Fortis 4th Grade: Oct. 17 - 21



4th10/17/201610/18/201610/19/201610/20/201610/21/2016
DiscipleshipObedience (Humility)+ Proverbs 3:1-8
MathHIG p 70, TB p 61 LT 7, WB Ex 31.   See note below. CCC WB Ex 31. HIG p 71, TB 61-62 LT 8-10, WB Ex 32HIG p 73, TB 62 LT 11, WB 33 & 34CCC WB Ex 33 & 34. HIG p 75,TB 63-64 LT 12-14, WB Ex 35 CCCReview HIG 75, TB 63-64 if needed. Do Practice 3C TB p 65
ReadingBegin reading classical book of choice this week. Pace yourself to complete the book in three weeks.Complete and score one reading narration. Use red pen to score. Due next Monday.
CompositionL6, P4: Final Clincher & Title and L7, P1 Begin writing Story Sequence Outline, Review Vocab WordsLesson 7, Part 1: Complete Story Sequence Outline., L7 P2 Brainstorm, Study vocab words from L3, 4, and 6. Quiz WednesdayVocab Quiz. L7, P2: Begin writing RD of first paragraphLesson 7 Part 3: Complete 1st paragraph begun in class, write 2nd paragraph RD using checklist (p68) to make sure all components are present. Due Monday.
GrammarCh 9, L1 Jingle 15, Classify Sentences, Discuss conjunctions and interjections. Ch 9, L2 Classify Sentences, Write practice sentence, Review the 8 parts of speech via Jingle 15.Ch 9, L3, Review homonyms, Ref. 28, Review Game, Ch 9 Test sent homeReview Jingles 14-15, Ch 9 Test
SpellingStep 9: Review New Teaching, review phonograms, DS 4-6 on same paper started Thurs, Play Sparkle! Review card box, phonograms as needed, Complete Reinforcement & Writing Station words. Dictate sentences 7-9.Step 9 Spelling TestStep 10 : "ER" Word Sort. Dictate words & sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 10 Practice".
HistoryKey Dates Test, TheTrail of Tears ActivityL25 The Fall of the Alamo & the Texas War of Independence JamieSouth Amercia Geo Test & The Alamo Activity L27* Karl Marx & the Communist Manifesto ThomasLessons 24 & 26 are optional. Write one narration, due Mon.
ScienceTry This! pg. 104 and What Do You Remember? and Notebooking Activities (Facinating Facts) pgs. 106-107Read pgs. 109-113, stop at Reducing FrictionTry This! pg. 111Read pgs. 113-116, begin at Reducing Friction and stop at Grasping Gravity
GeographySouth America Due 10/19, Introduce Central America Due 11/9
Memory WorkPreamble of the Constitution of the United States of America Due 11/2, Quarter 2 Poem Due 12/5, Key dates #37-40
LatinPL 8Copybook L8Review PL 8Review copybook L8 Vocabulary. Try to incorporate some of what you have learned into your daily speech!

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Monday, October 17- Key Dates Test 1
Wednesday, October 19 - South America Geography Test
Monday, October 24 - Fortis Spirit Week Western Day
Monday, October 24 – Picture Retakes
Wednesday, October 26 – Pizza Day! Fortis Spirit Week Crazy Hair Day
Wednesday, October 28 – Dodge Ball Tournament
Monday, October 31 – Historical Dress Up Day



HIG- Home Instructor Guide
KWO-Key Word Outline
Grammar- Shurley English
LT- Learning Task
RD- Rough Draft
Composition-Fables, Myths, and Fairy Tales
CCC-Complete, check, correct
FD- Final Draft
TB- Textbook (oral)
CC-  Copy cursive book
NT- New Teaching
WB- Workbook
TM (S)- Teacher's Manual (Supp)
DS - Dictate Sentences
MM- Mental Math
L- Lesson

Discipleship
Start your home school day with prayer and Bible reading.  Our Character Virtue of the month is obedience, this week specifically focusing on humility.  Read Philippians 2:1-11 How did Jesus demonstrate humility?  What stands out to you in this passage?  Can you name someone we've studied this year who demonstrates humility and obedience? 

Here's another great resource from Kids of Integrity for additional verses, stories, lessons, prayers and hands-on activities designed to help parents instill humility and obedience in their children.  Humility

Math:  On both Monday and Wednesday we will be using bar models to solve word problems, so you may want to read over the HIG for those two days to familiarize yourself with the material.  Math Buddies also provides some great tutorial videos on bar modeling with fractions. Some problems may be easily solved without a bar model, but learning how to use this tool is so important for the more difficult problems.  When doing the exercises, require your child to draw a bar model for every problem where one is shown in the HIG answer book.

Math Facts: Start each day with a 5 min warm up using the  Math Facts Practice sheets. This week we will work on division facts at school.   Please continue doing facts practice sheets daily at home until all facts are completely mastered.
Mental Math: Continue your warm up with 5 minutes of Mental Math. This week work through MM 18  in the HIG appendix.
Workbook Exercises: Please check these daily and have students make corrections.
Math Buddies: We encourage you to regularly use this web site to help you better understand how to teach a lesson and to provide opportunities for your child to practice new skills or review previously learned concepts that they may need extra practice with. 
Math Buddies login page
Optional Math Buddies: Fraction Problems Using a Part-Whole Bar Model
Composition:
We will continue writing story sequence outlines based on a source text, and begin writing a three paragraph story about Theseus and the Minotaur.

Objectives for this unit:
1.  For students to learn to identify the story sequence in a narrative story.
2.  For students to learn to make outlines based on the story sequence chart.
3.  For students to summarize stories from their outlines and consequently internalize the  components of a well-constructed story.
4.  To introduce the idea that each paragraph has a purpose.

Reading  
Bring your Early Thunder book to school as we will complete our discussion of this book on Monday. 
Begin reading a classical book of your choice this week and pace yourself to complete the book in three weeks.  Here is a great resource for choosing a book.
Write and score a narration on any one chapter of this week's reading and return to school on Monday.  Reading 

Spelling 
Please continue to review phonograms at home as needed.  We will be administering Assessment 2 of the Classical Phonics Assessment Tracker next week.

 
History
Students who are due to create a timeline figure are listed in red in the above table after the lesson number. The following class day, they will show the class the figure, tell  2-3 important points about the lesson, and place their figure on the classroom timeline.

Memory Work:  Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
History:  Memorize Key Dates from Vol. 4 for the Key Dates Test on Monday:

                                       The American Revolution 1765-1783

                                        The French Revolution 1789-1799  

                                       The Fall of Napoleon at Waterloo June 18, 1815

Continue memorizing the Preamble to the Constitution.  If you'd like a song to help with memorization, here's a link to the YouTube Schoolhouse Rock version: Preamble Video, or if you prefer lyrics only: Preamble
Geography:  The South America map will be assessed on Wednesday.   All maps and songs can be found here.
Scripture:  Continue memorizing Proverbs 3:1-23.  Additional copies may be found here.

Fortis Academy 4th Grade: Oct. 10-14


4th10/10/201610/11/201610/12/201610/13/201610/14/2016
DiscipleshipObedience (Respect)+ Proverbs 3:1-7
MathHIG p63, TB p 58-59, WB Ex 27HIG p64-65, TB p59 LT 2-3, WB 28 CCCHIG p66-67, TB p60 LT 4, WB Ex 29, Send home copies of Ex 26HIG p68-69, TB p60 LT 5-6, WB Ex 30 CCCHIG p61-62, TB p47, LT 19-12, WB Ex 26 CCC
ReadingBegin reading Chap 11 in classRead "Early Thunder" Chaps 11-end this week.  See note below.Complete and score one reading narration. Use red pen to score. Due next Monday.
CompositionLesson 6, Part 1: The Story Sequence Chart and Outline,  Introduce Poem 2Lesson 6, Part 2: Source Text and Story Sequence Outline. Practice retelling from your outline. Read Aloud: The Mercury & the Woodman and Demeter & PersephoneL6, P3: Story Sequence Outline together. Practice retelling.Retell using your SS Outline & complete Lesson 6, Part 4: Brainstorm. Complete Vocab. Study pg. 60.
GrammarCh8, L1:Helping VerbsCh 8, L2: Jingle 14, Adverb "not",classify sentences, Practice sentenceCh 8, L3: Irregular VerbsReview Helping Verb Chart, Complete the Test Time section in TM pg 139 orally as a review, and for fun Activity Time -Acrostic Poem.
SpellingStep 8: Review New Teaching, review phonograms, DS 4-6 on same paper started Thurs, Play Sparkle! Step 8: Review card box & phonograms,  DS 7-9Step 8 Spelling TestStep 9 : New teaching, Dictate 10 words & sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 9 Practice".
HistoryThe Fall of Napoleon, Key Dates ReviewL20 Simon Bolivar: Liberator of South America    SethQuarter 1 ReviewQuarter 2 intro pgs. 120-122, L23 The Trail of Tears (Kate), Study  Key Dates for Test on MonL21 and L 22 are optional
ScienceWhat Do You Remember? and Notebooking Activities pgs. 93-94Read pgs. 97-102, stop at Newton's Second Law of MotionTry This! pgs. 99, 100Read pgs. 102-106, begin at Newton's Second Law of Motion
GeographySouth America Due 10/19
Memory WorkKey dates #37-39 Due 10/17, Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America Due 11/2, Quarter 2 Poem Due 12/5
LatinPL 7Copybook L7Board WarsReview Copybook L7 vocabulary.

October 17--Key Dates Test 1
October 24 – Picture Retakes
October 26 – Pizza Day!  Students may wear spirit shirts.
October 28 – Dodge Ball Tournament
October 31 – Historical Dress Up Day


HIG- Home Instructor Guide
KWO-Key Word Outline
Grammar- Shurley English
LT- Learning Task
RD- Rough Draft
Composition-Fables, Myths, and Fairy Tales
CCC-Complete, check, correct
FD- Final Draft
TB- Textbook (oral)
CC-  Copy cursive book
NT- New Teaching
WB- Workbook
TM (S)- Teacher's Manual (Supp)
DS - Dictate Sentences
MM- Mental Math
L- Lesson

Discipleship
Start your home school day with prayer and Bible reading.  Our Character Virtue of the month is obedience.  A helpful resource is available at kidsofintegrity.com 
Here you can download lesson plans, Bible stories, hands-on activities, and even a parent prayer to help instill this character quality in your child.

Math:
You may notice that the lessons are slightly out of order this week.  The lesson which goes with WB Ex 26 is relatively easy compared to the other concepts we are learning this week, and we've already touched on it in class.  With this in mind, I've scheduled it for Friday instead of Monday.  That way, we can cover the new, more challenging concepts earlier in the week.


Math Facts: Start each day with a 5 min warm up using the  Math Facts Practice sheets. This week we will work on division facts at school.   Please continue doing facts practice sheets daily at home until all facts are completely mastered.
Mental Math: Continue your warm up with 5 minutes of Mental Math. This week work through Mental Math 16-18  in the HIG appendix.
Workbook Exercises: Please check these daily and have students make corrections.
Math Buddies: We encourage you to regularly use this web site to help you better understand how to teach a lesson and to provide opportunities for your child to practice new skills or review previously learned concepts that they may need extra practice with. 
Math Buddies login page
Optional Math Buddies: Fractions of a Set

Bar Modeling: Bar modeling is a key component of problem solving. We will now do a practice "Bar Model of the Day" each day at school along with our normal math facts and mental math warm-ups.  Encourage your student to use bar models for all word problems, even if they can solve without one, as it's good practice for the more difficult word problems.
Composition:
We are beginning Unit 3 this week: summarizing narrative stories.  In this unit, outlines will be different from the KWO they have been doing, where they pick key words from each sentence.  They will now by asking and answering questions about the characters, setting, conflict, climax, and resolution.  Please note:  the answers will not always go on the line across from the question, and sometimes it may take more than one line to answer a question. The goal is to outline the story elements in order to retell it in their own words.

Objectives for this unit:
1.  For students to learn to identify the story sequence in a narrative story.
2.  For students to learn to make outlines based on the story sequence chart.
3.  For students to summarize stories from their outlines and consequently internalize the  components of a well-constructed story.
4.  To introduce the idea that each paragraph has a purpose.

Reading  
We will complete our reading Early Thunder this week. Bring book to school each day, as we will be reading and discussing it in class.
This week,  please have your child choose a classical book to begin reading next week. Here is a great resource for choosing a book.
Write and score a narration on any one chapter of this week's reading and return to school on Monday.  Reading 

Spelling 
Continue to review phonogram cards until your student has mastered them.
 
History
Students who are due to create a timeline figure are listed in red in the above table after the lesson number. The following class day, they will show the class the figure, tell  2-3 important points about the lesson, and place their figure on the classroom timeline.

Memory Work:  Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
History:  Memorize Key Dates from Vol. 4 for the Key Dates Test on Monday:

                                       The American Revolution 1765-1783

                                        The French Revolution 1789-1799  

                                       The Fall of Napoleon at Waterloo 1815

Continue memorizing the Preamble to the Constitution.  If you'd like a song to help with memorization, here's a link to the YouTube Schoolhouse Rock version: Preamble Video, or if you prefer lyrics only: Preamble
Geography:  South America.  Pray for the nations of South America!   All maps and songs can be found here.
Scripture:  We will be memorizing Proverbs 3:1-23 over the course of this year.  A copy of the passage was placed in your student's binder on Monday.  Additional copies may be found here.