| 4th Grade Week 29 | 4/7/2025 | 4/8/2025 | 4/9/2025 | 4/10/2025 | 4/11/2025 | Co-Teacher Notes |
| Discipleship | CHARITY: "If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor. 13:2 | |
| Bible | Acts 27-28 | Rom 3;23, 6:23, 8:28-39 | Rom 10:6-13 Rom 12 | I Corinthians 13 | | |
| Math | Ch 15, L5
TB p190-194, WB p147-149 | Ch 15, L6
TB p195-196, WB p151-153 CCC | Ch 15 Test
& Introduce perpendicular lines | Ch 16, L1
TB p197-201, WB p157-159 CCC | Ch 16, L2
TB p202-205, WB p160-161 CCC | |
| Spelling | Step 26 Review teaching & strategies, DS 4-6, Play Sparkle | Rewrite misspelled Step 25 Test words, Review phonograms & Card Box. Dictate sentences 7-9. | Step 26 Spelling Test | Step 27 New Teaching. Dictate 10 words & sentences 1-3 | | |
| Grammar | Ch 23, L3: Parts of a book, Do Practice 5 | Ch 23, L3- Ref. 70. Use a couple books from home to identify the various parts listed in this reference. Do Practice 1 & 2 | Ch 24 Dictionary Skills | Ch 24, L2: Alphabetizing: Review Ref 73 & 74, Do Practice 1 & 2 CCC | | |
| Writing | Introduce IEW Writing Contest: Writing From a Prompt. Brainstorm ideas.
See note below. | Decide on the two topics you want to write about and write a topic sentence for each. Asking yourself questions (what, who, where, when, why, how, best/worst, problems, value, meaning, examples, descriptions) create a KWO for each paragraph. | Check KWO's and begin writing 1st paragraph RD. | Complete 1st paragraph RD adding dress-ups (6) and openers (3) to your 1st paragraph if you have not already. Check mechanics. 1st paragraph RD due Mon. | | Students will write from the IEW contest prompt. Entry in the contest is optional. Read about it here:
https://iew.com/iew-writing-contest |
Reading | Journey to Jo'Burg final discussion | Moonwalk Ch 3 & 4 | Moonwalk Discussion | | | |
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| History | Jim Elliot, Missionary to Ecuador | Read SOTW "Trouble in the Middle East" p493-499 and answer questions in journal | Billy Graham World Ambassador | Complete Vietnam interview and write a paragraph summary on p74.
Due Mon 4/14 | Billy Graham sermons | Optional: If you'd like a sampling of Billy Graham sermons to watch and discuss with your child, here are a few. |
| Geography | Former USSR | Review Former USSR | Review & Practice | Review Former USSR. Can you identify every country on your map? | | |
| Science | Complete Egg Experiments & Review Chick Development.
Collect NB's for grading. | Read TB p278-281
& Color the Eastern Bluebird p42 & Indigo Bunting p44 in your green folder. | Observe chicks!
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Assign bird reports | Read Hummingbirds TB p265-270 & Do Act. 13.1 NB p268 (Instructions in TB p263) | | |
| Memory Work | POETRY: Poem 4 Due 5/5
KEY DATES: 1-12 on 5/7
GEOGRAPHY: Former USSR Due 4/16
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/12 | |
Coming Soon:
Wednesday, April 9 - Spirit Day (No Pizza)
Wednesday, April 9 - Lap-A-Thon (After School)
Monday, April 21 - Easter Holiday (No School)
Math
Objectives:
1. Recognize, measure, and draw angles between 180 and 360 degrees
2. Practice skills from Ch 15
3. Assess angles
4. Recognize perpendicular lines in figures and verify that they intersect at right angles.
5. Recognize parallel lines in figures and verify that they are parallel by determining if they are both perpendicular to a third line.
Spelling
Objectives:
1. Spell words containing the sound of /u/ spelled ou.
Grammar
Objectives:
1. Identify the parts of a book: title page, copyright page, preface, body, table of contents, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index.
2. Practice dictionary skills
Writing
NOTE: The IEW 2025 writing contest is open to all students. This year's prompt for ages 8-10 is:
We usually try to avoid doing things we don’t want to do, but sometimes when we go ahead and do them, we experience benefits. Write a 2-paragraph composition answering this prompt: “What is the hardest thing you have ever done? How did you feel when you finished, or what lesson did you learn?”
This week, students will choose two topics for the two paragraphs, create a KWO for each, and begin writing the first paragraph RD.
Objectives:
1. Introduce writing from a prompt.
2. Choose two topics to write about.
3. Create a topic sentence and KWO for each topic.
4. Write 1st paragraph of a 2-paragraph composition.
History
Objectives:
1. Know that Israel and its neighboring countries have had conflict for many years.
2. Share Vietnam Era memories from interviews of people living during the Vietnam War.
3. Learn about the life and ministry of Billy Graham
4. Identify problems associated with Communism in the Soviet Union.
5. Identify why it was easy for the Soviet Union to invade Czechoslovakia.
6. Identify why it was difficult for the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan.
Science
Objectives:
1. Complete egg experiments, compare with hypothesis, and write out the results.
2. Identify altricial birds.
3. Identify characteristics of precocial birds,
4. Identify characteristics of hummingbirds.
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our fourth quarter poem is "The Dentist and the Crocodile". Additional copies here.
Geography: We are beginning our study 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.
Sheppard's software practice game: North & Central Asia and Western Asia
History: We are memorizing the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs to help
with this. Here are two: US Presidents: Washington to Trump and an older version, US Presidents to "America" For assessment, students will write or sing all the presidents' first and last names. Due 5/12
Key Dates for 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
