Ms. Lambden's Class Preposition Test Friday, Sept. 4

Today you received a list of prepositions to the tune of "Yankee Doodle". The prepositions should be memorized by Friday, September 4th. This will be a test grade. We will go over the prepositions everyday in class. It is in your best benefit to practice at home. 

Thanks,

Ms. Lambden

Math for Week of August 31- September 4, 2015

We made it through the first full week of school!  Now the rest will be easy!

This week in Math we will

Monday- Lesson 1-4 Tiling Strategy, Math Box 1-4

Tuesday- Lesson 1-5 Introduction to Volume, Math Box 1-5

Wednesday- Lesson 1-5 Introduction to Volume, Math Box 1-5

Thursday- Lesson 1-6 Exploring Nonstandard Volume Units, Math Box 1-6

Friday- Lesson 1-6 Exploring Nonstandard Volume Units, Math Box 1-6

Biology - August 31 - September 4, 2015

Is it alive???   We will learn about the characteristics that all living things have in common from the microscopic creature to the largest animal.  Vocabulary for the week:  cell, ingestion, digestion, respiration, excretion, growth, life cycle, movement, reproduce, environment.

Ms. Lambden's Class 8/31-9/4

Last week we took a benchmark to see what concepts we needed to review from the previous year. This week we will be reviewing concepts that have not been mastered. We will be reviewing nouns, pronouns, article adjectives, and possessive adjectives.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thanks,

Ms. Lambden

Lingua Latina: Aug.31-Sept. 4

This week in Latin we will go over any corrections or concepts we did not understand from Chapter 1. Then we will begin Chapter 2 by watching our introduction video and going over our new vocabulary. Complete page 13 in your books for homework. 





Things to remember:

CONJUGATE - is for VERBS (action words) and we conjugate when we list verbs in all their forms with their endings.

AMO chant
O-I
S -You
T- He/She/It

MUS- We
TIS - You All (Y'all)
NT- They

History, Literature, Bible: Aug. 31 - Sept 4

Spelling TEST Monday!!!

Absurd

Greedily

Torture

Shriveled

Cleaver

Extremely

Ordinary

Deserted

History: Barbarian Invasion and Vikings
Monday - Read our introduction to Barbarian Invasion and complete the corresponding worksheet.
Tuesday - We will have a reading telling us the background of the Invasions, we will then compare the life of a Barbarian to that of a Roman.
Wednesday - Chapel
Thursday - Alaric the Visigoth reading and comprehension worksheet.

Friday - Attila the Hun reading and comprehension worksheet.

Literature: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Monday - We will take our spelling quiz. You are to read Chapters 5 through 6 in the evening.
Tuesday - We will discuss what new things we have discovered from chapters 5-6. Read chapter 7 together as a class.
Wednesday - Chapel
Thursday - You will write a short summary for me of Chapter 5-7.  Read chapter 8 in the evening.
Friday - We will complete Chapters 5 through 8 comprehension question.

Bible: Gabriel Tells Mary of the Incarnation
Tuesday - We will read from our introduction cards and complete the corresponding worksheet.
Wednesday - Read from our bibles Luke 1:26-56 and complete a crossword finding the people of this passage and different descriptive words used throughout.
Thursday - Bible art study, we will look at the art work of Fra Angelico's and see what we can find represented in the picture and how it retells the story to the viewer.

Great News!

Dear Parents,

I have been so busy; I have not had a chance to write to you about our new math curriculum being used in 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th grades.  We are really excited to be able to offer this program, Everyday Mathematics.  When I came to Christ Church School several years ago, we were using Saxon Math through 5^th grade.  Saxon Math does not use the higher level thinking skills that is so important for the upper grades and the upper math courses.  It is very good for the lower grades because of its repetition of skills; however we found that we needed a more rigorous math curriculum that would transition and incorporate into the intermediate grades.  After thinking for two years about what we could do to get more “higher level thinking” skills and problem solving in our math program, we decided to implement Everyday Mathematics.  We chose this curriculum because it fits into our Classical Education approach better than other programs by incorporating both the repetition or spiral teaching of math facts and the problem solving and critical thinking crucial to the Classical approach.  We are still going to use the traditional way of solving math problems, but we will also teach alternative methods to help students that struggle with the traditional methods.  We will also continue the CCS approach of using one grade level acceleration for our students.  I am really excited to implement this program because I was one of the first teachers to use it in TISD.  After implementing this program, our math scores for the district rose every year.  I am confident that it will do the same for Christ Church School.  We want the best for our students and I believe that can be achieved with Everyday Mathematics. 

Be Blessed,

Lanelle Holbrook