Fortis 5th Grade - Week 29 (April 5-9, 2021)

 Anything in magenta is optional.

Anything in blue should be turned in as homework on the following school day.

5th Grade
Week 29
MONDAY
4/5/2021
TUESDAY
4/6/2021
WEDNESDAY
4/7/2021
THURSDAY
4/8/2021
FRIDAY
4/9/2021
Discipleship
No School - Teacher Training
ORDERLINESS: But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. (I Cor. 14:40)
BibleRead and discuss Psalm 149-150. Complete homework activity sheet.Read and discuss Ecclesiastes 1Read and discuss Ecclesiastes 2. Complete homework activity sheet.
MathFP-C; HIG p86; TB p71, task #4; WB Ex 46HIG p87; TB p71, tasks #5-6; WB Ex 47FP-C; HIG p88; TB p72, tasks #1-5; WB Ex 48 FP-C; HIG p89. TB p76, task #1; WB Ex49
SpellingSTEP 27: Review new teaching and card box. Dictate sentences 5-8.STEP 27: TestSTEP 28: New teaching. Dictate new words.Dictate sentences 1-4.
Grammar
RESEARCH PAPER: Continue reading source texts and making note cards.
Begin final drafts of Freedom of Religion essay.
RESEARCH PAPER: Continue reading source texts and making note cards. All note cards are due on Monday.
Writing/
Vocabulary
 
Reading
The Secret Garden
Read Ch5-6Discussion. Finish read aloudRead Ch7-8Read Ch9
LatinCh29 - Listen to memory page twice and make vocab cards for the first six words.Ch29 - Ablative case pronounsCh29 - Listen to memory page twice and make vocab cards for the last seven words. Study all 12 words and maxim for Monday's vocab quiz. 
HistoryRead Ch25 of the history textbook - The Battle of the Alamo. Color the Alamo timeline card and glue it into your journal. Copy the jingle below the card.Texas Timeline.
Read
Susannah of the Alamo
HISTORY JOURNAL: Copy the text of the letter (see below) from Col. William Travis asking for reinforcements at the Alamo. Write it in your neatest cursive handwriting.Read Story of Texas, Part 2 - p61-84. Answer questions 20-23 in the Texas Timeline packet.
GeographyStates and Capitals Complete practice map of the States and Capitals 
ScienceStudy for tomorrow's test.TEST. Introduce Botany unit.Watch this video: Plant vs Animal Cells

 Take a nature walk. Collect 5-7 seeds and place in an envelope. Bring to share with class on Monday.
Memory WorkMATH: Multiplication Facts Test on on 4/14
POETRY: Song of Life Recitation on 4/28
GEOGRAPHY: U.S. States and Capitals Test on 4/14
KEY DATES: 1-24 Test on 5/3
SCIENCE: Lymphatic system - Test on 4/7

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, April 5 - Teacher Training. NO SCHOOL.
Wednesday, April 14 - Spirit Day.
Friday, April 16 - 6th Grade Mock Day (all current fifth graders are invited to spend a day shadowing the sixth graders)

DOCUMENTS you'll need this week (uploaded to the Google Drive)

BIBLE/VIRTUES: God created a world that is orderly, with one thing following another. Spring always follows winter. Night always follows day. Adulthood always follows childhood. Order around us creates order inside us. Orderliness gives us peace of mind. It's why many of us thrive when we have schedules, but life feels out-of-control and scary when we don't. Orderliness is a virtue we develop to achieve our goals by doing the things we should do when/how we should do them. Orderliness is being neat and living with a sense of harmony. If we are organized, we know where things are when we need them. We are able to solve problems step-by-step instead of going in circles. Orderliness is a particularly valuable virtue in school or in the workplace, so we should make every effort to develop it in our children. 

MATH:
  • Find unknown angles in problems involving rhombuses.
  • Find unknown angles in problems involving trapezoids.
  • Construct a parallelogram 
  • Construct a rectangle with a given length and width.
  • Construct a parallelogram the measurements of two adjacent sides and one angle.
  • Construct a rhombus given the measurement of one side and one angle.
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)

SPELLING:
  • Assess mastery of words spelled with the sound of /ār/ speller ER.
  • Learn to spell words ending in ATE.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
  • Know the basic structure of an essay.
  • Be able to support a thesis with details and examples.
  • Organize facts for a research paper using note cards
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.
HISTORY:
  • Know the key events and players in the Texas Revolution: Santa Anna, William Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, James Fannin, and James Bonham.
  • Know the broad outline of events that happened at the Alamo.
  • Be familiar with the factors that kept Texas as a republic for ten years.
  • Know that a primary source is a first-hand account of a historical event. 
HISTORY JOURNAL: Copy the following text of the letter from Col. William Barret Travis asking for reinforcements at the Alamo:

February 24, 1836

To the People of Texas & all Americans in the world—

Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand
or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained
a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have
not lost a man—The enemy has demanded a surrender at
discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if
the fort is taken—I have answered the demand with a cannon
shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls—I
shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the
name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American
character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch—The enemy is
receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or
four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to
his own honor & that of his country—Victory or Death

William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. comdt

P.S. The Lord is on our side—When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn—We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels & got into
the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves—

SCIENCE: 
  • Assess mastery of material related to the immune system and human development.
  • Use a study guide to prepare for a test.
  • Know the major differences between plant and animal cells. 
GEOGRAPHY:
  • Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
  • Memorize the names, locations, and capitals of the American states.
PRACTICE MAP: Print a copy of the map using the 5th Grade Documents link above. Have students label each state and capital.

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 1-24 will be on May 3.

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
21. 1836 - Battle of the Alamo
22. 1845 - Texas becomes a state
23. 1846-48 - Mexican War
24. 1849 - California Gold Rush

Poetry: Our fourth-quarter poem is "Song of Life." We will recite it on April 28.

Song of Life

By Charles Mackay

A traveler on a dusty road

Strewed acorns on the lea;

And one took root and sprouted up,

And grew into a tree.

Love sought its shade at evening-time,

To breathe its early vows;

And Age was pleased, in heights of noon,

To bask beneath its boughs.

The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,

The birds sweet music bore—It stood a glory in its place,

A blessing evermore.

 

A little spring had lost its way

Amid the grass and fern;

A passing stranger scooped a well

Where weary men might turn.

He walled it in, and hung with care

A ladle on the brink;

He thought not of the deed he did,

But judged that Toil might drink.

He passed again; and lo! the well,

By summer never dried,

Had cooled ten thousand parchéd tongues,

And saved a life beside.

 

A nameless man, amid the crowd

That thronged the daily mart,

Let fall a word of hope and love,

Unstudied from the heart,

A whisper on the tumult thrown,

A transitory breath,

It raised a brother from the dust,

It saved a soul from death.

O germ! O fount! O word of love!

O thought at random cast!

Ye were but little at the first,

But mighty at the last.