Fortis Academy 4th Grade - Week 16 - Dec. 3 - 8

4th Grade Week 16Tuesday
12/3/2024
Wednesday
12/4/2024
Thursday
12/5/2024
Friday
12/6/2024
Monday
12/9/2024
Co-Teacher Notes
DiscipleshipTEMPERANCE - Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
BibleIsaiah-Select versesHosea 4:1-3 & 6:1-3II Kings 18-19Nahum 1:1, Zeph 1:14-18, Hab 3:16-19
MathCh. 9, L1: TB pgs. 211-217, WB pgs. 201-203Ch. 9, L2: TB pgs. 218-220, WB Ex 2 pg. 205Ch. 9, L3: TB pg. 221-225, WB pgs. 208-210Complete Review 2 TB pgs. 230-231
SpellingStep 14: Review New Teaching, Review Phonograms, DS 4-6, Play Sparkle!Re-Write misspelled Step 13 words 5x, Review Card Box, Review Phonograms: sh, th, oo, ee, oy, oi, ch DS 7-9.Step 14 Spelling Test & Phonogram ReviewStep 15: New teaching, Dictate 10 words & Sentences 1-3. Review phonograms ow, ou, ay, ai, ea, or, uiAdminister FA Phonics Assessment #2 and Oral Phonogram Drill Sheet & return to school Tuesday.Instructions for administering the Phonics Assessment are in the notes below.
GrammarDaily GrammarDaily GrammarComplete any remaining Daily Grammar pages. Due Tues.
WritingBegin FD of The Ugly DucklingComplete FD. Due tomorrow in this order: Rubric, FD, RDPoem 2 Recitations
ReadingDiscussion & read Ch. 18-19Finish reading The Wright Brothers & put Helen Keller in your backpack for tomorrowIntroduce Helen Keller, Read pgs. 7-19In Helen Keller read pgs. 20-45 and copy first 3 quotes in your journal.
HistoryLenin & the Bolshevik RevolutionRead "The End of the War" pgs. 271-277, write answers to questions in journal and review Key Dates 1-6The End of the Great War discussion & read "In Flanders Fields"Review Key Dates 1-6 & complete study guide sent home
Geography
ScienceComplete insect researchComplete Study GuideFinal Insect Test
Memory WorkPOEM 2, Due for Recitation on 12/5
KEY DATES: 1-6 Test on 12/10

 

Coming Soon:
Thursday, Dec 12- Christmas Sweater Day & Grammar School Christmas Party!
Friday, Dec 13 - End of 2nd Quarter
Monday, Dec 16 - Friday, Jan 10- Christmas Break

Fortis Grammar students have a tradition of exchanging a classical book at our Christmas party. If you would like your child to participate, please send a wrapped new or gently used classical, age-appropriate book. You may want to specify if the book would appeal more to boys or girls, but it is not necessary. 

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. This month's virtue is Temperance. Temperance is the cardinal virtue that moderates (not destroys) the attraction to pleasure and provides balance in the use of created goods. Fruit of the Spirit: Self-control. Self-control is the mastery of love of and desire for pleasure.


Math

Continue to complete a Facts Practice worksheet or quiz your student with flashcards each day if not mastered. You do not have to turn them in anymore.

Objectives:

1. Interpret change over time in bar and line graphs.

2. Draw and display data in a line graph.

3. Interpret and create line plots.

4. Practice and review.


Spelling

Objective:
1. Spell more words with the sound of /z/ spelled s.
2. Review and assess phonograms.

Please administer the Classical Phonics Assessment (in binder) this week and return to school Tuesday.  
You only need to do Assessment 2. Here are instructions for administering the assessment.
Phonogram Drill Form (written portion) - Parents, read the sound or sounds on the card. Or if you prefer, you can play the sound on the AAS app. Your student should then write the corresponding phonogram in the box. Mark any your child missed.
Classical Phonics Assessment Tracker (oral portion) - Show the card to the student. He or she should be able to correctly identify all the sounds associated with that card. Please note any phonograms your child missed on the form.

Reading  

Objective: Identify goodness, truth, and beauty in biographical literature.


Grammar

Objectives: Practice editing skills.


Writing 

Objectives:

1. Complete FD of a story written from pictures.

2. Recite 2nd quarter poem.


History 

Objectives: 

1. Know that Russia's economic collapse led to the Bolshevik Revolution, which forced the Czar out of power.
2. Know that the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, became a brutal dictator.
3. Understand that Lenin established the USSR and ruled over it until his death in 1924.
4. Know that WW I ended in 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. 

Science
Objectives: 
1. Research and record facts on a variety of insects.
2. Assessment.

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.
History: Key Dates for 2nd 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