And Bella Cleans Up!

For history today we learned about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. After we read about the temple in Jerusalem in our history chapter, and the fact that once the Jews returned the oil lasted eight days in menorah, we learned the four Hebrew letters for nun, gimel, hey, and shin. The letters put in order mean: "A great miracle happened there". We enjoyed learning the rules of the game based on the letters on the dreidel and gave it a spin. Bella quickly threw a gimel and cleaned up the entire pot, candy, toys and all! She loves this game!

We have a scheduled Latin Test on Monday and I am going to move it to Tuesday. Our history test scheduled for Tuesday will move to a week from Monday, while I am away.

Thursday night is the Forensics Tournament hosted by GFA. I suggest scholars bring their dress clothing to school and change after school for the tournament. There will be concessions available after the first round, pizza, drinks, and snacks. Scholars should bring some money for dinner if they don't want to pack a second lunch.

We are hoping to start the first round by 4:30, 4:45. We hope to be complete with the tournament by 8:30. All students are competing in Impromptu Speech. Some are also competing in Prose/Poetry, Duo, and Original Oratory. It will be an exciting evening.