Week 11

This week is a weird week.  Here’s a preview of some of what’s coming up, along with what we’re learning this week:

• Veterans’ Day Assembly at 2 PM on Tuesday
• No school Wednesday for Veterans’ Day
• Early dismissal on Friday for a teacher professional day
• Conferences start next week!  Sign ups went out to families with multiple students at BL on Monday, and the rest of the families will get the link this afternoon.

Christian Studies:
This week in Christian Studies we get to see God work in some pretty amazing ways.  First, we learned about Othniel, someone God called to deliver His people.  We talked again about the cycle the Israelites find themselves falling into time and time again—they praise God and follow Him, then they fall away and worship other gods; they are oppressed and call out to God to save them; He is faithful and sends someone to deliver them from their troubles, and they follow God again for a time…until they don’t again.  We’ll then talk about how God used the most unlikely of people for His plan, like Ruth, who wasn’t even an Israelite, but would become an ancestor of Jesus.

Math:
This week in math we’ll finish up our module on place value and reading, writing, and showing numbers different ways.  Then we’ll start our next module, which will use that solid foundation of place value to count by different numbers and add and subtract 10 and 100.

Language Arts:
This week’s phonics concept is another diphthong: ou and ow.  We learned that “ou” is used at the beginning or middle of a word of syllable.  “Ow” is used at the end of a word or syllable or when the “ow” sound is followed by a single L or N (such as growl, down).

Science:
We’re coming to the end of our science unit on land and water on Earth.  The students have made a map of their model and have checked it against three main criteria: that they have all the land and water displayed, that the locations match on the map and the model, and their two patterns are displayed.  They’ve had a chance to check someone else’s map and, in turn, have someone check their map.  We’ll finish up by reviewing what we have learned in this unit.