Volume 8, Issue 10 October 9th, 2015 Bradford Bulletin BRADFORD ACADEMY’S PARENT UPDATE SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST: AlexanderAlexander WilsonWilson • 10/12th - 16th Fall Break • 10/19 - Moms’ Prayer Group Bradford Academy was not the first rebuked the King to his face calling him, • 11/11 - Veterans’ Day - no school classical Christian school in this area. As a “God’s silly vassel.” Melville famously • 11/17 - Bradford Night matter of fact, this area has an interesting tie reminded him that in Scotland there were two • 11/24 - Bradford Feast to classical and Christian education. kingdoms and James was not head of both. • 11/25th - 27th Thanksgiving Break You may have seen the name Melville There was the civil realm headed by the man • 12/4 - Mebane Christmas Parade show up locally. We have the Melville Trading James the Sixth, and the heavenly kingdom, • 12/12 - Book Fair at B&N Company downtown and you may have seen the church on earth, headed by Christ Himself. • 12/15 - Middle school Christmas historic references to Melville Dairy Farms. While the church instructs the state in ethics concert Unbeknownst to many is the fact that Mebane and morality and the state protects the • 12/17 - Middle school Christmas is actually part of what is known as Melville church, the relationship between the two is concert at Burlington First ultimately one of separation. This way of Presbyterian Church Township. (You would border the township if you draw a line running east from Quarry Hills thinking shaped Presbyterian views of Country Club, by the Haw River, straight to the government in Europe and was carried to PRAY ER Orange County line, then follow the county America by the persecuted Puritans in the Please pray for God’s supply line north to Fuller Road just north of Mill Northeast and later by the Scotch-Irish settlers regarding specific needs: Creek, then go west to Stagg Creek and follow here in the Carolinas. These forefathers were 1) Scholarship fund for next year! it southeast until it joins the Quaker Creek fiercely independent when it came to personal 2) Plans to expand into HIGH Reservoir and continue along Black Creek back and civil responsibility and at the same time SCHOOL program. to the Haw River. ) unashamedly dependent when it came to the The name “Melville” was taken from a Scriptures and their spiritual life. Their 3) Growing athletic program! Pray that the Spirit of God CLASSICAL and CHRISTIAN school that had dependence was wholly upon Christ. would use the practice and been established in 1851 by Alexander Wilson. This man, Andrew Melville who is competition to build character The school was located near the current almost lost to us in Christian history, stood tall in our scholar athletes. Alexander Wilson elementary school around in the mind of the energetic educator 4) Plans for facilities to house our Hawfields. Alexander Wilson, a Scotch-Irish Continued on page 5. growing school. Presbyterian educator and clergyman, came Andrew Melville’s to America around 1818. He arrived in Two Kingdom’s Speech America on July 4th and soon began to King James VI of teaching at various private academies Scotland (1596) particularly the classics and theology. Philosophically, these schools followed the “I must tell you, there are two kingdoms in Scotland: Presbyterian tradition of Andrew Melville, a there is King James, the head of the commonwealth, Scottish Reformer. and there is Christ Jesus, the King of the Church, Andrew Melville was a theologian whose subject James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a of the highest caliber and some consider him member. Sir, those whom Christ has called and as important to Scottish Presbyterianism as commanded to watch over his church, have power John Knox. He fought for religious freedom and authority from Him to govern his spiritual from the government of King James and kingdom, both jointly and severally; the which no restored a high regard for the Scriptures in Christian king or prince should control and discharge, education. He served as head of various but fortify and assist; otherwise they are not faithful colleges and angered those who claimed the subjects of Christ and members of his Church. We will infallibility of Aristotle, a popular position of yield to you your place, and give you all due the academic elite at the time. While he obedience; but again, I say, you are not the head of the Church; you cannot give us that eternal life which held a high regard for the classics and we seek for even in this world, and you cannot scholarship, he was a champion of the deprive us of it. “ ultimate authority of Scripture. He famously Timor Domini Principium Scientiae P a g e 2 Bradford Bulletin From the Teacher’s Desk Mrs. Rivera (Kindergarten) Science : This week we watched a documentary on life in Math: Covering designs with pattern blocks, looking for a deciduous forests and identified the vertebrates and pattern to solve a problem, ordering numbers to 20, adding 1 invertebrates in the video while we were watching. Bird of the to a number, some, some went away stories, creating Month: Canada Goose subtraction problem situations, counting backwards from 10 to PE: Virginia Reel 1, and assessment. Hymn : “Take My Life, and Let It Be” (verses 5-6) Phonics: Target sound R, handwriting R, review of sight words: Verse : I Peter 1:20-21 (NKJV) sat, sad, fat, fan, bat, and mat. History: Birth and Sacrifice of Isaac, B.C. History Fact Song Miss Stevenson (2nd Grade) verses 1 and 2. Math: Estimating, Measuring, and Drawing Line Segments Music: Bands - played instruments as we listened to marches Using Centimeters, Adding a Multiple of 10 to a Number Using and marched around the room; reviewed “Take My Life and Let Mental Computation, Ordering Three-Digit Numbers, Adding 5 It Be” and “A Round of Thanks.” and 6, Writing Number Sentences for “Some, Some More” and “Some, Some Went Away” Stories, Writing Story Problems for Art: Finished the color wheel, warm & Addition and Subtraction Number colors. Sentences P.E.: Practice jumping for Greek History: 1st Intermediate Period in Egypt Olympics, review of balance, hopping, and leaping. Phonics: Vowel Digraphs Science: Unit on Trees, nature walk to Reading: Encyclopedia Brown - reading identify types of trees. aloud and looking for information by using key words. Verse: Ecclesiastes 9:10, Proverbs 10:19 (NKJV) Grammar: 2 Point Expository Paragraphs Hymn: Take My Life And Let It Be Science: Durham Life and Science Field (verses1-6) Trip, Bird of the Month: Wild Turkey Mrs. Rivera begins Teacher Tuesday: Lucy; Oct 20th-Lilleigh, Teacher Tuesday! Art : We took a trip outside into the Oct27th-Peter sunshine and students drew trees as part of a positive and negative space Mrs. Campbell (1st Grade) composition. Math : This week we practiced tallying and counting by 5’s, Music: The musical staff, clefs, rhythm, and notation; reviewed identifying horizontal, vertical and oblique lines, writing a unit “Take My Life and Let It Be” and “A Round of Thanks.” fraction using notation, weighing objects using nonstandard P.E. Virginia Reel units, comparing and ordering objects by weight and sums of 10. Students also completed their sixth fact and written Latin: Review (chapters 1-9), Test #2 on Friday, October 23 assessments. Verses: Philippians 2:4 Phonics : Final blends (st, sk, nt, mp, nk...) Mrs. Mitchell (3rd Gr.) Reading : The Grand Cat Math: Working with 3 digit numbers: writing checks, Grammar: Nouns (Ideas); Oral usage: “See/Saw/Seen”; Poem estimating and adding to them to 2 digit numbers; telling time memorization: “The Months.” to the quarter hour; assessments. History: This week we discussed the royal governors and loyal History: Review week. captains of the colonies including the clever and brave Captain Latin: Chapter 8, neuter nouns. Wadsworth. Grammar: Chapter 7 test, review of who/which clauses. Art : Overlapping project. Music: We finished watching the dramatized biography about Writing: Final drafts of 3 paragraph history essay! the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. We also reviewed “Take My Music: We learned about the musical staff, clefs, rhythm, and Life and Let It Be” and “A Round of Thanks.” notation. We also reviewed “Take My Life and Let It Be” and “A P a g e 3 Bradford Bulletin Round of Thanks.” brought by Smaug is causing them to despair once again. Art: Armor project. Grammar: We added possessive pronouns, object P.E.: We started our unit on volleyball this week. pronouns, and possessive nouns to our sentence classification, Science: Greensboro Science Museum field trip. also learning the new vocabulary for the week and songs to remember the pronouns. Verse: Review Latin: Our new Latin book has begun helpfully with a review of Enjoy the break! many of Latin’s foundational grammar concepts. Mrs. Hamilton (4th Grade) Writing: The students have finished and turned in their Math: After completing their fourth assessment, students Spanish Explorers essays; I am really pleased with the effort began learning about dividing fractions and reading scales, the they put into these and how their writing is developing! division algorithm, and how to measure time and elapsed Art: We continued the still life picture in pencil of blocks and time. chess pieces. History: Students learned about Charles Martel, the hero of Music: We continued our study of music history by learning the Battle of Tours against Islam; his son Pepin the Short, an about the Baroque period. We also continued working on unlikely king who gains the throne through the allegiance of harmony in “A Round of Thanks.” the pope; and his grandson Charlemagne, who tries to reestablish the old empire by restoring civilization, law, and Memory: Romans 12:17-19 religion.