April 24th, 2015 Volume 7, Issue 31

B r a d f o r d B u l l e t i nB r a d f o r d B u l l e t i nB r a d f o r d B u l l e t i n B R A D F O R D A C A D E M Y ’ S P A R E N T U P D A T E

T i m o r D o m i n i P r i n c i p i u m S c i e n t i a e

S P E C I A L P O I N T S

O F I N T E R E S T :

• 04/24 - GALA and AUCTION The fun starts at 6:00 PM!

Get a sneak peak at the items at

Bradfordacademy.org/auction

• 04/27 - Tennis Club 6th-7th

• 04/28 -Equestrian Club- 4th gr.

• 05/06 - Middle School field trip

• 05/07 - Garden Club starts

• 05/08 - Community Days (K-3)

• 05/21 - PATRIOTIC PROGRAM

• 05/25 - Memorial Day

• 05/26-29 Standardized Testing

• 06/01 - Field Day

• 06/02 - Bible Bee

• 06/03 - Last Day of School

P R A Y E R

Please pray for God’s supply:

1) Scholarship fund.

2) Increased enrollment for

2015/2016. We would like

to fill up the remaining

spots in each grade and

build each class to 10 or 12

students. Pray with us.

3) Plans to expand into HIGH

SCHOOL program. Plans for

facilities to house our

growing school.

4) We hope to add one new

staff member. Please pray

that the Lord would guide

us as we seek to grow the

team.

5) Spiritual fruit among our

students.

The Bradford Academy Choral Ensemble

is hereby awarded the Certificate of Appreciation

in recognition of outstanding support given to the Sons of

the American Revolution.

So says the certificate we received after a moving

performance delivered on Saturday. One of the

grandfathers of a Bradford student was so impressed by

our Patriotic Program last year that he asked if we could

come and sing and recite at the North Carolina Chapter of

the Sons of the American Revolution 87th Annual

Meeting. They gathered at the Ramada Convention

Center in Burlington; many in full period regalia and

others in formal dress adorned with medals and other

distinctions. About 35 of our students were able to

attend and sang several

patriotic tunes to the

delight of those in

attendance. Many of those

in the audience were visibly

moved by the children’s

performance and there

were many who even shed

a few tears. We look

forward to presenting

those songs and more at

our annual Patriotic

Program, May 21st at 7 PM.

Peace and grace!

S i n g i n g t o t h e S o n s o f t h e S i n g i n g t o t h e S o n s o f t h e

A m e r i c a n R e v o l u t i o nA m e r i c a n R e v o l u t i o n

Dr. Samuel Powell greets the students before

they sing for the NCSSAR 87th annual meeting!

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Mr s . M i t c h e l l ( K i n d e r g a r t e n )

Math: The last 4 addition facts!!; counting dimes , nickels and

pennies; identifying fractional parts of a whole; graphing tags on

a bar graph; measuring and drawing lines to the nearest

centimeter.

Phonics: Target sound wh; review of all blends - sh, ch, th, wh;

writing words that begin with wh; read Big Brown Bear.

History: War for Independence.

Art: Create a unified collage.

Music: Beethoven

P.E.: T-ball

Science: Unit on the Human Body: The Skeletal System.

Hymn: “To God Be the Glory”, vs. 2.

Verse: Proverbs 21:23

Mr s . C am p b e l l ( 1 s t G r a d e )

Math: This week students were introduced to their final

subtraction facts (-9) and completed their 20th written

assessment. We also practiced writing observations from a

graph; telling and showing time to the minute; counting and

showing money amounts using quarters, dimes, nickels, and

pennies; and identifying parallel lines and line segments.

Phonics: Target: OU as short O; Review of L blends; Alphabetical

order

Reading: Bright Night

Grammar: Written composition with story starter; Story-poem

narration; Nouns, verbs, and pronouns in “The Three Little

Kittens”

History: This week students worked on memorizing a line from

the acrostic ‘N is for North Carolina’. We worked on expression

and presentation of their lines.

Art: We finished drawing from a still life: “A Teapot and a Vase”

Music: Tchaikovsky

Science: Sound in Relation to Vibration, Bird of the Month:

Brown Pelican

PE: Ultimate Frisbee

Hymn: “To God Be the Glory” (vs. 2)

Verse: Psalm 67:1-7 (focus on v. 1-3)

Mi s s S t e v e n s o n ( 2 n d G r a d e )

Math: Identifying Right, Obtuse, and Acute Angles, Naming

Triangles by Angle Size, Measuring Line Segments Using

Millimeters

History: Davidic Kingdom

Grammar: Parts of a Story

Phonics: Prefixes

Spelling: Words With VCVCCV or VCCVCV Pattern

Reading: Railway Children

Latin: Chapter 28

Science: Vibration in Relation to Sound

Music: Learned Italian names for different tempos.

Art: Artist study: Michelangelo

PE: Ultimate Frisbee

Memory: Proverbs 25:6-22

Mr . J o h n s t o n ( 3 r d G r a d e )

Math: This week we continued to practice LONG DIVISION

(dividing three digits), decimal fractions, polygons, mixed

numbers and improper fractions.

Reading: The students are enjoying the delightful book, Homer

Price. This children’s classic is a collection of short stories giving

a humorous glimpse into life in a 1940’s small town.

History: The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

PE: Ultimate Frisbee

Grammar: This week we learned about regular and irregular

verbs and reviewed verb tense and helping verbs.

Latin: Chapter 22 - using ‘ad’(to/toward) to create prepositional

phrases.

Writing: We have begun a new story retelling King Belshazzar’s

pride and downfall after seeing the writing on the wall.

Science: This week, students began building their bridges using

craft sticks and wood glue.

Music: Learned Italian names for different tempos.

Verse: Matthew 7:13 and John 14:6

Mr s . Ham i lt o n ( 4 t h G r a d e )

Math: Students learned to analyze prisms, continued working

with fractions, took their unit assessment, and performed

probability experiments.

History: This week we finally reached the card students have

been waiting for: Martin Luther! We have read and discussed the

95 theses and have had several spiritual and theological

discussions. I have been truly encouraged by the amount of

questions and interest the fourth graders have shown.

Literature: We continued reading our last book — This Is John

Calvin.

Writing: Students continued working on their version of the

ancient legend of the curse of the sphinx.

Grammar: Students reviewed and worked with irregular verbs.

Latin: We began our study of demonstrative pronouns and

continued analyzing and translating sentences and passages in

Latin.

Science and Art: Students continued building medieval machines

such as a trebuchet and a catapult, demonstrating Newton’s

three laws of motion.

PE: We had an ultimate frisbee competition.

Music: Practice “When the Saints Go Marching In” and any songs

up to pg. 21; practice exercises 13-16 on pg. 29.

Mi s s W i n d e s ( 5 t h G r . )

Math: Reducing Rates Before Multiplying; Review and Test;

Functions and Graphing Functions; Transversals.

History: During Jefferson’s presidency while the nation was still

young, France offered a phenomenal deal of three cents an acre

for an area equal to the size of the colonies at the time. This

week we’ve been learning about that purchase -- the Louisiana

Purchase.

Reading: Continuing Johnny Tremain; the colonies are preparing

From the Teacher’s Desk

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for war after the Boston Tea Party brought no helpful

changes.

Grammar: We learned about degrees of adjectives

(simple, comparative, and superlative) and about how to avoid

double negatives.

Writing: The students continued and finished the rough draft of

their Revolutionary War stories.

Art: The students began a new set of pencil drawings using the

gridline method.

Music: Continue practicing “When Johnny Comes Marching

Home” and up through pg. 11; began watching the opera by

Mozart, “The Magic Flute”.

PE: We had an ultimate frisbee field trip.

Science: This week the students took a test on Newton’s Three

Laws of motion and electricity.

Verse: 1 Samuel 2:10

Upcoming Tests: Grammar on Tuesday; math, history, and

spelling on Friday.

Mr . Ga r b e r ( 6 t h G r a d e )

Math: This week math 8/7 learned about equations with signed

numbers, percent change, and two step equations.

History: This week the students continued their unit on World

War II.

Literature: We continued reading Fahrenheit 451.

Logic: This week the students did not have logic because of the

field trip to Elon.

Science: This week the students reviewed speed and

acceleration and took a test on Friday.

PE: We had an ultimate frisbee field trip.

Grammar: This week we discussed indefinite pronouns and how

to distinguish between plural and singular usage.

Composition: This week we continued planning and preparing

narrative essays.

Art: Continuing their practice with pen and ink, the

students drew still life pictures of blocks and chess

pieces.

Music: Rehearsed songs for auction.

Verse: Eph 3:12-16

Mr . Ham i lt o n ( 7 t h G r a d e )

Math: This week math 8/7 learned about equations with signed

numbers, percent change, and two step equations. Algebra ½

learned about multiplication of exponential expressions, adding

like terms, and advanced ratio problems.

Logic: This week the students did not have logic because of the

field trip to Elon.

Science: This week the students learned about the fossil record

and rock dating processes.

PE: We had an ultimate frisbee field trip.

Grammar: This week we examined sentence patterns 6 and 7.

Composition: This week we continued working on our quarter

persuasive essays. Topics were taken from our Omnibus reading

and include the relationship between culpability and fate in

Oedipus Rex, the Old Testament view of the afterlife, symbolism

and meaning in the relationship between Orual and Psyche in Till

We Have Faces, and many others.

Greek: Chapter 23 quiz; Chapter 24 grammar and vocab.

Omnibus: This week we began our reading of Virgil’s Aeneid,

focusing on the literary and cultural value of this classic Roman

epic poem.

Art: Continuing their practice with pen and ink, the students

drew still life pictures of blocks and chess pieces.

Music: Learned new song for the auction.

Is it science, or math, or history? 4th Graders begin construction of their TREBUCHET!

Stay tuned for the completed project...