Fortis Academy 4th grade: March 6 - 10, 2023

4th Grade Week 263/6/20233/7/20233/8/20233/9/20233/10/2023Co-Teacher Notes
DiscipleshipPUNCTUALITY: "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." (Ephesians 5:15-16)Looking Ahead: Monday, 3/20/23
BibleJohn 15Read John 18John 19Read John 20
MathCh 13, L9 TB p134-135 Practice B to review add/sub hundredths in preparation for tomorrow's test. Review Practice A as necessaryCh 13 TestMake test corrections & Ch 14, L1 TB p139-142, WB p107-108Math Facts & Ch 14 L2 TB p143-146, WB p109-111Ch 14, L3 TB p147-150, WB p112-114Review 3 TB p136-138 Skip problems 6, 9, 10, 11 CCC
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 Phonograms er ur, ir, our, ear, igh, ie, dge, wr, ti, ci, si, tch, Card Box, Dictate sentences 7-9.Step 23 Spelling TestStep 24 New Teaching. Dictate 10 wordsDictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 24 Practice."
GrammarCh 20, L1 Linking VerbsCh 20, L2 Classify sentences, Review plural rules Ref 60 & Do Ch 20, L2 Practice 1 & 2 CCCCh 20, L3 Similes & Metaphors, Complete Ch 20 L4 Activity Time: Color PoemDaily Grammar
WritingWriter's Conference, Begin FD of Tiger TamerWork on Tiger Tamer FD. Use the Rubric to check that you have all the required elements.Written narration practiceComplete FD of Tiger Tamer. Underline & label all dress-ups, openers & vocab. Due Tues. 3/21 Stapled: Rubric, FD, RD
ReadingDiscussion & begin Ch 20Read Ch 20 p148-160 and answer questions in journalDiscussionFinish My Side of the Mountain & answer Ch 21 & 22 questions. Due after break.
LatinL11L11
HistoryMao & the Communist Victory in ChinaRead SOTW "One Country, Two Different Worlds" p351-354 & orally narrate
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 Review Key Dates 1-9
Apartheid in Africa
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The Cold War cont.
Read SOTW p367-370 "The Korean War" and answer questions.
GeographyReview ScandinaviaReview Scandinavia
ScienceNest TypesRead p79-83, complete journal p67 Draw a picture of each kind of nest and note at least one bird that creates that kind of nest.Nest-Building projectComplete What Do You Remember? p64. If you don't remember, look up the answer in your TB. For fun try experiment p88
Memory Work
POETRY: Poem 3 on 3/1
GEOGRAPHY: Scandinavia 3/30
KEY DATES: 1-9 on 3/30
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/9
Coming Soon:
Thursday, March 9 - Spirit Day
March 13 - 17 Spring Break! (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 adding and subtracting decimals.

2. Multiply tenths by a one-digit whole number.

3. Multiply hundredths by a one-digit number

4. Review previously learned skills


Spelling

Objectives:

1. Know the doubling rule for adding vowel suffixes


Reading  

Please bring your book to class each day.

Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Summarize a passage through oral narration.

3. Identify elements of goodness, truth, and beauty in literature.

4. Identify character development


Grammar

Objectives:

1. Introduce linking verbs, predicate nouns, and predicate adjectives.

2. Review rules for the plurals of nouns with different endings

3. Identify similes and metaphors.

4. Write a simile poem.

Writing 

Objectives:

1. Write a story consisting of 3 paragraphs that describe what is happening in a series of pictures.
2. Practice the Writing from Pictures structure: Central Fact, Details, and Clincher for each paragraph.
3. Use stylistic techniques of incorporating 6 dress-ups into each paragraph.
4. Practice written narration.

History 

Objectives:

1. Know that Chairman Mao brought Communism to China in 1949.
2. Identify unjust laws in South Africa during Apartheid.
3. Know that the Cold War was a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union fought without weapons.
4. Know that the Korean War resulted in the country being divided into Communist North Korea and democratic South Korea.

Science
Objectives: 
1. Identify types of nests and the birds that make them.
2. Build a nest 

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

Geography:  We are beginning our study of 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: 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 PresidentsFor assessment, students will write or sing all the presidents' first and last names.


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