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.