Fortis Academy 4th grade: Oct 25 - 29, 2021

4th Grade Week 12	10/25/2021	10/26/2021	10/27/2021	10/28/2021	10/29/2021
Discipleship	THOROUGHNESS: "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." (John 14:26 NKJ)
Bible	Ruth 1 & 2	I Sam 1	I Sam 3 & 8	I Sam 16
Math	Ch 6 quiz & Ch 7, L1 TB p161-164, WB p151-153	Ch 7, L2 TB p165-167, WB p154-156	Ch 7 L3 TB p168-170, WB p157-158	Ch 7, L4 TB p171-172, WB p160-161
Spelling	Review New Teaching, phonograms, DS 4-6	Rewrite misspelled Step 9 words 5x, Review Card Box, Dictate sentences 7-9. Review phonograms ow, ou, ai, ay, ea, or, ui	Step 10 Spelling Test	Step 11: New teaching, Dictate 10 words	Dictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 11 Practice".
Grammar	Review Irregular Verbs & Ch 9, L1 Conjunctions & Interjections	Ch 9, L2 Classify sentences & orally list the 8 parts of speech. Be sure you can give an example of each, Listen to Jingles 14 & 15 & Complete Daily Grammar	Ch 9, L3, Classify sentences, Ref. 28 Homonyms	Review Ref 28: Homonym Chart & complete worksheet sent home
Writing	Introduce Summarizing a Reference, Create KWO for swans, retell, begin style practice p91-92	Complete style practice, vocab study p92, Using KWO & Composition Checklist write RD. Co-teachers, please check mechanics	Writer's Conference & In-class writing assignment	Write FD of Swans. Due Mon stapled: Rubric, FD, RD
Reading	Discuss Ch 13-14 & work on character chart	Read Misty Ch 15-16 & complete any unanswered questions p22-23	Discussion	Read Ch 17-18 and complete p26-27 questions in your journal	Journals will be collected Monday for grading.
Latin	L7		L7
History	Russian Czars	Read The Korean Battlefield p157-161, orally narrate and write a 4-5 sentence summary of key events in your journal	Teddy Roosevelt, Frederic Remington & The Spanish American War	Read "The Spanish American War" SOTW p161-	Review History Key Dates 1-4
Geography	Western Europe Due 12/1
Science	Biblical Characteristics of Ants	Read p169-171 Sketch & add facts to journal p141	Social Insects: Bees & Termites	Read p172-175 Add facts to journal p141	Insect Collection Due next Wednesday!
Memory Work	POEM 2, Due for Recitation on 12/1 GEOGRAPHY: Southern Europe on 10/13 KEY DATES: 1-6 Test on 12/8

Coming Soon:

10/22-10/24 - Fall Fortis Camping Trip

10/25 - Grammar Play Date @ 3:00

10/27 - Historic Dress Up day and Spirit/Pizza/DOGS day! Students may dress up as a historical figure from our time period in history (1850-present)

10/29 - Fortis Trunk or Treat 4-6:30pm 

Blog Abbreviations:

L-Lesson	KWO-Key Word Outline	NB-Science Notebook
TB- Textbook	RD- Rough Draft	SOTW-Story of the World Vol 4
WB- Workbook	FD- Final Draft
CCC-Complete, check, correct	Grammar- Shurley English	NT- New Teaching
MM- Mental Math	TM - Teacher's Manual	DS - Dictate Sentences
FP-Facts Practice Sheet

Discipleship: 
Objective:  Experience the joy of the Lord which comes from spending time in His presence.
Start your homeschool day with prayer and Bible reading. 
Our Character Virtue of the month is Thoroughness. Students have been learning in order to practice thoroughness, I will: plan my work, pay attention to detail, make a list so I don't forget, finish what I start, and clean up along the way.

Continue working on memorizing multiplication/division facts!  Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up using the math facts sheets sent home.

Math

Objectives:

1. Add and subtract fractions with like denominators.

2. Add and subtract fractions with related denominators.

3. Add a fraction and mixed numbers with related denominators.

4. Add mixed numbers with related denominators.

Spelling
Objective: Know five ways to spell the sound of /er/.

Reading  

We are finishing Misty of Chincoteague this week.

Review each chapter's vocabulary prior to reading and complete the assigned questions in your journal.

Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Learn new vocabulary.

3. Engage in meaningful discussion.

4. Summarize a passage through oral and written narration.

Grammar

Objectives:

1. Review the eight parts of speech

2. Know that homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings

3. Use the correct homonym to complete a sentence correctly

Writing   

We are starting a new unit in writing this week: Summarizing a Reference.

Writing Objectives:

1. Be introduced to the Unit 4 Summarizing a Reference Structural Model

2. Memorize and correctly use the topic/clincher rule.

3. Create a KWO of several facts

4. Write a 1-paragraph RD on swans

Science

1. Identify characteristics of ants, bees, and other social insects

2. Identify jobs of bees

Note: If your student would like more information on pinning and labeling insects, here are a couple YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0BaGLMiBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LfDYYn5_bE&t=322s

Here is a comprehensive booklet about Texas insects that you can print or use for reference and insect identification:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified

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 are studying Western 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.

History: Key Dates for 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

Fortis Academy 4th grade: Oct 18 - 22, 2021

4th Grade Week 11	10/18/2021	10/19/2021	10/20/2021	10/21/2021	10/22/2021
Discipleship	THOROUGHNESS: "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." (John 14:26 NKJ)
Bible	Deut 34, Joshua 1;1-9 & Joshua 2	Read Joshua 6	Joshua 11:15-16,23 Judges 2	Read Judges 6 & 7
Math	FP-I, Ch 6, L5 TB p150-151, WB p139-141	FP-I, Ch 6, L6 TB p152-153, WB p142-144	FP-I, Ch 6, L7 TB p154-158, WB p145-147	FP-I, Ch 6, L8 Practice B TB p159-160
Spelling	Step 9: Review New Teaching, review phonograms, DS 4-6 on same paper started Thurs, Play Sparkle!	Rewrite Step 8 misspelled words 5 times, Review card box, phonograms as needed, Dictate sentences 7-9.	Step 9 Spelling Test	Step 10: "ER" Word Sort. Dictate words	Dictate sentences 1-3 on paper titled "Step 10 Practice".
Grammar	Ch8, L1: Helping Verbs, Adverb "not' & Make Practice sentence	Ch 8, L2: Jingle 14, Classify sentences & Complete Daily Grammar Due Wed	Review Helping Verbs & Ch 8, L3:Irregular Verbs	Review Helping Verb Chart, Complete the Test Time section in TM pg 139 orally as a review, and for fun Activity Time -Acrostic Poem.
Writing	1st paragraph due, Write 2nd paragraph (Conflict/ problem) on Damon & Pythias	Complete 2nd paragraph & using Composition Checklist p78, begin writing 3rd paragraph (climax & resolution) of Damon & Pythias	Writer's Conference & complete 3rd paragraph of RD	Check 3rd paragraph & begin writing FD of Damon & Pythias. Due Wed 10/27
Reading	Discuss Ch 9-10	Read Ch 11 & 12	Discussion	Read Ch 13 & 14 and complete questions in your journal
Latin	L6		L6
History	The Boers and the British	Read Brazil's Republic p135-139 and make a list of the good things Pedro II did. In what ways was he similar to Abraham Lincoln? Different?	Discuss Brazil's Republic, Do Creatures of the Pantanal Activity & make a telephone activity	Read The Next to last Czar of Russia p147-149 and answer questions below
Geography	Introduce Western Europe	Western Europe Due 12/1
Science	Insect Orders & Labeling your insect collection,  Review crickets & grasshoppers	Read p163-165 and using complete sentences, write interesting facts in social insects mini-book pA45	Ants	Read p165-169 (stop at honeybee) and add facts to mini-book
Memory Work	POEM 2, Due for Recitation on 12/1 GEOGRAPHY: Southern Europe on 10/13 KEY DATES: 1-6 Test on 12/8

Coming Soon:

10/18 - Moms in Prayer @ 9:00 and Co-teacher training @ 2:00

10/22-10/24 - Fall Fortis Camping Trip

10/25 - Grammar Play Date @ 3:00

10/27 - Historic Dress Up day and Spirit/Pizza/DOGS day! Students may dress up as a                        historical figure from our time period in history (1850-present)

10/29 - Fortis Trunk or Treat 4-7pm

Blog Abbreviations:

L-Lesson	KWO-Key Word Outline	NB-Science Notebook
TB- Textbook	RD- Rough Draft	SOTW-Story of the World Vol 4
WB- Workbook	FD- Final Draft
CCC-Complete, check, correct	Grammar- Shurley English	NT- New Teaching
MM- Mental Math	TM - Teacher's Manual	DS - Dictate Sentences
FP-Facts Practice Sheet	CB- Latin Copybook

Discipleship: 

Objective:  Experience the joy of the Lord which comes from spending time in His presence.

Start your homeschool day with prayer and Bible reading. 

Our Character Virtue of the month is Thoroughness. Students have been learning in order to practice thoroughness, I will: plan my work, pay attention to detail, make a list so I don't forget, finish what I start, and clean up along the way.

Math
Continue working on memorizing multiplication/division facts!  Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up using the math facts sheets sent home.

Friday is a catch-up day. Review areas that your student still struggles with. Complete any WB pages that are unfinished if your student needs more practice to reinforce and solidify understanding.

Objectives:

1. Express fractions that are greater than 1 as improper fractions and mixed numbers.

2. Express improper fractions as mixed numbers.

3. Convert mixed numbers to improper fractions.

4. Understand fractions as division.

Spelling
Objective: Spell words with or in an unaccented syllable

Reading  

We are continuing Misty of Chincoteague this week.

Review each chapter's vocabulary prior to reading and complete the assigned questions in your journal.

.Objectives: 

1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.

2. Learn new vocabulary.

3. Engage in meaningful discussion.

4. Summarize a passage through oral and written narration.

Writing

Objectives:

1. Write the second paragraph RD (Conflict/problem) of Damon & Pythias myth

2. Write third paragraph RD (climax/resolution) of Damon & Pythias myth

3. Incorporate dress-ups (ly, who/which, strong verb, because clause) and vocabulary words

Grammar

Objectives:

1. Recognize and use helping verbs in sentences.

2. Know that "not" is usually an adverb.

3. Use irregular verbs correctly in various tense forms.

History  

Objectives: 

1. Know that Pedro II made the slave trade illegal, freed slaves, and finally made slavery illegal in Brazil.

2. Learn about creatures living in the Pantanal area of Brazil.

3. Know that Alexander II and Alexander III were unpopular Russian Czars with unlimited power.

Thursday: Answer the following questions in your journal. Write your answers in complete sentences with proper capitalization and punctuation.

1. What are three things that Alexander III's father (Alexander II) had done to make Russia more modern?

2. Why did Russians say about Alexander III, "Alexander set out to undo everything his father did"? List two reasons.

3. List three ways in which the Jews of Russia were treated worse than other poor Russians.

4. Who inherited the throne when Alexander III died?

Science

1. Identify characteristics of ants and other social insects.

2. Identify and label insect orders and common names.

Here is a comprehensive booklet about Texas insects that you can print or use for reference and insect identification:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4000_0043.pdf
Here's a website to help with identification: http://texashighplainsinsects.net/texas-insects-identified

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.

History: Key Dates for 2nd quarter:

The War Between the States                         1861-1865
World War I                                                     1914-1918
Lenin & the Russian Revolution                   1917

The Great Depression 1929-1939

World War II 1939-1945

The Cold War 1945-1991