Fortis Academy 4th grade: Jan 7 - 11, 2019

4th	1/7/2019	1/8/2019	1/9/2019	1/10/2019	1/11/2019
Discipleship	Courage
Bible	Prov 3:1-26, 4:20-27	Read Ecclesiastes 3:1-10	Isaiah 6:1-8, 9:2-7, 40:28-31	Read Isaiah 53, 61:1-2 & Luke 4:14-22
Math	Start 4B books. HIG p 1, TB p. 6-8 LT 1-4, WB EX 1.	Make Test Corrections-due Wed.  HIG 3, TB 9-10 LT 5-8, WB Ex 2.	HIG p.5, TB p.10 LT 9-12, WB Ex 3.	HIG p. 6, TB 11 LT 13-14, WB Ex 4.	HIG p. 8, TB 12-14 LT 1-4, WB Ex 5.
Spelling	Play Sparkle!	Put the AAS "Make it Plural Book" in your backpack for tomorrow. See note below.	Step 16: New teaching, Introduce "Make It Plural Book" and complete Plural Patterns 1-4.	Review Step 16 New Teaching, Card Box, & Phonograms, DS 1-3 on paper titled "Step 16 Practice"
Grammar	Ch 13, L1	Ch 13, L1 Classify sentences & do Practice Time 1 & 2	Ch 13, L2: Ref 42 & Ch 13, L3 Ref 44-46	Ch 13, L3 Classify Sentences, Practice Time 1,2, & 3 on p74
Writing	L12 Pt1 & 2 Review, Begin writing RD	L12, P3 Complete RD on Hans Christian Anderson using Composition Checklist p101	Writer's Conference & In-class writing Assignment	L12, P4 Write FD due Mon Stapled: Rubric, RD, FD
Reading	Read The House of Sixty Fathers p1-13	Read p13-30	Discussion and read p30-39	Read p40-48	Read p48-57
Latin	Ch 8 review & Ch 9 Memory Page	Ch 9 Chant, Make flashcards for Ch 9 vocab	Ch 9 Memory Page & Grammar Lesson	Complete Ch 9 story, Review Ch 8 & 9 chants, memory pages
History	SOTW Ch 30 "The Partitioning of Palestine"	Jewish State Established #146 & Timeline Song 2 (weeks 13-26)	Introduce US Presidents Memory Work, & SOTW The Marshall Plan	In your journal write what you learned about the establishment of the Jewish State. Include a topic sentence, 3-4 facts, and a clincher sentence.	Listen to US Presidents song
Geography	Western Europe - Due 1/30
Science	Introduce Light Memory work, Experiment: Making Rainbows PEFC p85	Read USE p214-215 Light & Shadow, Write 2-4 sentence summary in your journal	Experiment with light	Read USE p 216-217 Color, Add to summary, Define "Light"
Memory Work	Western Europe Due 1/30, Science Light Memory Work Due 1/21, US Presidents Due 2/20, Quarter 3 Poem Due 2/27,

Coming Soon:

Wednesday, Jan 30 - Spirit Day & Pizza 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 Courage. kidsofintegrity.com has some excellent resources to help foster this virtue in your child.  Courage

Math:  
We'll dive into decimals this week as we begin Singapore 4B.   There's no mental math this week, so this is a good time to make sure your student's math facts are solid, as we'll be moving into adding/subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimal numbers soon.

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. 

Objectives:

1. Read and write 1-place decimal numbers less than and greater than 1.

2. Locate decimal numbers on a number line.

3. Express a decimal number as a mixed number in simplest form.

4. Learn some common decimal to fraction conversions.

5. Interpret 1-place decimal numbers in terms of tens, one, and tenths.

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. Take notes from facts.

2. Write a topic sentence.  

3. Limit details by choosing only interesting facts.

4. Write a final clincher which repeats or reflects key words from the topic sentence.  

Next week we are starting Unit 5, which is writing from pictures. Here's a link to help you gain confidence moving forward as Andrew and Julie explain the vital role Unit 5 plays in unlocking students' imagination and in developing their thinking skills.     
IEW Unit 5 Podcast

Reading: We will begin reading The House of Sixty Fathers this week. Please bring your book to class each day.

Grammar

Objectives:

1. Identify and correct sentence fragments.

2. Correct run-on sentences.

Spelling

Objective: Begin the Make it Plural Book and review four patterns for making words plural.

**Bring your Make It Plural Book to school on Wed.  If you don’t have a copy, please email and I will make you a copy.          

History

Objectives:

1. Know that for 1000 years the Jewish people had not had a homeland.

2. Know that Israel was proclaimed a state in 1948.

3. Understand why control of Israel/Palestine remain a heated issue today. 
Science

1. Know that light is a form of energy

2. Know that visible light spectrum contains seven colors.

3. Name the 7 colors of the rainbow

3. Experiment with refraction

Vocabulary Definitions:

Light-the electromagnetic waves that make all things visible

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 Pied Beauty. Due 2/28.  Additional copies 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