Weekly Update

This week in English the students looked for prepositions in the example text of "Paul Revere's Ride." There are plenty of prepositional phrases in there! We then did a choral reading of the poem, highlighting the phrases when we came to them. Yesterday, they took a test on prepositional phrases, and I was very pleased with their performance. We are now moving on to a review of adjectives.

In Literature, we are continuing reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. This is beginning to tie in with the Civil Rights unit they are studying in History class.

In Religion, the students are exploring the continuation of the spread of the Christian Church as it moves into Europe. I also collected their travel guides for the previous unit, and I am quite happy with the effort on that project. The students did a great job of sharing what they learned in a fun format.

I also want to thank those of you who have been praying for my husband and our family. His surgery went very well yesterday. The tumor on his thyroid was benign, and the surgeon only had to remove a small part of the thyroid, allowing him to stay away from the nerves that control the vocal cords, which is great because Jon is a great singer (if I must say so myself)! So God continues to shed his blessings upon us and help us grow in our faith. And that St. Blaise isn't bad either!

God bless!