Please check Alma weekly for grades and missing work.
Coming Soon:
Wednesday, Nov 20 - Pizza Day!
Wednesday, Nov 20 - Grammar School Thanksgiving Program 1:30-3:00pm
Monday, Nov 25-29th- Thanksgiving Break (No School)
Wednesday, Dec 4 - Poem 2 Recitation
Math
Objectives:
1. Review area and perimeter
2. Find a side when given the area and/or perimeter and one side
3. Find the perimeter and area of composite figures made of rectangles and/or squares.
Spelling
Objective: Analyze nine ways to spell the sound of /e/
Writing
Objectives:
1. Create a KWO using the "Summarizing a Reference" structural model
2. Correctly use the topic/clincher rule
3. Write a 1-paragraph report about Aesop
4. Correctly use new vocabulary words: author, fable
5. Incorporate a quality adjective to replace banned words: good/bad
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Review punctuation rules
Latin
Objective:
1. Memorize the 2nd Declension noun endings and the sum chant.
2. Review Latin vocabulary
3. Translate simple sentences
History
Read The Vietnamese Restoration Society and in your journal answer the following questions. As always, include a title, date, the question written out, and your answer using complete sentences.
- Why were the Vietnamese unhappy with the French?
- Why were the rebellions organized by Phan Bio Chau & the Vietnamese Restoration Society unsuccessful?
- What do the Vietnamese think about the Phan Boi Chau today?
Science
Objective: Review interesting facts about insects
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our first quarter poem is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", Due 12/4 Additional copies .here.
Geography: We will begin our study of Western Europe this week.
The Western Europe song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page.
History: Key Dates for 2nd quarter:
The War Between the States 1861-1865
World War I 1914-1918
Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
The Great Depression 1929-1939
World War II 1939-1945
Mao & Communist Victory in China 1949