Anything in magenta is optional.
Anything in blue should be turned in as homework.
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, 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:
- Determine whether a shape can tesselate or not.
- Make different tessellations with a given shape.
- Find the length of the side of a cube given its volume.
- Find one dimension of a cuboid given its volume and the other two dimensions.
- Find one dimension of a cuboid given its volume and the area of one face.
- Design shapes that can tessellate.
- Solve word problems of up to 2 steps involving the volume of cuboids or cubes and the volume of liquids.
- Review previously learned material.
- Assess mastery of multiplication 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)
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 ending ATE.
- Learn to spell words ending containing the sound of /awt/ spelled AUGHT and words containing the soft c.
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 an outline.
- Understand the structure, format, and purpose of an outline.
READING:
- Summarize a passage through oral and written narration.
- Identify virtues--as well as elements of truth, beauty, and goodness--in reading passages.
- Engage in meaningful Socratic dialogue.
HISTORY:
- Know that Texas operated as its own country for ten years and that Sam Houston was the first president.
- Understand what it was like to live in Texas in the mid 1800s.
- Know what happened to the ill-fated members of the Mier Expedition.
- Know that Texas first became a state in December of 1945.
HISTORY JOURNAL NARRATION: Students should have been doing oral narrations all year long. Now, it's time for them to do some written narrations. They should write a 5-7 sentence summary of chapter one of Make Way for Sam Houston. It should be a properly formatted paragraph with proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling utilized throughout. It should give a broad outline of the events in the first chapter--not too detailed, but well ordered, with no major facts missing.
SCIENCE:
- Know what the inside of a bean seed looks like.
- Know the major differences between monocots and dicots.
- Know that a flower has both male and female parts and understand how pollination works.
- Be familiar with the major animal pollinators.
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. |