Coming Soon:
Monday, Oct 9 - Math Test
Wednesday, Oct 11 - Spirit Day and Nest Meeting (9:00am)
Monday, Oct 16 - Student Holiday!
Monday, Oct 23 - Picture Retakes
Monday, Oct 30 - Historical Dress-Up Day
Discipleship:
Objective: Experience the joy of the Lord which comes from spending time in His presence.
Start your homeschool day with prayer and Bible reading. Our Character Virtue of the month is Obedience, this week focusing on respect. Kids of Integrity has some great activities, Bible stories, games, and prayers to help you instill this character trait in your child. http://www.kidsofintegrity.com/sites/default/files/Obedience-2015.pdf
Math:
Continue doing a 5 min warm-up with the assigned Math fact sheet. If your child has mastered the current fact sheet, move on the next one. Do 5 min of Mental Math daily working through MM 15 & 16 this week.
Objectives:
1. Assess previously learned material.
2. Add and subtract fractions involving improper fractions.
3. Express objects as a fraction of a set.
4. Find the number of objects in a fraction of a set.
5. Multiply a fraction and a whole number where the product is a whole number.
Please complete all the work assigned for home days, including workbook and practice exercises, as well as math facts practice. Please grade all work by first indicating which answers are incorrect and then giving your student an opportunity to correct his/her mistakes before offering assistance.Composition:
Objectives:
1. Answer questions about a myth and create a story sequence outline
2. Retell the myth using your story sequence outline
3. Review how to write a final clincher and make up a title
Reading:
We complete our reading and discussion of The Wright Brothers this week. Please bring your book to class both days. Choose a classical book to begin reading next week. You will have three weeks to complete it.
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Identify helping verbs
2. Know that "not" is always an adverb
3. Write an original sentence correctly using a helping verb and 6 parts of speech
Spelling
Objective:
1. Learn the phonogram "ough"
2. Learn how to spell common holidays and words with /uff/ spelled ough
Step 7 Spelling Test was returned on Monday. Please have your student correctly rewrite any misspelled words five times and return it to school on Wed. Continue to review phonogram cards.
Latin
Objectives:
1. Memorize the vocabulary words and the maxim for Ch9.
2. Memorize the neuter noun endings
3. Know that the Nominative case is used for the subject
4. Know that the Nominative case can also be used for the PrN
Listen to Latin chants daily to aid in memorization.
Chapter 2
Objectives:
1. Know that WW I ended in 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
2. Understand factors that led to the communist Bolshevik Revolution
3. Know that Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, instituted a reign of terror resulting in the government takeover of the Russian economy.
4. Know that Russia became the USSR under Lenin
Science
Objectives:
1. Demonstrate how an inclined plane and screw make work easier
2. Know that heat is a form of energy that flows from one place to another because of differences in temperature
3. Build a simple machine
4. Write a polished final draft of your scientist biography
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our second quarter poem is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening". Additional copies here.
History Timeline:
You can find a YouTube video of the timeline song with pictures of the cards and dates on here.
Here is a YouTube demonstration the hand motions for the first 6 minutes. Timeline Song
Here is a video of the hand motions for the second 6 minutes of the song: Timeline Song
Lyrics and hand motions to accompany the timeline song :Classical Conversation History Card timeline-motions.
Geography: We are continuing our study of Southern Europe this week. Additional maps found here.
All Geography songs and maps are found here.
