We have begun practice for Grammar School Basketball. Our season will begin the week of Jan. 7th. We will have a schedule to post on the website the first week of Dec.  Get out there and shoot, pass, and dribble. We’ll see you on the court.   Coach Vardeman

Artist of the Quarter:  Pablo Picasso

 Here’s what is happening Mar. 1st-5th:  The students will turn in their final copy of their typed research papers on Friday. Also this week is the final test over our novel study Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry.  The students have all the materials they need to prepare for these deadlines. 

Bible:  The students will have a combined quiz over 1st and 2nd Corinthians on Tuesday.

Spelling/Vocabulary:  We will begin a Wordly Wise lesson this week, but not have a quiz over the lesson until after Spring Break.

Grammar:  Our Grammar Guru work will focus on verb tenses.

Writing:  The students have all the materials they need to wrap up their research papers.  Guidelines for formatting the paper and Bibliography can be found in the purple research folder.

Literature:   All  3rd quarter IR responses are due Friday.  I will spend time reading from Wednesday Wars, our third quarter read aloud, and try to finish it before Spring Break.  The students are really loving the story.

Need a literature response?  Click here:  http://liveoakclassical.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Reader-response-form-G6-3rd-quarter.doc

February 22-26

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we will be doing reading and narration with our history books.  Tuesday and Thursday we will be doing Geography maps.

March 1 to 5, 2010

We have continued our study of Fungi, interspersing it with some plant study.

Hopefully, we will make our venture out to the garden this Friday to prep the soil for plantings when we return from spring break. Please plan to pick up your student from the gym between 3:20 and 3:35, I will walk students going to after care back to school at 3:35 or when all the other students are gone.

Week of March 15-19

Quiz: No quiz this week.  We’ll begin chapter 19 on Monday and quiz over it next week.

Extra Latin Help: If you desire a little extra Latin practice, try the online exercises available on www.PHSchool.com.  Enter the code jfd-0001 (for ch. 1; -0002 for ch. 2; etc.).   Both grammar and vocabulary exercises are available.

Week of 3/1-3/5

Congratulations to everyone involved with the The Pirates on Penzance.  You all should be very proud of the hard work you put in, for it certainly paid off.

We are moving onto our next unit this week.  It is a bit of a shift from our last few, as we are starting a stretch of chapters which focus on geometry, the mathematics of space and shapes.  This first unit is all about circles.  We are going to get a chance to use compasses to measure and make circles, and to discover for ourselves the rules regarding the perimeters and areas of circles.   It is a different sort of mathematics that is enjoyed in a different way.

The last few articles from the New York Times have taken us up through addition, multiplication and subtraction.  There is one basic operation left, and it sure is an oddball.  Find out why at #4 – Division and Its Discontents.