Spring break April 5 - May 3

A Sure Sign

by Evaleen Stein

When you see upon the walk
Circles newly made of chalk,
And around them all the day
Little boys in eager play
Rolling marbles, agates fine,
Banded, polished, red as wine,
Marbles crystal as the dew,
Each with rainbows twisted through,
Marbles gay in painted clay,
Flashing, twinkling in your way,
When the walk has blossomed so,
Surely every one must know
None need wonder who has heard
Robin, wren, or Peter-bird;
Sure the sign as song or wing,
It is spring!

Daffodils

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

A Prayer in Spring

by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees. And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid-air stands still. For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.

Week 26

Z is for . . .zucchini, zero, zipper, zebra

-hidden picture worksheet for Z

-sticker book for z

Starting to add

same

-"how many cats, how many hats . . . are there the same number of cats as hats?"

- writing numbers 1-10

Ready for reading

finding and matching letters

Week 26: March 29 - April 2

Religion & Bible

Reading

Writing

MaTh

Science

Language/Spelling/Grammar

History & Geography

Nations and Revolutions 1830-1870

*The Year of Revolutions

-Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto

*New Nations

-Greece

-Italy

-Germany

Assignments:

-maps of Italy and Germany

-time line of important dates

*Revolutions in South America 1800-1830

-Simon Bolivar

-defeating the Spanish

-Jose de San Martin

*Peru and Bolivia

-freedom and war

Assignments:

-Map of South America

-time line

Art & Music Appreciation

U.S. History

P.E.

Week 25

Y is for . . .yacht, yolk, yo-yo, yak, yarn and yam

-hidden picture worksheet for Y

-sticker book for Y

Starting to add

filling in the missing numbers worksheet

Ready for reading

picture sequence; putting pictures in order to tell a story

Week 25: March 22-26

Religion & Bible

Reading

biography of Queen Victoria

Writing

MaTh

Science

Language/Spelling/Grammar

History & Geography

Britain 1820-1900

*Life in the New Towns

- slums

- workhouses

- protests

- school

Assignments:

-online activities about the life of Victorian children

and conditions in towns, slums and factories

-read biography of Queen Victoria

Art & Music Appreciation

U.S. History

P.E.

Week 24

X is for . . . Xavier Hippo and his xylophone, x-ray

-hidden picture worksheet for X

sticker book for X

Starting to add

dot to dot worksheet

Ready for reading

finding the odd one out in each picture

Week 24: March 15-19

Religion & Bible

Reading

Writing

MaTh

Science

Language/Spelling/Grammar

History & Geography

The Slave Trade 1550-1890

The Agricultural Revolution 1680-1850

The Industrial Revolution 1700-1850

Assignments:

-time lines

-read about a runaway slave's journey to freedom

-map of the slave trade routes

-view pictures and time lines of 250 years of farming

-watch video of the industrial revolution

Art & Music Appreciation

U.S. History

P.E.