Weekly Update

It's hard to believe Lent is almost over and that we will be entering Holy Week very soon. Today in Sunday Scriptures, one group asked the students to reflect upon which day of Holy Week is their favorite. This lead to a nice discussion about why the different days are so important to each of us. Some students reflected that Good Friday gets us in touch with our sins and helps us repent and become closer to God. Others said Holy Thursday is nice because we are reminded of our call to go out and do as Jesus did. And of course there are those who relish the celebration of New Life for Easter.

This week in Religion we also talked about the many heresies that were spread in the expanding Christian church and the need to develop a creed to counteract those falsehoods. In keeping with that idea, the students examined the Nicene Creed and created a list of beliefs that it contains and also wrote down what falsehood each belief could be targeting.

In Literature and English, we finished up our Iditarod unit. I received some nice feedback from students and parents about how much they enjoyed this unit. It was really nice to hear about families following the race together and watching the live finish last week. I am currently correcting the students' questions from the novel Woodsong, and I just finished grading their comparison/contrast papers that addressed the similarities and differences found in the movie Balto and the true facts of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome. I found that the students did an excellent job using transitions in their papers. This has been a major focus of their writing this year. We will now be moving on to the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, which deals with racial discrimination in the South. And in English we are going to be tackling prepositions.

Since next week is going to be so short, I will not be updating my blog, so I want to wish everyone a very blessed Easter.