| 4th Grade Week 16 | Monday
12/1/2025 | Tues. 12/2/2025 | Wed. 12/3/2025 | Thurs. 12/4/2025 | Fri. 12/7/2025 | Co-Teacher Notes |
| Discipleship | PATIENCE : The willingness to wait until the appropriate time to complete a task or receive an answer. | |
| Bible | Isaiah-Select verses | Hosea 4:1-3 & 6:1-3 | II Kings 18-19 | Nahum 1:1, Zeph 1:14-18, Hab 3:16-19 | | |
| Math | MFP;
Ch. 9, L1:
TB pgs. 211-217;
WB pgs. 201-203 | MFP;
Ch. 9, L2:
TB pgs. 218-220;
WB pg. 205 | MFP;
Ch. 9, L3:
TB pgs. 221-225;
WB pgs. 208-210 | Complete Review 2
TB pgs. 230-231 | | Can use the color pages I send home for MFP. |
| Spelling | Step 14: Review New Teaching, Review Phonograms, DS 4-6, Play Sparkle! | Rewrite misspelled words 5x;
Step 14: Review Card Box; Review Phonograms: sh, th, oo, ee, oy, oi, ch;
DS 7-9 pg. 85 | Step 14 Spelling Test | Step 15: New teaching pgs. 87-89; Dictate words and
DS 1-3 pg 89. Review phonograms ow, ou, ay, ai, ea, or, ui | Administer FA Phonics Assessment #2 and Oral Phonogram Drill Sheet & return to school Monday. | Instructions for administering the Phonics Assessment are in the notes below. |
| Grammar | Review Refs. 45 & 46 (pgs. 231-232);
Work on Vocab. Crossword Puzzle! | Ch. 13, L4
(pg. 234): Do Test Time (WB pg. 110).
Check and Correct Test for practice. | Work on Vocab. Crossword Puzzle! - Could share with a classmate. | Review any Jingles that aren't mastered. | Complete handout. | |
| Writing | L16 pg. 118:
Write your 2nd paragraph RD. Writer's Conference. | L16 pg. 118:
Write your 3rd paragraph RD. Co-teachers Proofread. | Poem 2 Recitations
L16 pg. 118:
Start your FD. | L16 pg. 118:
Finish FD.
Due Monday, Dec 8. | There will be an IEW Vocab. Quiz next Monday, Dec 8. | Lesson 16 Source Pictures:
The Ugly Duckling
Pg. 118 |
| Reading | Wright Brothers: Present Final Project & turn in Reading Journal to be graded. | Read Helen Keller Chps. 1 & 2; write 2 complete sentences in new RJ | Read Helen Keller Chp. 3 | Read Helen Keller Chps. 4 & 5; write in 2 cause & effect relationships into graphic organizer | Read Helen Keller Ch 6, "So Much to Learn;" write in one more cause-effect relationship into graphic organizer | |
| History | | Read SOTW Ch. 21: "The End of World War I." Answer journal questions. | The End of the Great War discussion. Review for next week's test. | Complete Study Guide sent home in preparation for next Monday's History Test. | Review Key Dates 1-6 | There will be a History test next Monday,
Dec 8, covering main points we've learned thus far. |
| Geography | We are reviewing states and capitals this week. The song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling states on a map and matching capitals with states. A word bank will be provided. | |
| Science | Add to your mini book for Activity 7.11, pg. 153. Using classroom books, add facts to at least 4 more insects in your table. | Using Study Guide, review for your insect test tomorrow. | Final Insect Test | | | |
| Memory Work | KEY DATES: 1-8 Test on 12/10
STATES/CAPITALS: Quiz on 1/14/2025
POEM 2: Due for Recitation on 12/3 | |
The children had a great time creating Wright Brothers inspired paper airplane gliders and making Thanksgiving notes & cards.
May your Thanksgiving break be filled with great memories!
Coming Soon:
Wednesday, Dec 10- Spirit Day; Class Christmas Party
Friday, Dec 12 - End of 2nd Quarter
Monday, Dec 15 - Friday, Jan 9- Christmas Break
Fortis Grammar students have a tradition of having a classical book exchange at the Christmas party. If you would like your child to participate, please send a wrapped new or gently used classical book. You may want to specify if the book would appeal more to boys or girls, but that's not necessary.
Discipleship:
Objective: Experience the joy of the Lord which comes from spending time in His presence.
Please consider starting your homeschool day with prayer and Bible reading if you don't already. This month's
virtue is Patience: the willingness to wait until the appropriate time to complete a task or receive an answer.
Psalm 37:7 "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in
his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!"
Math
Continue to complete a Facts Practice worksheet or work on the fluency color sheet I send each day.
Please correct and return to school for a completion grade.
Objectives:
1. Interpret change over time in bar and line graphs
2. Draw and display data in a line graph
3. Interpret and create line plots.
4. Practice and review
Spelling
Objective:
1. Spell more words with the sound of /z/ spelled s.
2. Review and assess phonograms
Please administer the Classical Phonics Assessment (in binder) this week and return to school Monday.
You only need to do Assessment 2. 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.
Reading
Objective:
1. Identify goodness, truth, and beauty in biographical literature.
2. Discuss cause-effect relationships.Grammar
Objectives: Practice editing skills
Writing
Objectives:
1. Complete FD of a story written from pictures.
2. Recite 2nd quarter poem
History
Objectives:
1. Know that Russia's economic collapse led to the Bolshevik Revolution, which forced the Czar out of power.
2. Know that the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, became a brutal dictator.
3. Lenin established the USSR and ruled over it until his death in 1924.
4. Know that WW I ended in 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
Science
Objectives:
1. Research and record facts on a variety of insects.
2. Assessment
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: Sheppards software has helpful computer games for additional practice:
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
