Fortis Academy Second Grade (M/W)- August 16-20

Please bring Velveteen Rabbit to school Monday.  Books may stay in class for the duration of our study. (Please make sure it's labeled-in pencil in the front cover is fine.)

Please check student's campus binder on Monday for any returned work as well as the Practice Test for the first math chapter (assigned for Friday of this week).

2nd week 2	8/16/2021	8/17/2021	8/18/2021	8/19/2021	8/20/2021
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 9/1
Math	Ch 1 L6, TB p23-28, WB p15-18 + MJ	Ch 1 L7, TB 29-32, WB p19-22 + MJ	Ch 1 L8, WB p23-26 + MJ	Ch 1 L8 Practice, TB p33-34 (can be done orally or on a whiteboard) + MJ	Ch 1 Practice Test; Co-teacher check and have student correct (you do not need to turn this in-students will have a similarly formatted assessment Monday)
Spelling	Group Phonogram games	Co-teacher, please read instructions in the AAS p15 and set up letter tiles and cards to begin Step 1-Warming Up for Thursday	Group Phonogram games	AAS Introduce Step 1-Warming Up + NT p18-19	Dictate sentences 1-3, p19
Grammar	Grammar Game: Identifying Adjectives	Ch1 L3 Skill Time + Practice Time WB p35	Introduce verbs and parts of a complete sentence + Introduce question and answer flow Ch2 L3	Ch2 L4 Jingle Time (1-3) + Grammar Time PB p1
Class Read Aloud	The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
Reading	RDR + Phonemic awareness stations; The Velveteen Rabbit p4-12	OPG L 139 & 140 Silent Letter Pairs	RDR + Phonemic awareness stations; The Velveteen Rabbit p13-18	OPG L141 & 142 Silent Letter Pairs	OPG L 143 + Review any lessons student had difficulty with this week
Handwriting/ Copy Work	Review "The Months"	Students complete NAC, p10-11 (p12 is optional)	CW: "The Months"; Practice Cursive A,a	Students complete NAC, p13-15 + Copywork: First stanza of our current poem, January
Bible	Better Than Water Wings Matthew 14:22-33	The Rocking Sailboat Acts 27:13-26	The Big Guy's On Our Side 2 Chronicles 32:1-22	Courage in confronting wrong 2 Chronicles 26:1-6, 16-21
Science		Read EC p22-24 (stop before vascular plants...), Add one interesting fact to NJ p27	Read EC p24-25, Activity 1.4 "Observing Leaf Veins" NJ p31 & Activity 1.5a "Observing Absorption" NJ p32	Make Botany Minibook, NJ p43-47 (only fill in botany, taxonomy, vascular, non-vascular)
History	5 Things to Know about the Roman Empire + Logic Question and Defense; Map of Roman Empire/Barbarian Journal Entry	Read p9 & "Barbarians Come to Britain" p13-15 in SOTW.		Read "Augustin Comes to England" P20-24 in SOTW. History Journals Week 2
Memory Work	Poem: "The Months" Due 9/29 Hebrews 13:6 Due 9/1 (written or oral)

HIG-Singapore Home Instructor's Guide    MJ-Math Journal

TB-Singapore Textbook                            WB-Singapore Workbook

AAS-All About Spelling                            NAC-New American Cursive

SOTW-Story of the World                        NJ-Botany Notebooking Journal   

EC-Exploring Creation through Botany Textbook

RDR-Reading Done Right (school only)      OPG-Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading     

TM -Shurley Grammar Teacher’s Manual    WB-Shurley Grammar Workbook  

PB-Shurley Grammar Practice Booklet          

Math-  Math Journals should be brought back and forth to school.  Please use as a warm-up but stop after 10 minutes.  Friday should be used as a catch up day for MJ.  The MJ is not published by Singapore and therefore there may be times it does not completely align.  If there are problems you know your student has not covered, you may skip them.  

Spelling-Spelling sheets can be found behind the spelling tab in the campus binder.  Please continue practicing phonograms and sound cards (dictating the sound and having them write them down).

Grammar- Workbook and practice book will be completed at home only.  We will do similar exercises and activities in class.  Please only complete assigned portions of the lesson.  The question and answer flow can be found at the end of the cd you received with your teacher’s manual.

Reading-OPG will be review for the first quarter.  Please use this opportunity to practice on fluency, intonation, tone of voice, etc.  All readers will be completed in class during first quarter.  We will be doing a program in class called “Reading Done Right.”

History-Instructions for History Journals can be found in the front of the journal.  Please encourage students to use correct grammar and spelling.  One way to do this is to have them dictate to you what they want to say and you copy it with correct grammar and spelling, then have them copy it into their journals.  This will stay at home but I will collect once a quarter for a homework grade.

Oral History Narrations - Once a semester each child will present what they learned the last week in History to the class.  I will designate when it is their turn on the blog.  They may have a card with notes on it (no complete sentences), but have them practice it enough that they are not reading from the card. Feel free to make it longer, but think in the range of 3-5 facts.  We will utilize speaking in front of the class in several different subjects.  When it comes time to recite, please have them practice reciting at home for different types of audiences (siblings, stuffed animals, parents).  Work on fluency, not fidgeting and eye contact.