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.
What’s happening at Fortis?
2/12 Teacher in service-NO SCHOOL
2/14 Spirit Day!
2/21 Moms in Prayer, 9-10 am
2/28 Pizza Day
2/28 Moms in Prayer, 9-10 am
3/2 Box top collection
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
KWO-Key Word Outline
KWO-Key Word Outline
Math-
We will continue word problems with our WB pages, this week and end with our introduction to liters and milliliters. 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 co-teacher notes in math section).
***The students are doing really well on these measurement units! 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: 6 km 25 m – 3 km 350 m = ______). 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 and encourage scratch paper if they need it.
***We continue to work on math facts in class, when time allows. 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.
Shurley-
We are getting back on tract with Shurley grammar with a review on chapter 18. Please check for understanding each day. We have been re-visiting the concepts our students have struggled the most with. We have reviewed adjective, adverbs, phrases, SCS, SCV, CD, sentence vs. fragment, pronouns, possessive noun adjectives, direct objects, helping verb & linking verbs, and quotations. Testing for chapter 18 will be on Monday, February 19.
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 are writing all final drafts in cursive. Notes have been made with the handwriting assignments on Wednesdays.
IEW-
Important- all final drafts must be written in cursive for the remainder of the year.
Students will turning in their final draft for “Amazing Animals” on Wednesday. It is a combination of Busy Beavers, Tasty Nests, and Honeybees. Grading is getting less lenient as we progress. Students will be given a new rubric (passed out 2/14) that will include spelling, neatness, punctuation and grammar. Please proofread the rough drafts for spelling, punctuation, dress-ups (underlined AND labeled), paragraph indentation, highlighting, double spaced, make sure their title reflects 2-3 keywords from the final clincher, etc. The Kite Ride, writing stories from pictures. will be done. They will be finishing their final draft on Thursday and Friday. They need to turn their paper in on Monday 2/19, stapled in order: ✔list, final draft, rough draft.
Students can earn up to 3 points extra credit for using this lessons vocabulary words in their paper (gust, scour, ponder). 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.
Reading-
We are starting a wonderful book, "Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. There are a lot of great discussions that can happen.
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.
Memory-
We are currently working on Matthew 5:1-12, Try Again poem, USSR map & song, Preamble, 'Mixtures and Solubles, Oh My' poem 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.
May God bless each of you and all your hard work!
