nativity
4. no answer
5. angelic, angel
6. magician, magic
7. infant
8. ruby
9. viridian
10. ass, asinine
11. glory
B. 1. ruber
2. Iesus
3. angelus
4. dies natalis
5. infans
6. viridis
7. gloria
8. praesepe
9. magus
10. asinus
11. Christus
C. Christian--Christus
ass--asinus
glorious--gloria
magcian--magus
ruby--ruber
viridescent--viridis
angelic--angelus
D. See Lesson 1,8,5,10,2,6,9,12,14, and 15 in that order to fill in the charts
E. 1. asinus
2. stabulum
3. infans
4. praesepe
5. Iesus
6. angelus
7. pastores
8. oves
9. pastores
10. infans
11. Magi
12. stella
13. Iesus
14. gloria
15. Iesus
16. Christus