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Grammar One Blog – Barker and Johnson

Posted by Sarah Johnson

May you all have a wonderful and safe Spring Break!

For the week of: March 15 – 19

Important Information –

Mrs. Barker’s Grammar One

* Snack Bucket this week: Leah Stephenson

Mrs. Johnson’s Grammar One

*Look for a new snack schedule in your child’s Green Take Home Folder this week.

Both Grammar One classes

* Lots of events this week. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher in you have questions:

Monday: Grammar One will be having a field trip during lunch to the Waco Suspension Bridge. Contact your child’s teacher if you are able to drive and how many students you can carry.

Friday: Parents, Grandparents and special friends are welcome to come to Live Oak for Grandparent’s Day. Lunch will be $7 and served at 11:00 and Grandparents can visit classrooms in the afternoon.

Saturday: We hope to see you all in the evening for Live Oak’s Gala and Auction.

* The the covered wagons look amazing. Thank you for helping your child complete their family history project.

* Don’t forget to pack your child a water bottle every day.

* Please help your child remember their library book each week.

Homework

Monday: Reading, Spelling: SWM pg. 21, co. 1,  Math: pg. 80 – 82

Tuesday: Reading, Spelling: SWM pg. 21, co. 2, Math: pg. 83 – 85

Wednesday: Reading, Spelling: SWM pg. 21

Thursday: Reading, Spelling: SWM Missed Words, Math: pg. 86 – 88

Friday: Reading  

This week in class…

Math: This week students will continue adding three one-digit numbers to aid understanding multiplication.

Spelling: Students will continue to study all 70 phonograms throughout the year and they will also add 30 new words to their Spelling Notebooks. Students have also been learning many new spelling rules to add to their spelling words. Ask your child which rules he or she remembers.

Writing/Grammar: Students will be studying excerpts from How to Eat Fried Worms for narration and copy work. Students will also improve memorization of poems and identifying abbreviations and nouns in quality poems.

History: March is Texas history month for Grammar One. This week they will be learning about events leading up to the battle of the Alamo.

Science:  Our students will be studying types of flowers and accurately coloring them.

Bible: Grammar One continues to study the New Testament. This week, students will attend to “The Parable of the Wedding Feast,” “Jesus’ Enemies Come with Questions.”

 Please make sure to check the music, art and Spanish blogs for more updates about your child’s week. Our Spanish teacher, Sra. Watters, will post homework assignments on her blog. Be sure to check her blog for clarification on homework.

Art with Ms. Dougherty

Posted by jdougherty

Artist of the Quarter:  Paul Cezanne

“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”  — Paul Cezanne

Grammar Spanish

Posted by jwatters

22-26 de febrero

We will begin work on the fifth unit of our TPR Spanish, La familia.  New vocabulary for this first week is:  la familia, el padre, la madre, el hermano, la hermana, el perro.  We will be using our new vocabulary in games, songs, and even skits!  And of course, we will not stop at these six words but learn so much more around them!

Also, this week we will begin practicing our Spanish dances with Mrs. Bradley!   

Keep up the good work!  I’m so proud of each of you and the progress you are making!

Music with Mrs. Still

Posted by cstill

MARCH IN GRAMMAR OF MUSIC CLASSES

Here are some highlights of our planned studies for the month of March:

  • Our composers in focus this month are Frederic Chopin of Poland and Claude Debussy of France. We are focusing on some of their beautiful piano pieces.  We will hear Chopin’s “Minute Waltz”, his “Raindrop Prelude”, and several of his preludes, mazurkas, and nocturnes.   We will enjoy Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”, “Girl with the Flaxen Hair”, and “Arabesque 1″.
  • Our folk songs this month will have a nautical theme – “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”, “Cockles and Muscles”, “Blow the Man Down”, and other songs of the sea.  How fitting after our recent “Pirates” musical!
  • News by Grade Level:  All students in K through 6 will share music and recitations at designated moments throughout the Grandparents Day on Friday, March 19.  K-garten will listen to “Carnival of the Animals” over the weeks ahead.  Grammar 1 will be learning “Eerie Canal” to tie in with their history studies and will be listening to “Peter and the Wolf”.  Grammar 2 will take time in the weeks ahead to learn about Verdi’s opera set in Egypt, “Aida”.  G3 will continue to learn about medieval and renaissance music and will continue recorder studies.  G4 and G5 will resume recorder studies and will work on music for their Texas and frontier themed plays for Grandparents Day.

If you have questions, please contact me at cstill@liveoakclassical.com.