Fortis Academy 4th grade: April 4 - 8, 2022

4th Grade Week 29	4/4/2022	4/5/2022	4/6/2022	4/7/2022	4/8/2022
Discipleship	Forgiveness
Bible		Acts 27-28	Rom 3;23, 6:23, 8:28-39	Rom 10:6-13 Rom 12	I Corinthians 13
Math		Ch 14 Test	Math Facts & Ch 15, L1 TB p171-176, WB p131-132	Ch 15, L2 TB p177-181, WB p135-138	Math Facts & Ch 15, L3 TB p182-185, WB p139-143
Spelling	Dictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 26 Practice."	Step 26 Review teaching & strategies, DS 4-6, Play Sparkle	Rewrite misspelled Step 25 Test words, Review phonograms & Card Box. Dictate sentences 7-9.	Step 26 Spelling Test	Step 27 New Teaching. Dictate 10 words
Grammar		Ch 23, L1 Sentences, Ref. 68:Thank you notes, Practice Time.	Ch 23, L2 Classify Sentences, Review Ref. 69 and create a practice invitation. Be sure to include what, who, where, when, and a whipped cream statement. Due Thurs	Ch 23, L3: Parts of a book, Do Practice 5	Ch 23, L3- Ref. 70. Use a couple books from around home to identify the various parts listed in this reference. Do Practice 1 & 2
Writing		Writer's Conferences & Introduce L27 new structure, prompt and notes from the brain. Begin making KWO, Introduce VSS p190	Review p204-205, Complete KWO and complete Style practice & Vocab practice p208-209	Writer's Conferences & Using composition checklist p210 write 1st paragraph RD	Complete 1st paragraph RD, Co-teachers, please correct spelling & grammar. Underline & label all dress-ups, sentence openers and vocab
Reading		Final Journey to Jo'Burg discussion. Introduce Moonwalk	Moonwalk Read Ch 1 & 2	Discussion	Moonwalk Read Ch 3 & 4
Latin		L11		L11
History	Interview a relative or friend who lived during the Vietnam War era. Be prepared to share with class on Thursday	Billy Graham World Ambassador	Read SOTW "Trouble in the Middle East" p415-420	Vietnam Era Interview Reports	Read "Soviet Invasions" p423-426 In your journal answer 1) Why did people want to leave the Soviet Union, 2) What problem did the Czechs have when the Soviets invaded? 3) Why was Afghanistan not an easy country to conquer?
Geography		Review Southern Europe
Science		Identifying Songbirds  & Color Mourning Dove & Golden- cheeked warbler in your guide	Song Birds	Introduce Bird Report, Candle eggs  & Make a comic strip in your journal p81 (follow directions in TB p100)	Begin researching your bird(s). Write out at least 7 questions and do some brief internet research to find answers. Report due 4/21
Memory Work	POETRY: Poem 4 on 5/2 KEY DATES: 1-9 on 3/30 HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/4

Coming Soon:

Tuesday, April 5 - Moms in Prayer (9-10am)

Tuesday, April 19 - Teacher Inservice (NO SCHOOL)

Math

Please continue to complete two Math Fact worksheets per week. Set the timer for 5 min and circle the last problem your child completes. Then complete the page, correct, and return to school for recording.

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 words containing the sound of /u/ spelled ou.

Reading  

Please bring your book to class each day.

Objectives: Learn about the first trip to the moon

Writing

Objectives:

Grammar

Objectives:

1. Students will learn how to write a thank you note. 

2. Students will learn how to write an invitation: who, what, when, where, "whipped cream". 
3. Students will be able to identify the parts of a book: title page, copyright page, preface, body, table of contents, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index.  

History 

Objectives:

1. Learn about the life and ministry of Billy Graham

2. Share Vietnam Era memories from interviews of people living during the Vietnam War.3. Identify problems associated with Communism in the Soviet Union.

4. Identify why it was easy for the Soviet Union to invade Czechoslovakia.

5. Identify why it was difficult for the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan.

Science

Objectives:

1. Know why birds sing and identify several bird calls.

2. Observe a growing chick embryo through candling

3. Know the stages of bird development from embryo to adult

4. Research bird of choice and present findings to classmates

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/

Learn About Texas Birds

Bird Feeder Live Cams

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

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

History: Continue your 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 4th 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