Week 14

This week we discussed the price paid in full: the cost at which American liberty was purchased. I'm sure you've all heard the cliché "there's no such thing as a free lunch." (I often use a variation of it with my own kids!). Country singer Toby Keith has a famous song with the line "Freedom don't come free." It's a well-known fact that anything worth having takes work to earn it, and the colonists prized their liberty above most things in this world, clearly, or they wouldn't have risked their "lives...fortunes...and sacred honor" to achieve a free and independent nation. What are the things in your life that are so valuable that you would willingly give up everything else to have or preserve?

Items for this week:

 

• This week you all need to put the finishing touches on your parent night presentations, costumes and props. If you need to borrow anything, please let me or Mrs. Brennan know right away so we can help acquire items.

 

• I'm assigning devotional to Ethan for January 26th, since we won't be in class on the 19th.

 

• Thursday January 19th is our field trip to the capital. PLEASE ARRIVE AT CO-OP BY 9:45 am so we can leave promptly at 10:00. (This goes for me, too!) We will get lunch on the way back and we will return in time for third hour classes. Please make sure your parents are informed!

• If you are close to memorizing the Declaration of Independence, we will let you continue trying to pass it off until class ends on the 26th. Mrs. Brennan has promised an awesome prize if Taylor, Reina and Paige can get it done!

Don't forget to read Freedom Factor and have it completed by the 26th.

*A note about parent night: Please make sure your family brings a dish for the potluck dinner. Families are requested to sit together, so please no running off to be with your friends. Also, please be respectful! No talking during presentations, and no milling around the building. Give the same attention and respect to others as you would want others to give you! We are representing our school to our visitors, and we want them to have a good and memorable experience!

See ya on the flip side!

-Mrs. H.