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 |
Coming Soon!
Wednesday, Sept 26 – 1st Quarter Poem Recitation
Wednesday, Sept 26 – Pizza and Spirit Day! Students may wear jeans with Spirit shirts.
Friday, Sept. 21 - Dodgeball Tournament 6:00-9:30 at Austin Sports Center
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 9 this week.
Objectives:
1. Assess previously learned skills.
2. Practice multiplication, division and bar modeling.
3. Identify equivalent fractions, know how to compare fractions, and put fractions in simplest form.
4. Add like fractions.
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
Objectives:
1. Learn words ending in sion.
2. Learn words containing the second sound of th.
3. Learn how to add two suffixes to a word.
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. Review previously learned skills.
2. Assess grammar skills.
Latin:
Objectives:
1. Learn new Latin vocabulary
2. Memorize the 1st Declension Noun Endings
History
Objectives:
1. Know that Australia was explored by Captain Cook and colonized by the British.
2. Know that Australia was used as a penal colony for convicts resulting in social problems.
3. Identify factors that led to social improvements in the Australian colony.
4. Know that Australia became the independent Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
5. Learn about Australian culture.
Science
Objectives:
1. Understand Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion
2. Know that a force is any push or pull on an object.
3. Work as a small group team to create a simple machine.
Definitions: Force--a push or pull on an object
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.
Week 2
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
