Coming Soon:
Wednesday, March 27-Spirit Day and Pizza Day! Students may wear spirit shirts with jeans.
Monday, April 1 - Staff Development Day. NO SCHOOL!
Saturday, April 6 - Fortis Nerf Tournament. Hill Country Bible Church, Cedar Park, 6-9 p.m., $10 per player. Concessions available.
Blog Abbreviations:
HIG – Singapore math Home Instructor Guide
TB – Singapore math textbook
WB – Singapore math workbook
IEW – Institute for Excellence in Writing
USE – The Usborne Science Encyclopedia
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 this month is Patience.
Math Please work through Mental Math 9 this week.
Objectives:
1. Review conversion of measurements
2. Multiply and divide length, weight, volume, and time in compound units.
3. Solve word problems
2. Multiply and divide length, weight, volume, and time in compound units.
3. Solve word problems
Spelling
Objective: Learn to spell words with the ending /awt/ spelled ought and words with a followed by l.
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Know that linking verbs connect a word in the predicate to the subject of a sentence.
2. Identify predicate nominatives.
3. Identify predicate adjectives.
Composition
Students will learn to write one paragraph from a prompt. This is accomplished by asking themselves questions, answering them in a KWO,and using the outline to write a paragraph complete with topic sentence, dress-ups and a final clincher.
Reading
Objectives:
1.Spend 30-45 min of independent reading per day
2. Engage in meaningful discussion over assigned text.
3. Learn about nature and surviving in the wild.
Latin
Objectives:
1. Review previously learned vocabulary and grammar.
History
Objectives:
Science
Objectives:
Note: Students will be researching a scientist over the next few weeks. Students should have obtained a book about a scientist and will read it this week.
Week of 3/18: Students read a short biography book of a scientist such as Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? by Margaret Frith
Here are a few scientists from which to choose. There are many others.
· Isaac Newton—founded the laws of gravity and motion
· Thomas Edison—American inventor
· Albert Einstein—E=mc², plus many other theories
· Niels Bohr—applied quantum theory of physics to the structure of the atom
· William Gilbert—English physicist who founded the study of magnetism
· Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)—established the absolute temperature scale
Week of 3/25 Students complete reading, and begin answering the following questions on a questionnaire:
· Who was the scientist you read about?
· When and where were they born?
· What was their major scientific contribution?
· List the events that surrounded their discovery
· List some other interesting events in the scientist’s life.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
History: Timeline Song minutes 8:20-12:00 Due 4/29
Poetry: Our 4th quarter poem is "The Dentist and the Crocodile". Due 5/1.
Geography: Eastern Europe Due 3/27
All Geography songs and maps are found here. 