Meeting #13 2nd-3rd grade

History/Geography --  We began by finding the locations provided by CCM in geography this week.  Following this, the students were introduced to the Parthenon, the Greek temple built for the goddess Athena.  The children did a craft which included interesting facts about this topic.

Religion -- we talked about the 7th and 10th Commandment and the students drew pictures depicting what is commanded or forbidden by these commandments.

English --   Lesson 47 was covered-- a short story was read aloud and the children either retold the story in their own words in their notebooks, or copied the first two sentences of the story from the board.   During this time we also read the poem "The Months," and discussed the first stanza.   We also looked at some Latin and Greek roots, and tried to figure out what English words might come from them.

Science -- the enthusiasm was fantastic!  Though most were reluctant to start on the owl pellet dissection, once they began they really enjoyed this activity.  We found that most pellets contained rodents, though we had one bird, and the kids tried to match the bones with the ones found in the charts.