Fortis Academy 4th grade: Oct 10 - 14, 2022

4th Grade Week 10	10/10/2022	10/11/2022	10/12/2022	10/13/2022	10/14/2022	Looking Ahead: Monday, 10/17/22
Discipleship		Parent Teacher Conferences - No School	Diligence
Bible			Deuteronomy 6	Deuteronomy 7-8 select verses	Deut 28:1-14, Deut 30:15-20
Math	Complete Review 1		Ch 6, L1 TB p135-140, WB p127-129	Ch 6, L2, TB p141-144, WB p130-132	Ch 6, L3 TB p145-147, WB p133-135	Ch 6 L4 Practice A TB p148-149 WB p136
Spelling	Dictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 8 Practice".		Step 8: Review New Teaching, review phonograms, DS 4-6 Play Sparkle!	Step 8 Spelling Test	Step 9 : New teaching, Dictate 10 words	Dictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 9 Practice".
Grammar				Ch8, L1: Helping Verbs, Adverb "not' & Make Practice sentence	Ch 8, L2: Jingle 14, Classify sentences & Complete Daily Grammar
Writing			Complete Daedalus FD using your best handwriting, Underline & label dress-ups, Due Thurs. Stapled: Rubric, FD, RD	Read Damon & Pythias, Write KWO, Introduce because clause	Review KWO, retell to a family member. Using composition checklist p78, write 1st paragraph only
Reading			Read Misty of Chincoteague Ch 7-8 and answer questions in your journal p14	Discussion	Read Ch 9-10 and answer questions in journal p14
Latin				L6
History			Read Ireland's Troubles p123-126 and answer questions in your journal	The Potato Famine	Read "The Boers & the British" p127-133 and orally narrate and discuss
Geography			Review Southern Europe	Southern Europe Test
Science			Read p203-206 and add 3 interesting facts to your journal p167	Crickets & Grasshoppers	Read p206-210 and complete "What Do You Remember?" p166	How many insects have you pinned and labeled? You need at least 10!
Memory Work			POEM 2, Due for Recitation on 12/1 GEOGRAPHY: Southern Europe on 10/13 KEY DATES: 1-6 Test on 12/8

Coming Soon:

Tuesday, Oct 11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences, No school for students 

Wednesday, Oct 12 - Falcon Moms Lunch @ Mainstreet Social 11:30am

Thursday, Oct 13 - Spirit Day

Saturday, Oct. 15 - Fortis Lap-A-Thon 9:00 a.m.

Tuesday, Oct 25 - Picture Retakes

Thursday, Oct 27 - Spirit, D.O.G.S, and Pizza Day!

Friday, Oct 28 - Fall Festival

Tuesday, Nov 1 - Historic Dress-up 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 Character Virtue of the month is Diligence.

Math
Continue working on memorizing multiplication/division facts until mastered. Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up of either multiplication or division.

Objectives:

1. Review equivalent fractions. 

2. Use multiplication and division to generate equivalent fractions.

3. Compare fractions by finding common denominators or numerators.

4. Express fractions greater than 1 as improper fractions and mixed numbers.

Spelling
Objective: Spell common holidays and words with /uff/ spelled ough.

Reading  

We are continuing Misty of Chincoteague this week.

Review each chapter's vocabulary prior to reading and complete the assigned questions in your journal.

Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Learn new vocabulary

3. Find examples of conflict in Misty of Chincoteague.

4. Summarize a passage through oral and written narration.

Writing

Objectives:

1. Create a KWO of a 3-paragraph myth that follows the story sequence chart (characters/setting, conflict/problem, climax/resolution)

2. Write the first paragraph RD

3. Incorporate dress-ups (ly, who/which, strong verb, and because clause) and vocabulary words 

Grammar

Objectives:

1. Recognize and use helping verbs in sentences.

2. Know that "not" is usually an adverb.

History  

Objectives: 

1. Identify problems Ireland faced in the mid-1800s.

2. Know that the Boer War was fought between Great Britain and Afrikaners and the British won.

Science

1. Identify characteristics of grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids

2. Continue to collect, study, and identify Texas insects.

Memory Work:  Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry:  Our second quarter poem is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening".  Additional copies here.
Geography:  We will have our test over Southern 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: 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

The Cold War 1945-1991