Volume 10, Issue 29 April 20th, 2018 BRADFORD BULLETIN

BRADFORD ACADEMY’S PARENT UPDATE

Special Points of WRITERS’ CLUB INTEREST WINNERS! • 4/30 - Tennis clubs • 05/02 - MOCK SAT 10th • 05/04 - Teacher Workday - NO SCHOOL • 05/10 - 6th to Duke Gardens • 05/10 - Sports Awards Ceremony • 05/14 - Testing • 05/18 - Teacher Appreciation Day • 05/24 - Last day of TK • 05/24 - Patriotic Program

For Prayer Please pray for God’s supply regarding specific needs: • Students: Academic success and growth in virtue and love. • Staff: Wisdom, grace, and creativity. • Enrollment for 2018/2019 • Financial: Funds for our scholarship program and future capital improvements.

This past Sunday, Bradford Academy was Elementary Short Story well represented at the awards ceremony • 1st place - Claire Hurley for the Burlington Writers’ Club Alamance • Honorable Mention - Lizzy Hamilton County school writing contest. We took 15 Elementary Poetry of the 24 honors and 1st in almost every • 1st place - Daisy Thrasher category! Well done Archers! • 2nd Place - Charlotte Lewis • 3rd Place - Rachel Rosenberg High School Short Story • Honorable Mention - Caroline Johnson • 1st Place - Mallory Jones High School Poetry • 2nd Place - Caleb Rivera Middle School Short Story • 1st Place - Owen Williams • 2nd Place - Lucy Hawkins • Honorable Mention - Kate Hurley Middle School Poetry • 1st place - Max Hawkins • 2nd Place - Brooke Garrett • 3rd Place - Becket Newsome • Honorable Mention - Ethan Fisher TIMOR DOMINI PRINCIPIUM SCIENTIAE Page 2 Bradford Bulletin From the Teacher’s Desk

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GRAMMAR SCHOOL class tree. Transitional Kindergarten • TK has continued to make entries in their science journals. They are making notes of all (Mrs. Davis) the changes they have observed with the Bible class caterpillars. • This week we learned about the • The caterpillars are now inside their conversion of the apostle paul. The focus of chrysalides and are pupae. They have been the story for the TK students was to observe transferred to their new habitat which will be the difference in Saul to Paul after welcoming to them as butterflies! encountering Jesus. TK noted the differences in his life actions, his friends, and Kindergarten his heart. Theme Adventure (Mrs. Rivera) • We continued to observe the class Language Arts caterpillars. They are now all in the pupa • Review of SH, CH, TH, Target sound WH, stage of development where most have consonant digraphs, and special exhibit formed chrysalides and we are awaiting their words emergence as a butterfly! • Proper strokes for WH and writing WH Literacy words • We began reading CVC words this • Our new book, Runs From Guns week. We read through word families each Math day. We will continue the practice of blending • Using bills to pay for items to $20, adding sounds in the weeks ahead. three single-digit numbers, the last four • TK reviewed writing lowercase letters a addition facts, rounding a number to the and d. They learned to write the letters i, u, h, nearest multiple of ten by estimating, written and g. assessment #22, and fact assessment 17 Math • Counting pennies, nickels, and dimes • We worked on identifying numbers 11- History 30. TK enjoyed playing math bingo this week. • We watched “The Birth Of The Many prizes were won. Constitution.” The story takes place in 1787 • TK learned about spheres. They in Philadelphia. Founding Fathers are trying identified spheres used in to compose the Constitution. They daily life. We used spheres in work hard to decide which ideas to our school for sorting and include. Questions abound: should ordering by size. the new country have more • TK was introduced to governmental power or less? It quarters and a dollar bill this also discussed the three branches week. They continue to of our government. practice counting by pennies, Science dimes, and nickels as well. • Digestive system Arts and Sciences • Respiratory system • The students created Page 3 Bradford Bulletin

Music • Kickball • Our video lesson was called, “Singing Memory Work: Together,” where we learned about singing as • Ephesians 6:1-3 a group and how it’s so fun! We had a short • John 1:1 and review time of listening to Gershwin, and spent the rest of class practicing our music for the 1st Grade Patriotic Program. Art (Mrs. Campbell) • We are combining art and science for the Language Arts next few weeks as we work on our model of • Phonics target sound: GE/DGE/NGE the human body. Digestive system (edge, ridge, change) • Respiratory system • GE/GI in initial and medial positions P.E. (gentle, ginger, tragic, urgent • Review of rules for kickball • Alphabetical order review Math • This week we practiced subtracting 5 facts and writing money amounts using dollar signs and cent symbols. We also tackled subtracting two-digit numbers with borrowing. This concept can be difficult when first presented, but the students seem to be catching on! History • Our study of the Civil War continued this week as we read from A Child’s Story of America about the great generals and battles lost and won on both sides. We concluded our study with the surrender of Lee and the assassination of Lincoln five days later. Science P a g e 4 Bradford Bulletin From the Teacher’s Desk (Continued)

• Students created types of clouds using • We went back and talked about the time cotton balls and other materials. period between the Israelites escaping Music Egypt and them entering Canaan. This is • This week we began class with prayer and such an exciting time in Biblical history and spent some time listening to the music of one week isn’t nearly enough time to cover Gershwin, our quarterly composer. Our music it. When you have time please read theory lesson was about major scales, and we through 1 & 2 Samuel together at home. practiced our music for the Patriotic Program. Science Art • Introduction to the periodic table of • We continue to enjoy the work of Winslow elements Homer. This week we learned the elements of • We are now trying to grow crystals in our a seascape and students practiced dividing a classroom using a popcorn rock. It will take a page into sea and sky. few weeks to see any growth, but it P.E. promises to be beautiful in the end. • An amazing spring day beckoned us to Music enjoy a nature walk on the paths and adjoining • This week we began class with prayer property to the school. We identified flowers and spent some time listening to the music and trees along the way and the boys enjoyed of Gershwin, our quarterly composer. Our a game in the field while the girls picked a music theory lesson was about major scales, wildflower bouquet. and we practiced our music for the Patriotic Memory Work: Program. • Psalm 67:1-7 Art • The Old North State • The students continued to blend different shades of colored pencils to find the perfect match while working on their 2nd Grade color by number masterpieces. (Mrs. Jones) P.E. Language Arts • No P.E. due to the Charlotte’s Web field • Little House in the Big Woods trip • This week alone the students have learned Memory Work: what sugar snow is, how maple sap is • Proverbs 25:6-10 collected, and how to make hasty pudding. It’s just another day for Laura and Mary Ingalls, 3rd Grade but an exciting adventure for today’s second graders. (Mrs. Mitchell) Math Language Arts • Multiplication by 9 • Reading: Archimedes, chapters 5, 8 & 9 - • Adding money amounts to $99,999.00 topics: buoyancy or Archimedes Principle • Writing number sentences for division and how he conceived of Pi. story problems • Writing: We finished brainstorming for • Multiplying a single digit number by 10, our new paragraph. 100, and 1000 • Spelling: soft “c” and soft “g” words. History Math • The Davidic Kingdom • Finding a fractional part of a set; Tuesday was a big review day as these later concepts P a g e 5 Bradford Bulletin From the Teacher’s Desk (Continued)

are pretty challenging; Identifying the factors Science of a number; identifying the GCF of two • Students continued learning about the numbers; Thursday we had a field trip; three laws of Newton and simple machines. Identifying the rays and vertex of an angle; This week, students labeled all of the simple right and straight angles; number of degrees in machines found on the Hess trucks and a circle. A straight angle and a right angle. loaders and demonstrated their functions on History these machines. At the end of the class, • Split of the Roman Empire students had the best time racing the little Science loaders! • Simple Machines test; lab on buoyancy; Latin video about the lost book of Archimedes • In Latin, we reviewed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Latin conjugation verbs and added more words to • Chapter 29: Prepositions that take the our ever-growing vocabulary. Students also ablative case did a fantastic job learning about imperative Music sentences in Latin and created a Latin version • This week we began class with prayer and of “Simon Says” (”Simonus Dicat”) to practice spent some time listening to the music of them. Gershwin, our quarterly composer. Our music Music theory lesson was about major scales, and we • This week we began class with prayer and practiced our music for the Patriotic Program. we had the, “Play ‘America the Beautiful,’ By Art Yourself Test,” in which each 4th Grader was • We painted the background color on our graded on playing this piece on their recorder states and worked on our final drawing of our by themselves. After the test, we enjoyed a flowers. short time of listening to Gershwin, and then P.E. practiced singing our music for the Patriotic • We did a fun run to get ready for the Mad Program. Dash; kickball. Art Memory Work: • The students began painting their own • Review of references and first key words flowers, combining their practice of mixing of the verses from 4th quarter and some from colors with sketching the flowers. 1st quarter. P.E. • Kickball. Language Arts Memory Work: • John Calvin and the Institutes –students • Psalm 139:1-4 began reading about John Calvin. • Patriotic Program songs • Writing: Students continued working on their stories, transporting themselves into an event in the past or future, and worked on several writing exercises. 5th Grade Math (Ms. Windes) • Students learned about volume, as well as Language Arts how to measure angles, round mixed numbers, • Reading: We are nearing the end of and subtract decimal numbers using zeros. Johnny Tremain; Johnny watches as a long History trail of redcoats leave Boston, marching out • The Act of Supremacy by King Henry the to attack the Patriots at Lexington and then VIII. P a g e 6 Bradford Bulletin

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Concord. Johnny waits definitions. anxiously to hear any news • Upcoming: Tuesday, 5/1: Ch. about his friend Rab who has 29 test joined the fighting. Music • Writing: The students are • This week we started class making immense progress on with prayer and the students their research and are recited the weekly praise verse to preparing to write the rough the teacher. Then, we enjoyed drafts of their papers. some time listening to Gershwin. Math We had a music theory lesson • We are touching on more about major scales, and practiced geometry concepts this week, singing our music for the Patriotic learning about Program. transformations, Art corresponding parts, similar • The students continue to make figures, symmetry, and scale drawings and progress in painting flowers for the Patriotic models. Program mural! History P.E. • Jefferson offers Napoleon $9 million for • On a rainy day, we learned about the the city and port of New Orleans, but the offer rules and techniques of croquet and tennis. is rejected. Surprisingly, Napoleon offers for Memory Work: the U.S. to buy the entire 828,000 acres of the • This week: Psalm 121:1-4 Louisiana territory for a mere $15 million, • Next week: Psalm 121:5-8 thus doubling the size of the colonies and its • Program. territories! Art Science: • The students began • Students greatly enjoyed painting their own flowers, experiments and combining their practice of demonstrations with static mixing colors with sketching electricity; they also built a the flowers. myriad of snap circuits, using P.E. the energy generated by the • We did a fun run to get flow of electrons to power ready for the Mad Dash; small light bulbs, high-speed kickball. fans (pictures), sound Memory Work: machines, lasers, and many • Psalm 139:1-4 others. • Patriotic Program songs Latin • After completing the review chapter, we have LOGIC & RHETORIC begun studying the challenging correlative SCHOOL adverbs. Each of these adverbs follow certain patterns in words and their Mr. Hamilton 7th Grammar/Comp P a g e 7 Bradford Bulletin From the Teacher’s Desk (Continued)

• More work on research papers with has been a rich and invigorating exploration teacher guidance. Many students are greatly of this most devastating of human conflicts. enjoying their first academic papers! 9th Literature 7th Omnibus • We are presently reading Animal Farm, • After prepping for our Roman history Orwell’s fable about the perils of communism. At exam, which will take place next week, we present in our reading, Snowball and Napoleon reviewed a summer reading, The Eagle of the have fallen out; Napoleon soon takes full control, Ninth, focusing on the picture this historical novel using lies and cunning to force out the more paints of Rome after the days of Hadrian’s Wall. thoughtful Snowball. 9th Theology • This week we are continuing through Christianity and Liberalism, Machen’s response to the growing wave of anti-evangelicalism in the early 20th century.

Mr. Miller 7th Latin • This week we began chapter 16 with a vocabulary quiz and an introduction to third conjugation “-io” verbs. 8th Omnibus • We started reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic work The Canterbury Tales this week. After being introduced in the prologue to the diverse and interesting cast of pilgrims journeying to Canterbury, the students had fun ordering them from the most virtuous to the least virtuous (based on the descriptions provided by Chaucer). 8th Logic • We spent some more time working with hypothetical We then picked up The Screwtape syllogisms before returning to Letters, C.S. Lewis’s classic categorical syllogisms. apologetic satire. 10th Literature 9th Logic • As we continue reading • We are continuing our through the delightful and crucial work of applying our intriguing collection of myths understanding of symbolic logic found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, to real-world arguments. we are noticing a prominent 9th History theme: love and its corruptions. • We are marching Time and again we encounter through World War II at stories centered around love of present. Our study thus far P a g e 8 Bradford Bulletin

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some sort, but often a love that is improper and uniformitarianism and catastrophism. We leads to the characters’ downfall. looked at the ways in which the slow 10th History processes of weathering, erosion, • We finished our discussion of Lucretius’ deposition, and uplifting have shaped Earth’s The Way Things Are and now turn our attention surface, but also at the undeniable evidence to a very different sort of philosophical work of catastrophic flooding and violent volcanic written around the same time: Cicero’s On activity in Earth’s past. Ask your child how Obligations. Whereas Lucretius was an Epicurean the Channeled Scablands of Washington writing a poetic work defending Epicurean state are evidence of catastrophic flooding. metaphysics, Cicero was an Academic Skeptic How easy it is for man to blindly deny writing a treatise defending a Stoic view of ethics. God’s power! You can read more in this 10th Rhetoric National Geographic article: https:// • After completing the lessons in our news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/ rhetoric workbook that provide an overview channeled-scablands/ . of the major components of a classical speech, we have now turned our attention to writing • There will be an open-notes test on Geology our own major speeches that will be delivered on Tuesday, May 1st. ALL Cornell at the end of the quarter. These notes should be complete and up- speeches will require the to-date before Tuesday. students to choose any topic 8th Grade Science: about which they need to argue a • We completed our unit on particular position and defend it Forces with a study of Newton’s against counterarguments. Universal Law of Gravitation and a

look at how gravity affects falling Mrs. Frueh objects. We used Newton’s 2nd 7th Grade Science: Law to prove that all objects on • We wrapped up our Earth will accelerate toward Earth introduction to geology with an in at a rate of 9.8 m/s 2, regardless of -depth look at the theories of mass, in the absence of air resistance. We also discussed the concepts of free fall and terminal velocity. • Forces unit test on Tuesday, May 1st. ALL Cornell notes should be complete and up-to-date P a g e 9 Bradford Bulletin

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Mr. Palmer Mr. Johnston 7th Pre-Algebra 8th Latin • This week we continued learning how to • Wrapping up chapter 10 translation solve two-step problems using algebraic work. equations. We reviewed angles and how to find complementary and supplementary 7th Logic angles. We worked on exponents and signed • Working through the fallacies of False numbers as well as solve more ratio problems. Goals. We also celebrated the fact that we worked 7th/8th Paideia through 100 math lessons so far this year. • How to carry on a discussion on a • Thank you for taking time to work with concern of common interest but different your children on their homework. This week, solutions. their overall work seemed better. 8th Algebra I • This week we learned the pythagorean Mrs. Byrd theorem and how to use it to find the distance 9th/10th Algebra 2 between two points. We also learned how to • We’ve spent the week calculating solve distance word problems with differing exponential growth & decay, compound distances and then had a short review on how interest, permutations, and the probability to round numbers. We also celebrated the fact of independent events. Next week we will that we worked through 100 math lessons so look at some more rules for logarithms. We far this year. will also begin our 4th Quarter Project • Math test scores were a little lower this “Dream House” - calculating payments, time around for some of the students. Please budgeting, and analysis. continue working with them on their homework. We have learned 100 math lessons this year, and so there is a lot of information out there that they are having to remember. If you have any questions, please email me.

Mrs. Gregory 7th and 8th Music • This week we began class with prayer and the students recited the weekly praise verse to the teacher. We spent some time enjoying the music of Gershwin. Our music theory lesson was about major scales, and the students were able to hear all the major scales as the teacher sang them to them. Finally, we gathered in the back of the room to sing our warmups and practice, “The Lord Bless You