I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day weekend!

Don’t forget that the golf tournament is this Monday-it was a lot of fun last year, and a really great event for our school!

This week I need to collect $10 for each student for Field Day T-shirts. We will be working on the motto and design together, as we have done in years past, but we will not be painting them ourselves this year. Please send the $10 in your child’s folder this week.

The class has been hard at work on their Rembrandt picture studies, and have made some wonderful progress. I can’t wait to display the finished products! We will continue to work on these picture studies this week, and hopefully will be able to wrap them up by the end of the week.

In history, we have studied the various factors that contributed to Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, and learned about the details of this rebellion. As this was one of the first examples of a rebellion against British authority in the Colonies, the students have enjoyed discussing how it contributed to future rebellions.

This week we will continue wrapping up the autobiographies that the students are writing, modeled after the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. They have worked really hard on this assignment, and their autobiographies are fascinating to read!

We are also planning to FINISH reading Robinson Crusoe this week!  A part of the classical education philosophy that we embrace at Flint encourages us to read worthwhile books slowly, to savor them. We have certainly done that with Robinson Crusoe, and it has been a wonderful literary experience. The students have learned quite a bit of new vocabulary from this novel, and are becoming skilled at following the storyline even when the language becomes confusing. We are going to try and find a copy of the 1950’s film version of Robinson Crusoe to watch together as a class, but that will probably not happen this week.

God bless!

~Nicole Hallford