Dear Parents,
We had so much fun with some hands-on activities last week in Science and History! I love the Classical tradition, because at this age it values exploration, games, and projects as the matches to strike love for learning.
Last week, we set reading goals and some of them commented to me that they want to read even more than they already are! Please feel free to contact me if you ever need ideas for any chapter book series that can further engage your child in reading Classical literature. Ideally, they would be so engaged in books these days that they would find a series of books that they can't put down.
Have a wonderful week! I really enjoy teaching your child and look forward to every school day.
Grace and peace,
Mrs. Poncy
Important info:
Mental Math Strategies:Please see bottom of p47 in the HIG for Mental Math strategies when dealing with subtraction problems that involve renaming. Mental Math #17 is on the blog twice for this week, because these problems involve mental math where borrowing occurs.
DRA Goal Sheet: Please keep your child's DRA goal sheet behind the reading tab in their binder. I enjoyed talking with them about their reading level and seeing them create goals for themselves for the end of this school year.
Reading Rate: Here's a helpful article you can read regarding how to help increase your child's reading rate. This is important, because as children get older the literature will get more dense, and it will take longer for them to read material and to complete assignments.
Reading Fluency Article *
Literature Bookmark* I am sending home a literature bookmark made of card stock. It has helpful sentence starters that can help you and your child begin discussion about the classical books you read at home.
Memory Work: We have two big things due this week: Our Quarter 1 Poem, and The Children's Catechism #1-17. Please take some extra time to review these with your child before these tests on WED. Consider having them recite their poem to a different family member to give them even more opportunities to practice.
Important Dates:9/23-Moms in Prayer @ 9:009/25-DOGS DAY! Pizza Day and Spirit Day, too! 9/25-Falcon Moms Meet-Up9/30-Moms in Prayer @ 9:009/30-Grammar School Playdate 3:00-4:00| 2nd week 7 | 9/23/2019 | 9/24/2019 | 9/25/2019 | 9/26/2019 | 9/27/2019 | Co-Teacher Notes |
| Discipleship | Responsibility: “The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.” Proverbs 13:4 | |
Geography
9:00-9:15 | Middle East - Due 11/6
Middle East Song
Online Middle East Map Practice | |
Math
9:15-10:15 | HIG p47: Renaming Tens in 3-Digit Subtraction
TB p44-45, Mental Math 16
Unit 1 Test Corrections
Warm up: Problem-Solving Journals | HIG p48:Renaming Hundreds
TB p45-46
WB Ex20 #2-5 p52-53
Mental Math #17 (10-15 minutes) | HIG p48: Renaming Hundreds
TB p45-46
WB Ex21, p54-55
Warm up: Problem-Solving Journals | HIG p49: Renaming Tens and Hundreds
TB p46-47
WB Ex22, p56 (Do #1 only)
Mental Math #17 (10-15 minutes) | HIG 49: Renaming Tens and Hundreds
TB p46-47
WB Ex22, p56 (Do #2 today) | |
Spelling
10:15-10:45 | Step 5: Review NT; dictate sentences 4-6 on spelling paper; tactile w/ "more words" p36 | Review card box; Dictate sentences 7-9 on spelling paper in binder and the word "gentleman" p36 | Step 5 Test: Title page, 10 words + 1 sentence, p36 | Step 6: NT, p37-41; Dictate words 21-30, p41 on spelling paper | Dictate sentences 1-3, p42 on Step 5 spelling paper in binder. | Consider adding: four, little, apple, middle, to personal word wall folder |
Grammar
10:45-11:15 | FLL#22: Introducing dictation, p49-50 | FLL#23 Adjectives, p51-52 (Omit Copywork) | FLL#24 Adjectives, p53-54 and EA | FLL#25: Review, p55-57 + Copywork August couplet | | |
Read Aloud: 11:55-12:10
| The Box Car Children by Gertrude Warner | |
| Reading: 12:10-1:10 | OPG L192: TI as /sh/
Discuss Leif the Lucky
| OPG L192: TI as /sh/
Read Leif the Lucky p28-33. Discuss using literature bookmark. | OPG 193: CI as /sh/
Students read Leif the Lucky, p35 in partners | OPG 193: CI as /sh/
Students read p36-41. Discuss the book using literature bookmark | Read Leif the Lucky, p42-45 | Use literature bookmark sent home to guide discussion after reading Leif the Lucky
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Handwriting
Copy Work:
1:10-1:25 | Introduce Cursive Uppercase G | Students complete p31-32 of NAC | Practice cursive G in class | Students complete p33 of NAC | | |
Bible
1:25-1:40 | Discuss Daniel 6: 1-14 + Review Catechism for test Wed. | Responsible and Reliable Servants
Matthew 24:42-51 | Discuss Matthew 24, Review Memory verse | A hardworking young man
1 Kings 11:27-37 | | |
Science:
1:40-2:30 | Read, "How to Find Mercury in the Sky" + "Spacecraft to Mercury" p48-49.
Students complete Mercury mini-books, p83-85 in EC journal. | Finish reading "Spacecraft to Mercury" p50-51 in EC textbook. Do "What Do You Remember?" p52 in TB. Complete Mercury Crossword puzzle, p86 in journal. Review these definitions for quiz tomorrow. | Lesson 3 Science Quiz
Students give a narration on what they have learned about Mercury + "Take it Further" and
Coloring page, p87-90 | Do Activity 3.2 "Make a Model of Mercury," p51 in EC textbook. Fill in Activity 3.2 in Apologia journal, p80 | Use this day to go back and finish any unfinished work in the journal from this week or last. | |
History
2:30-3:00 | "Monks in Caves" Review questions + Gupta Empire Mapwork | Read, "Muhammad's Vision" p50-53 in SOTW. Oral retell.
*Practice Catechism for tomorrow's recitation* | Childrens' Catechism
#1-17 is due for recitation | Read, "Muhammad Flees to Medina" p53-56 in SOTW. Students answer in their journals, "What were the followers of Muhammad's teachings called? What did Muhammed tell the people of Mecca when he preached to them? | | |
| Memory Work | Quarter 1 Poem: "The Months" Due 9/25
History: "The Children's Catechism" (#1-17) Due 9/25
History: Key Dates #1-5 Due 9/30 |
