BB 10-21-22

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XV, ISSUE 10

Oct 21, 2022

FROM THE OFFICE

GREEK OLYMPICS: Fri, 10/28 – Parents are welcome to come and watch!

PARKING: it will be tight so we will adjust the parking area after drop off has happened. Parents who are coming to watch (and are not volunteers), please plan to come at 8:50. This will give us time to reconfigure the cones before you park.
ATTIRE: Students should wear a shirt in house color and black PE shorts or black athletic pants (no spandex). Watch the weather and bring layers as needed.
- AUSTERFIELD: black
- LEIDEN: red
- PLYMOUTH: white
- SCROOBY: gray

PARENT PARTICIPATION DAY: Fri, 10/28 at Upper School – Watch for an email with details!

UPCOMING

Sat. 10/22:
- 10:30 – 12:00 pm: 6-12th boys basketball at 2nd Street outdoor courts

NEXT WEEK:

Thurs 10/27: 1st grade field trip
Fri 10/28:
- Greek Olympics (lower school)
- Parent’s Participation Day (upper school) – more details to come!
- Leiden House Social
Sat. 10/29:
- 10:30 – 12:00 pm: 6-12th Boys basketball at 2nd Street outdoor courts
- 5:30-8:00 pm: Austerfield House Social

IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

Tues, 11/1:
- ***USED UNIFORM SALE!***
- FIRST Basketball Tryouts/Practices of Winter Season
Fri, 11/4: Scrooby House Social
Sat, 11/5: Plymouth House Social
Wed, 11/9 – Fri, 11/11: TRIP TO DC (10th / 11th)
Fri, 11/11 – No school – Veterans day
Thurs, 11/17 – Bradford Night (K – 2nd grades), 7pm
Tues, 11/22 – Thanksgiving feast
Wed, 11/23 – Fri, 11/25 – Thanksgiving break
Thurs, 12/8 – Christmas concert – middle school chorus, band, and HS chorus club
Fri, 12/16 – Dismissal at noon. Christmas celebration
Mon 12/19 – Mon 1/2 – Christmas break

FROM THE TEACHER’S DESK

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Transitional Kindergarten (Mrs. Rich and Mrs. Grubb)

TK enjoyed a wonderful week learning about pumpkins. We learned a song to help us remember the parts of a pumpkin and read several pumpkin books. Next week we will get to clean out pumpkins and harvest the seeds to roast them. In math, we practiced making AB patterns using linking cubes and teddy bears. We also used our teddy bears to practice ordinal position (1st-4th). TK made binoculars this week to help us better see the setting of the stories we are reading. In addition to making the binoculars we also made leaf rubbings and practiced writing our numbers in shaving cream! TK students were introduced to the life of Moses this week and will continue our study of him next week.

Lower School P.E. (Mrs. Bennington)

K – 5th

Students had a great time in PE this week preparing for the Greek Olympics.. We worked on running for both endurance and speed as well as several field events.

Lower School Music (Mrs. Bennington)

K-3rd

Kindergarten, First and Second grade students worked on selections for their Bradford Night performance in November. Kindergarten through third grade learned a new vocal warm-up and worked hard on matching pitches. Third grade also worked on, “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”.

4th-5th

Fourth and Fifth grade students worked on several songs in their recorder books. Fourth grade students had a test on one of the songs on page 10. Fifth grade students had a test on one of the songs on page 11. Students are making good progress.

Lower School Art (Mrs. Palmer)

3rd

This week we reviewed Bruegel and what we learned about him. We also began drawing and inking our pumpkin drawings which we will watercolor next week.

4th

This week we reviewed Bruegel and what we learned about him. We also began our pumpkin drawing and working in oil pastel.

5th

This week we reviewed Bruegel and what we learned about him. We also began our pumpkin drawing by learning about pen and ink techniques.

Kindergarten (Mrs. Lopes and Mrs. Rivera)

This Week

This week our students started reading our first book! It is so exciting to see their eyes light up as they combine all the phonogram sounds we’ve been learning to make words. They will bring their books home in the next few weeks so you will be able to hear them read about Pan and the Mad Man. In math, we learned to count backwards from 10, to add one to a number and to differentiate between morning, afternoon, evening, and night. In science we are continuing our study of trees, which includes putting together a tree model, complete with root systems, trunk, branches and leaves.

Memory Work:

Psalm 75:1

1st Grade (Mrs. Morgan & Mrs. Smith)

This Week

We had an exciting week in 1st grade with dissecting pumpkins for their seeds and having the opportunity to try roasted pumpkin seeds.Thank you for the volunteers who were able to come out and help. Can you believe there were 292 seeds in one pumpkin? We can because we counted them using tally marks. We discovered parallel, horizontal and oblique lines and practiced these lines using our body movements. Ask your student about these different types of lines. In history we have moved on to the true story of Pocahontas and we are gearing up for our state projects. In grammar we are continuing with our study of nouns and we are learning to alphabetize four words at a time to the first letter in a word. In science we are practicing zoologists and learning about vertebrates and invertebrates.

Memory Work:

Proverbs 2:6-7

Upcoming:

Field Trip- Thursday, October 27
Greek Olympics- Friday, October 28
Leiden Social- Friday, October 28
State Projects- Monday, November 14

2nd Grade (Mrs. Hedgecock & Mrs. Batten)

This Week

Students are excited about researching their animals for the upcoming Animal Habitat Project; we are already learning some interesting facts about a nice variety of vertebrates and invertebrates. In history, we are back in the book of Genesis, beginning our study in the life of Abram with God calling him to leave Ur and go to a place of God’s choosing. As we began our journey of faith with Abram to Canaan, we also joined the Boxcar Children as they settled into their new home in the abandoned boxcar. Students began meeting in Lit Circles this week to engage in discussion about the virtues displayed by these alert, courageous, compassionate, decisive children. Ask your child about the start of our new adventure back to a beloved land as we traveled with Lucy through the wardrobe and into Narnia. In math, we are solving many different types of word problems, as well as continuing our work with fractions, counting/writing money, and place value. As math concepts are becoming more complex, please incorporate those concepts into your work at home with your child, especially practice in place value and mental addition.

Memory Work:

Proverbs 25:6-7 (This Week)
Proverbs 25: 8-9 (Next Week)

Upcoming:

Greek Olympics: October 28
Bring an empty shoebox for an in-class project: November 3
Animal Habitat Projects due: November 17
Bradford Night: November 17

3rd Grade (Mrs. McDorman and Mrs. Meredith)

This Week

As we continue our study of Greek culture, students should be busy gathering materials and ideas for their Greek god projects. This is a time for them to engage their creative side to demonstrate what they are studying. In math, we discovered time travel! Students learned there are six different time zones in the United States. Our day starts three hours before students start in California! We worked on making nouns possessive and translating latin phrases. We are busy crafting their Greek armor for the upcoming Olympic games. Only pure blooded Greeks were permitted to participate in the original games. We ended the week discussing the phases of the moon and why it appears the moon is shrinking and growing. It was a great end to another great week!

Memory Work:

I Thessalonians 4:9-10

Upcoming:

10/28 Greek Olympics
11/16 Greek god projects due

4th Grade (Mrs. Burtram and Mrs. Lawson)

This Week

We completed a wonderful week learning about Alfred the Great in history and discovering matter and buoyancy in science. The students designed boats and weighted them down to see which shape had the best buoyancy. Math vocabulary was explored this week with the subject of Geometry (planes, lines, sides, shapes and more…). We discovered interjections and conjunctions to finish the eight parts of speech. We finished 2nd person pronouns in Latin and explored new vocabulary in Latin. The students continue to be fully engaged in their new book, Rolf and the Viking Bow.

Upcoming:

Greek Olympics October 28th

5th Grade (Mrs. Owens)

This Week

The fifth graders had a wonderful week of continuing to explore the life of the Pilgrims. We learned what a day in the life of a Pilgrim boy and girl was like and wrote a letter to a friend describing what we think our days would look like if we lived during that time. We are about halfway through Voyage to Freedom which has paired nicely with the time period we are studying. This week the students turned in their Anatomy body systems projects. Students had to choose a body system, create a 3D model, and present their model to the class. The student’s models were very creative and each did a fantastic job teaching the class everything they learned while researching.

Memory Work:

Romans 12: 17-19 (this week)
Romans 12:20-21

Upcoming:

Greek Olympics – Friday, October 28th

LOGIC SCHOOL

Mrs. Bennington

6th-8th Band

Students received their first practice record to start documenting weekly practice and assignments. We discussed the importance of at-home practice and the expectation for effective practice. Practice records need to be turned in every Tuesday for a grade. We spent a lot of time this week learning our next two notes and when to take a breath to start phrasing correctly. Students will have a playing test this Tuesday 10/25 on 1.29.

Mrs. Thrasher

6th-8th Choir

On Tuesday we were excited to practice with our concert accompanist for the first time! The students worked on singing confidently in their head voices and listening ahead to determine their starting notes. On Thursday I announced an opportunity to go caroling downtown after Thanksgiving – parents should have received a calendar invitation with all the details. We practiced concert etiquette while working on all of our concert pieces.

Miss Stevenson

6th-8th Girls’ PE

We finished up our flag football time this week. We will start our section on soccer next week.

6th Reading and Literature

As we work our way through Across Five Aprils, this week I introduced a research project in which we will focus on how to incorporate research into a paper. On Tuesday and Wednesday we walked through a basic version of an annotated bibliography. Thursday we visited the library to look up more resources for our papers. Some upcoming dates for this project: presentation due Wednesday, November 2 and paper due Friday, November 4.

6th Grammar and Writing

Grammar and Writing were incorporated into Reading and Literature this week.

6th Bible

This week we skimmed the Gospel of Luke and compared it to Matthew and Mark.

6th History

This week we finished up learning about the War with Mexico. On Friday we began discussing the Gold Rush.

6th Science

Second quarter we will be studying basics bacteria and viruses. This week we began looking at the ORDER of living things.

6th Logic

Our first Logic test was on Friday. It covered the first twelve lessons in the book which cover fallacies that avoid the argument.

Miss Windes

6th Grade Latin

Sixth graders are learning about all the uses of the nominative case – subject noun, predicate noun, and predicate adjective. We finally get to use nouns in our sentences, and we are preparing for our chapter four test next week!

Mrs. Frueh

6th Grade Math

This week included some review and a cumulative test. We also completed an investigation that involved plotting points on a coordinate plane. Learning how to graph on a coordinate plane is a foundational skill that will serve these students well through all of their years of math learning, in geometry, algebra, and calculus.

Mrs. Palmer

6th Art

This week we took a quiz on our artist of the quarter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. We introduced watercolor and talked about various techniques. Students began working on their fall leaf watercolors.

Mrs. Crotts

7th Grammar and Writing

Students wrote down ideas for daily journal topics and placed them in an envelop. Each Friday we will write about one of their topics. Volunteers then read what they wrote aloud. We also discussed the power of repeated editing–the below average writer writes and turns in a paper; an average writer writes, edits then turns it in; a professional writer writes, edits, edits again, asks a friend to edit, edits, asks a teacher to edit, asks family members to edit, edits then turns it in!

7th Grade Omnibus

The actors are making headway with the Odyssey play memory work and performance. Costumes and props are almost complete–Friday, October 28 is just around the corner!

7th Logic

Election season is providing ample material for logic class–the students are sharp to push through their preferences and comprehend whether a candidate’s argument or advertisement is truthfully presented or full of fallacy.

Mrs. Frueh

7th Grade Science

We’ve started our unit on the structure of the Earth. Many of the students who have been at Bradford since grammar school remembered the layers of the earth song. This week we learned the difference between the compositional and mechanical layers of the earth, as well as how geologists have learned so much about these layers even though we’ve only ever studied the crust directly.

7th Grade Pre-Algebra

This week included some review and a cumulative test. The students also practiced adding and subtracting mixed numbers, as well as solving rate problems.

Mrs. Palmer

7th Art

Students took their artist of the quarter on Pieter Bruegel the Elder. We also worked on our small scale charcoal architecture drawings.

Miss Windes

7th Grade Latin

The students continue to review sentence parsing and translations, and we have returned to the basics to review and practice the steps again this week.

Miss Windes

8th Grade Omnibus

History: This week in history we finished learning about the beginnings and growth of the Islamic empire in the 7th and 8th century, and began learning about the Anglo Saxons which will provide the backdrop for our study of Beowulf!
Literature: We completed our study of the Rule of St. Benedict and have had many excellent discussions about the benefits and the downfalls of such a rule. The students have enjoyed learning about the ways that monks lived (and some still live!) in their communities, and we had a taste of living that way on Friday by experiencing the liturgy of the hours and a few other parts of a monk’s day.
Composition: We are taking a short break from essays to turn our attention to poetry, also in preparation for our reading of Beowulf. We are studying a few of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (ask your student to read Binsey Poplars or Starlight Night with you!); then, we are imitating his poetry by using a theme and subject he would have used and imitating his brilliant use of literary devices.

8th Grade Latin

Eighth graders completed their study of adverbs in Latin, continued to practice translating sentences, and then took their chapter 26 test.

Mrs. Frueh

8th Grade Science

After studying the characteristics of solids, liquids and gases, we learned this week about phase changes between each of these states. Do you know what the change from a solid to a gas is called? What about the change from a gas to a solid? Ask your student if they can tell you.

8th Grade Algebra I

This week we learned how to apply the distributive property to rational expressions, as well as how to turn an addition problem into a multiplication problem by factoring the greatest common factor of all the terms. We ended the week with a cumulative test.

Mrs. Palmer

8th Art

This week we took our artist of the quarter quiz on Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Students have begun working on their magazine portraits and these are already coming along well!

RHETORIC SCHOOL

From COLLEGE COUNSELING Office:

Next Tuesday, October 25th at lunch 10th-12th grades will have the opportunity to meet with a representative from Alamance Community College to discuss the opportunities that ACC offers!

Juniors:

I am continuing to meet individually with juniors this week to discuss their current ideas and brainstorms for the future; keep in mind their action items for this quarter:
- Research and create list of colleges of interest (and visit or make plans to visit!)
- Talk through finances with parents
- Sign up to take ACT and SAT by end of junior year
- Continue to brainstorm/shadow/research career options
- Keep focusing on academics

Seniors:

This is a busy and eventful time for seniors!
- They have had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Meredith to work on resumes this past week
- They should continue to work on college applications and scholarship applications and keep an eye on dates and deadlines
- They should feel free to reach out with any questions or help needed!

Mrs. Palmer

9th Spanish

This week students spent much of the week reviewing for their test. They took a Chapter 2 test on Friday. Next week we will begin Chapter 3 by beginning with new vocabulary – please encourage your student to study their vocabulary!

Mr. Crotts

9th Logic

We took our first unit test this week and all did well.
We are pressing on towards completing our second unity of study before Christmas break.

Dr. James

9th Geometry

This week the students took their first test of Q2, and we talked about solutions that must satisfy two equations versus those that must only satisfy one.
Next week the students will learn more about angles and measurement.

Mrs. Hicks

9th Biology

This week we completed an Escape Room to review Kingdom Monera, Kingdom Protista, and Kingdom Fungi. Students were eagerly running around campus looking for clues. We also completed a Biology and the Bible discussion, as well as a Kingdom Fungi review game in preparation for our test on Tuesday!

Dr. Smith

9th Theology

We have been looking at the differences and similarities between the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, and what these differences have meant for later theological development in the various branches of the church.

Mrs. Crotts

9th Grade Literature

Students survived the A Tale of Two Cities quiz! They are continuing to read Dicken’s work. Soon they will work in groups to develop a fun review activity to share with the class. Also, two upcoming writing assignments include an essay in the style of Dicken’s Pickwick Papers and the Burlington Writer’s Club Competition–either a poem or essay (due in January).Mrs. Fairchild

9th Grade Advanced Art

Our class began a new watercolor painting this week. Each student chose an animal that they would like to paint. They selected a variety of animals that included everything from horses and cows to polar bears and rabbits. This project is a bit more challenging and will take focused work over the course of the next few weeks.

Coach Johnston

9th History

This week, the freshmen concluded our overview of the Seven Years War and began to discuss the reasons that Americans would petition, protest and eventually rebel against England.

Mrs. Byrd

10th Algebra II

We’ve been working on variations of distance, rate time word problems this week. We’ve also learned some basic factoring patterns and applied this knowledge to add fractions that include polynomials.

Dr. Byrd

10th Bible Survey

We have been studying the lives of Samuel, Saul and David in I Samuel.
Bible Test is on Thursday; and Scripture memory is Tuesday – I Samuel 12:23-24.

Mrs. Crotts

10th Grade Literature

Students were assigned an essay topic–the Ancient Greeks’ view of glory vs Soli Deo Gloria. Also, assigned is the Burlington Writer’s Club Competition poem &/or essay entry due in January. They worked hard in groups to develop fun review activities of portions of the Iliad to present to the class.

Dr. James

10th Chemistry

This week we reviewed periodic trends, and the students learned about properties of groups (or families) of elements.
Next week the students will take their first test of Q2, and they will begin learning about bonding.

Coach Johnston

10th History

This week, students took a geography quiz on the Greco-Persian world and briefly surveyed the Phoenicians and Assyrians.

10th PE

Students completed several pyramid workouts and played several yard games of capture the flag and freeze tag.

Miss Oldham

10th Rhetoric I

Students gave their first speeches and had conferences to discuss how to improve in Rhetoric.

Mrs. Palmer

10th Spanish

This week students worked on their group skits. They wrote conversations in Spanish, gathered props and collaborated with group members. They presented these skits on Friday. Next week we will begin the imperfect tense.

Mrs. Byrd

11th Physics

In our continued study of projectile motion, we’re learning to solve motion problems by looking at each dimension separately. We had fun launching a compressed air rocket in Walker Field, taking some data, and analyzing it using our vector knowledge. We compared our data to what “should have” happened under ideal conditions.

11th Precalculus

Students wrapped up a study of finding real zeros of polynomial functions – a process that can sometimes require a lot of algebra steps. We applied this knowledge to a CSI crime style project where we located a criminal by solving various types of polynomial equations.

Dr. James

11th Personal Finance

This week we talked about banks and various accounts offered by them. The students researched banks, credit unions, and online banks to compare and contrast offerings.
Next week we will discuss different types of insurance.

Miss Oldham

11th Grade Literature

Students began Othello and are loving our Shakespeare unit, especially the most evil of Shakespeare’s villains: Iago.

Dr. Smith

11th NT Greek

We reviewed our vocabulary from chapters 7, 8 & 9 and began chapter 10, which brought us to deal with third declension nouns and a new set of vocabulary words.

Mr. Webster

11th Grade History

This week we continued learning about the Carolingian empire. We will finish off the week with a quiz on what we have covered thus far in the second quarter.
Next week we will continue with the disintegration of the Carolingian empire.

Mrs. Byrd

12th Calculus

We’re midway through studying some more detailed types of derivatives – chain rule, implicit differentiation, and derivatives of inverse functions. Soon we will be finished learning derivative patterns and will begin applying.

Mrs. Hicks

12th Anatomy

This week we continued learning about The Digestive System. Each student picked an organ from the system and presented it to the class. We completed a lab about the digestive system as well.

Coach Johnston

12th History

The seniors concluded our overview of the Seven Years War and began to discuss the reasons for the American Revolution. This week, they read a majority of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense.

Miss Oldham

12th Grade Literature

Students finished Hamlet and will be writing an essay over the text next week.

12th Grade Shakespeare Elective

Students finished King Lear and began The Tempest, Shakespeare’s final play.

12th Rhetoric II

Seniors are starting to feel the pressure of writing their rough drafts. Please be in prayer for these seniors that they don’t procrastinate, but do everything to the glory of God.