Fortis 5th Grade - Week 8 (September 25-29, 2023)

Link to Google Folder5th Grade Documents

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

Anything in purple denotes a formal assessment. 

Anything in magenta is optional (at the discretion of the co-teacher). 

5th Grade
Week 8
Monday
9/25/2023
Tuesday
9/26/2023
Wednesday
9/27/2023
Thursday
9/28/2023
Friday
9/29/2023
Virtues/Bible
COURAGE: "The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1)
RESPECT: "Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor." (I Peter 2:17)
CONFIDENCE: “In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.” (Ephesians 3:12)
Read and discuss I Sam. 15 and 16Read & discuss Psalms 8, 19, 23, and 66. Complete questions in homework booklet.Overview of the Psalms.Read & discuss I Sam. 17. Complete questions in homework booklet.Complete Virtue Reflection in homework booklet.
MathFP-10. Addition & Subtraction of Fractions Quiz. Ch4 - Review 1. TB p109-110, #8-14.FP-M2. Ch4 - WB Ex 10, p97-99, #1-7 only. Cumulative Test tomorrow.10s, 11s, 12s Multiplication Facts Quiz.

Cumulative Test #1.
FP-A (begin new sheet). Make all test corrections. Corrections should be completed on a separate piece of paper. Students must show all work in order to receive additional credit (1/2 point back for each correction they successfully complete). Staple corrections to the back of the test.FP-A. Complete the Coordinate Planes Practice activity sent home in binders. Copies of the activity and the key are available via the documents link. Parents, please make sure students understand how to plot and label points and then check all answers.
SpellingSTEP 7: Review card box. Dictate sentences 5-8.STEP 7: QuizSTEP 8, p51-54: New teaching. Dictate new words.STEP 8: Dictate sentences 1-4.
GrammarCh7, L3 -Teach object pronounsCh7, L4 - Complete test for practice only. Skip Ex 4 & 8.Ch8, L1 ("not" adverbs; question verbs)Ch8, L2 - Jingle Time and Grammar Time
Writing/
Vocabulary
VOCAB WORDS: penetrate, despair, extol, prudent
Complete this week's vocab activitiesL7 - Read the source text twice and complete the KWO for the Trojan horse story. Retell to a family member.L7 - complete p66-68.

Distribute and review checklists. Retell story to a classmate. Begin writing rough drafts.
L7 - Using only outline, complete rough draft of Trojan horse story. Parents: ensure that all elements are included and properly labeled.
Reading
Twenty-one Balloons
Golden Goblet Treasury Tracker. Introduce Twenty-one Balloons. Read intro and Ch1 aloud.Read ChII. Orally narrate and discuss.Read George Muller aloud.Read ChIII. Orally narrate and discuss.Read ChIV. Orally narrate and discuss.
LatinCh7 Quiz. Ch8 - teach grammar lesson.Ch8 - Listen to CD/audio and recite memory chart twice. Make vocab cards for the verbs (1st conjugation).Ch8 - story. Translation and grammar practice.Ch8 - Listen to CD/audio and recite memory chart. Make vocab cards for the nouns (2nd declension, neuter) and study for Monday's quiz over this week's words and maxim.NOTE: Pack Latin vocab cards in backpacks to bring next week so I can record your homework grades for the quarter.
HistoryKey Dates Test #1HISTORY JOURNAL: One the next blank, left-hand page, write "Week 8" at the top of the page. Paste the colored David timeline card into your journal. Copy the corresponding jingle neatly below the card.Introduction to PsalmsHISTORY JOURNAL: Copy Psalm 23 into your journal (KJV) in your most beautiful cursive. Illustrate it with color drawings or pictures.
GeographyShare facts with the class.Study Middle East mapFind and write down 10 facts about Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or Yemen to share with the class next week. Study Middle East map
ScienceDistribute and review study guide.Use study guide to prepare for tomorrow's test.L3&4 TestRead p85-89. (Skip "Try This" activities.) Take notes on p65 on your NBJ. Answer questions #1-3 on p66.
Memory Work - Review and practice these dailyGEOGRAPHY: Middle East Test on 10/11
MATH FACTS: Large Multiplication Facts Test on 9/27
SCIENCE: Major muscles; digestive and renal systems, Test on 9/27
KEY DATES #1-7: Test on 9/25
POETRY: Psalm 139, Due for Recitation on 11/29
(Please note the date change)

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, D, etc. denotes which sheet to use)

Language Arts:
AAS - All About Spelling
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline

Science:
TB – Human Anatomy Textbook
NJ – Notebooking Journal
WDYR - What Do You Remember? 
TLFS – Trees, Leaves, Flowers and Seeds Textbook


"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..." 
Psalm 90:17

IMPORTANT DATES:
Saturday, September 23 - Dodgeball Tournament, Glad Tidings Church
Wednesday, September 27 - Pizza, Spirit Day, and DOGS day
Monday, October 9 - NO SCHOOL. Grammar Parent-Teacher Conferences
Wednesday, October 11 - Spirit Day
Friday-Sunday, October 13-15 - Family Campout, Cedar Breaks Park
Friday, October 27 - Fall Festival

 MATH:

  • Review previously learned concepts to prepare for upcoming test.
  • Assess mastery of addition/subtraction of fractions.
  • Assess mastery of 10s, 11s and 12s multiplication facts.
  • Assess mastery of previously learned concepts.
  • Plot points on a coordinate plane.
  • Properly label coordinates.
  • Improve speed and accuracy of addition facts. 
SPELLING:
  • Assess mastery of words ending in "ice."
  • Learn exceptions to the "I Before E" generalization.
GRAMMAR:
  • Label and diagram sentences that include pronouns.
  • Know that there are three pronoun cases: subjective, objective, and possessive.
  • Know that possessive nouns and pronouns often function as adjectives in a sentence.
  • Know that "not" is an adverb.
  • Know what a helping verb is and that they can sometimes be used to begin a question.  
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
  • Know that all good narrative stories have three main parts: characters/setting, plot/conflict, and climax/resolution, and be able to identify these parts in a story.
  • Be familiar with the concepts of rising and falling action.
  • Create a key word outline for a narrative story.
  • Use a dramatic opener to draw a reader into a story.
  • Be familiar with several types of dramatic openers: questions, quotes, facts/statistics, fragments, and shocking statements.
  • Learn four new vocabulary words, and be able to properly use them when writing
READING:
  • Increase vocabulary through exposure to unfamiliar words.
  • Improve reading comprehension skills.
  • Retell what you have read accurately and with adequate detail.
LATIN:
  • Assess mastery of previously learned vocabulary words and maxim.
  • Learn ten new vocabulary words and a new maxim.
  • Begin to memorize the second-declension neuter noun chart.
  • Recognize neuter nouns by their endings.
HISTORY:
  • Understand that the Psalms were compiled as the hymnbook of Israel and were written by many different authors. 
  • Know that there are many different types of Psalms: praise, thanksgiving, lament, royal, history, enthronement, etc.
  • Know that David was the author of many Psalms as was known as the "sweet Psalmist of Israel.".
  • Know that David was anointed as the king when he was still a youth and had to wait many years for his kingship to come to fruition
SCIENCE: 
  • Identify key facts from a reading passage.
  • Use a study guide to prepare for a test.
  • Assess mastery of concepts related to muscles, as well as the digestive and renal systems.
  • Know that carbohydrates are a macronutrient that provides energy to cells.
GEOGRAPHY:
  • Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ..
  • Memorize the names and locations of the countries of the Middle East.
A hard copy of the map 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. Students will memorize the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World:
  1. Pyramids of Giza
  2. Hanging Garden of Babylon
  3. Statue of Zeus
  4. Temple of Artemis
  5. Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
  6. Colossus of Rhodes
  7. Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
Students will also memorize 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. We will test over the first seven dates on 9/25:

1.      Creation – The Beginning

In the beginning, God was there

Crafting the heavens and earth from thin air.

Firmament, sun, moon, and stars, plants and trees,

Birds, fish, and animals, Adam and Eve.

In His own image He created man,

And because of their fall He concocted a plan

To rescue mankind by His infinite love:

Purchase salvation through the blood of his Son.

 

2.      The Sumerians – 2300 B.C.

From the rich fertile crescent in Mesopotamia,

Came a people group known to us as the Sumerians.

With cuneiform writing and a ziggurat, too,

Near B.C. 2300, this civilization grew.

  

3.      Abraham - 1922 B.C.

In 1922 B.C.

The Lord called Abraham to leave

The land, called Ur, he’d always known

to head for a land he’d soon be shown

 

4.      Hammurabi – 1792 B.C.

In the year 1792 B.C.,

A Babylonian king named Hammurabi

Developed a now-famous code of law

With 300 rules to help men get along.

 

5.      The Exodus – 1491 B.C.

God’s chosen people, the Hebrews, had lived

In Egypt as slaves, for 400 years.

So God raised up Moses, an exile, to lead them

Ten awful plagues later, Pharoah granted their freedom.

Then into the desert, the Israelites fled,

But the king changed his mind and pursued them instead.

With a sea up ahead and Pharoah’s army behind,

The Hebrews were in an impossible bind.

But then God miraculously parted the sea,

And showed his great power in 1491 B.C.

 

6.      King Tut – 1333 B.C.

In 1333 B.C.,

Young Tut became Pharaoh, you see.

He briefly ruled Egypt before he died,

And was laid in a tomb with great wealth at his side.

 

7.      David - 1055 B.C.

David, a man after God’s own heart,

Killed Goliath with only a stone, for a start,

He became king of Israel in B.C. 1055,

And though he made some mistakes, served the Lord all his life.


Poetry: This quarter, we'll work on memorizing and reciting Proverbs 2:1-11 (NIV)Recitations will be on 9/20.


Proverbs 2:1-11 (NIV)

 

My son, if you accept my words
    and store up my commands within you,
turning your ear to wisdom
    and applying your heart to understanding—
indeed, if you call out for insight
    and cry aloud for understanding,
and if you look for it as for silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasure,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds success in store for the upright,
    he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
for he guards the course of the just
    and protects the way of his faithful ones.

Then you will understand what is right and just
    and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.