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, January 13 - Spirit Day
Monday, January 25 - Moms in Prayer
Wednesday, January 27 - Pizza/Spirit Day
- Priority re-enrollment with special benefits for current families is now open. Secure your space for next year now!
- We DO have school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will celebrate his amazing contributions to our country during class.
DOCUMENTS you'll need this week (uploaded to the Google Drive):
BIBLE/VIRTUES: This month, we'll be focusing on the virtue of self-discipline.
MATH:
- Divide a decimal by 10 or tens
- Divide a decimal by 100 or 1000
- Divide a decimal by hundreds or thousands
- Improve speed and recall of division facts
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:
- Learn to spell words words containing the sound of /ŭl/ spelled AL.
GRAMMAR:
- Know the components of a pattern 3 sentence: SNV-tIODO.
- Classify, label, and diagram a pattern 3 sentence.
- Know that there are three different pronoun cases: subjective, objective, and possessive, and understand when to use which pronouns.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Review previously learned vocabulary words, and be able to properly incorporate them into writing.
- Summarize passages by identifying key facts and leaving out less important details.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE WRITING ASSGINMENT; This is the last paper we will write as part of the unit on summarizing. Please read the Assignment Schedule notes on p109-110. On Tuesday, students should complete Day 1, #2-6, Day 2, #4-5, and Day 3, #2-3. I have assigned minimal homework for math, spelling, and grammar to give them time to complete what we would normally take us two days to finish. Important notes:
- This paper should be TWO paragraphs. The two topics (one for each paragraph) are: 1. A description of the Louisiana Territory and 2. The significance of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. The key words to use on the outline for each topic are provided at the top of p113. Read this carefully before beginning the outline. Your student may need help understanding the meaning of these topics.
- The two paragraphs in the source text DO NOT correspond to the two paragraph topics, so students will have to be careful about which details they include in each paragraph. There is also a lot of information that does not fit with either topic that should be excluded. Please remember that the purpose of this unit is for students to summarize and practice choosing important facts that fit with the topic.
- Don't forget topic sentences and clinchers for each paragraph. Have students write their topic sentences and get your approval before beginning the rest of each paragraph.
- This is a summary, so the paper should be significantly shorter than the original source text. Each paragraph should be about 7-9 sentences long.
- Use the checklist to ensure that all elements of structure and style are included and properly labeled and/or highlighted. You can print it using the 5th Grade Documents link above.
READING:
- 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.
- Understand how dialogue contributes to a story and use different voices to reflect quotations and explanatory words when reading aloud.
- Review previously learned vocabulary words and chapter maxims.
- Understand the imperfect tense.
- Memorize the imperfect tense endings chart
HISTORY:
- Know that Daniel Boone was an explorer who discovered the Cumberland Gap and established a settlement in what is now known as Kentucky.
- Be familiar with some of the character traits that made Daniel Boone successful: curiosity, courage, industriousness, etc.
SCIENCE:
- Know the basic functions and components of the nervous system.
- Know the structure of a neuron.
- Identify key facts in a non-fiction reading passage.
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 test over the countries of South America this week. A hard copy of the maps can be found behind the "poetry/maps" 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 24 key dates this year. 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. The cumulative quiz over dates 1-18 will be on March 1.
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
13. Constitution Ratified - 1787-88
14. Industrial Revolution - Late 1700s
15. Louisiana Purchase - 1803
16. Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1804
17. War of 1812
18. Monroe Doctrine - 1823
Poetry: Our third-quarter poem is Psalm 139:1-18 (NIV)
Psalm 139:1-18
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.