Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a wonderful break.
Blog Abbreviations:
| TG | Teacher's Guide |
| TB | Textbook |
| WB | Workbook |
| IEW | Institute of Excellence in Writing |
| KWO | Key Word Outline |
| RD | Rough Draft |
| FD | Final Draft |
| HW | Cursive Book |
| SOTW | Story of the World |
| NJ | Science Notebooking Journal |
New Books:
The new books for second semester are:
3B Singapore Math Workbook and Textbook
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
A Cricket in Time Square
3B Singapore Math Workbook and Textbook
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
A Cricket in Time Square
Just a reminder, I have the red history journals and the black reading journals. I will pass these back on Monday.
Math:
We will start the Math 3B books on Monday. We are going to continue multiplication and division starting with the 6 family.
Composition:
We are borrowing a conflict this week. The kids will pick a conflict from either a story that we have done this year or from the list on pg 71.
Monday - Complete KWO
Tuesday - Oral retell from your outline, write RD, parents proofread.
Wednesday - Start writing the FD.
Thursday - Finish FD, parents look over FD to make sure everything is labeled and underlined.
All FD are to be written in cursive. If your child is still struggling with cursive. In the link below you can type their RD into the space and it will create their RD in cursive and they can copy in the line below. Select the option from the picture below. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Reading
We start reading "A Cricket in Time Square" Thursday. There will be comprehension questions or short paragraphs to write for the chapters in "A Cricket in Time Square"
We will be starting "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" as the in class read aloud.
History:
We will be learning 12 key dates during the year. We will be leaning 3 dates a quarter. At the end of the quarter there will be a quiz. The quiz will be accumulative as the year progresses. The dates are listed in the campus binder under the science and history tab.
Quarter 3 dates
Charles V 15194
William the silent and a Dutch revolution 1582
Jamestown Colony Founded 1607
Thirty Year War 1618
Louis XIV the Sun King 1661
Sir Isaac Newton 1666
Seven Years War 1756
American Revolution and George Washington 1775
French Revolution 1789
Memory:
Please spend time during your school day to work on quarter 3 poem, Try Again , geography map & song, Former USSR, and key dates. Feel free to get creative and practice these in the car, at bedtime, or during meals.
