BB 2019-01-25

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XI, ISSUE 19

JANUARY 25th, 2019

 

FROM THE OFFICE

 

UPCOMING

NEXT WEEK:

  • Monday, 1/28 – 5th – 6th grade – Williamsburg payment #2
  • Tuesday, 1/29 –
    • 3:30 – HS Boys basketball @ Durham Flight
    • 4:30 – Wrestling club
  • Thursday, 1/31
    • 4:30 – Wrestling club
    • 6:15 – HS Girls basketball @ Durham Mustangs
  • Friday, 2/1
    • 6th grade – Field trip to Museum of Life and Science

 

IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

  • Wednesday, 2/6 –
    • 2nd – 3rd field trip to NC Museum of Art
    • Projected 100th Day Rodeo Roundup – TK – 1st
  • Friday, 2/8 – 5th grade Stargazing opportunity
  • Friday, 2/15 – Teacher workday (no classes)
  • Monday, 2/18 – President’s Day (no classes)

 

FROM THE TEACHER’s DESK

 

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

 

Transitional Kindergarten (Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Luther)

Bible
  • This week we learned the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000. We learned that God is a great provider and loves us generously.  
Theme Adventure
  • This week TK enjoyed making pizzas in the Bradford Academy Kitchen. TK students created and baked their pizzas on Wednesday.  Thursday the students enjoyed their pizzas in the Little Ninos TK Pizzeria and practiced counting by tens to pay for their pizza using TK dimes!
Literacy
  • The students also began to learn to identify the beginning sounds of words.  While at home, ask them if they can change the first or beginning sound of their name to match a different sound.  It is a silly game we play each day but it builds their literacy skills!
  • The students continued writing identifying and writing lowercase letters this week.  We began this unit by writing the letters that are created the same way as their larger counterparts.
  • In centers this week TK was challenged to write their own alliterative poems as they grow to know and identify the sounds of letters.  This challenge was called the Tongue Twister Twist! Please enjoy their entries below:
    • Beau was boingy bouncing on his bouncy bed at the beginning of beddy-bye.
    • Silly Sally makes signs in the sand at sunrise in the summer.
    • Running Ralph ran rapidly racing where water runs rapidly in the river.
    • Bee-bopping Barbara bounced a basketball in a bed basket at bed time.
Math
  • This week we continued counting by tens.  We began dot-to-dot sheets that progressed through counting by tens to 100.
  • TK learned a new pattern. The ABB pattern was introduced through movement and sound, built with linking cubes, and applied on paper.  We will continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of more complex patterns!
  • The students learned how to identify dimes this week.  They practiced counting with dimes to pay for items in the classroom.  
Arts and Sciences
  • TK practiced recognizing signs for “push” and “pull”.  These signs are common signs on public doors. They are also signs that happen to be eye level to our students.  TK played games with their chairs learning to push and pull as the teachers pointed to signs.
  • TK also practiced their manners in preparation for their Little Ninos TK Pizzeria day!

Kindergarten (Mrs. Rivera & Mrs. McDorman)

Language Arts
  • Our kindergarten scholars read their fifth book this week, The Rig Ran On. We worked on reading comprehension and sequenced the events of the story. They also illustrated a page from the book. Our new target sound: L as in “lion.” The reproduction of The Christian Martyr’s  Last Prayer was added to the museum. We had a special visitor to our class, Gecko. He is Branson’s pet lizard. Branson explained about the care and habits of a bearded dragon. In handwriting students learned the proper strokes for the letter “L.”
Math
  • Using a ruler to draw a line segment
  • Sorting common objects
  • Counting tally marks; counting by 5’s
  • Adding two-digit numbers without regrouping using dimes and pennies
History
  • No history due to the holiday.  
Science
  • We continued the study of the our solar system. Students picked their favorite planet and attempted to orbit the sun. You may hear them singing a new song around the house as they learn the order of the planets in our system.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer and had our video lesson called, “Let’s Pretend – Dramatic Improvisation.” The students learned about making a story in music, and acting it out. We had a wonderful time singing our warmups, and some hymns based on love, including, “Jesus Loves Me.” We finished class coloring as we listened to the music of Rossini, our quarterly composer.
Art
  • We continued our exploration of drawing in perspective. After drawing the horizon line, we added the vanishing point. Students were excited to create their own roads and gardens that vanished into the sunset.
P.E.
  • This week we focused on volleying, striking, and catching. Students used balloons to practice perfecting the coordination skills needed to perform these tasks.  
Memory Work:
  • Romans 11:33-35

 

1st Grade (Mrs. Campbell)

Language Arts
  • Phonics target: IE as Long E (grief, shriek); Dropping final silent E to add ING
  • Review of alphabetical order and compound words
Math
  • This week we practiced writing the date using digits, creating and reading a bar graph, creating and reading a Venn diagram, and ordering numbers.
History
  • Our focus this week was the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin.  We enjoyed reading about some of the early life experiences which shaped him into such a thrifty, wise, and inventive fellow.
Science
  • We completed an experiment using the scientific method and continued memorizing a song reminding us of the steps.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer, and spent some time coloring as we  listened to the music of our quarterly composer, Rossini. We had a history of hymns about, “Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners,” and our lesson was a review worksheet about note and rest values in music. We used the rest of class to sing and praise the Lord with our warmups and hymns about God’s love, specifically, “Jesus Loves Me” at their request!
Art
  • First graders practiced shadowing in art by drawing a winter forest scene.  They drew shadows of trees cast by the moon onto snow, and completed the wintry look with blue watercolor.
P.E.
  • This week we went outside to play a game to prepare us for basketball, but then it began raining so we went inside and played a trivia game together.  
Memory Work:  
  • Philippians 4:19,20

 

2nd Grade (Mrs. Jones)

Language Arts
  • Reading: We finished reading Owls in the Family this week. The students read some more hilarious stories about Billy and his owls. They all agreed that the ending was a little sad when Billy finally has to say goodbye to Wol and Weeps.
  • Cursive: We reviewed “g” and learned “y” and “g”
  • Grammar: Classifying sentences; nouns: singular vs. plural, common vs. proper; a vs. an
Math
  • Multiplication (x0, 1, 2, 5, 7, 10)
  • Writing part of a set as a fraction
  • Squaring numbers
  • Identifying perfect squares
History
  • We began learning about the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt. We will be studying the mummification process over the next couple of weeks. Please remember to send back your child’s sarcophagus project by next Thursday.
Latin
  • We learned four new commands this week: Audite, tacete, aperite libros, attolite manus
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer, and spent some time coloring as we  listened to the music of our quarterly composer, Rossini. We had a history of hymns about, “Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners,” and our lesson was a review worksheet about note and rest values in music. We used the rest of class to sing and praise the Lord with our warmups and hymns about God’s love for us and our love for Him.
Art
  • This week the students worked on creating the different parts they need for our mummification project. They colored the four different canopic jars that will go into their sarcophagus. They also learned to identify different symbols that the ancient Egyptians used including the ankh, the Eye of Horus and the scarab beetle.
P.E.
  • This week we went outside to play a game to prepare us for basketball, but then it began raining so we went inside and played a trivia game together.  
Memory Work:
  • Hebrews 11:1-5

 

3rd Grade (Mrs. Mitchell)

Language Arts
  • Reading:  Misty of Chincoteague – Pony penning is exciting and unpredictable work.  Paul’s bravery in rescuing a drowning colt earns him respect in the community.
  • Writing:  We continue to learn about transitions between sentences in order to move the action along to the resolution of the conflict.  We have one more session with these stories before submission.
  • Grammar: Chapter 10 – Conjunctions, compound parts, homonyms – We finished the chapter and had the test on Friday.  Students are able to label very complicated sentences and also make sentences from complex labels.
Math
  • Elapsed time using 90 & 120 minutes; making drawing, labeling and writing number sentences for arrays; making an array for a number sentence; finding the missing dimension of an array; writing division problems; dividing by 2 & 5.
History
  • Nehemiah and the Jewish Return – Great discoveries awaited students in the pages of the best book of all, the Bible.  There was heartfelt prayer, fear for one’s life, bad guys & whiners, but also strong characters who took God at his word and walked in obedience through stress and suffering to see His work completed.  We read a good bit of the book of Nehemiah. Students were motivated to go back and read parts we skipped over.
Science
  • Chemistry:  We made a flip book of the first 8 elements of the periodic table that showed the symbol and name of the element on one side and places where this element shows up in nature or in everyday life.  One student told me he took his through the house looking for everything he could find that was made from those elements. We also learned more of the elements of the Periodic Table song.
Latin
  • Chapter 18:  This week was a review chapter so we spent a good bit of time parsing verbs, as students did not perform well on this part of last week’s test.  Light bulbs started going off!
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer, and spent some time coloring and drawing  as we listened to the music of our quarterly composer, Rossini. We had a history of hymns about, “Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners,” and our lesson was a review worksheet about note and rest values in music. We used the rest of class to sing and praise the Lord with our warmups and hymns about God’s love for us and our love for Him.
Art
  • Master Portrait:  We began with a tracing of the faces of various American Presidents in an attempt to appreciate lines and how important they are to shape and form.  Next students drew a freehand portrait using their tracing as a guide.
  • Upcoming:  Field trip to the North Carolina Museum of Art, Feb. 6.  Be on the lookout for permission slips.
P.E.
  • This week we wanted to go outside to play a game to prepare us for basketball, but it rained so we went inside and played a trivia game together. The questions had a lot of random facts about the human body. For instance did you know that the tongue is the only muscle in the body that is not connected to a bone at both ends?
Memory Work:
  • Psalm 19: 5-6

 

4th Grade (Mrs. Hamilton)

Language Arts
  • Reading: Students were holding their breath as Lucy, Peter, and Susan arrived at the Stone Table and met Aslan, Peter fought his first battle, and Edmund was rescued in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
  • Writing: Students continued working on fictional stories for the Burlington Writers Contest. It is such a joy and privilege to see them truly enjoying the gift of original storytelling!
  • Grammar: This week’s focus was on editing punctuation and capitalization errors.
Math
  • After completing their assessment, students learned about line graphs, decimal parts of a meter and about reading the centimeter scale.
History
  • Students learned about Thomas Aquinas and his writings.
Science
  • This week we focused on volcanoes, including the type of tectonic plate movements that cause them; we also learned about the basic structure of the volcanoes and the most recent violent eruptions, including Kilauea in Hawaii.
Latin
  • Students began this quarter by learning the declension of duo, adding several monetary words to their vocabulary, and writing a short story or performing a short play (mostly) in Latin.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer, and went straight to working on our recorders. We turned in our first recorder book and received the second one to continue our lessons. We learned the notes for, “Ode to Joy,” and will be practicing it this week. Our music theory lesson was a review worksheet on the value of notes and rests that we completed together in class. Finally, we spent the rest of class enjoying some time coloring and drawing as we listened to the music of our quarterly composer, Rossini.
Art
  • Building on last week’s learning about Monet, we did a quick overview of the first couple hundred years of Western art history, beginning in the Byzantine empire and leading up to the impressionists. Students learned about the main features in each century. We also began to experiment with pen and ink!
P.E.
  • This week we wanted to go outside to play a game to prepare us for basketball, but it rained so we went inside and played a trivia game together. The questions had a lot of random facts about the human body. For instance did you know that the tongue is the only muscle in the body that is not connected to a bone at both ends?
Memory Work:
  • Matthew 5:1-12

 

5th Grade (Ms. Windes)

Language Arts
  • Reading: Washington continues venturing into the wilderness, realizing more and more how little he knows but thankfully accompanied by a much more experienced group of guides. He has reached the first of the French forts but learns that he must continue his journey to find the French leader.
  • Writing: Students revised their hobbit paragraphs focusing on one theme from The Hobbit.  Students also began final revisions on the stories they will submit to the Burlington Writer’s Conference.
  • Grammar: Past, present and future tense verbs along with reviewing classification of sentences.
Math
  • We learned about subtracting mixed numbers by regrouping, classifying quadrilaterals, and prime factorization before reviewing for and taking a test.
History
  • The Revolutionary War has begun! We learned this week about “the shot heard ‘round the world” on the Lexington Green as the British marched out to Concord to try to take the colonists’ stockpile of arms and ammunition.  
Science:
  • After discussing the three special things that made last week’s Lunar Eclipse a rare event, students learned about the three types of galaxies (spiral, elliptical, and irregular), and continued learning more about our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and our star, the Sun. Three College Observatory Field Trip: Friday, February 8th, 6pm.
Latin
  • We reviewed past vocabulary with games and writing sentences. We continue to practice choosing the correct case to fit the noun’s job in the sentence.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer, and spent some time coloring and drawing  as we listened to the music of our quarterly composer, Rossini. We had a history of hymns about, “Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners,” and our lesson was a review worksheet about note and rest values in music. They turned in their finished worksheet for a participation grade. We used the rest of class to sing and praise the Lord with our warmups, and hymns about God’s love for us and our love for Him.
Art
  • Students continued to learn and practice the proportions of a face and how to make the basic features.
P.E.
  • This week Coach Palmer was sick and Mr. Davis had to sub in for the class. From what I hear, Mr. Davis did a bunch of basketball drills. Thanks Coach Davis.

 

Memory Work:

  • This week: Philippians 2:5-7

 

6th Grade (Mrs. Garrett)

New Testament Survey
  • This week the class reviewed the various genres in the Bible such as poetry and historical books. In addition, the students continued to look into the Pauline Epistles such as II Corinthians and Galatians.  
Literature
  • Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days has proven an exciting start for the students as they embark on a trip across Europe to India. The class has followed the journey on their own world map, learning cities, countries and bodies of water as they travel around the globe.
Math
  • Area of a Triangle, Area of a Rectangle, Interpreting graphs, Proportions, Sum of the Angle Measures, and Angle Pairs.
History
  • The campaign and presidency of Abraham Lincoln brings a new vista to the class as they see the multitude of problems he faced in striving to unite the country, rid the land of slavery and heal the conflict in the 1860’s. The generals of the Civil War come into view as each man’s character and strategies are discussed among the students.
Science
  • Bacteria grows and multiplies, and has a variety of roles in relation to the human gut and immune system. The students were introduced to their personal defense system and the attackers: dendritic cells, macrophages, killer T Cells, T helper cells, suppressor T cells, antibodies, antigens, viruses, neutrophils, and bacteria.
  • The class looked at various ways that we can weaken our immune system.
Writing/Grammar
  • The class practiced writing poetry this week. In addition, the students began their short story for the Burlington Writer’s Contest.
Latin
  • Besides doing a mega review of nouns, verbs, parsing and translating, students translated poems and selections from the Latin version of The Hobbit!
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer, and spent some time coloring and drawing  as we listened to the music of our quarterly composer, Rossini. We had a history of hymns about, “Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners,” and our lesson was a review worksheet about note and rest values in music. They turned in their finished worksheet for a participation grade. We used the rest of class to sing and praise the Lord with our warmups, and hymns about God’s love for us and our love for Him.
Art
  • Gesture drawing and shading. The careful attention to light and shadow, as well as proportions has been a challenge for the class.
Logic
  • The class discussed the fallacies of equivocation and loaded question!
P.E.
  • This week Coach Palmer was sick and Mr. Davis had to sub in for the class. From what I hear, Mr. Davis did a bunch of basketball drills. Thanks Coach Davis.
Memory Work:
  • This week: I John 1-2:7
  • Literary Devices song
  • History song from 1815

 

LOGIC & RHETORIC SCHOOL

 

Mrs. Byrd

Physics
  • We’ve concluded a study on matter and energy and are beginning a study of momentum.   Momentum is conserved just like matter and energy. This has some interesting applications in the areas of collisions, rockets, and “recoil”.
Precalculus
  • We are finishing a consideration of right triangle trig and are beginning to look into trigonometric functions. This will include a study of their graphs and various phenomena that can be modeled by trig functions.
Geometry
  • We are almost finished with a study of triangle proofs.  Overall, the students have done well grasping this new concept.  Next, we will develop proofs a little more when we look at right triangles cases.

Dr. Byrd

10th Bible Survey
  • This week we examined the book of Job and saw God’s sovereignty in our lives. We also reviewed

God’s wisdom for our lives through the book of Proverbs. Our memory verse is Proverbs 9:9-10.

Mrs. Dovan

8th Omnibus
  • Students ended the week with their History of the Kings of Britain presentations and will be interviewing older family members over the weekend as they learn about their own origin stories.
  • We began Shakespeare’s Macbeth as we closed out the week; students are encouraged to pay attention to both the causes and the consequences of action as they read.

 

11th Elective – Intro to Drama
  • As we continue through Oedipus The King, we have discussed dramatic irony and the moment of reversal that truly makes a tragedy.  We looked to II Samuel to find these same dramatic elements present when Nathan reveals King’s David’s wrong with Bathsheba through the form of story.  We closed the week with show and tell, building confidence performing in front of the class.

 

Mrs. Frueh

7th Grade Science:
  • This week has been spent exploring the unique characteristics of the jovian planets. In many ways, the jovian planets are the opposite of Earth, with their tiny rocky cores and massive gaseous atmospheres. Through the photographs taken by the Voyager and Cassini probes, we examined the fascinating features of the jovian moons and rings. We were also able to share our experiences of viewing Sunday night’s lunar eclipse.
  • After studying Pluto next week, we will have an exam on all the planets on February 5th.
8th Grade Science:
  • We finished learning the five different classifications of chemical reactions. At this point, students should be able to look at any chemical equation and determine if it’s an example of synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, or combustion.
  • Next week, we’ll dive into our final chemistry concept of balancing chemical equations.

 

Mr. Hamilton

7th Grammar/Comp
  • In The Lively Art of Writing this week we discussed moving from opinion to thesis and qualifying thesis statements.
  • In Phaedo this week we are discussing Socrates’ view of the soul and comparing it to the traditional Christian view–and then comparing the traditional Christian view to the Bible. We are also discussing how the soul relates to the body–or, perhaps better understood, how the intellectual life interacts with and relates to the body and its desires.
9th History
  • In 9th history we examined several major events in the life of our young country, including the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, and discussed how these events helped shape the America of today.
9th Literature
  • We are getting close to the end of Frankenstein, and as the monster has now wreaked havoc on multiple lives and families, Victor is facing the full realization and horror of what he has done. We are also working on group projects centered on the literary elements of the novel, making use of the University of Pennsylvania’s fantastic KNARF project resources.
9th Theology
  • We are soon to pick up The Communist Manifesto and analyze its tenets from a Christian worldview.
11th Philosophy/Apologetics
  • This week we discussed the basics of apologetics, including what it is, what purposes it serves, and how to engage in apologetic encounters.

 

Dr. James

9th/10th Biology
  • This week we continued our introduction to genetics, considering various autosomal traits (such as eye color) and sex-linked traits (such as color-blindness).   We also discussed in more detail our ongoing, multigenerational experiment using Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies).
  • Next week we will continue the discussion of genetics.  The first test of the quarter is scheduled for Friday, February 1.

 

Mr. Johnston

8th Latin
  • We continued this week looking at demonstrative pronouns.  Our first quiz for the quarter covered Chapter 20 Vocabulary.
7th Logic
  • Our 7th grade scholars discussed the category of Fallacies known as Red Herring, arguments that introduce information that is irrelevant to the thesis with the hope of distracting.

Mr. Miller

7th Latin
  • We reviewed complementary infinitives this week and then turned our sights to chapter 19. There will be a vocab quiz on the words in this chapter next Tuesday.
8th Logic
  • This week we continued practicing how to determine the validity of a syllogism by counterexample. The students are divided into different groups in which they are working through all the different forms of a syllogism to find which are valid or invalid.
10th Literature
  • This semester we turn from Greek literature to Roman literature. We began by reading and discussing Virgil’s famous set of pastoral poems, Eclogues.
10th History
  • We spent some time getting a historical overview from the period we just left (the height of Greek civilization and culture) to the period we are now entering (the height of Roman civilization and culture). Our first text for this new period is Livy’s historical account of the Second Punic War entitled War with Hannibal.
10th Rhetoric
  • We reviewed our rhetorical training with some impromtu speeches. Then we spent much of the week working on the Burlington Writer’s Contest submissions.
11th Literature
  • We worked on finishing up our Dante projects this week and putting them into final book form.
11th History
  • We worked on finishing up our Dante projects this week and putting them into final book form.
NT Greek
  • This week we reviewed the vocab learned thus far as well as the most recent test.

 

Mrs. Palmer

7th Art
  • We have studied Michelangelo and have started our new unit on watercolors!
8th Art
  • We have studied Michelangelo and have started our new unit on oil pastels!
9th Spanish
  • We are finishing up Chapter 4 and will have a test on Tuesday, January 29th.  Many verbs have been defined and conjugated and we are working on pronunciation as well as using them correctly in sentences!

 

Mr. Palmer

7th Pre-Algebra
  • This week we looked over our tests that we took last Friday and worked out any problems that we did not get correct. We also worked on rates and distance plus more proportions.
8th Algebra I
  • This week we looked over our tests that we took last Friday and worked out any problems that we did not get correct. We also worked on adding algebraic expressions with negative exponents.
7th/8th P.E.
  • This week Coach Davis subbed in for a sick Coach Palmer. Word on the street is that Coach Davis had a lot of fun playing dodgeball with the students. Next week we will be back to basketball.
9th Intermediate Logic
  • This week we began looking at arguments and using proofs to show their validity. Next week the students have a test.

 

Mr. Davis

7th and 8th Grade Choir
  • This week the students had off for MLK day.
  • Next week the students will be working on vocal parts for Holy Holy Holy.
11th Grade Introduction to Church Worship
  • This week the students worked on new worship songs, guitar playing skills and how to organize all of the aspects needed for a worship service.
  • Next Wednesday morning the students will be playing music for both TK classes.