Fortis Academy 4th grade - Week 22: Feb. 11 - 17, 2025

 

4th Grade Week 22	Tuesday 2/11/2025	Wednesday 2/12/2025	Thursday 2/13/2025	Friday 2/14/2025	Monday 2/17/2025	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Faith - Jesus replied to them, "Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." -Mark 11:22-23
Bible	Matt 7-8	Read Matthew 9	Matt 13	Read Matthew 17
Math	FP, Ch 12, L1 TB p59-65, WB p49-51	FP & Ch 12, L2 TB p66-71, WB p52-55	FP, Ch 12, L3 TB p72-76, WB p56-58	FP & Ch 12, L4 TB p77-82, WB p59-62	Ch 12, L5 TB p83-85, WB p63-65
Spelling	Step 19: Review New Teaching, DS 4-6	Rewrite missed Step 18 words 5x. & Step 19: Review Card box, Dictate sentences 7-9.	Step 19 Test	Step 20 New Teaching. Complete Make it Plural book p11, Dictate 10 words	Dictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 20 Practice."
Grammar	Ch 17, L1: Beginning & Ending Quotes, Ref. 50 & 51, Practice Time p.80	Ch17, L2 Classify sentences & Practice Time 1-3 Co-teachers, please check & help students make corrections. Practice 3 due tomorrow	Review & practice	Ch 17, L4 Test. Skip Exercises 3, 5, and 7. Co-Teachers, correct in red pen & return to school .
Writing	KWO for 1st History paragraph due, begin writing RD, take notes in class	Complete RD of 1st History paragraph. Take notes for 2nd paragraph. See Note Below	Work on 2nd History paragraph KWO & begin 1st paragraph FD	Create a fused KWO from your sources for the 2nd paragraph of your project and begin writing RD. Include topic, several facts, and clincher.
Reading	Number the Stars discussion & Read Ch 15	Read Ch 16 & 17. Answer questions p38. Bring journal to school tomorrow for final grading.	Final Number the Stars discussion & Introduce My Side of the Mountain and Read Ch 1	Read My Side of the Mountain Ch 2 & 3 and answer questions in your journal		Make sure Number the Stars Reading journal is complete as I will have the students turn them in for a final grade Thursday.
History	Pearl Harbor & The Allies vs. the Axis	Continue researching and taking notes to make a KWO for your 2nd paragraph	D-Day	Read SOTW "The War that Stretched Across the World" p375-382 & Start on the visual portion of your project if you have not already.
Geography	Review Eastern Europe	Practice until all countries are mastered	Review Eastern Europe	Review Eastern Europe for test on Thurs.
Science	Act. 10.2 Study a feather up close	Read TB p192-195 & color the Lesser Goldfinch and Golden- cheeked Warbler p23 in your green folder	Feather features and types	Read TB p196-198 Do Act. 10.1 and write the results in your NB
Memory Work	GEOGRAPHY: Eastern Europe Due 2/20 POETRY: Poem 3 Due 3/6 KEY DATES: 1-9 on 3/13 HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/8

Coming Soon:

Thursday, Feb. 13 - Spirit Day (no pizza) and Valentine Exchange

Saturday, Feb. 15 - Fortis Talent Show 6pm

Thursday, Feb. 27 - Spirit Day, DOGS, Pizza!

On Feb. 13, we'll have a Valentine Exchange and party the last 30 minutes of the day. Please bring a valentine for each classmate and a box or bag to take home your valentines. Here's a class list. 

1. Caroline                        6. Parker                 

2. Emily                             7. Evelyn                     

3. Scarlett                          8. Kaylee                     

4. Genevieve                     9. Malachi                    

5. Jacob                      

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 virtue this month is Faith. Faith is belief in God and His promises.

Fruit of the Spirit: Joy. Joy is a serene and stable happiness that finds its roots in God.

Math

Note: Start each day with a facts practice warm-up sheet. Do whichever page your child is currently working on. Set the timer for 5 minutes, circle the last problem completed, then complete the rest of the page. Correct and return to school for an optional completion grade. (Two sheets due per week.) 

 Objectives:

1. Understand the meaning of decimals to tenths and hundredths.

2. Express fractions in tenths and hundredths as decimals.

3. Express one-place and two-place decimals as fractions.

4. Express mixed numbers in tenths and hundredths as decimals.

5. Represent decimals on a number line.

6. Express decimal numbers in expanded form.

7. Express decimals as fractions in simplest form.

Spelling

Objectives:

1. Learn to spell /ij/ at the end of a word.

2. Form irregular plurals

Reading  

Please bring your book to class each day.

Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Engage in meaningful discussion.

Grammar

Objective: Correctly punctuate sentences with beginning, ending, and middle quotes.

Writing 

Objectives:

1. Write a RD on one aspect of WW II. Include at least 5 dress-ups.

2. Take notes from at least two source texts.

3. Create a KWO for the second paragraph of the WW II project.

4. Begin writing 2nd paragraph RD from KWO.

NOTE: Each paragraph must contain a topic sentence, at least 6 facts, a clincher sentence, and your choice of 5 dress-ups or openers (-ly, w/w, sv, adj, bc, www.asia, -ly opener, prep opener VSS).

For this assignment only: the FD may be typed or neatly handwritten in cursive.

History 

Objectives:

1. Know that the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, brought the US into WW II.

2. Know that D-Day was a turning point in the war in Europe.

3. Know that Winston Churchill was a key figure during WW II.

3. Continue researching and taking notes on areas of interest from WW II.

NOTE: This week you will continue reading and taking notes about your chosen WW II topic(s) and create a KWO from which

to write your second paragraph. You will need to have several facts from at least three books and/or websites. You may use SOTW as one

of your sources if you like.

Books: Write down the title of the book, the author, publisher, date of publication, and page numbers used.

Websites: Write down the name of the website, the title of the article, and the author and date you accessed the website.

We will be making Bibliography with this information next week.

Science

Objectives:

1. Identify parts of a feather.

2. Examine 7 types of feathers.

3. Identify 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 "In Christ Alone".  These lyrics are set to music and you can find numerous renditions online. Here is one. In Christ Alone. Additional copies here.

Geography:  We are continuing our study of Eastern 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.

Sheppard's software practice game: Eastern Europe

History: We are beginning our memorization of the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs to help

with this. Here are two: US Presidents: Washington to Trump and an older version, US Presidents to "America"

For assessment, students will write or sing all the presidents' first and last names. Due 5/13

Key Dates for 3rd 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