Dear Parents,
I enjoyed the day with your children today. We're reading an excellent book and I enjoy discussing it with them. We looked at a map of Berlin that I hope made it home. Several of the sites in our book are shown on the map. We saw a picture of the wall being constructed and discussed writing from different perspectives. In history we learned that Castro closed schools in Cuba for eight months and sent all teachers and students into the countryside to teach the peasants to read. We made books similar to the ones used. His goal was to abolish illiteracy in Cuba. For fun we stood toe to toe and had staring contests. The first one to blink was a communist!
Latin is proceeding well. Mr. Tkach, (Thomas) was in my room after school and said he was impressed with the chants we're learning and that there were many his students don't know. We drilled the features on the US map. My goal is for us to not only be able to name all the rivers, canals, trails, etc. but to point them out on a blank map. We were actors in Bible and had fun improvising. We'll have two probability labs in science when we return.
Many thanks to Mrs. Irvine for her help, today. Please enjoy our break and I will see you in April. The first day back is show-and-tell!
love to all,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read chapter 55 in the Bible Story Book.
2. learn week 22 memory work
3. finish Escape to West Berlin.
4. read chapter 36 in SOTW
5. complete lesson 22 in latin
6. work on memorizing the names and locations of all our geography features from the Classical Conversations book.
7. Read a book over the break of your choice. Below is a link to a book report form that I want you to use to write a book report about your book. It is geared for 4th graders but I want you 3rd graders to give it a try,too.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Happy St. Patrick's Day! and assignments for 3/23/10
Good Evening!
We had a good, and somewhat of a calm day. Many thanks to Spencer's mom, Mrs. Victoria, for helping us. We were able to have a few activites outside because of the great weather.
For Geography, we are really concentrating on the land forms that are identified in the Classical Conversations book after the states and capitals. This is a challenge, but the last map in that book has all of them identified for us. Science was a probability lab from the CC book, too.
We discussed Communism in history as we learned about the Korean conflict. I encouraged my students to ask their parents who they thought was right when Gen McArthur was relieved of command--him or Pres. Truman. The lit read is also a good source to spur conversations about communism. The activity we did in lit involved learning about the genre of realistic fiction. These works include detailed descriptions so we went outside and had to make an accurate representation of a scene. It was a good exercise. We played a game in history to study Ho Chi Minh and his teachings. We spent a good amount of time reviewing chapters 20 and 21 memory work. Latin received a strong portion of our morning and your students are doing great (usually better than their teacher at grasping these latest lessons).
Be sure and wear green tomorrow and enjoy learning together.
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read ch. 53 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Learn week 21 memory work and practice week 20 as well.
3. Read chapters 5--8 in Escape to West Berlin.
4. Describe our Probability lab in science to your parents.
5. I will not be covering ch. 34 in SOTW in class. I will leave it up to you as to how you cover it at home. Read ch. 35 for next week.
6. Complete lesson 21 in Latin. Here is my suggestion for dividing the work.
Wed: ex. B
Thurs: ex. C
Fri: ex. D, E, and F
Mon: ex. G and write lesson 22 words three times each.
7. Review that map at the end of the Classical Conversations book several times this week. We want to work toward not only being able to name the land forms but locate them on our blank maps.
We had a good, and somewhat of a calm day. Many thanks to Spencer's mom, Mrs. Victoria, for helping us. We were able to have a few activites outside because of the great weather.
For Geography, we are really concentrating on the land forms that are identified in the Classical Conversations book after the states and capitals. This is a challenge, but the last map in that book has all of them identified for us. Science was a probability lab from the CC book, too.
We discussed Communism in history as we learned about the Korean conflict. I encouraged my students to ask their parents who they thought was right when Gen McArthur was relieved of command--him or Pres. Truman. The lit read is also a good source to spur conversations about communism. The activity we did in lit involved learning about the genre of realistic fiction. These works include detailed descriptions so we went outside and had to make an accurate representation of a scene. It was a good exercise. We played a game in history to study Ho Chi Minh and his teachings. We spent a good amount of time reviewing chapters 20 and 21 memory work. Latin received a strong portion of our morning and your students are doing great (usually better than their teacher at grasping these latest lessons).
Be sure and wear green tomorrow and enjoy learning together.
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read ch. 53 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Learn week 21 memory work and practice week 20 as well.
3. Read chapters 5--8 in Escape to West Berlin.
4. Describe our Probability lab in science to your parents.
5. I will not be covering ch. 34 in SOTW in class. I will leave it up to you as to how you cover it at home. Read ch. 35 for next week.
6. Complete lesson 21 in Latin. Here is my suggestion for dividing the work.
Wed: ex. B
Thurs: ex. C
Fri: ex. D, E, and F
Mon: ex. G and write lesson 22 words three times each.
7. Review that map at the end of the Classical Conversations book several times this week. We want to work toward not only being able to name the land forms but locate them on our blank maps.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
WHEW! and assignments for 3/16/10
Good Evening!
Our day was packed! Ask your student about folk dancing, thank you notes, rutabagas, snakes, their pancreas, little red books, and performing Friday night!
Enjoy your week and I will see you Friday at the Open House. Watch for e-mails concerning a meeting place to prepare for our performance.
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Ch. 51 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Practice History Memory Sentences through week 19 at least twice before Friday. Do not press on into week 20. We did in class, but I want them to concentrate on our performance material for the Open House.
3. Finish Otis Spofford and read chapters 1-4 in Escape to West Berlin.
4. Read ch. 33 in SOTW.
5. Complete Lesson 20 in latin and write lesson 21 words three times each. Here is a suggested break down for the week. NOTE: This is a challenging lesson--be sure to work diligently on the new material.
Wed: exercises B and C
Thurs: exercises D and E Go over this several times
Fri: exercises F and G
Mon: write lesson 21 words three times each.
Practice ALL the latin chants several times before Friday night.
Our day was packed! Ask your student about folk dancing, thank you notes, rutabagas, snakes, their pancreas, little red books, and performing Friday night!
Enjoy your week and I will see you Friday at the Open House. Watch for e-mails concerning a meeting place to prepare for our performance.
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Ch. 51 in the Bible Story Book.
2. Practice History Memory Sentences through week 19 at least twice before Friday. Do not press on into week 20. We did in class, but I want them to concentrate on our performance material for the Open House.
3. Finish Otis Spofford and read chapters 1-4 in Escape to West Berlin.
4. Read ch. 33 in SOTW.
5. Complete Lesson 20 in latin and write lesson 21 words three times each. Here is a suggested break down for the week. NOTE: This is a challenging lesson--be sure to work diligently on the new material.
Wed: exercises B and C
Thurs: exercises D and E Go over this several times
Fri: exercises F and G
Mon: write lesson 21 words three times each.
Practice ALL the latin chants several times before Friday night.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
assignments for 3/9/10
Dear Families,
We had a busy but fruitful day. Many thanks to Mrs. Karen for helping us and to Mrs. Stephanie for being our guest speaker. She told us of her training and work with the mentally challenged and was able to relate to Corrie ten Boom's love of working with these special people. As a college student, she traveled and was able to hear Miss ten Boom in person!
It is very late so please ask your student all about our day. The History reports were great. I don't plan to share my paycheck this time either--even though you did a great job teaching two chapters.
We are planning to recite our Latin chants and our History sentences/songs at the Open House. We worked on that today and I think we can be ready.
Enjoy each other and I will see you next Tuesday!
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Lesson 49 in the Bible.
2. Practice week 19 memory work. Also, review all our History Sentences at least twice this week.
3. Finish reading Twenty and Ten. Begin reading Otis Spofford through ch. 3.
(A refreshing, light break after such heavy "reads" lately!)
4. Read ch. 32 in SOTW.
5. Complete Lesson 19 in Latin. Suggested daily breakdown:
Wednesday: exercises B and C
Thursday: exercises D and F
Friday: exercises G and H
Monday: Write Lesson 20 words and meanings 3 times each.
Please practice saying all the chants clearly and from memory at least twice this week.
We had a busy but fruitful day. Many thanks to Mrs. Karen for helping us and to Mrs. Stephanie for being our guest speaker. She told us of her training and work with the mentally challenged and was able to relate to Corrie ten Boom's love of working with these special people. As a college student, she traveled and was able to hear Miss ten Boom in person!
It is very late so please ask your student all about our day. The History reports were great. I don't plan to share my paycheck this time either--even though you did a great job teaching two chapters.
We are planning to recite our Latin chants and our History sentences/songs at the Open House. We worked on that today and I think we can be ready.
Enjoy each other and I will see you next Tuesday!
love,
Mrs. Tkach
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Lesson 49 in the Bible.
2. Practice week 19 memory work. Also, review all our History Sentences at least twice this week.
3. Finish reading Twenty and Ten. Begin reading Otis Spofford through ch. 3.
(A refreshing, light break after such heavy "reads" lately!)
4. Read ch. 32 in SOTW.
5. Complete Lesson 19 in Latin. Suggested daily breakdown:
Wednesday: exercises B and C
Thursday: exercises D and F
Friday: exercises G and H
Monday: Write Lesson 20 words and meanings 3 times each.
Please practice saying all the chants clearly and from memory at least twice this week.
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