Jacob and I have been working the last few days to help him catch up with his Italian homework. In the course of one month's time, he has hopped from one country to another, from one language to another, from one city to another, from one school to another, from one teacher to another, from one set of textbooks to another...you get the picture.
I am so proud of him for facing the challenge and sticking with it. Tonight he was introduced to the difference between vertebrate and invertebrate animals (vertebrali/invertebrali) and definite and indefinite articles (articoli definitivi e indefinitivi). His grammar homework involved reading a two-page story and underlining 20 article/noun combinations (all of this in Italian) and then in his notebook to label each one. For those of you who are going, 'huh?', let me illustrate. This is what he had to write for each one:
la fata (the fairy)
la = articolo definitivo, femminile, singolare (the = definite article, feminine, singular)
fata = nome comune di cosa, femminile, singolare (fairy = common noun, feminine, singular)
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I'm so proud of him. After eight long hours of school, he still has the strength, the stamina, the willingness to hammer out a long assignment and learn in two languages the words and terms for indefinite articles and vertebrate animals.
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The Sunken Church
This blog follows the life, ministry and adventures of the Casey family. We were missionaries in Ancona, Italy from 2000 until 2011. We are now adventuring in the US of A, experimenting with running a business, growing a garden, raising a family and challenging the Church to break outside the box and adopt new forms to reach a new generation with the truth of the Gospel.
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About Me
- Jason Casey
- Born in Santiago, Chile I have grown up on the move - lived in some 15 different homes. I am a 'word' person - enjoying almost anything to do with books and literature. I love exploring God's great world and helping people find their place in it.
sunken
The story goes like this:
There once was a church down by the port in Ancona, Italy. With the passing of time, shaken by earthquakes and beaten by the winds, the foundations of the church crumbled and the church toppled into the sea. A friend of ours shared with us that she remembers, as a little girl, playing along the pier and seeing the remains of the church under the water. She remembers seeing the cross from the top of the church under the surface. She told us that some say that if the wind was strong enough and the waves choppy enough, you could even hear the bells...
The story leads to this question:
If we were to raise her out of the water, if we were to restore her completely to what she was originally intended to be...what would she look like? If we were to remove her from all the traditions that humankind has surrounded her with and drowned her in...who would she be?
2 comments:
Chloe had trouble with viventi, non viventi. I tried to help her look at the different pictures and decide if something was living or non-living. She pointed to a picture of some kind of plant, and she said non-living. I told her that plants are alive and her teacher said that it couldn't be alive because it doesn't move.
Uhhhh...
Oh, what a sweet kid. My heart feels for you guys about the whole education thing with your kids. Wish Heather and I could just teach all SIX kids together--what a hilarious academy that would be. :) Love you guys!
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