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

 Welcome back from, I hope, a relaxing Spring Break!  The fourth quarter is here!  Here’s what is happening the week of  Mar. 15th-19th:

Bible:  We will begin the letter to the Romans this week. 

Spelling/Vocabulary:  We began a Wordly Wise lesson prior to Spring Break, and will finish the lesson this week.  The quiz will be lesson 16E.

Grammar:  Our Grammar Guru work will continue with verb tenses.  The students will have a grammar check-up over the material we have learned later in the week.

Literature:   The students will review the poem “Jabberwocky” which we memorized in January to share with our grandparents on Friday.  I will also be reading selections from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to prep the students for the Logic play on Thursday.  Our read aloud for this quarter is The Last Battle  by C.S. Lewis.  I look forward to sharing this novel with the students.

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

March 15-19

Monday and Wednesday we will be doing reading and narration with our history books.  Tuesday and Thursday we will be doing Geography maps.  Africa Final on Friday!

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.