9-5 to 9-9 Kindergarten HW

Kinder 5	9/5/2016 (no school)	9/6/2016	9/7/2016	9/8/2016	9/9/2016	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Faith + Proverbs 3:1-3
Math		EM-A p55	EM-A p56-57	EM-A p58-59	EM-A p60, p61-63	Optional Math Buddies: Count to 10 (for next 3 weeks)
Reading	Holiday: Labor Day	OPG-L37	OPG-L37	OPG-L38	OPG-L38, Review student text from previous lessons
Composition	(no school)	CB-p14, letters C, G	HW-C,G, O, Q	CB-p14, letters O, Q, D		Oral Narration
Grammar
Spelling		AAS-Step 4 p29-31	AAS-Step 4	AAS-Step 4 p29-31
History			Little Pilgrims - p8-13 The Beginning of History			Focus: Creation & Adam and Eve
Science			Insects			Insects
Geography		Greenland and Canada Due 9/21, Continents and Oceans due 12/5
Memory Work	Quarter 1 Poem Due 10/3

Important Dates: 

9/5 - Labor day/No school
9/7-  Picture day!
9/21 - Greenland and Canada (song only)
9/28 - Pizza Day

We hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend! Tuesday will be a regular homeschool day. We look forward to seeing our sweet students on Wednesday.

We have begun our study on the life cycle of insects, focusing on the butterfly, this week! We have ordered live butterfly caterpillars to observe in class! What a magnificent way to see, up close, God's amazing design and provision for one of his smallest creatures :)

Make sure you are checking the homepage of the Fortis blog each day as well as this grade level page. Important school wide information will be posted there!

Math

• Though it may feel like we are going slow or the curriculum is not challenging enough, there are many foundational math skills that we are developing in these first few units. Identifying sets, assigning a numeral to a set to make it a number, and writing digits are skills that we often clump all together with 'counting', but they are each their own math milestone! The units that we are covering in book A are preparing us for the big things we will be doing down the road!

Reading

• Try this phonemic awareness activity with your student this week - removing sounds. "Can you say cat without the /c/?"  (Make the /c/ sound - do not say 'the letter c') Answer: "at".    "Can you say sit without the /s/? Answer: "it". Try this with several other words!
• Keep practicing reading words with short a, e, i and o

Composition (see table above) **Please continue to monitor correct pencil grip!

Spelling

• Review phonogram and key cards.
• Step 4 is rich in letter, phonogram, and phonics work. Though this lesson was covered last week, please continue to segment words, alphabetize letter tiles, and dictate sounds with writing.

History 

• This week we are learning about Adam and Eve! In class we will be creating a creature while reviewing creation. The students will then get to name their creature, just as God commanded Adam to name all the creatures!
• Creation song for the semester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoehyq6X650

Geography

• Continents and Oceans : Please refer to map in green folders.
•  Song  for practice: http://fortisacademy.wordpress.com/curriculum/geography/.  Students will be asked to point to each continent and ocean as they sing they song.

• Greenland and Canada

  To be assessed on 9/21

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  The biggest island in the north is Greenland.

  It’s in the north Atlantic, northeast of Canada.

  A land of ice and snow, of fish and eskimos.

  The Danish people settled there and called it Greenland.

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  Nova Scotia and Manitoba,

  Ontario, Prince Edward Island,

  New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Alberta

  and British Columbia

  Yukon Territory, Nunavut, Saskatchewan,

  Northwest Territories and Quebec

Science

• Feel free to dive into the life cycle of insects at home! 

Memory Work (see table above)