• Monday is usually assembly schedule, so lunch begins at 10:45 instead of 11:00
• Mrs. Buras’s snack helper is Molly this week; Noelle is up 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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• http://www.amazon.com/Live-Oak-Classical-School/wishlist/1YALUDH6EH1LJ/ref=cm_wl_search_bin

Spelling-This week will have 20 new words.   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-grammar reivew; using prepositions; writing with strong verbs

Bible: Leviticus, Numbers

Reading-Mrs. Shield’s class is reading Ralph S. Mouse, and Mrs. Buras’s class is reading Pompeii: Buried Alive and The Story of Rome.

History-Augustus Caesar

Math-time

Nature-caterpillars, butterflies

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

THANK YOU for all the lovely tokens of appreciation that were given to me last week.  What a blessing to not only be showered with many signs of appreciation but to teach gracious and teachable children as well!  I appreciate YOU!

This week there will be no Spanish dancing as Mrs. Bradley is sick and will be away.  

We continue on the theme of “La Familia.”

Keep up the good work!

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

• We will review all of our composers from the year throughout this month.  We will also review all the music theory concepts we have learned through games and other activities.  This will prepare us for the “music” section of the Academic Decathlon in which the Houses of Galena, Quartz, Azurite, and Amethyst will compete!

• NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE:  The Spring Choral Concert for Grammar 2, Grammar 3, Grammar 4/5, and Logic/Rhetoric choir will be Tuesday night, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. Participation for students in these classes is mandatory.  In the unusual event that a family emergency prevents a student from being at the concert, parents must clear this absence with the Head of School, Alison Moffatt.  Ball games are not considered acceptable reasons for missing the concert.  CONCERT DRESS IS REQUIRED.
• Each grade level will have a special unit study this month, in many cases to tie in with topics studied in the core classroom.

JK – Peter and the Wolf
K – Peter and the Wolf and “Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery”
G1 – Peter and the Wolf and American Patriotic Music (including Sousa)
G2 – Verdi’s opera “Aida” set in ancient Egypt
G3 – Gustav’s “The Planets”
G4/5 – Musical stories and tunes from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars of America

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