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BLOG KEY
Language Arts:
AAS - All About Spelling
KWO - Key word outline
MATH:
- Multiply fractions by whole numbers and vice versa.
- Solve multi-step word problems invvolving fractions.
- Multiply a whole number by a fraction.
- Multiply a fraction by a unit fraction.
- Improve speed and accuracy of addition facts.
- Assess mastery of exceptions to the "I Before E" generalization.
- Practice spelling words that contain "ie" and "ei."
- Label and diagram sentences that include the common conjunctions "and," "but," and "or."
- Know that conjunctions connect words, phrases and clauses and express excitement or emotion.
- Identify and label interjections in a sentence.
- Be familiar with common irregular verbs.
- Identify a simple sentence with compund parts and know that the simple subject and/or the simple predicate can be compound.
- 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
- Increase vocabulary through exposure to unfamiliar words.
- Improve reading comprehension skills.
- Retell what you have read accurately and with adequate detail.
- Assess mastery of previously learned vocabulary words and maxim.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words and a new maxim.
- Memorize the second-declension neuter noun endings.
- Recognize neuter nouns by their endings.
- Be familiar with the major accomplishments and failures in the lives of King David and King Solomon.
- Know the major accomplishments of the Phoenecians.
- Understand the significance of Solomon's temple.
- Identify key facts from a reading passage.
- Read and analyze nutrition labels.
- Understand the purposes and functions of fats and proteins in our diets, as well as the importance of vitamins and minerals.
- 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.
- Pyramids of Giza
- Hanging Garden of Babylon
- Statue of Zeus
- Temple of Artemis
- Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
- Colossus of Rhodes
- Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
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.
8. Israel
Divides - 975 B.C.
After King
Solomon, David’s son, died,
The kingdom of
Israel was forced to divide.
Benjamin and Judah
split from 10 other tribes,
In the very sad
year of B.C. 9-7-5.
9. Homer
- 900 B.C.
Sometime around
800 B.C.,
Homer composed the
Iliad and the Odyssey.
These epic tales
of gods and men
Have been retold
and shared again and again.
10. Israel
Falls to Assyria - 721 B.C.
In the fateful
year of 721 B.C.,
The strong and
powerful Assyrian army
Was sent by God to
punish the sin
Of the Northen
Kingdom who had strayed far from Him.
King Sargon
deported the people and then
Invited some others
to quickly move in.
11. Babylonian
Captivity - 605, 599, 588 B.C.
Because of the
people of Judah’s great sin,
God’s prophets had
warned them again and again,
That a very strong
nation would take them away.
So Nebuchadnezzar
from Babylon came.
And in 605, 599,
and 588 B.C.
He carried them
off into captivity.
12. Buddha – c. 563
B.C.
In B.C. 563, a prince was born,
Earthly desires he decided to scorn
They
called him the Buddha: “enlightened one”
And
a new Eastern religion had soon begun.
13. Confucius
- 547 B.C.
In
China, around B.C. 547,
Confucius began teaching about things such as heaven
And how to live moral and upstanding lives,
To be kind to others, and how to be wise.
My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding—
3 indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9 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.