Mrs. Riemenschneider's Classroom: What's New?

Friday, February 13, 2015

What's New?

Ash Wednesday
This week begins the season of Lent, a time to encounter God through Word and Sacrament as we remember the sacrifice Jesus made. As a courtesy to those attending worship, please do NO park in the handicapped spots in front of the church at 3:00 pickup time. You are invited to join us for Worship any week.

Religion:
We have been following Saul, David, and Solomon's stories and used them to apply the petitions of the Lord's Prayer to our lives. As we looked at "and lead us not into temptation," We saw David's downfall and how God led him to repentance. We rejoice in God's love and grace! As we saw Solomon build the temple, we discussed "thine is the Glory" and giving God the glory through our day to day actions. This has inspired a class faith project: building awareness among our schoolmates about our chapel offerings.

Literature: We have begun a non-fiction unit with a look at a war diary and expository essays on breaking the color barrier in baseball. Your child may have lots of questions about the Civil Rights movement as we viewed a clip from a documentary. In honor of President's day, we read a biography of Lincoln. We are comparing this literary style to an autobiography of beloved children's author, Beverly Cleary. During this unit, I am steering students who are interested toward some excellent nonfiction works as well as historical novels.

As we study non-fiction, we look at structure (chronological, compare/contrast, ...) as well as styles (essay, biography, narrative...).

English:
After testing on adjectives, it was on to adverbs. As part of these grammar units, students will learn advertising techniques and create our own products to "sell." At the end of 3rd quarter we will start research papers.