BB 2019.02.15

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XI, ISSUE 22

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

 

FROM THE OFFICE

 

UPCOMING

NEXT WEEK:

  • Monday, 2/18 – President’s Day – No School
  • Thursday, 2/21
    • PE Field Trip – 1st – 8th grades
    • HWY 55 Night!

 

IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

  • Monday, 2/25 – Chess Club – 4th – 6th grades
  • Tuesday, 2/26 – Volleyball training commences – 5th – 11th grade girls
  • Friday, 3/1
    • Reading Day – TK – 6th grades
    • Mentor lunch – 7th – 11th grades
  • Friday, 3/8 – OPEN HOUSE – Please spread the word and encourage friends to call the office to reserve a slot!  919-563-9001
  • Tuesday, 3/12 – XC Training begins – 5th – 11th grades
  • Thursday, 3/14 – Pi Day!
  • Friday, 3/15
    • 3rd Q ends.  Report cards go home
    • Reading Day for 7th – 11th grades
  • Mon, 3/18 – Fri, 3/22 – SPRING BREAK

 

FROM THE TEACHER’s DESK

 

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

 

Transitional Kindergarten (Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Luther)

Bible
  • This week TK focused on the prodigal son.  This story helped TK learn more about the wonderful love of God and the love we share in our families.  
Theme Adventure
  • TK students were in the kitchen this week!  They spent time creating sugar cookie dough and learning how to decorate their cookies with a local professional baker.  The students practiced following a recipe and learned what happens when you mix colors!
Literacy
  • TK students were introduced to rhyme this week.  They practiced identifying rhyming pairs by listening to words and by pairing pictures.  
  • TK students were challenged to listen to two stories and identify how the stories were similar and identify what lessons the characters learned in each book.
  • Students were further challenged to add a character to a favorite class story.  They shared how their character’s presence would change the story.
  • The students continue to practice writing capital letters as well as learn to identify lowercase letters.  
Math
  • The math lessons this week emphasized following recipes.  The students were challenged to measure things and mix ingredients to show color change.  TK students also made their very own raisin and bran cereal! TK students identified when a container was full and half full.
  • TK continues to order and identify the numbers 0-20.

 

Arts and Sciences
  • The science lessons this week were in relation to baking cookies and math.  
  • Through mixing icing and creating new colors the TK students were able to create many beautiful designs on their cookies.

Kindergarten (Mrs. Rivera & Mrs. McDorman)

Language Arts
  • This week we focused on the letter K and the letter combination CK. We learned the proper strokes for the letter K and reviewed the letter C.  The students colored the reproduction of the “Good Gracious, Matilda- You Too?” and added it to the phonics museum.
Math
  • Adding two-digit numbers without regrouping; identifying how many more on a graph; identifying and making congruent shapes ; counting large collections ;  grouping by 10’s.
History
  • We continued our study of the Middle ages by focusing on the feudal system. The basic government and society in Europe during the Middle Ages was based around the feudal system. Small communities were formed around the lord and the manor. The Lord owned the land and everything in it. He would keep the peasants safe in return for their service. The lord in return, would provide the king with soldiers or taxes. Around 90% of the people worked the land as peasants. Peasants worked hard and died very young. Most were dead before they reached 30 years old. The king believed he was given the right to rule by God. This was called “divine right.” The lords and barons swore oaths of homage and fealty to their kings. The lord held absolute power over the fief or manor including holding court and deciding punishment for crimes.
Science
  • No science due to teacher work day.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer and had our video lesson about instrument makers. The instruments we were able to see people make were drums, guitars, and french horns. We spent some time warming up our voices and singing hymns of love. The students especially enjoyed singing, “Jesus Loves Me.” Finally, we colored as we listened to the music of Rossini.
Art
  • Our kindergarten scholars finished up their chicken mosaics and started their picture of Justinian. It is a copy of the famous mosaic found in the sanctuary of the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. The floors of Roman buildings were often richly decorated with mosaics. Each mosaic used thousands of pieces to make a pattern. Our students are learning patience as they carefully set each tile in place.  
P.E.
  • We began working in pairs to practice catching and throwing.
  • Students will begin dribbling next week as we continue to fine tune locomotor skills.
Memory Work:
  • Isaiah 40:28

 

1st Grade (Mrs. Campbell)

Language Arts
  • Phonics target sound: OI/OY (boil/boy)
  • Reviewed consonant blends and compound words
  • Sight word recognition
Math
  • This week we reviewed the process of adding 2-digit #’s and addition facts with sums of 15, 16, 17, and 18.  We also practiced drawing a number line, drawing line segments to the nearest inch, locating points on a number line, making polygons on a geoboard, and identifying the angles of a polygon.
History
  • We continue to enjoy the true story of Benjamin West, father of American painting, and his cat Grimalkin.
Science
  • Students discovered the three states of matter through song, activity, and a fun bean project.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer and read our weekly praise verse together. We enjoyed some time coloring as we listened to the lively music of Rossini. Our history of hymns was based on the hymn, “Jesus Loves Me,” and our music theory lesson was about musical terms for sound and tempo. We finished class warming up our voices and singing hymns about love.
Art
  • We read Katie Meets the Impressionists and identified several of Monet’s most popular works including “Field of Poppies.”
P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday morning to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 11:00 – 11:45. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles.
Memory Work:  
  • James 1:19,20
  • States of matter song

 

2nd Grade (Mrs. Jones)

Language Arts
  • Reading: We began reading Baby Island this week, which is a fun story about a group of shipwrecked children. We were introduced to Mary, age 12, whose optimism and determination in the face of serious danger is impressive and Jean, age 10, whose sense of humor keeps us laughing. Please remember to send in a baby picture of your child to add to our Baby Island board.
  • Cursive: We learned the lowercase b and z this week.
  • Grammar: We continued to diagram sentences using the SN V/P1 check
Math
  • Comparing fractions using pattern blocks
  • Adding and Subtracting fractions
  • Writing a fraction to show a part of a whole
  • Multiples of 2
History
  • We learned about a sad time in Egyptian history when the Hyksos, a group from Asia, took over and ruled the land for about 150 years. What is exciting about this time is the introduction of the chariot, which the Egyptians later used to take back their empire.
Latin
  • We learned the “manners” phrases: please, thank you and excuse me.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer and read our weekly praise verse together. We enjoyed some time coloring as we listened to the lively music of Rossini. Our history of hymns was based on the hymn, “Jesus Loves Me,” and our music theory lesson was about musical terms for sound and tempo. We finished class warming up our voices and singing hymns about love.
Art
  • No art due to the short week
P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday morning to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 11:00 – 11:45. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles.
Memory Work:
  • Hebrews 11:1-10

 

3rd Grade (Mrs. Mitchell)

Language Arts
  • Reading:  Detectives in Togas – This amusing mystery set in the city of Rome has lots of great connections to Latin as well as Greek and Roman history.  With a cast of mostly male students, this is a great one for boys and has a sequel, Mystery of the Roman Ransom, which is on our summer reading list.
  • Writing:  Students read their writings to each other in class and heard my model paragraph as well, then went back to add more elements to their final drafts.
  • Grammar: Chapter 12 brings more practice with capitalization and punctuation rules in the form of letter writing…killing two birds with one stone!
Math
  • Division by way of story problems, writing and drawing number sentences using division; identifying similar and congruent shapes; using tangrams for spacial skills; identifying units of mass; ordering objects by mass; estimating and finding the mass of an object; multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number.
History
  • Rome Rises to World Power by 146 B.C. – We trace the 3 Punic (Latin word for Phoenician) Wars and meet the hero Hannibal from Carthage, a renown Phoenician.  By conquering this competing power in the western Mediterranean, Rome rises to be the capital of the known world.
Science
  • Filled in the study guide for the next test, which will be linked to our spelling words for next week – the first 18 elements of the periodic table.
Latin
  • Having mastered the imperfect tense of regular verbs, we moved on to the imperfect tense of the “to be” verb sum.  That opens up the opportunity to translate the first few verses of John chapter 1 from Latin.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer and read our weekly praise verse together. We enjoyed some time coloring as we listened to the lively music of Rossini. Our history of hymns was based on the hymn, “Jesus Loves Me,” and our music theory lesson was about musical terms for sound and tempo. We finished class warming up our voices and singing hymns about love.
Art
  • Presidential Portraits
P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday morning to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 11:45 – 12:30. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles.
Memory Work:
  • Psalm 19:11-12

 

4th Grade (Mrs. Hamilton)

Language Arts
  • Reading: Excitement was in the air as we began E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
  • Writing: Students began reviewing the basics of a five-paragraph essay in preparation for their research reports.
  • Grammar: Editing for punctuation, capitalization, and clarity.
Math
  • Students learned about units of length and how to change improper fractions to whole or mixed numbers. After completing their assessments, students also learned how to multiply fractions and to convert units of weight and mass.
History
  • The Great Papal Schism: After the scandalous Avignon papacy, the Christian world was ready for a change. This week’s card highlighted the effects of human fallibility and the absolute necessity of a radical change in the church.
Science
  • Students are extremely excited to be learning about the topography of the earth. They continued learning about major mountain ranges, plateaus, and ridges, and noted them on their own maps. Students also learned about the dangers of mountain climbing.
  • Upcoming: Geography test (oceans, continents, major plateaus, and mountain ranges) on Thursday, February 28.
Latin
  • Chapter 19: Aside from learning the new,  powerful third declension, students also added several new vocabulary words to their ever-growing list, and began speed-parsing and translating pattern two sentences.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer and focused on working on our recorders. We played last week’s lesson for the teacher, and learned the new fingering for high C sharp. We also, wrote in the notes for, “The Drunken Sailor.” and that will be the song we work on learning to play for the week.  After we finished with our recorders, we had a music theory lesson on the musical terms for sound and tempo. Finally, we finished class enjoying listening to the lively music of Rossini while coloring and drawing.

 

Art

  • Students each chose a cathedral or castle to draw in pen and ink. We are excited about using pen and ink to create different textures and shadows on the architecture!
P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday morning to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 11:45 – 12:30. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles.
Memory Work:
  • Matthew 5: 1-18

 

5th Grade (Ms. Windes)

Language Arts
  • Reading: After final discussions of Duel in the Wilderness, we began our new book The Witch of Blackbird Pond, the story of a girl who moves from Barbados to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late  1700s.
  • Writing: Students wrote final drafts of a paragraph written earlier in the year and wrote a final paragraph about a theme from Duel in the Wilderness.
  • Grammar: Possessive nouns and predicate adjective chants kept the class on their toes as they formed sentences using both. In addition, the students began looking at singular and plural antecedents and their corresponding pronouns.

 

History
  • We are spending two weeks studying Washington’s command of the Continental Army: the early victories, the losses and stalemate, and the battles in the south leading to victory at Yorktown.
Science:
  • We completed our astronomy review and filled in our study guides for the upcoming Astronomy test on Friday, February 22.
  • The stellar presentations are due on Monday, February 25 OR Monday, March 4.
  • Rescheduled: Three-College Observatory Field Trip has been rescheduled (with much hope for clear skies!) for Thursday, February 28th, at 6:30pm.
Latin
  • Students reviewed past vocabulary and practiced translating from English to Latin, also translating a short story about Paul Revere!
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer. We enjoyed some time drawing and coloring as we listened to the lively music of Rossini. Our history of hymns was based on the hymn, “Jesus Loves Me,” and our music theory lesson was about musical terms for sound and tempo. We finished class warming up our voices and singing hymns about love.

 

Art
  • We continue to practice drawing faces, this week copying sketches from famous artists using the grid method!
P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday afternoon to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 12:30 – 1:15. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles.

 

Memory Work:

  • Philippians 2:12-13

 

6th Grade (Mrs. Garrett)

New Testament Survey
  • The class focused on Philippians this week. The subjects of humility and living for Christ were discussed as the students learned the key points and key verse, “To live is Christ, to die is gain.”
Literature
  • Each student chose a missionary biography this week to enjoy. The class will give a book report
Math
  • Unit multipliers and unit conversion, scientific notation for large numbers, creating graphs and order of operations were all covered this week.
History
  • The students are learning about the difficulties after the Civil War as reconstruction began under President Lincoln, followed by President Andrew Johnson. Voting rights along with poll taxes are some of the many barriers the former slaves faced in seeking equality in America.
Science
  • The students are learning how to formulate research questions and furthermore develop hypotheses. They are each embarking on their own individual dish washing experiments over the next few weeks, and will write up a formal lab report upon completion.

 

Writing/Grammar
  • The students continued to practice writing sentences with linking verbs and predicate nouns, along with predicate adjectives. Using their spelling words, the students crafted well thought out sentences.
Latin
  • We finished learning about and practicing using the third declension in translations this week.
Music
  • This week we began class with prayer. We enjoyed some time drawing and coloring as we listened to the lively music of Rossini. Our history of hymns was based on the hymn, “Jesus Loves Me,” and our music theory lesson was about musical terms for sound and tempo. We finished class warming up our voices and singing hymns about love.
Art
  • The class enjoyed plein air painting last week, but due to the weather, continued the painting indoors. Mixing colors and practicing impressionistic techniques proved to be quite challenging.
Logic
  • The students debated generalizations along with hasty generalizations this week. The fallacies keep growing, along with the class’ understanding of how to catch a fallacy and point it out to another in a polite manner.
P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday afternoon to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 12:30 – 1:15. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles.
Memory Work:
  • I John 1-2:11, The History Song

 

LOGIC & RHETORIC SCHOOL

 

Mrs. Byrd

Physics
  • God’s design of the universe is amazing!  We are gaining a new appreciation of this through our current study of waves.  Communication and many technologies use the properties of waves. We couldn’t hear, see, talk, or take advantage of electricity without them.  We are beginning with a look at sound and light and then move on to consider other parts of the EM spectrum.
Precalculus
  • Our class is currently studying sequences and series.  Then we will move onto basic probability in preparation for our March Madness Bracket project.

 

Geometry

  • We are currently doing a unit on area.  The students currently have a project to do at home in which they are to calculate how much paint is needed to paint a particular room in their house.  Put them to work if you anticipate an upcoming painting project so that you don’t buy too much or too little paint 🙂 We will also be learning to calculate surface areas of 3D objects like spheres, cones, prisms, and pyramids.

Mrs. Dovan

8th Omnibus
  • A short but wonderful week in Omnibus.  The students completed their Family Origin projects, and we had the opportunity to speak with several of the 8th grade grandparents Wednesday morning!  They had fascinating stories and valuable advice.
  • Eighth grade also polished their performance of Macbeth and did a fantastic job playing their parts and working as a team to tell the story.

 

 

11th Elective – Intro to Drama
  • This week we walked back through Hamlet, reading only his seven soliloquies; we identified some of the abiding questions and themes as well as changes in Hamlet’s character.  The students also performed monologues from Antigone, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and Richard II.  We begin Pygmalion after the long weekend!

 

Mrs. Frueh

7th Grade Science:
  • Students are hard at work on their “Students-As-Teachers” astronomy projects. Each student has chosen a topic and they have begun their research. They will each present their research to the class in the form of a 5-8 minute lesson. Presentations will begin on February 26th.
8th Grade Science:
  • We have wrapped up our study of compound chemistry with the challenging subject of acids and bases. Not only did the students gain basic understanding of the difference between acids and bases, but they are now able to distinguish between the Arrhenius’ definitions of acids and bases and the Bronsted-Lowry definitions. We finished out the week by creating our own pH scale using the red cabbage indicator that we prepared in class last week.
  • A final unit exam on compound chemistry will take place on Thursday, February 21st. Students should use the 4-day weekend to complete all margins and summaries on notes, and study for the upcoming exam.

 

Mr. Hamilton

7th Grammar/Comp
  • We learned about writing conclusions and shaping middle paragraphs this week.
9th History
  • This week we focused on slavery and the plight of African Americans before and after the Civil War.
9th Literature
  • After greatly enjoying Frankenstein, we picked up the slave narratives recorded in the 1930s, an incredible historical resource.
9th Theology
  • This week we discussed issues related to slavery and race relations from a Christian worldview.
11th Philosophy/Apologetics
  • This week we focused on how Christians should think of truth in a postmodern world.

 

Dr. James

9th/10th Biology
  • This week we observed pupae had formed in our vials from the first (P1) cross between winged and apterous (without wings) flies.  The adults were cleared from the vials, and we will wait until the F1 generation emerges. We also continued our study of biochemistry, focusing on DNA/RNA structure, DNA replication, and protein synthesis.
  • Next week we will score the F1 generation (if they are ready) and review for our test, which is next Friday (22nd).

Mr. Miller

7th Latin
  • This week we finished up chapter 19 and moved on to chapter 20.
8th Logic
  • This week the students had a test on chapters 24-26.
10th Literature
  • .We finished up discussing Virgil’s Georgics and the boys wrote their own pastoral poem after the model of Virgil.
10th History
  • We finished discussing Livy’s War with Hannibal and also talked about the essays the boys wrote on the Roman virtue displayed in Livy’s account.
10th Rhetoric
  • Due to events of this week, we used the Rhetoric class time for Omnibus and plan to get back into Rhetoric next week.
11th Literature
  • We continue to read a selection of enjoyable, entertaining stories from Boccaccio’s collection called The Decameron.
11th History
  • As we work through Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, this week we discussed the character of Folly in the book, what she boasts about, and what areas of worldly wisdom she criticizes as really foolish.
NT Greek
  • This week we studied chapter 19 which introduces the future tense.

 

Mrs. Palmer

7th Art
  • We continued our second small landscape study in watercolor.  Students seem to be getting the hang of the translucency and fluidity of watercolor!
8th Art
  • We continued our second small study using oil pastels.  These are coming along nicely! Next week we will talk about our final oil pastel drawing.
9th Spanish
  • We have thoroughly covered the verbs SER and ESTAR and under which circumstances to use each. We’ve worked through the present progressive tense and students have been putting all this knowledge to good use in paragraphs they are writing! These paragraphs will soon be shared with the class for pronunciation practice.

 

Mr. Palmer

7th Pre-Algebra
  • This week we learned how to graph inequalities, how to add signed numbers, and how to solve the power and root of fractions. There is also a test next Tuesday on lessons 65-72.
8th Algebra I
  • This week we worked on factoring Trinomials, figuring out the volume and surface area of a cone and pyramid, and learning the basics of probability. There is also a test next Tuesday on lessons 65-72.
7th/8th P.E.
  • Next week we will have a PE field trip on Thursday afternoon to the Mebane Rec center on the corner of 3rd St and Jackson St.  from 1:45 – 2:45. Please make sure your children have their uniforms and water bottles. As for Wednesday’s PE class, we will have a Latin Study Hall in its place.
9th Intermediate Logic
  • This week we learned how to use the “Reductio ad Absurdum” rule for showing the validity of a premise.

 

Mr. Davis

7th and 8th Grade Choir
  • This week the students worked on music for their end of the year program for the upper school.
11th Grade Introduction to Church Worship
  • This week the students worked on worship music for their end of the year field day. The students also had class discussion about theology and worship.