Please regularly go through and remove returned work in the pocket in the back cover of the binder, particularly if you don't check Alma.
We'll be doing a Valentine's exchange on Feb. 14. Please bring a Valentine addressed to each student in the class (list below) as well as a bag or box for your child's Valentines. (Feel free to be creative or a paper bag works too:)
| 2nd week 22 | 2/7/2022 | 2/8/2022 | 2/9/2022 | 2/10/2022 | 2/11/2022 |
| Discipleship | Self Control: “Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self control.” Proverbs 25:28 |
| Geography | Asia - Due 3/23 |
Math
| Ch 9 L 5 TB p34-36 WB p39 | MF + Ch 9 L 6 p37-39 WB p41-42 | Ch 9 L 7 TB p40-41 WB p44-45 only | MF + Ch 9 L8 Practice B TB p42-43, WB p47 only | MF + Ch 9 L 9 Practice C TB p44 only; WB p 51 only |
| Spelling | Step 18: Review NT, p97-99; dictate sentences 4-6 and writing station, p100 | Review Qtr 3 phonograms; Check and correct sentences 4-6 from class yesterday; have students identify any nouns, adjectives, prepositions or object of the preposition (orally or with abreviations) for each sentence 1-6 | Step 18 Test: 3 sentences, p100 | Dictate Qtr 3 sound cards; Step 19: NT, p101-105; Dictate word cards 121-130, p105 | Dictate sentences 1-3, p106 on spelling paper in binder. Check and correct sentences. |
| Grammar | Ch 14 L5 Sentence Time; Introduce Possessive Nouns | Ch 15 L1 Grammar Time PB p14 | Ch 15 L2 Grammar Time | Ch 15 L2 Skill Time & Practice Time WB p58 *See note below | |
| Read Aloud | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald |
| Reading | OPG 216 + Literature Study The Monkey and the Crocodile+ Introduce/Read Ch 1 "My Father's Dragon" | OPG 216 + Read Ch 2 "My Father's Dragon" | OPG 217 + Language Lesson-s,l, r blends in The Monkey and the Crocodile + Art Study: Exotic Landscape by Henri Rousseau | OPG 218 + Read Ch 3 "My Father's Dragon" | Review OPG 217 & 218 + Read Ch 4 "My Father's Dragon" |
Copywork/
Handwriting | Student completes NAC, p 81-82 | | Do p83 in NAC. | | |
| Bible | Discuss Genesis 26 | The Funky fox
Nehemiah 4 | Discuss Nehemiah 4 + Mini Plays | Who Needs to be Self-Controlled?
Titus 2:1-12 | |
| Science | | Read p 159-160 (stop before "Trunk Layers") Record one interesting fact on p 211 of NJ. | Read "Trunk Layers & Tree Bark Patterns" p160-161 of EC. Activity 10.5 Make a Bark Rubbing & Activity 10.6 Diagram a Tree's Layers in journals | Read p 162 in EC. | |
| History | Review Timeline; 5 Things about the the End of the World; National Geographic for Kids Plague video; Cycle of the Plague Wheel in Journals | Read "Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal" p257-260 in SOTW. | | Read "Gold, Salt and Ghana" p261-265 in SOTW. History Journal Week 22. Complete on a separate piece of paper and turn in Monday. | |
| Memory Work | Poem: "Saint Francis of Assisi Prayer" Due 3/2
Proverbs 25:28 Due 2/16 |
Class list for Valentines (17 students):
Kendall Abby Laney Ella Naomi Colton AmberRae
Georgia Roman Graycen Lydia Jaxon Willa Josephine
Alyson Kooper Mackenzie
Math- Chapter 8 assessments were sent home last week. I highly recommend working through the missed problems if your student received a 1 or a 2 as a score. Students were allowed to use any strategy, including rewriting in vertical addition and subtraction on the test. Please review the process for math facts found in the journal. If students don't finish their page at school, they need to finish it the next day at home in addition to the math fact practice for that day.
Reading-Our first OPG assessments of the semester were completed and sent home last week. Overall, I'm very impressed with the progress shown! By far the most common trouble spots are in 3 and 4 syllable words. Many students sound out the first sound and then guess at what they think the word is. This is why it's very important to have the students reading out loud to you so you can talk them through sounding out those longer words.
Grammar- I find the best way for student's to learn subject pronouns and possessive pronouns is just to memorize the list of each (in chanting form or the jingle).
Handwriting-As students finish their cursive books, they'll be sent home so if you get it back, it can stay at home. Once finished, they'll start the cursive book 2 from Memoria Press, which I have for them. They're all working at their own pace: our goal is excellence not necessarily completion so it may be awhile yet before you see the other book completed.
Science-We're skipping chapter 9 in the book, which goes into how to plan and then plant your own garden. It is a very fun chapter and if you have the time, space and inclination, I encourage you to do it with your child, but it doesn't lend itself well to the classroom setting.
