Coming Soon:
Wednesday, Jan 30 - Pizza/Spirit Day - Students may wear Fortis spirit shirts with jeans
Monday, Feb 11 - Teacher Training, No School!
Wednesday, Feb 13 - Spirit Day - Students may wear Fortis Spirit shirts with jeans
Wednesday, Feb 13 - Valentine's Day Party
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 Courage. kidsofintegrity.com has some excellent resources to
help foster this virtue in your child. Courage
Math
Objectives:
1. Round a decimal to the nearest whole number.
2. Round a decimal to the nearest tenth.
3. Review previously learned skills, reteaching where necessary.
4. Assess skills.
5. Add tenths or hundredths.
On Tuesday use Review A to assess your student's understanding of skills learned. There's no need to do every problem if your student understands the concepts well. You may only need to do a couple problems of some skills, and all the problems of others, depending on your student's needs. However, I would recommend everyone do #9 and all of the word problems on page 30, to practice these skills. Work through Mental Math 3 this week. We will soon start adding/subtracting/multiplying and dividing decimals, so keep honing those math facts!
Spelling
Objective:
1. Learn how to make the plural form of words ending in o.
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Practice making nouns possessive.
2. Identify indirect objects in Pattern 3 sentences.
3. Know that the indirect object is located between the verb-transitive and the direct object.
Composition
We are continuing to write from pictures, writing one paragraph per picture. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence describing the central fact of the picture, with the rest of the paragraph filling in the who, when, where, what, why and how details, complete with dress-ups.
Reading
We are starting our next book, The Good Master this week. Please complete the assigned reading and bring your book to class each day.
Latin
Objective: Review all previously learned vocabulary, grammar, and charts.
History
Objectives:
1. Know that the Korean War resulted in the country being divided into Communist North Korea and democratic South Korea.
2. Identify facts about Korean culture.
3. Learn about challenges faced by North Koreans.
Science
Objectives:
1. Know that sound is a form of energy carried by waves of vibrating particles.
2. Experiment with changing the energy vibrations in order to change sound loudness.
3. Experiment with changing the direction of sound.
4. Learn how by changing sound energy into electrical energy, sounds can be recorded.
Vocabulary:
Sound Wave: a longitudinal mechanical wave that carries sound energy through a medium
Decibel: (dB) the unit of loudness
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
History: We are beginning our memorization of the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs.
Here are two: US Presidents to "America" US Presidents For assessment, students will write or sing all the
presidents' first and last names. Due 2/20/18. Poetry: Our third quarter poem is "In Christ Alone". Due 2/27. These lyrics are set to music and you can find numerous renditions online. Here in one. In Christ Alone Additional copies of the poem here.
Geography: We are completing our study of Western Europe this week with assessment on Wed.
All Geography songs and maps are found here. 