Coming Soon:
Monday, October 23 - Make-Up Picture Day
Wednesday, October 25 - DOGS, Pizza, and Spirit Day!
Friday, October 27 - Fortis Fall Fest 4:30 - 6:30 pm, Glad Tidings Church, Liberty Hill
Monday, October 30 - Historical Dress-Up Day
Note: Our class is studying the time period of 1850-modern day in history. For Historical Dress-Up day, students may dress as any historical figure that lived during that timeframe.
Discipleship:
Objective: Experience the joy of the Lord which comes from spending time in His presence.
Start your homeschool day with prayer and Bible reading.
Our Character Virtue of the month is Loyalty.
Continue working on memorizing multiplication/division facts until mastered. Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up using the math facts sheets sent home.
Math
Objectives:
1. Add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
2. Add and subtract fractions with related denominators.
3. Add a fraction and mixed numbers with related denominators.
4. Add mixed numbers with related denominators.
Spelling
Objective: Know five ways to spell the sound of /er/.
Reading
We are finishing Misty of Chincoteague this week.
Review each chapter's vocabulary prior to reading and complete the assigned questions in your journal.
Objectives:
1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.
2. Identify themes in Misty of Chincoteague.
3. Identify characters and their qualities.
4. Summarize the plot by identifying the rising action, climax, and resolution
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Review the eight parts of speech
2. Know that homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
3. Use the correct homonym to complete a sentence correctly
Writing
Objectives:
1. Practice the Unit 4 structural model: Summarizing a reference
2. Create a KWO of several facts
3. Correctly use new vocabulary words: author & fable
4. Write a 1-paragraph RD on Aesop
History
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of Frederick Remington's artwork.
2. Understand how newspaper owners used “yellow journalism” and artwork by Frederic Remington to stir up sentiment against Spain.
3. Know that Theodore Roosevelt helped the US gain a decisive victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898.
4. Know that the American West was changed as settlers moved west, railroads were built, Native Americans were pushed off their land, and territories became states.
Science
1. Identify characteristics of ants, bees, and other social insects
2. Identify jobs of bees
3. Identify and label insects
Here is a link to an app that helps identify insects. https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
Here is a comprehensive booklet about Texas insects that you can print or use for reference and insect identification:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our second quarter poem is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening". Additional copies here.
Geography: We are studying Western Europe this week. 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.
History: Key Dates for 2nd quarter:
1. The War Between the States 1861-18652. World War I 1914-1918
3. Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
4. The Great Depression 1929-1939
5. World War II 1939-1945
6. The Cold War 1945-1991
