Anything in magenta is optional.
Anything in blue should be turned in as homework on the next class day.
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:
Monday, February 15 - President's Day/Teacher Training - No School or Homework
Tuesday, February 16 - Open Enrollment for new families begins - Tell your friends!
Wednesday, February 17 - 5th Grade Valentine Exchange
Monday, February 22 - Moms in Prayer, 9 a.m.
Wednesday, February 24 - Pizza and Spirit Day!
DOCUMENTS you'll need this week (uploaded to the Google Drive):
BIBLE/VIRTUES: This month, we'll be focusing on the virtue of patience, a fruit of the spirit. A school environment gives us multiple opportunities to practice patience: waiting for a teacher to call on us or help us when raising a hand, waiting for our turn to play a game at recess, waiting until everyone is done with a test or a quiz before moving on to a new subject, being patient while the teacher is explaining something to classmates for a third time, even though I understood it the first time. Patience is often about giving others grace or space. Sometimes patience takes the form of putting up with the annoying behavior of others so that we can demonstrate love to them. Patience is often about delaying our own gratification for the benefit of others. God shows his ultimate patience with us by withholding his wrath and judgment on the world for as long as possible, in hopes that all people will repent and come to know him. May we seek to extend patience to others in matters that are far less weighty in the grand scheme of eternity!
MATH:
- Review and assess mastery of concepts related to percentages.
- Understand and find average.
- Find the average given the total and the number of items.
- Find the total given the average and the number of items. Find the measurement total given the average and the number of items.
- Find an average measurement given the total and the number of items.
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 spelling words with the sound of /ŭs/ spelled "ous."
- Analyze two ways to spell the sound of /ŭs.
GRAMMAR:
- Recognize and know the components of a pattern 4 sentence: SNLVPrN.
- Classify, label, and diagram a pattern 4 sentence.
- Know what an antecedent is and be able to clearly identify its corresponding pronoun when reading and writing.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Learn four new vocabulary words, and be able to properly incorporate them into writing.
- Know the basic structure of an essay.
VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
1. Cut out the blue cardstock PAGE (not the individual cards) in the back of the IEW book that corresponds to this week's lesson.
2. Color the pictures on the front and fill in the words in the blank on the back. Hole punch the page, and place it behind the "writing" tab in your binder. Study the meaning of each word.
3. Use the vocabulary activity homework sheet and a dictionary (preferably a print copy to reinforce alphabetization skills) to complete the following for each word:
a. Write the word.
b. Draw a line between letters in the word to correctly divide the syllables (if applicable).
c. Write the part(s) of speech. NOTE: The acronym NVP AA PIC is used in Shurley grammar to help students remember the parts of speech. We will encounter it in a few weeks in our grammar studies, but it should be review for most students.
d. Write the definition(s) of the word.
e. Use the word in a sentence (other than the one on the back of the card).
f. Try to find at least one (more if you can) synonym and antonym for each word.
g. Look up the etymology for each word. Write the oldest form of the word available and what the roots mean. Does it come from Latin, Greek, or some other root? What do those roots mean? Can you understand how the words got their meaning in modern-day English?
h. Write other forms of the word. For example: "prosper" (v) and "prosperous" (adj) would also be acceptable forms of the word "prosperity" (n) for students to use in their writing assignments.
i. After the homework sheets are completed, please hole punch them and place them behind the corresponding page of vocab words in the binder. They do not need to be turned in. I will periodically look in binders in order to record the homework grade.
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.
- Identify themes/main ideas in the Psalms.
- Identify narrator's point-of-view in fiction passages.
- Identify main idea in non-fiction passages.
- Assess mastery of previously learned vocabulary words and chapter maxims.
- Review previously learned vocabulary words and charts for upcoming test.
HISTORY:
Memorize the key date for the Trail of Tears.
SCIENCE:
- Know that main functions and components of the integumentary system.
- Be familiar with the process of how hair and nails grow.
- Know the two main layers of the skin are the dermis and the epidermis.
- Understand how sweating helps keeps you cool.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Work toward memorizing the names and locations of the American states.
PRACTICE MAP: Print a copy of the map using the 5th Grade Documents link above. Have students label each state.
MEMORY WORK:
Geography: 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
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
19. Underground Railroad - Early 1830s
20. Cherokee Trail of Tears - 1830-1838
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.