Important Dates:
10/9 2nd Quarter begins
10/9 Christian Worldview Book Club (at Fortis) 9-10a
10/11 Spirit Day
10/11 Grammar Mom's 1st Quarter Celebration 9-10a w/Karen Reynolds (at Fortis)
10/12-31 Fortis/Life Springs Church Pumpkin Patch
10/12 Christian Worldview Book Club (at Fortis) 7-8:30p
10/16 Teacher In-Service (no school)
10/21 First Annual Fortis/Life Springs Church Trunk or Treat 5-8p10/23 Picture Retakes
10/25 Pizza Day
10/27 Dodge Ball Tournament
10/30 Historical Dress-Up Day (New World)
10/30 Historical Dress-Up Day (New World)
Blog Abbreviations:
HIG – Singapore math Home Instructor Guide
TB – Singapore math textbook
WB – Singapore math workbook
MM – Mental math
HW – Handwriting copybook
IEW – Institute for Excellence in Writing
USE – The Usborne Science Encyclopedia
CPT – The Complete Periodic Table
Math:
Mental math (MM) can be found toward the back of the Home Instructor Guide. You should spend no longer than 10 minutes on MM; students do not need to complete the entire exercise. It was a consensus that everyone would benefit with a couple of extra days on division. Monday and Tuesday will be devoted to this.
Grammar:
A copy of chapter 9 test can be found in your child's campus binder. Skip exercise 7. You will not be doing any Shurley vocabulary at home for the remainder of the year as we will be focusing on IEW vocabulary.
Composition:
Please place Damocles and the King rough draft in your students campus binder in the composition section. We will be writing a part for the next week and then combine into one final draft. We will be using the checklist at the end of each lesson to grade the final drafts. Reminder: each vocabulary word from the current lesson that is used in the rough draft is worth 1 extra credit point each (3 points possible).
Continue to practice proper formation of cursive letters at home. Writing on notebook paper, rather than handwriting paper is new for some students this year. Please help your student with this transition.
Reading:
We will finishing the reading of The Courage of Sarah Noble this week. Please ask your child to orally narrate a summary of what they read and engage in discussion with them.
Science:
The answer to the science review quiz can be found in the digital teacher's book on page 68 & 72.
Here is a link to the digital copy.
Here is a link to the digital copy.
Memory:
Please spend time during your school day to work on our school wide scripture, 'We Thank Thee' poem, geography map & song, history timeline song, and Periodic Table poem. Feel free to get creative and practice these in the car, at bedtime, or during meals.
