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Wednesday, January 30 - Pizza/Spirit Day - Students may wear Fortis spirit shirts with jeans.
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
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:
Continue doing a 5 min warm-up with a Math fact sheet and 5 min of Mental Math. Begin working through MM 2 & 3 this week.
Objectives:
1. Read, write, add & subtract numbers up to three decimal places.
2. Express a fraction with a denominator of 1000 as a decimal number.
3. Read scales in thousandths.
4. Express a number to three decimal places as a fraction in simplest form.
5. Compare and order a mixture of fractions and decimal numbers of up to three decimal places.
6. Practice with decimals
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.
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
We're continuing Writing from Pictures this week, 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 required dress-ups.
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 required dress-ups.
Reading: We will continue reading The House of Sixty Fathers this week.
Please bring your book to class each day.
Please bring your book to class each day.
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Know how to make both singular and plural nouns possessive
2. Assess skills
Spelling
Objective: Learn how to make the plural form of words ending in f and fe.
History
Objective: Know that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 to stop the spread of communism and
remains to this day for peacekeeping missions.
remains to this day for peacekeeping missions.
Science:
Objectives:
1. Know that sound travels in mechanical waves.
2. Know that sound waves travel at different speeds in different substances.
3. Know that sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Activity 1: Can sound travel through a liquid?
1. Know that sound travels in mechanical waves.
2. Know that sound waves travel at different speeds in different substances.
3. Know that sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Activity 1: Can sound travel through a liquid?
Click together two stones, two blocks, or two pot lids. Listen to the sound. Then submerge them in a basin of water or
bathtub, and listen to the sound they make under water. Record your results.
bathtub, and listen to the sound they make under water. Record your results.
Activity 2: Can sound travel through a solid?
Hold one end of a 12-inch ruler 1 inch from your ear and scratch on the far end of the ruler. Note how loud
the sound is. Then move the ruler 13 inches away from your ear and scratch on the near end, so that you are making
noise at the same distance from your ear as before. Compare the sound you hear and record your results.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Hold one end of a 12-inch ruler 1 inch from your ear and scratch on the far end of the ruler. Note how loud
the sound is. Then move the ruler 13 inches away from your ear and scratch on the near end, so that you are making
noise at the same distance from your ear as before. Compare the sound you hear and record your results.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Science Memory Work: Sound Unit
Some sound is loud
Some sound is soft
All sounds are waves
That travel aloft
Sound waves begin
When an object vibrates
The object’s size and shape
Determines the rate
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.
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.
numerous renditions online. Here in one. In Christ Alone Additional copies of the poem here.
Geography: We are continuing our study of Western Europe this week. Additional maps found here.
All Geography songs and maps are found here. Due 1/30
All Geography songs and maps are found here. Due 1/30
