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:
TG – Teacher’s Guide
TB – Textbook
WB – Workbook
FP – Facts Practice (A, S, M, or D denotes which sheet to use)
Writing:
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline
Writing:
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline
Science:
TB – Human Anatomy Textbook
NBJ – Notebooking Journal
WDYR - What Do You Remember?
TLFS – Trees, Leaves, Flowers and Seeds
"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..." Psalm 90:17
DOCUMENTS you'll need this week (uploaded to the Google Drive):
BIBLE/VIRTUES: This month, we'll be focusing on the entwined virtues of honesty and integrity. Honesty focuses on avoiding lying, cheating and deception, and speaking the truth in love, while integrity has more to do with doing the right thing at all times, regardless of the cost and regardless of whether or not anyone else sees it. Our school-wide virtue for this month is respect.
MATH:
- Convert measurements of length, weight, liquid volume, or time involving fractions or mixed numbers from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- Find the area of rectangles with fractional side lengths.
- Find the area of a triangle when the height is given inside of the triangle.
- Improve speed and accuracy of subtraction facts.
Be sure students fully understand the following things:
1. Any side of a triangle can be the base, depending on which way it is oriented.
3. All triangles, regardless of their shape, are exactly half of a corresponding rectangle, which is why we get the formula for finding the area of a triangle (1/2 x base x height)
2. Know that we call the measurements of a triangle base and height, rather than length and width.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of words containing the sound of /cŭl/ spelled CAL.
- Learn to spell words containing the sound of /ŭl/ spelled IL.
GRAMMAR:
- Classify and diagram pattern 2 sentences.
- Identify and correct fragments.
- Identify and write simple sentences, simple sentences with compound parts, and complex sentences.
- Identify and correct comma splices and run-on sentences.
- Summarize source texts.
- Write strong topic sentences and corresponding clinchers.
- Choose facts that support a topic sentence.
- Learn four new vocabulary words and be able to use them in writing.
READING:
- Summarize a passage through oral narration.
- Identify virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading passages.
- Improve reading comprehension.
- Learn ten new Latin adjectives and a new chapter maxim
- Begin to memorize the 2nd conjugation verb endings.
HISTORY:
- Understand the significance of the spy network during the American Revolution.
- Know the key differences between the British soldiers and the Continental soldiers and how they contributed to the war.
- Be familiar with some of the roles women in general--and specifically Anna Strong, Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher, and Sybil Ludington--played in helping to fight the Revolutionary War.
- Recite a memorized portion of the Declaration of Independence.
SCIENCE:
- Identify key facts in a non-fiction reading passage.
- Know the components of blood and the roles of blood in the body.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Assess mastery of the names and locations of Greenland and the provinces of Canada.
MEMORY WORK:
Geography: We'll continue our study of the provinces of Canada 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 21 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
1. Leif Ericsson Explores America - 1000
2. Columbus Sails to the Americas - 1492
3. Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1583
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:
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!”
Link to "New Colossus" YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0B9CitsfU0