A big thank you
to our community for all the prayers, kind words, and support for the
Florczykowski family. I can’t count the amount of times Amanda has said thank
you and expressed appreciation. Jackson definitely felt the love last week too.
Y’all are amazing!
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.
Leaving this here
for 1 more week: 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?
1/31 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 miles, yards, feet, and inches and
end with our introduction to kilograms and grams. We will be moving back and
forth between the American system of measurement and the standard metric
system. Memorizing the units of measurement is key during these lessons, so
please review daily (conversions in C0-teacher notes in math section).
***The students are doing really well on these measurement
units, which is so exciting! The only caution is that some students want to
subtract 2 units of measurement mentally and are not re-naming (borrowing), and
therefore getting the problem incorrect (For example: 6km 25km – 3km 350m =
______). If you find this is happening, please instruct your child to convert
the measurement and write the problem on scratch paper and solve. We will
always allow them scratch paper if they need it.
***We continue to work on math facts in class. Mastering
math facts is crucial to the students’ success in math. Please spend time at
home working on these. Your child can tell you which facts they have mastered
and what they are currently working on.
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 “Army Ants”
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 2/5, 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 (savage, forage, consume). 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 will spend the next 2 weeks reviewing Shurley grammar
concepts taught thus far. Please check for understanding each day. We have 8
review days and will be re-visiting the concepts our students have struggled
the most with. Some of you will find that your child has already mastered the
specific concept assigned for that day. If this is the case, then you may
choose something else to review with them.
We wll be reviewing adjective, adverbs, phrases, SCS, SCV, CD, sentence
vs. fragment, pronouns, possessive noun adjectives, direct objects, helping
verb & linking verbs, and quotations (which many students struggled with on
the last test. With little more
practice, and they’ll get it down J).
Reading-
We will be learning about the adventures of Lewis and Clark
as they crossed the West in the early 1800’s. Each day the students will be
asked to write a few sentences summarizing what they read. The goal is to have
a short summary of the book by the end of the week. In addition to the summary,
we will be assembling a lapbook next week, along with the students writing
their final draft of their summaries.
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 USSR map 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. The students are not responsible for the additional words in the song
apart from the Preamble that is found in their campus binder.
Have a blessed
week!
