| 4th Grade Week 19 | 1/18/2021 | 1/19/2021 | 1/20/2021 | 1/21/2021 | 1/22/2021 |
| Discipleship | Faith Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Heb. 11:1 |
| Bible | | Daniel 5 & 6 | Ezra 1:1-7, 3:1-3, 11-13 | Haggai 1:1-10, 2:6-7, Zech 4:6 | Esther 1 & 2 |
| Math | | Ch 10, L5 TB p20-22, WB p14-18 | Ch 10, L6 TB p23-24 Practice A, CCC | Ch 10 L7 TB p25-27, WB p20-22 | Ch 10, L8 TB p28-30, WB p23-25 |
| Spelling | | Step 16: Review Plural Patterns 1-4. DS 4-6 on same paper started Fri., Play Sparkle! | Review Card Box & phonograms, Dictate sentences 7-9. | Step 16 Spelling Test | Step 17 New Teaching. Complete Make It Plural Book Pattern 5 (p.6) |
| Grammar | | Ch 13, L2: Ref 42 & Ch 13, L3 Ref 44-46 | Ch 13, L3 Classify Sentences, Practice Time 1,2, & 3 on p74 | Limericks | Daily Grammar |
| Writing | | Ugly Duckling: Using your KWO write RD of 1st paragraph only. Underline & label your six dress-ups | Using your KWO, write the 2nd paragraph of your story. Use the composition checklist p125 to make sure you have all required dress-ups. Vocab study: miserable, despise | Writer's Conference & begin writing 3rd paragraph RD | Complete 3rd paragraph of your RD. Underline 6 dress-ups in each paragraph and label in margin. Highlight 2-3 key words in each central fact/clincher. RD due Tues. |
| Reading | | Discussion | Read Helen Keller p74-end | Discussion & Activity | Complete Biography Sheet for Helen Keller (in journal) & put Number the Stars in your backpack for Tues. |
| Latin | | | | | |
| History | | Stalin & Totalitarianism | Read "Fascism in Italy" p260-266 | Mussolini | "Japan, China & a Pretend Emperor" p269-272 |
| Geography | | Eastern Europe |
| Science | | Make a Bird Feeder | Read p29-32 | Bird Behavior | Read p33-36 |
| Memory Work | | POETRY: Poem 3 on 3/4
GEOGRAPHY: Eastern Europe Test on 2/25
KEY DATES: 1-9 on 3/2
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/6 |
Coming Soon:
Thursday, January 28 - Pizza/Spirit 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 Faith.
Math
Objectives:
1. Express measurements of time in compound units & single units.
2. Multiply time expressed in compound units.
3. Practice concepts learned.
4. Express a smaller unit of measurement as a fraction of a larger unit of measurement.
Spelling
Objective: Review four patterns for making words plural.
Reading
Please bring your book to class each day.
Objectives:
1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.
2. Learn about the life of Helen Keller
3. Engage in meaningful discussion.
4. Summarize a passage through oral narration.
Grammar
Objective:
1. Identify simple sentences, compound parts and complex sentences.
2. Join two sentences correctly to make a compound sentence.
3. Correct compound sentence mistakes
4. Write a limerick.
Writing
Objectives:
1. Practice the Unit 5 structural model.
2. Write a 3-paragraph composition from a KWO
3. Correctly use new vocabulary words.
History
Objectives:
1. Examine Stalin's rule in the USSR and identify characteristics of totalitarianism.
2. Examine Mussolini's rule in Italy and identify characteristics of fascism.
Science
1. Learn ways to identify birds through field markings, behavior, habitat, and songs.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our third quarter poem is "In Christ Alone". These lyrics are set to music and you can find numerous renditions online. Here in one. In Christ Alone. Additional copies here.
Geography: We are beginning our study Eastern Europe this week. The song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling countries on a map. A word bank is provided.
History: We are beginning our memorization of the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs to help
with this. Here are two: US Presidents to "America" and US Presidents. For assessment, students will write or sing all the presidents' first and last names. Due 5/5/21
Key Dates for 3rd quarter:
1. The War Between the States 1861-1865
2. World War I 1914-1918
3. Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
4. The Great Depression 1929-1939
5. World War II 1939-1945
6. The Cold War 1945-1991
7. The Formation of Israel 1948
8. Mao & Communist Victory in China 1949
9. Martin Luther King & the Civil Rights Movement 1950-1968
