Please remember to check your child's grades weekly in Alma.
Important dates: 3/5 - Christian Worldview Book Club 7:00pm
3/7 - Nest Meeting 9:00am
3/9 - End of the 3rd quarter
3/12-3/16 Spring Break
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:
Keep reviewing the measurement conversions.
We
will be starting fractions the first week of March. This unit will
include simplest form and comparing fraction. It is very important to
keep reviewing multiplication facts as this will make finding the
simplest form and comparing fraction easier.
There
is not a lot of review on what was learned in the first semester.
Because of this on the practices during the second semester I will be
adding some addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. We will also be reviewing these concepts in class.
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.
Grammar:
We
are going to continue to use what we have learned in our IEW papers. This will
help the kids not just be able to use the new concept in the grammar
workbook but show them how this is used in the writing. 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: Final papers will need to written in cursive.
Composition: Final papers will need to written in cursive.
Please find the checklist in your child's campus binder in the comp. section. Please check them closely for spelling,
dress-ups, complete sentences, paragraph indents, etc.
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 finish reading "Soft Rain A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears". Please ask your child to orally narrate a summary of what they read and engage in a discussion with them.
After spring break we will be starting "Little Pilgrim's Progress".
Science:
The
answer to the science review quiz can be found in the digital teacher's book on
page 158.
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, 'Song of the Settlers' poem, geography map & song, history timeline song, preamble, and Acid and Bases poem. Feel free to get creative and practice these in the car, at bedtime, or during meals.
Here is a link to the Preamble that we’ll be using to help
us commit it to memory:
