| 4th Grade Week 10 | Monday
10/13/2025 | Tuesday
10/14/2025 | Wednesday
10/15/2025 | Thursday
10/16/2025 | Friday
10/17/2025 | Co-Teacher Notes |
| Discipleship | Prudence-" For the grace of God has appeared, bringing us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age." Titus 2:11 | |
| Bible | No School - Parent Teacher Conferences | Deuteronomy 6 | Deuteronomy 7-8 select verses | Deuteronomy 30:15-20 | | |
| Math | MF Practice;
Ch. 6, L2:
TB pgs. 141-144;
WB pgs. 130-132 | MF Practice-J;
Ch. 6, L3:
TB pgs. 145-147;
WB pgs. 133-135 | MF Practice;
Ch. 6, L4:
Practice A
TB pgs. 148-149;
WB pg. 136-137 | Complete Fraction Drills sent home | Remember: drill sheets are great practice for Mental Math; & all Math understanding is dependent on and built on all previously learned Math concepts. |
| Spelling | Rewrite misspelled test words 5x;
Step 8: Review words; review phonograms; DS 4-8 pg. 56
| Step 8 Spelling Test | Step 9 : New teaching pgs. 59-61; Dictate words pg. 62 | Step 9:
DS 1-3 pg. 62 | Please continue to look for Spelling patterns and keep reviewing all previously learned skills throughout the entire year. Any previously learned skills may be used in dictated sentences. |
| Grammar | Ch 8, L4
(pg. 141): Ch. 8 Test (WB pg. 104) for practice only. Skip Exercise 7 | Review missed concepts from Ch. 8 Practice Test; so please bring yesterday's work for class activity | Review any areas where your child struggles. | |
| Writing | L8 pg. 60:
Finish your FD.
Due Tomorrow. | Turn in L8 FD
L11 pg. 82:
New Structure (pg. 81), Read, Start KWO | L11 pg. 82:
Finish KWO (if not done), Style and Vocab. Practice (pgs. 84-85) | | IEW Lesson 11 Source Text:
Neverland
Pg. 82 |
| Reading | Read Mary Poppins Ch. 2; Answer any 5 questions in RJ (pgs. 10-11). Please sign bottom of first page (Grading Rubric) in the RJ. | Read Mary Poppins Ch. 3 in class; Orally discuss RJ questions; Knock Knock Jokes Laughing Gas Activity | Read Mary Poppins Ch. 4 | Answer any 5 questions from Ch. 4 in your RJ (pgs. 21-22). | For the entire Mary Poppins Reading Unit, always please follow the instructions on the top of each chapter's questions in the journal to see if they are to be done orally or in writing. |
| History | Read SOTW Ch. 12: "Ireland's Troubles." Choose any 3 questions to answer in your journal. | The Irish Potato Famine; Ireland Activities | Read SOTW Ch. 13: "Brazil's Republic." Orally narrate key points. | | |
| Geography | Review Southern Europe Map. There will be a word bank for tomorrow's test and spelling and capitalization will count. | Southern Europe Map Test | | | |
| Science | Read TB pgs. 104-105: Orally narrate key points. | | Read TB pgs. 106-108: Complete any 4 WDYR questions in NB pg. 110. | | |
| Memory Work | GEOGRAPHY: Southern Europe - Test on 10/15
KEY DATES: 1-8 Test on 12/10
POEM 2: Due for Recitation on 12/3 | |
| 4th Grade Week 11 | 10/20/2025 | 10/21/2025 | 10/22/2025 | 10/23/2025 | 10/24/2025 | Co-Teacher Notes |
I really enjoyed your insightful & creative children this week! Our reading discussions were animated and their Aboriginal style hand art was masterful! (Unfortunately, technical difficulties are keeping me from uploading photos.)
May your extra day with your children Monday be relaxing!
Coming Soon!
Monday, Oct. 13 - Parent/teacher conferences - no school
Wednesday, Oct. 29 - 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 of history.
Discipleship
Our Character Virtue of the month is prudence: deciding wisely on when and how to act, and what to do.
Math
Continue working on memorizing math facts until mastered. Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up of either multiplication or division.
Objectives:
1. Compare fractions by finding common denominators or numerators.
2. Express fractions greater than 1 as improper fractions and mixed numbers.
3. Practice using multiplication and division to generate equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and expressing mixed numbers.
4. Use mental math to simplify fractions quickly,
Spelling
Objective: Spell common holidays and words with /uff/ spelled ough.
Writing
Objectives:
1. Complete a polished 3-paragraph narrative story on Daedalus and Icarus
2. Identify the main idea of a paragraph
3. Practice making topic sentences
4. Write a paragraph with topic sentence and supporting details.
Reading
Objectives:
Through readings in Mary Poppins, identify fantasy genre and themes of family, choices, attitude, and "too much of a good thing is a bad thing."
History
Objectives:
1. Identify problems Ireland faced in the mid-1800s.
2. Know that Pedro II made the slave trade illegal, freed slaves, and finally made slavery illegal in Brazil.
Science
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of bumblebees, Africanized honeybees, and solitary bees.
2. Identify characteristics of wasps and hornets.
3. Watch the honey-making process of bees
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 will have our test over Southern 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.
Key Dates for the 2nd 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 & the Communist Victory in China 1949
