Monday, Sept. 26 - Grammar Play Date 3-4pm at Lions Foundation Park
Thursday, Sept. 29 - D.O.G.S. Day, Pizza Day & Spirit day!
Saturday, Oct. 15 - Fortis Lap-A-Thon 9:00 a.m.
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 Character Virtue of the month is Responsibility. Responsibility is doing what I have been entrusted to do.
To practice responsibility, I will: do my work to the best of my ability, keep my commitments, clarify expectations, not make excuses, and correct my mistakes.
Math
Objectives:
1. Multiply a two-digit number by a two-digit number.
2. Multiply a three-digit number by a two-digit number.
3. Assess multiplication skills.
4. Divide numbers up to three digits using a mental math method.
5. Memorize division math facts.
Spelling
Objective: Spell words ending in sion, words containing the sound of th, and how to add two suffixes to a word
Reading
Review each chapter's vocabulary prior to reading.
Objectives:
1. Learn about life during the Civil War.
2. Analyze characterization in literature.
3. Identify similies.
Writing
Objectives:
1. Write the climax and resolution of a 3-paragraph narrative story.
2. Edit and write a polished FD of a myth.
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Identify subject pronouns in sentences
2. Correctly use subject pronouns in an original sentence.
3. Identify possessive noun pronouns in sentences
4. Correctly use possessive noun pronouns in an original sentence.
History
Objectives:
1. Know the accomplishments and contributions of Thomas Edison
2. Know that railroads sped travel, took people to new cities, and took grain and other goods to faraway places.
3. Know that time zones divided the earth into twenty-four zones, making it the same time inside each zone.
4. Know that electricity made it possible for men to work after dark.
5. Identify ways that Japan became more modern during the Meiji Restoration.
Science
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Here is a comprehensive booklet about Texas insects that you can print or use for reference and insect identification:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
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: We will continue to study Southern Europe 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.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
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: We will continue to study Southern Europe 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:
Key Dates for 1st quarter:
The War Between the States 1861-1865
World War I 1914-1918
Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
