Fortis Academy Second Grade 8/10-8/14

2nd	8/10/2020	8/11/2020	8/12/2020	8/13/2020	8/14/2020
Discipleship	Courage: "So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." Hebrews 13:6
Geography	Continents and Oceans Due 9/2
Math	HIG p1-2: Numbers to 1000 TB p6-8 WB Ex1, p7-9	HIG p3: Counting On and Counting Back TB p9 WB Ex2, p10-11 MM #1	HIG p4: Comparing Numbers TB p10-11 WB Ex3, p12-14	HIG p5: TB Practice 1A, p12	HIG p6-7: Hundreds, Tens, and Ones TB p13-16 WB Ex4, p15-18
Spelling	Classroom Rules Activity	Review Phonogram Cards from AAS kit, 1-43	Phonogram Bingo + CW number words	Review Sound Cards from AAS kit, 1-43
Reading	Students create a classroom constitution; Name Game	Parent, peruse p347-362 & p396 of OPG. Focus on p357, especially "How quickly should I move through this book?" + 30 min student independent reading	Library Visit; Introduce Reading Stations in Classroom	Students read independently for 30 minutes; set a timer if needed	Students read independently for 30 minutes
Read Aloud	The Box Car Children by Gertrude Warner
Grammar	School Tour	Read Ch 1 Lesson 1.	Ch 1 L 3. Skill Time, Practice Time, Activity Time. WB pg 35 Ch1L3.	Ch 1 L 4 Test Time WB pg 80. Complete exercse 1-4 as a practice.
Handwriting/ Copy Work	Learn Memory Verse, Hebrews 13:6	Parents, read p1-3 of NAC to familiarize yourself with teaching cursive	Introduce the straight line, the curve, and the dot. Practice.	Students practice the curve line, p. 9 in the NAC. Do Print Copywork in Astronomy Notebooking Journal, p33
Bible	All about me sheet	Trusting in Man or God? 2 Chronicals 16	Learn Memory Verse (Hebrews 13:6) + Discussion Questions from yesterday's bible reading	Little guy, big God 1 Samuel 17	The Rocking Sailboat Acts 27:13-26
Science - Wednesday	Set up History Journals/Organize school supplies	Co-teachers, read v-viii in Exploring Creation with Astronomy and peruse book to gain familiarity. Students create their Confirmation bookmark, p.xxv, NJ	Students read, "What is Astronomy?" TB p2 in Exploring Creation. Discuss. Students add what they learned to their Notebooking journals, p30	Read, p3-4 in Exploring Creation. Students narrate, add 1 more fact to their Notebooking Journals.
History - Monday	Introduce Quarter 1 Poem, "The Months" ; Roman Empire Map and Coloring Page	Read "Wandering Through the Roman Empire," p1-5 in SOTW. Oral retell.	Activity 1.1 in Astronomy NJ, p. 32	Read, "The Fall of Rome" p5-8 in SOTW. Students answer in their history journals, "What problem was the Roman Empire having? What did the emperor Diocletian do?"	Students draw a picture above yesterday's response to illustrate what they imagine the city of Rome looked like.
Memory Work	Poem: "The Months" Due 9/25

HIG-Home Instructors Guide

TB-Textbook

WB-Workboook 

MM-Mental Math, found in the back of the Home Instructor's Guide

AAS-All About Spelling

OPG-Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading

NAC-New American Cursive workbook

NJ-Astronomy Notebooking Journal

Welcome to 2nd Grade!  I feel so blessed to be teaching your sweet children this year.  I can’t wait to get to know each one of them, to find out what makes them special and unique.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions.  I’m looking forward to a great year!

Math-Start with the lesson in the HIG (Home Instructor's Guide) and then work through textbook problems together.  This work is not turned in and can be done on a separate piece of paper, on a whiteboard or orally.  If your child is able to easily complete a few examples from the textbook, they do not need to do the entire assigned portion.  If there are multiple sections, make sure you do a few problems from each section as they increase in difficulty.  They can then move to the workbook, which is done independently.  Please look over their workbook pages and put a check in the corner to let me know you have reviewed them.  When MM (mental math) is assigned, you can make a copy of it and use it as a warm up.  Please don’t spend more than 5-10 minutes on MM.

Spelling-When reviewing your card box, please have your child say the phonogram after looking at the card, but also practice going through the cards with you dictating the phonogram and having them write it down without looking at the card.  This is what it means when the blog says to do sound cards. You will dictate words and sentences on the spelling pages found in your child’s binder.  These will stay in the binder and we will periodically clean them out.

Reading-OPG (Ordinary Parent’s Guide) will be assigned as “Two Review and One New.”  During your reading time at home, please review two of the lessons (they don’t need to be the two prior lessons but ones you have flagged that your child struggled with) and the new lesson.  ***If you are new, please start this week at the beginning of OPG and start working your child through the book in lieu of independent reading time this week.  You don’t need to read them the entire lesson.  Just have the student read what is in bold and flag lessons they struggle with.  We will start next week with L135.

History-There will be two questions to choose from for the journal entries.  You might only be able to answer one of them. All journal entries should be a minimum of two complete sentences. Please have your child date the journal entry.  This will stay at home but I will collect once a quarter for a homework grade.  

Memory Work-Please spend 5-10 minutes every homeschool day reviewing our map and poem.  We will also work on this during class.