Welcome to
another fantastic week! We have lots of learning and fun planned for our
students. Please keep the Florczykowski’s in your prayers this week and the
weeks to come. <3
Important**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, we have
noticed in the recent days that students are borrowing money from each other
during recess and /or selling their toys without receiving the money up front
or purchasing items from the bake sale for their classmates. Although we love
the generosity and entrepreneurial
spirit, we wanted to let y’all know so you can set guidelines for your
children or ask them not to participate before it gets out of hand. Also, we
will not allow the students to “settle their debts” during class time. J
What’s happening at Fortis?
1/19 Science Fair (Upper School)
1/24 Mom’s in prayer 9am
1/24 Parent Informational for new families 10am
1/31 Pizza Day
1/31 Mom’s in prayer 9am
2/7 Mom’s in prayer 9am
2/12 Teacher in service-NO SCHOOL
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 our week with kilometers and meters, and
finish off with yards, feet, and inches. 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 18 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. 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, Preamble, 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.
History-
Here is a link to the Preamble that we’ll be using to help
us commit it to memory:
**Note- the actual Preamble begins about a minute into the
song.
Have a blessed
week!
