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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 paper flowers to join the butterflies on our 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.