Grammar 2 Blog

Grammar 2:Mrs. Buras and Mrs. Shields

Posted by aburas

February 8-10

  • Valentine’s Tea Wednesday, February 10th
  • No school Feb. 11-12; Conference Day Feb. 11 by request only
  • Monday is usually assembly schedule, so lunch begins at 10:45 instead of 11:00
  • Mrs. Buras’s snack helper is Klohie this week; Mason is up next week.  Mrs. Shields’ snack helper is Hope this week and Matthew next week.
  • Please send a water bottle for your child.  These may be kept at school all week and brought home on Fridays for washing.
  • Sign your child’s assignment notebook each night, and record in the reading log any new books begun at home.
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Spelling-This week will not have new spelling words this week.  Instead, we will study the various spellings of /k/.   For the rest of this year we will study just 20 words per week to allow more time to work on rules, adding endings, making nouns plural etc.  Spelling homework on a normal week is to write each day’s new words Monday and on Wednesday.  Tuesday homework will vary.  Thursday homework will still be to write any words missed on pre-test and to study for the Friday test.   If any words are missed on the Friday test, those words are written 3x each on the back of the test over the weekend, due Monday.

Writing/Grammar-quality adjectives, there/their, making nouns plural

Bible-Exodus 12-15

Reading-Mrs. Shield’s class is reading The Littles, and Mrs. Buras’s class is reading The Boxcar Children.

History-War!  Greece against Persia, and Sparta against Athens

Math-Multiplication by 5

Nature-Protozoans

Art with Ms. Dougherty

Posted by jdougherty

Artist of the Quarter:  Caspar David Friedrich

“The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand.”  — Friedrich

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.