| 4th | 8/22/2016 | 8/23/2016 | 8/24/2016 | 8/25/2016 | 8/26/2016 |
| Discipleship | Love (Kindness) + Proverbs 3:1-2 | ||||
| Math | HIG p17-18, TB p23-26 LT 1-11, WB Ex 10 | HIG p 19, TB p27 Practice 1B. Check all work from yesterday and today for accuracy. | HIG p20-22, TB p28-30 LT 1-4, WB Ex 11 | HIG p23-24, TB p31-33 Learning tasks 5,6,8-10, WB Ex 12, problem 1. Check all work from yesterday and today for accuracy. | Mental Math 5 & 6. Practice Math Facts with Singapore Games. Optional Math Buddies: Multiples, and Mult and Div by a 1-Digit Number |
| Reading | Read "The Sign of the Beaver" Chaps 14-19 this week. | Complete and score one reading narration. Use red pen to score. Due next Monday. | |||
| Composition | L1, Part 2 Banned Words, Read Aloud: The Goose with the Golden Eggs. | Lesson 1, Part 3 The Lion & the Mouse. Make a KWO, and retell. Read Aloud: How You Look at Things | Lesson 1, Part 4: LY words, Read Aloud: The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts. | IEW break. Focus on writing quality narrations for reading and history. | |
| Grammar | Ch 2, L5: Adjectives and Articles | Chap 3, Lesson 1, TM p.26-27 | Ch 3, L2: Pattern 1 Sentences, & Ch 3, L2 Noun Check | Chap 3, Lesson 3: Classify Sentences & Ch 3, L3 Practice 1-3 (TM p36) | |
| Spelling | Step 2: Review new teaching, Reinforcement & Writing Station Words, Review Phonograms: p,r,s,t,u,v,w,y,n,x,z DS 4-6 | Step 2: Review card box, Dictate Sentences 7-9 Check for accuracy. | Step 2 Test | Step 3 New Teaching p27-30, Dictate 10 new words and sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 3 Practice" | |
| History | The Great Awakening Review: Scripture Study | L4 Frederick II & the Seven Years' War Seth | Continents & Oceans Test, Act. 4A: 1 & 2 | L6 Benjamin Franklin Kate | L5 (Voltaire & Rousseau) is optional. Please complete one history narration this week. Co-teachers, use red pen to score. Due Monday. |
| Science | Try This! pgs. 25 and 27 | Read pgs. 30-32 | Try This pg. 33, read and discuss Solid Liquids and Liquid Solids | Read pgs. 34-37, stopping at Try This! | |
| Geography | Continents and Oceans Due 8/24, Introduce Greenland and Canada Due 9/21 | ||||
| Memory Work | SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3:1-2 GEOGRAPHY: Continents and Oceans (Test on 8/24) KEY DATES: Review dates 1-9 from MOH Volume I POETRY: "The Father's Vineyard" (Recitation on 10/3) | ||||
| Latin | PL 2 | Copybook L2 | Board Wars with PL 1-2 | Review Copybook L2 words. | |
Coming Soon:
Monday, August 29 - Open House, 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday, August 31 - Pizza Day! Students may wear Fortis spirit shirts with uniform bottoms.
Monday, September 5 - Labor Day. NO SCHOOL!
Wednesday, September 7 - Picture Day
HIG- Home Instructor Guide | KWO-Key Word Outline | Grammar- Shurley English |
| LT- Learning Task | RD- Rough Draft | Composition-Fables, Myths, and Fairy Tales |
Pt- Part | FD- Final Draft | |
TB- Textbook (oral) | CC- Copy cursive book | NT- New Teaching |
WB- Workbook | TM (S)- Teacher's Manual (Supp) | CCC-Complete, check, correct DS - Dictate Sentences |
MM- Mental Math | L- Lesson |
Discipleship:
Objective: Experience the joy of the Lord which comes from spending time in His presence.
Our Character Virtue of the month is: Love (Kindness). Start your home school day with prayer and Bible reading. Read Col. 3:12-14. What are some examples where you have been kind? How might you be kind (and to whom) in the future?
Math
Objectives:
1. Understand the concept of multiple.
2. Relate the concept of factor to multiple.
3. Determine if a a whole number is a multiple of a 1-digit number
4. Find common multiples.
5. Multiply a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number.
6. Divide a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number.
Please complete all the work assigned for home days, including textbook practice exercises, workbook exercises and math facts practice sheets.
Math Facts: Start each day with a 5 min warm up using the Math Facts Practice sheets. This week we will be doing Practice Sheet B (subtraction) at school. If your child has mastered addition and subtraction facts, please move on to the multiplication facts sheet at home.
Mental Math: Continue your warm up with 5 minutes of Mental Math. This week work through Mental Math 5 & 6 in the HIG appendix.
Workbook Exercises: Please check these daily and have students make corrections.
Math Buddies: This interactive web site has supplemental activities and information that are compatible with our Singapore Primary Mathematics books. We encourage you to regularly use this web site to help you better understand how to teach a lesson or concept and to provide opportunities for your child to practice new skills.
Math Buddies login page
Optional Math Buddies: Multiples, and Multiply & Divide by a One-Digit Number.
Bar Modeling: Bar modeling is a key component of problem solving. If you have not watched the bar model training videos on the blog under resources, they will be beneficial in assisting your student.
Optional Math Buddies: Multiples, and Multiply & Divide by a One-Digit Number.
Bar Modeling: Bar modeling is a key component of problem solving. If you have not watched the bar model training videos on the blog under resources, they will be beneficial in assisting your student.
Reading
Objectives:
1. Learn about life in the New England wilderness.
2. Engage in discussion, sharing ideas, meaning, & information from the reading.
3. Develop a love for reading.
We will continue reading and discussing The Sign of the Beaver. Students are to write a short narration on their weekly reading at home using this form. Reading
Objectives:
1. Learn about life in the New England wilderness.
2. Engage in discussion, sharing ideas, meaning, & information from the reading.
3. Develop a love for reading.
We will continue reading and discussing The Sign of the Beaver. Students are to write a short narration on their weekly reading at home using this form. Reading
Co-Teachers, please score in red pen using the rubric and return to school Monday in your child's binder front pocket.
If your child struggles to narrate, here are some suggestions to make it easier:
1) Allow your child to dictate the summary to you. You will write down what he/she says, and then your child will copy it onto the narration form.
2) Have your child write a rough draft on notebook paper and then copy the final draft in cursive onto the narration form.
Composition
Objectives:
1. Find synonyms for banned words.
2. Take notes on main ideas and use them to make a Key Word Outline
3. Be able to retell a fable using only key word outline
4. Insert "ly" words correction into sentences.
Grammar
Objectives:
Spelling
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Recognize and identify adjectives and article adjectives.
2. Identify adverbs that modify adjectives and adverbs.
2. Identify nouns as "common" or proper" and "singular" or "plural."
3. Identify the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence.
Objectives:
1. Know how to spell words with the sound of /kt/ spelled "ct".
2. Know how to alphabetize to the third letter.
Objectives:
1. Understand Frederick II's part in the Seven Years' War.
2. Know the many contributions of Benjamin Franklin to American society.
NARRATIONS: Please have your student choose one of this week's history lessons to narrate. Co-teachers are responsible for grading these using the rubric at the bottom of the page. Return the narrations to school each Monday so that I can record the grade. For tips on writing narrations, see notes under "Reading" above.
Students who are due to create a timeline figure are listed in red in the above table after the lesson number. The following class day, they will show the class the figure, tell 2-3 important points about the lesson, and place their figure on the classroom timeline.
Science
Objectives:
1. Understand concepts of mass, volume, density.
2. Identify several properties of matter.Science
Objectives:
1. Understand concepts of mass, volume, density.
3. Identify three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.
4. Understand freezing point, melting point, amorphous solids, surface tension, and viscosity.
At the end of Lesson 1, there is a list of What Do You Remember questions. Students are to take any two and answer them on paper in complete sentences. These should be kept in the campus binder behind the science tab.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Scripture: We will be memorizing Proverbs 3:1-23 over the course of this year. A copy of the passage was placed in your student's binder on Monday. Additional copies may be found here.
Poetry: Our first quarter poem is "The Father's Vineyard" to be recited on 10/3. Additional copies here.
History Key Dates: This year, we'll review all of the key dates from the previous three volumes of Mystery of History, but we'll only test over the twelve new dates. We won't add the new dates to the study list until after we've read and taught the lesson. Please have your student review the dates for dates 1-2 from Volume 1, beginning with Abraham.
Key Dates 1-12Key Dates 1-12 Flashcards
Geography: Oceans & Continents will be assessed on Wednesday. Continents & Oceans song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling continents and oceans on a map without a word bank.
We will introduce Greenland and Canada next week.
