Anything in magenta is optional.
BLOG KEY
General:
Act – Activity
Ch – Chapter
Ex – Exercise
L – Lesson
p – Page(s)
Math:
HIG – Home Instructor’s Guide
TB – Textbook
WB – Workbook
FP – Facts Practice (A, B, C, or D denotes which sheet to use)
Writing:
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline
Science:
TB – Textbook
NBJ – Notebooking Journal
WDYR - What Do You Remember?
"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..." Psalm 90:17
COMING SOON:
Wednesday, December 2 - Spirit Day. Students may wear spirit shirts with jeans.
Wednesday, December 9 - Christmas Party!
Saturday, December 12 - Christmas Break begins
Monday, January 11 - First day of second semester
DOCUMENTS you'll need this week (uploaded to the Google Drive):
BIBLE/VIRTUES: This month, we'll be focusing on the virtue of joy.
MATH:
- Assess mastery of previously taught concepts.
- Work toward mastery of division facts
- Round decimals to two places
MATH FACTS - GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
Here are the instructions for administering facts practice sheets:
1. Set a timer for five minutes. Have your child complete as many facts on the page as possible before the timer goes off.
2. When the five minutes is up, if your child has not finished, please mark the place where he/she left off, and then have the student finish the sheet.
3. Parents, please use the key sent home in binders to check your child's work. (Save these to use for grading all future facts pages.) Have the student make any corrections.
3. Turn the sheet in as homework on the next school day. I will take it as a homework completion grade. (100 if they complete it; 0 if they didn't complete it or don't turn it in)
Here are the instructions for administering facts practice sheets:
1. Set a timer for five minutes. Have your child complete as many facts on the page as possible before the timer goes off.
2. When the five minutes is up, if your child has not finished, please mark the place where he/she left off, and then have the student finish the sheet.
3. Parents, please use the key sent home in binders to check your child's work. (Save these to use for grading all future facts pages.) Have the student make any corrections.
3. Turn the sheet in as homework on the next school day. I will take it as a homework completion grade. (100 if they complete it; 0 if they didn't complete it or don't turn it in)
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of words containing the sound of /ŭl/ spelled EL.
- Learn to spell words containing the sound of /ŭl/ spelled AL.
GRAMMAR:
- Know the components of a pattern 2 sentence: SNV-tDO.
- Classify, label, and diagram a pattern 2 sentence.
- Know how to make singular, plural, and irregular nouns possessive.
- Know that a topic sentence is generally the first sentence of a paragraph and tells what the paragraph is about.
- Write paragraph clinchers that repeat or reflect key words from a topic sentence.
- Write a 3-paragraph narrative story using pictures as a guide.
- Use the acronym www.asia.b to help remember some words that can be used to form subordinate clauses.
BIRTH OF JESUS STORY. This is the first story we will complete in the "Writing from Pictures" unit. It will be a 3-paragraph paper. Each paragraph will begin with a "central fact," which is bacically a descriptive sentence that tells what the paragraph is about. It's similar to a topic sentence in a report. Each paragraph should end with a clincher that repeats or reflects key words from the first sentence in the paragraph. We are adding one new dress up to this paper: the past perfect tense. Past perfect tense shows that an action has already been completed. To create a past perfect, place the word "had" before a past tense action verb. Here are a few examples that would work for this paper (we discussed some ideas in class):
- Through the prophets, God had promised to send a Messiah to save his people from their sins.
- Caesar Augustus had issued a decree that a census had to be taken throughout the Roman world.
- God had told the angel Gabriel to deliver a special message to Mary.
- Gabriel had also appeared to Joseph and told him to take Mary as his wife even though she was pregnant.
- The innkeeper had given them space where the animals were kept.
- Summarize a passage through oral narration.
- Identify virtues--as well as elements of truth, beauty, and goodness--in reading passages.
- Engage in meaningful Socratic dialogue.
- Improve reading comprehension.
- Identify author's purpose in books.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words and a new chapter maxim.
- Understand what parsing means.
- Know that all nouns have case, number, and gender and that all verbs have person, number, and tense.
HISTORY:
- Know the three branches of government, the main responsibilities of each, and how the balance of powers help prevent any branch from having too much control.
- Know that the Constitution was written primarily by James Madison, and that it was established at the Constitutional Convention.
SCIENCE:
- Know the basic anatomy of the heart and its function in the body.
- Identify key facts in a non-fiction reading passage.
- Use a study guide to prepare for a test.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Memorize of the names and locations of the countries in South America.
MEMORY WORK:
Geography: We'll begin learning the countries of South America this week. A hard copy of the maps can be found behind the "memory" tab in your child's binder. Additional maps, as well as MP3s of the song, are available at this link: Geography Resources.
History: Students will memorize a portion of the Declaration of Independence (bolded portion only) and 24 key dates. The key dates have accompanying jingles that do not have to be memorized, but will help students memorize the dates and retain details about the events to which they correspond.
KEY DATES (quiz on 11/30)
1. Leif Ericsson Explores America - 1000
2. Columbus Sails to the Americas - 1492
3. Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1587
4. Founding of Jamestown - 1607
5. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth - 1620
6. Salem Witch Trials - 1692
7. First Great Awakening -1740s
8. French & Indian War - 1754-63
9. Boston Tea Party - 1773
10. Paul Revere's Ride - 1775
11. Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
12. American Revolution - 1775-83
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE EXCERPT (Recitation on 11/18):
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
Poetry: Our second-quarter poem is The New Colossus:
The New Colossus
Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
NOTE: This sonnet was included as part of an art and literature auction that was designed to raise money to fund the construction of the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, a plaque bearing the poem was placed on the interior wall of the pedestal. The original “colossus” was the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.