Please check Alma weekly for grades and missing work.
HIG- Home Instructor Guide | KWO-Key Word Outline | NB-Science Notebook |
LT- Learning Task | RD- Rough Draft | SOTW-Story of the World Vol 4 |
TB- Textbook | FD- Final Draft | |
WB- Workbook | Grammar- Shurley English | NT- New Teaching |
CCC-Complete, check, correct | TM - Teacher's Manual | DS - Dictate Sentences |
MM- Mental Math FP - Math Facts Practice Sheet | L- Lesson |
Wednesday, Sept 11 - 9:00am Co-Teacher Training
Monday, Sept 16 - Picture 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 virtue this month is Orderliness
Math
Objectives:
1. Assess previously learned skills.
2. Review fractions
3. Review equivalent fractions
4. Review comparing fractions
Start with 5 min of addition practice using Facts Practice-G or H (multiplication).
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.
Reading
Objectives:
1. Learn about the life during the Civil War.
2. Engage in discussion, sharing ideas, meaning, & information from the reading.
1. Learn about the life during the Civil War.
2. Engage in discussion, sharing ideas, meaning, & information from the reading.
Spelling
Objective: spell multisyllable words ending in ss.
Writing
Objectives:
1. Write a polished final draft of "The Mule" including -ly dress-up, who/which clause and vocab words.
2. Introduce the Story Sequence Chart
3. Create an Story Sequence Outline of a myth using the Story Sequence Chart
4. Brainstorm dress-ups and review vocabulary
Objectives:
1. Identify and label prepositions and prepositional phrases.
2. Practice writing sentences containing a subject noun, verb, adjectives, adverbs, and a prepositional phrase.
Latin
1. Learn ten new Latin vocabulary words.
2. Learn the First-Declension Noun "Mensa" chart.
3. Know that Latin nouns contain Number, Gender and Case.
History
Objectives:
1. Know that the United States still faced multiple problems after the Civil War.
2. Know that the 13th Amendment made slavery illegal in every state in the Union.
3. Identify factors which led to the Dominion of Canada in 1876.
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of Order Lepidoptera: scale wings, proboscis, forewings, hindwings
2. Know that some butterflies migrate long distances
2. Know that some butterflies migrate long distances
3. Continue to collect, study, and identify Texas insects.
Continue to add to your insect collection. You will need to have 10 different insects, all labeled with the Order,
name of insect, date, and location.
Note: If your student would like more information on pinning and labeling insects, here are a couple YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Here is a great resource for identifying your insects:
http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
Here is more information on collecting and labeling insects for your collection.
https://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/bug_club/ent-events/collecting101.shtml#label
Here is a great resource for identifying your insects:
http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
Here is more information on collecting and labeling insects for your collection.
https://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/bug_club/ent-events/collecting101.shtml#label
Here is a comprehensive booklet about Texas insects which you can print or use for reference and insect identification:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
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.
Geography: Continue memorizing the countries of Southern Europe.
The Southern Europe song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. History: Key Dates for 1st quarter:
The War Between the States 1861-1865World War I 1914-1918
Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
