One way we prepared for our history test was to play Jeopardy. The girls enjoyed sharing their knowledge in the form of a question. Categories included Babylon, the Medes and Persians, and Ancient India and China. The girls knew almost every single answer so the score was tight going into Final Jeopardy. Above is a picture of the winning team. Way to go girls!!
Recently the Ninth Age took a field trip to the Walters Museum of Art. The girls enjoyed a tour of the Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome exhibits before venturing down to the studio to create some art of their own.
9-A and 9-B went outside again for some grammar fun! This time the girls applied
their knowledge of helping verbs. They teamed up in groups of five and one girl from each team took a turn running across the blacktop and pulling a card with a verb written on it from a bag. If it was a helping verb she chose to either run back to her teammates and putting the verb in the "bank" or to choose a second card. She could continue to chose as many cards as she wanted, but if she chose a verb that was not a helping verb she had to put all of her cards back in the bag and run back to her team empty handed. The first team to bank twenty helping verbs won! The girls enjoyed the elements of strategy and risk involved in deciding how many cards to pick before banking them to avoid loosing them.
9-A had a blast celebrating Halloween in school on Friday!!
Recently, 9-A and 9-B partnered up and took our grammar lesson outside. We have been discussing verbs so we blayed a game to help us identify being verbs. Each girl spread out in a large circle and began walking. Each time she passed me she drew a slip of paper with a verb written on it out of a bag. If she selected an action verb, she acted it out as she continued around the circle. If she selected a being verb, she was banished to the Pit of Being in the center of the circle. There, she would chant, "Am, is, are, was, were, been, I'm stuck in the pit of being!" over and over until someone drew a slip of paper that said FREE THE PIT or until someone else drew the same being verb and took her place in the Pit. As you can imagine, this game was complicated but tons of fun!
