Blog Abbreviations:
HIG- Home Instructor Guide | KWO-Key Word Outline | Grammar- Shurley English |
LT- Learning Task | RD- Rough Draft | USE-Usborne Science Encyclopedia |
CCC-Complete, check, correct | FD- Final Draft | |
TB- Textbook (oral) | SSO- Story Sequence Outline | NT- New Teaching |
WB- Workbook | TM (S)- Teacher's Manual (Supp) | DS - Dictate Sentences |
MM- Mental Math FP - Math Facts Practice Sheet | L- Lesson |
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Wednesday, Sept 26 – 1st Quarter Poem Recitation
Wednesday, Sept 26 – Pizza and Spirit Day! Students may wear jeans with Spirit shirts.
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 Faith.
Math:
Continue doing a 5 min warm-up with the assigned Math fact sheet.
Work through Mental Math 12 this week.
Objectives:
1. Add related fractions.
2. Subtract like fractions.
3. Subtract related fractions.
4. Practice fraction skills
2. Subtract like fractions.
3. Subtract related fractions.
4. Practice fraction skills
Bar Modeling: Bar modeling is a key component of problem solving. We will now do a practice "Bar Model of the Day" each day at school along with our normal math facts and mental math warm-ups. If you have not watched the bar model training videos on the blog under resources, they will be beneficial in assisting your student.
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.
Spelling
Objective: Analyze two ways to spell the sound of /shun/.
Step 5 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.
Composition
Objectives:
1. Tell the difference between a key word outline and a story sequence outline.
2. Retell a myth using the story sequence outline.
3. Write a title that repeats key words from the final clincher.
4. Learn and incorporate vocabulary words into writing.
Reading
Objectives:
1. Spend 30-45 min of independent reading per day
2. Engage in meaningful discussion over assigned text
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Identify subject pronouns in sentences
2. Correctly use subject pronouns in an original sentence.
3. Identify possessive noun pronouns in sentences
4. Correctly use possessive noun pronouns in an original sentence.
Latin:
Objectives:
1. Memorize the 1st Declension Noun Endings
2. Practice Latin vocabulary and grammar
History
Objectives:
1. Know that Porfirio Diaz was a brutal dictator in Mexico.
2. Pancho Villa led a rebellion which resulted in a revolution.
1. Know that Porfirio Diaz was a brutal dictator in Mexico.
2. Pancho Villa led a rebellion which resulted in a revolution.
Science
Objectives:
1. Understand Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion
2. Know that in physics, motion is the study of how an object moves.
3. Know that in physics, action is the force on an object.
4. In physics, reaction is the equal force on an object in the opposite direction.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our first quarter poem is "The Father's Vineyard". Additional copies here.
History Timeline: ASL Hand motions explained on YouTube video
Poetry: Our first quarter poem is "The Father's Vineyard". Additional copies here.
History Timeline: ASL Hand motions explained on YouTube video
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Geography: Southern Europe song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling each country on a map.
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Week 3
Week 4
Geography: Southern Europe song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling each country on a map.
Science: Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
