Fortis Academy T/Th 4th Grade: March 29 -April 2, 2021

 
4th Grade Week 283/29/20213/30/20213/31/20214/1/20214/2/2020
DiscipleshipCompassion
BibleActs 12Acts 14Acts 16 & 19Acts 26
MathDo Practice test sent home & Review with Ch 14, L9 Practice TB p168-170 in preparation for tomorrow's testCh 14 TestCh 15, L1 TB p171-176, WB p131-132Ch 15, L2 TB p177-181, WB p135-138Ch 15, L3 TB p182-185, WB p139-143
SpellingDictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 24 Practice."Step 24: Review New Teaching and Strategies. Dictate sentences 4-6. Play Sparkle!Re-write missed Step 23 words, Review Card Box & Phonograms as needed, Dictate Sentences 7-9Step 24 Spelling TestStep 25 New Teaching. Dictate 10 words and sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 25 Practice."
GrammarCh 19, L1 & L2 Mixed Pattern Sentences, Double Negatives, Practice Time 1 & 2Ch 19, L3 Classify sentences, Review Ref 58 Contraction Chart & Complete Contraction Worksheet sent home. Due WedCh 20, L3 Classify Sentences, Similes & Metaphors, Complete Ch 20 L4 Activity Time: Color PoemCh 20, L1 & L2 Classify sentences only CCC
WritingL24 Great Bear Constellation: Create KWO from 2 sources, Create a fused KWOStyle Practice & Vocab study p180-181, Using Composition Checklist p182 begin writing RDWriter's Conference, Complete RD and begin FDComplete FD of Great Bear Constellation. Use rubric to ensure you have all required elements. Due Thurs Stapled: Rubric, FD, RD
ReadingPut Journey to Jo-burg in your backpackFinal My Side of the Mountain discussion, Introduce Journey to Jo-burgRead Journey to Jo'Burg Chaps 3-6 & answer questions in your journalRead & Discuss Journey to Jo'Burg Chaps 7-8Read Journey to Jo'Burg Chaps 9-13 & answer questions in your journal
LatinL11Copybook L11L11
HistoryVietnam War with special guest speaker!Read SOTW "The Vietnam War" p411-414 and complete interview. Be prepared to share with class tomorrow.Vietnam Era Interviews Due & Martin Luther King Jr.and "I Have a Dream" discussionRead SOTW "Trouble in the Middle East" p415-420
GeographyScandinavia
ScienceEgg facts & experimentsRead p96-98 & add facts to journal p79Precocial BirdsRead p99-100 and complete What Do You Remember p80
Memory WorkPOETRY: Poem 4 on 5/11
GEOGRAPHY: Scandinavia on 4/26
KEY DATES: 1-12 on 5/11
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/6
Coming Soon:
Tuesday, April 6 - Student Holiday NO SCHOOL

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 Compassion. Kids of Integrity has some

great resources to help develop this virtue in your child.


Math

Objectives:

1. Assess multiplying and dividing decimals

2. Investigate angles and turns.

3. Express angles in terms of degrees and Identify acute, obtuse, straight, and reflex angles.

4. Measure angles between 0 and 180 degrees with a protractor

5. Add and subtract angle measurements with compound angles

6. Measure and draw angles between 180 and 360 degrees


Spelling

Objectives:

1. Spell word endings of /awl/ spelled ought

2. Spell words with a followed by l.


Reading  

Please bring your book to class each day.

Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Engage in meaningful discussion.

3. Learn about life in South Africa during Apartheid


Grammar

Objectives:

1. Identify and classify mixed sentence patterns.

2. Recognize and avoid using double negatives.

3. Make contractions.

4. Identify similes and metaphors.

5. Write a simile poem.

Writing 

Objectives:

1. Create a fused KWO from two source texts
2. Brainstorm dress-ups and study vocabulary words
3. Write a RD paragraph using fused KWO
4. Edit & write polished FD with Unit 6 structure and style

History 

Objectives:

1. Become familiar with MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech
2. Write a personal "Dream" speech
3. Know that American soldiers fought against communist North Vietnam for 8 years in a controversial war.
4. Share Vietnam Era memories from interviews of people living during the Vietnam War.

Science
Objectives:
1. Experiment with egg shell strength
2. Observe a growing chick embryo through candling
3. Know why birds sing and identify several bird calls.

Students will be making a field guide of Texas birds using pictures from the Texas Parks & Wildlife publication.  For coloring accuracy, search birds here:  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/


Memory Work:  Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.

Poetry:  Our  fourth quarter poem is 'The Dentist and the Crocodile". Additional copies here.

Geography:  We are beginning our study Scandinavia 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 continuing 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 5/6/21


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
10, Man Walks on the Moon 1969 11. Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989 12. The Collapse of the Soviet Union December 26, 1991

Fortis Academy T/Th 4th grade: March 22 - 26, 2021

4th Grade Week 273/22/20213/23/20213/24/20213/25/20213/26/2021
DiscipleshipCompassion
BibleActs 1 & 2Acts 4Acts 7 & 9Acts 12
MathCh 14, L4 Practice TB p151--152Ch 14, L5 TB p153-155, WB p117-118Ch 14, L6 TB p156-159, WB p119-121Ch 14 L7 TB p160-163, TB p122-124Ch 14, L8 TB p164-167, WB p125-126
SpellingDictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 23 Practice."Step 23: Review New Teaching. Dictate sentences 4-6Rewrite missed Step 22 test words 5x, Review any shaky phonograms, Card Box, Dictate sentences 7-9.Step 23 Spelling TestStep 24 New Teaching. Dictate 10 words
GrammarPractice with quotation marks & Ch 18 L1: Regular & Irregular VerbsCh 18, L2 Classify Sentences. Review Ref 54 & 55. Complete Practice Time p82Ch 18, L3 Classify Sentences. Review Ref 56 Complete Practice TimeTest for practice only: Ch 18B Test p118, Do Ex 6,7,9 & 10 Co-teachers, correct in red pen and help students make corrections.
WritingL23 Create source outlines from 2 sources, Create fused outline, Introduce -ly openerComplete Style Practice p172-173 and begin writing RDUsing composition checklist p174 complete RD of OrionWrite FD of Orion, use rubric to make sure you have included all required elements. Due Tues stapled: Rubric, FD, RD
ReadingMy Side of the Mountain discussionRead Ch 20 and orally narrate (Student should be able to answer questions in journal)Discussion & read Ch 21Complete My SIde of the Mountain and orally narrate (Student should be able to answer questions in journal)
Latin
HistoryThe Cold War & The Cuban Missile Crisis, Assign Vietnam War interviewsRead "The Death of JFK" p397-402JFK DiscussionRead "Civil Rights" p402-408
GeographyScandinavia
ScienceNest Review & Complete journal p76Read p89-91 & color Chickadees, Titmouse & Wren in your field guideEggsRead p91-95 and add facts to journal p78
Memory WorkPOETRY: Poem 4 on 5/11
GEOGRAPHY: Scandinavia on 4/26
KEY DATES: 1-12 on 5/11
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/6
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 Compassion. Kids of Integrity has some

great resources to help develop this virtue in your child.


Math

Objectives:

1. Divide tenths and hundredths by a one-digit whole number.

2. Divide decimals to hundredths when the quotient has a different number of decimal places than the dividend.

3. Practice dividing decimals


Spelling

Objectives:

1. Spell words with ar in an unaccented syllable.


Reading  

Please bring your book to class each day.

Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Engage in meaningful discussion.


Grammar

Objectives:

1. Identify regular and irregular verbs. 2. Know past, present and future simple tenses for common verbs. 3. Change verbs to different tenses in a paragraph.

Writing 

Objectives:

1. Create a fused KWO from two source texts
2. Brainstorm dress-ups and study vocabulary words
3. Write a RD paragraph using fused KWO
4. Edit & write polished FD with Unit 6 structure and style

History 

Objectives:

1. Explore the role the Cold War had on the Cuban Missile Crisis
2. Know that American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, TX
3. Know that Martin Luther King Jr. started the Civil Rights movement to strive for integration and equality through non-violent protest.
4. Interview someone who recalls the Vietnam War and share some of their memories with classmates.

Science
Objectives:
1. Review types of nests 
2. Learn about the courtship rituals of birds
3. Identify the parts of an egg

Students will be making a field guide of Texas birds using pictures from the Texas Parks & Wildlife publication.  For coloring accuracy, search birds here:  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/


Memory Work:  Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.

Poetry:  Our  fourth quarter poem is 'The Dentist and the Crocodile". Additional copies here.

Geography:  We are beginning our study Scandinavia 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 continuing 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 5/6/21


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
10, Man Walks on the Moon 1969 11. Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989 
12. The Collapse of the Soviet Union December 26, 1991 
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