Discipleship:
Math
Continue working on memorizing multiplication/division facts. Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up of either multiplication or division.
*Note-If you are new to Singapore Math, dividing numbers using mental math skills will be challenging. Here's a video that may help to demonstrate a simple problem. Work through the lesson, but realize that mental math will become easier as students develop skills working with number bonds and breaking numbers into "friendly" numbers.
Objectives:
1. Estimate and find quotients using long division
2. Assess multiplication skills
3. Divide up to a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number.
4. Practice division.
Spelling
Objective: Analyze two ways to spell the sound of /shun/
Reading
Review each chapter's vocabulary prior to reading.
Objectives:
1. Learn about life during the Civil War.
2. Engage in discussion, sharing ideas, meaning, & information from the reading.
3. Identify irony, themes, and changed characters in The Perilous Road.
Writing
Objectives:
Grammar
Latin
Objective: Memorize more Latin verbs
History
Write a paragraph summary in your journal using complete sentences. Include information about the following questions.
1. What is an archipelago?
2. What things did the islands provide the Dutch?
3. Why did the farmers of the East Indies begin to revolt against the Dutch?
Here is a comprehensive booklet about Texas insects which you can print or use for reference and insect identification:
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes daily working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our first quarter poem is "The Father's Vineyard". Additional copies here.
Geography: We will continue to study Southern Europe The song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling countries on a map. A word bank is provided.
