Virtue of the week: COURAGE
Article of Faith: #4
Scripture: God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. ~Timothy 1:7
Quote #1: "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point." ~C.S. Lewis
Quote #2: "Do the thing you fear to do and keep doing it...that is the quickest and surest way, yet discovered, to conquer fear." ~Dale Carnegie
Quote #3: "Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: The courage to say, 'Yes', the courage to say 'No', Decisions do determine destiny!" ~ Thomas S. Monson
All of the students worked on memorizing these quotes, some memorized all of the quotes, the scripture and the Article Of Faith ( Ask them to see if they remember). The children are also working on memorizing the Presidents of the United States, 10 Key "Hook Dates" from the Book Of Mormon (copies went home in their homework folders) and some poems. They earn prizes from the prizebox on Thurs. for doing so. We will have "pass off day" every Thurs. where they can pass off the quotes/script/AofF for that week.
The children each received a "Call To Courage." President Monson spoke about this a few years ago and said we each have something important that the Lord is counting on us to do! Now is the perfect time to decide that we want to follow the Savior and make choices so that we will be prepared when the Lord needs us. I "called" them all to have the courage to live so that they can be instruments for the Lord. We also learned about people in the scriptures like David when he faced Goliath, who had to have courage, and Columbus when he said off knowing it was what God wanted him to do, but everyone else thought he was crazy.
FUN-Damentals (Sister Hepworth's Class)
RELIGION:
We learned about Adam and Eve and their growing family after they left the Garden of Eden. They taught their children the gospel and they all learned together in a new land. They found that keeping the commandments brought much happiness. We learned that our class is happiest, also, when we obey rules and use our best manners. We want to grow to be like Jesus Christ.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
We learned the phonograms s, qu, b, e. Now we know all the short clock letters. Please help your students practice them correctly at home. Be sure to have them say the letter sound as they write it. Watch to make sure they gain solid habits of forming each letter correctly. There are also three other ways we practice our phonograms:
1) Flash the phonogram cards we have learned. You flash the card, the student says the sounds.
2) Give phonogram test. Choose 10+cards. You say the phonogram and your student writes it on the test paper. The student reads the phonograms on the test paper back to you and checks the card to see if they are correct. (It is helpful to come to school to see how we do this at 10:00 a.m.)
3) Find phonograms in the poem and scriptures we are learning.
MATH: We measured our weight and height. We are all unique and different, with our own special purpose too!
SCIENCE:
We learned about the life cycle of an apple and tasted lots of different types of apples. It is interesting to learn that each apple is individual and special with its own unique purpose.
HOMEWORK FOLDERS: Your child's homework is on the left side of the folder, along with any parent information, and the reading charts. FOLDERS NEED TO BE RETURNED WITH WORK HOMEWORK COMPLETED ON MONDAYS. I WILL PUT IT IN THEIR BINDERS TO BE SENT HOME AT THE END OF THE YEAR! PLEASE RECORD THEIR READING MINUTES FOR THURS-SUN ON THEIR READING CHART AS WELL AND SEND IN THEIR FOLDER MONDAY. THEY ARE TRYING TO EARN FREE BOOKS TO BE AWARDED THE END OF OCTOBER DURING LITERACY WEEK!
RELIGION: We read and analyzed Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life and found out what each of the things that he saw represent. Next week we will be drawing a mural of the Tree of Life and placing ourselves in the mural where we are in our life now, or where we would like to be.
MATH: Each child learned new math concepts for their level, took timed tests and worked on their lessons.
LANGUAGE ARTS: Stories are almost done! It has taken a little longer than I had planned, but the children are REALLY into writing and illustrating them. They will be presented next week. We also discussed a writing trick that author's use, and that we found in President Monson's quote for this week. It's called ALLITERATION! Ask your children what Alliteration is. We did some really fun exercises practicing using alliteration in our writing, and read some examples in poetry, and even did some poetry art with alliteration!
LITERATURE: We finished Ida B! What beautiful lessons we learned about family and facing hardships with a good attitude and saying sorry we've done wrong, and forgiving ourselves. Ida has become a real person to all of us. The book was thoroughly enjoyed by all! We began our new book called, Dear America: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. It is about a young. It is about a young Pilgrim girl who was on the Mayflower. It required a lot of courage for her family to make the decision to come on this voyage, and they are finding that it is MUCH more difficult that then imagined it would be. We can't wait to see what lessons we will learn from Remember, her family and the other Pilgrims of the Mayflower!
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY: We learned about the young life of Christopher Columbus, that the Book of Mormon prophesies of his coming to America, the spiritual experiences that Columbus had to inspire him to find a new land where would be people who didn't know about Jesus Christ. We also learned that Columbus was led by the Lord to these lands. It's been a wonderful unit. We also Incorporated the Geography of Columbus's voyage and the islands he discovered on his first voyage into this unit. Several times this week I've heard several children say, "I love History." Makes for one happy teacher! They are such great children!
SCIENCE: The students presented their Science reports and I was so proud of them all! Each received a P/H (Pass with Honors) for their efforts. To see pics of their presentations check FACEBOOK, or our blog: libertyyouthacademy.blogspot.com. They are getting so excited about Science and really working hard to learn more. We began a unit on Reptiles. They have homework packets in their Homework Folders that they can work on this weekend.
CHOIR: It's sounding like Christmas at LYA! We will be starting to work on some Thanksgiving songs too.
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