Coming soon:
Monday, October 21: M/W 4th Grade Moms' Lunch. Please bring your own drink and join us at 11:50-12:30 in the regular classroom while the children are outside
Friday, Oct 23 - Fall Fest - 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Wednesday, Oct. 28 - Historical Dress Up Day; DOGS & pizza 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.
Objective: Integrate biblical virtue into every day life.
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 "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost.
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.
Poetry: Our second quarter poem is "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost.
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
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
