Greetings Families,
Let me begin by saying thank you to those who donated food and time to our Read-a-Thon. It was a real please to our students, and Mrs. Geyer and myself, to hear a wonderful story read to us. I hope that our students can learn from the young heroine and overcome great evils though love and friendship.
Here are the lessons for next week.
Assessment at a Glance
Monday: Math Quiz (Multiplication)
Tuesday: None
Wednesday: None
Thursday: Grammar Quiz (4 Types of Sentences)
Friday: Spelling Test and Science Quiz (Bones of the Skeletal System)
Please continue to have your child work on his or her Pinocchio Project at home and its due date is getting close.
Lessons for the Week
Language Arts
Poetry Selection (Recitation Friday, December 11)
from Julius Caesar (Act III, ii, 76-109)by: William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Spalding
In Spalding we are going forward with our word list in O, we will also be taking our monthly Spalding benchmark on Monday; this is purely to track student progress and not entered as a grade.
Writing and Grammar
In writing we'll be reading the epic of Gilgamesh and putting the ancient tale into a 3 sentence summary. In grammar we will continue to explore the four sentence types and classify sentences by labeling all of the parts of speech, identifying sentence type, and separating the complete subject from the complete predicate.
Literature
Our Pinocchio journey is well underway, we are actively exploring how Pinocchio would be better equipped to make good choices had he only gone to school! In poetry we are starting a new selection from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to compliment our Rome unit.
Math
We are beginning our division unit by introducing students to quotient and remainder. We will practice dividing 2 and 3 digit numbers by 3, 4, and 5 throughout the week.
History
We are discussing the fascinating topic of the Roman gods and goddesses and discussing Roman myths. By the end of the week we will be learning about how Roman society was set up and considering the difference in the lives of Plebeians and Patricians.
Science
We will go forward in our study of the skeletal system by observing what happens when a bone is place in vinegar for an extended amount of time. On Friday, the students will be taking a quiz over where different bones are located in the human body. We will send home a blank study guide for them to fill out to prepare. If your would like extra copies for you child to use to prepare, please click here to review the study guide on the skeleton. We will look at different types of bone and joints.
Again, thank you for all of your support today and this year. The quality of our school is largely dependent on what you do as a community of families who love truth, goodness, beauty and your children. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Best,
Michael Naaktgeboren