Our First Day in 2010 and assignments for next time

Good Chilly Morning!

It was great to be with my students yesterday. We missed Spencer very much and mourn with him as he mourns his family's loss and rejoice with him as he rejoices in a new sister!

Many thanks to Terry Beach and Beth Langehans for being our helpers yesterday. Show and Tell was great and long. Spencer, feel free to bring yours next week! In Bible, we watched part of The Prince of Egypt and enjoyed that very much. We pressed on past the review in Latin into lesson 12. We worked on some of the homework activities in class for that lesson. Hopefully, this will free up some time for you to do the review at home.

Because only one student had read the Gandhi book, lit was short. Another had done some research apart from the book and those two students shared their thoughts on this man's life and accomplishments. I hope each of you will make time to read the book. In history, we talked about WWI and the sad episode it was in human history. We listened to the poem In Flander's Field and talked about its history. We talked about the beginnings of communism and Lenin as well as women getting the right to vote. I began reading a book about Lizzie Stanton and her work for suffrage for women. It is at our library and you may want to secure it for your child to read.

We pressed on into Week 15 with the memory work. Science consisted of doing an experiment suggested in our history activity guide about hemophilia. It was most insightful. I will devote double time to geography next time because we did not spend time there yesterday. Please bring your maps.

I hope your week is fruitful.

love,
Mrs. Tkach

ASSIGNMENTS: (that I would like to see done before next time)

1. Read chapter 33 in Bible.
2. Work on Week 15 memory work.
3. Read chapters 1 through 9 in The Night Journey
4. Read chapter 22 in SOTW
5. Do review R in Latin and the rest of lesson 12 activities. On Monday January 11 write lesson 13 words 3 times each