| 4th Grade Week 31 | 4/15/2024 | 4/16/2024 | 4/17/2024 | 4/18/2024 | 4/19/2024 |
| Discipleship | SELF CONTROL: "For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline." 2 TImothy 1:7 NIV |
| Bible | Phil 4:6-13 | IThess 4:13-18, II Thess 3:1-5 | I Tim 2:1-6, 4:12, 6:6-21 | II Tim 2:1-7 | |
| Math | Review
& Ch 16 L6, TB p219-221, WB p174-175 | Spiral Review & Ch 16, L7 TB p222-224, WB p177-180 | Field Trip! | Spiral Review & Ch 17, L1 TB p226-229, WB p183 | Ch 17, L2 TB p230-233 |
| Spelling | Review Step 28 New Teaching, Dictate sentences 4-6, and Review phonograms er, ur, ir, our, ear, igh, ie, dge, wr, ti, ci, si, tch
| Rewrite Step 27 misspelled words. Review card box, DS 4-9 on same paper started Thurs. Review phonograms er, ur, ir, our, ear, igh, ie, dge, wr, ti, ci, si, tch
| Phonogram Assessment #4 See note below. | Step 28 Test will be on Monday. |
| Grammar | CLT Practice | Daily Grammar | Daily Grammar | |
| Writing | Write Conclusion RD, include at least 3 dress-ups | Write Introduction RD. Include at least 3 dress-ups. Begin Conclusion FD | Complete Intro & Conclusion FD's and put all five paragraphs of your essay together. Due Mon stapled: Rubric, FD, RD | |
| Reading | Read Tom Sawyer Ch 13 & 14 or classical book of choice. | Read Tom Sawyer Ch 15 & 16 or classical book of choice. (Pace yourself to complete in three weeks.) | Read Tom Sawyer Ch 17 & 18 or classical book of choice | |
| Latin | | | | |
| History | Mao's Cultural Revolution & Tiananmen Square | Read "Communism Crumbles" p459-462 and describe what happened in Berlin, Germany in journal p81 | Read p465-468 "The First Persian Gulf War" and orally narrate | |
| Geography | Former USSR | Former USSR | |
| Science | Owl Pellet Dissection | Review
Texas Birds
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color the Red-winged Blackbird & Baltimore Oriole p46 in your field guide | 1. Complete your bird report,
2. Review TX Birds,
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3. Color the Eastern Bluebird p42 and Sparrows p45 in your field guide | Remember to color both male and female birds accurately in your field guide. |
| Memory Work | POETRY: Poem 4 Due 4/29
GEOGRAPHY: Former USSR Due 5/1
KEY DATES: 1-12 on 5/1
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/6
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Please check Alma weekly for grades and missing work.
Coming Soon:
Wednesday, April 17 - Science Mill Field Trip!
Saturday, April 20 - Nerf Tournament
Wednesday, May 1 - Spirit, Pizza, DOGS Day!
Math
- Complete one page of the spiral review each home day (two per week), and return it the following day school day.
- Here are some fun Optional Math Games and math videos to practice math skills learned this year.
Objectives:
1. Complete drawings of symmetrical figures.
2. Practice skills with lines
3. Identify faces, edges and vertices of a cuboid.
4. Identify nets of cuboids.
Spelling
Objectives:
1. Analyze six ways to spell the sound of /er/.
2. Review and assess phonograms
Here are instructions for administering the assessment.
Phonogram Drill Form (written portion) - Parents, read the sound or sounds on the card. Or if you prefer, you can play the sound on the AAS app. Your student should then write the corresponding phonogram in the box. Mark any your child missed.
Classical Phonics Assessment Tracker (oral portion) - Show the card to the student. He or she should be able to correctly identify all the sounds associated with that card. Please note any phonograms your child missed on the form.
Writing
Objective: Write an introduction and conclusion to a 5-paragraph report
Reading
Objectives:
1. Practice reading fluency and comprehension skills
2. Compare and contrast characters.
3. Identify tone in literature
History
Objectives:
1. Know that during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, every part of Chinese culture had to praise Mao & his policies
2. Know that in 1989, thousands of students protested together in Tiananmen Square wanting democracy.
3. Know that life in East Berlin was difficult until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
4. Know that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 resulting in the first Gulf War.
Science
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of owls
2. Dissect an owl pellet
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our third quarter poem is "The Dentist and the Crocodile". Additional copies here.
Geography: We are memorizing the countries of the Former USSR 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: Continue your memorization of the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs to help
with this. Here are two: US Presidents to "America" and US Presidents. For assessment, students will write or sing all the presidents' first and last names. Due 5/6
Key Dates for the 4th quarter:
1. The War Between the States 1861-1865
2. 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
7. The Formation of Israel 1948
8. Mao & Communist Victory in China 1949
9. Martin Luther King & the Civil Rights Movement 1950-1968
10, Man Walks on the Moon 1969
11. Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989
12. The Collapse of the Soviet Union December 26, 1991
