We had a great
first week back. The students fell right back into routine and teaching them
makes getting back to business worth it! Odena will be back from vacation this
week. Yay! Congratulations to Luke for winning the spelling bee last Wednesday!
Please be sure to
send your child to school with a water bottle, lunch, and snack each school
day. Some students are forgetting these items and are becoming hungry and
thirsty during class. Also, it’s going to be chilly next week, so bring
jackets!
What’s happening at Fortis?
1/17 Spirit Day
1/17 Mom’s in Prayer 9am
1/17 NEST Meeting 9am
1/19 Science Fair (Upper School)
1/31 Pizza Day
Blog Abbreviations-
HIG-Singapore Home Instructor Guide
TB- Textbook (Math and Shurley Grammar)
WB- Singapore Math Workbook
MM-Mental Math (Found in the back of the HIG)
HW-Handwriting
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
PB-Shurley English Practice Booklet
USE-Usborne Science Encyclopedia
Math-
We will start off our week with division and move into
measurement beginning Wednesday. We will
continue in measurement for the next several weeks. We will be moving back and
forth between the American system of measurement and the standard metric
system. Remembering how to compute these back and forth can get tricky for the
students, so it may take a lot of practice for them to memorize the
conversions.
Please spend no more than 10 minutes on mental math and
continue to work on math fact mastery at home.
Handwriting-
We will be frequently taking a completion grade for the
handwriting assignments. Please have your child bring their book to and from
school each day from here on out.
Continue to watch for proper letter formation of cursive and
print letters at home. If your child is struggling with handwriting, encourage
him/her to slow down. It takes time and patience to write neatly. Students will
begin writing all final drafts in cursive this semester.
IEW-
Important- all final drafts must be written in cursive for
the remainder of the year.
Students will be writing their rough draft for “A Bird With
A Tasty Nest” on Tuesday. Please
proofread their rough draft with a red pen (if possible) for spelling,
punctuation, dress-ups (underlined AND labeled), paragraph indentation, double
spaced, make sure their title reflects 2-3 keywords from the final clincher,
etc. They will be writing their final draft on Wednesday and Thursday. They
should turn their paper in on Monday 1/22, stapled in this order: checklist,
final draft, rough draft. Students can earn up to 3 points extra credit for
using this lessons vocabulary words in their paper (intriguing, expel, craft).
Vocabulary words should be underlined and labeled “voc” in the right margin. Students may use some creativity in their
story, as long as the theme remains.
Shurley-
We begin Chapter 17 this week. Shurley tests will be
administered in class on Monday’s moving forward. Please skip vocabulary time on all lessons.
Reading-
We continue in “The Cabin Faced West” this week. We had some
wonderful discussions last week about friendship, how to express our feelings
in love, complaining, how to honor our parents in their decisions-even when we
don’t agree, and how God works all things together for good. We are always moved by the thoughtful
responses of the students in our discussions.
Please have your student briefly orally re-tell what they
read to you on home days to solidify comprehension.
Memory-
We are currently working on Matthew 5:1-9, Try, Try Again poem,
USSR map & song, Reaction poem and history timeline song.
Geography-
The students were given a USSR map last Wednesday. It can be
found in the memory section of the campus binder. We will continue working on
this map until 3/21. A copy of the map and song can be found in the geography
section on the blog. If your child has any items at home from this region,
please feel free to bring them in.
Have a blessed
week!
