Important Dates:
4/29 - Theater Showcase for Logic and Rhetoric 7-9
5/4 - Spirit Day
5/6 - Last day of Friday Electives
5/6 - Grammar Theater Performance 6-7
5/7 - Grammar Theater Performance 2:30-3:30
5/9 - Moms in Prayer 9-10
5/11 - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
5/14 - Fortis Rhetoric Graduation 3-5
5/15 - End of the year Moms Celebration 4-7
5/16-5/27 - Theater Camp
Math
Objectives:
1. To be able to count by 2's to 20.
2. To understand even and odd numbers.
3. To understand halves and fractions.
- Please make sure that you complete the lesson at the bottom of the pages and extend it by using other numbers/scenarios.
- We are working on counting by 5's (to 50) and by 2's (to 20). Please work on this orally with your student.
Reading
Objectives:
1. To review reading and accurately blending words and sentences with long vowel/silent e pattern.
2. To begin reading and accurately blending words and sentences with the vowel pairs ai and ay.
3. To continue to grow in reading fluency.
- Have your child read to you every day! READ,READ, READ!!!!
Writing
Objectives:
1. To be able to form all upper case letters properly on handwriting lines.
2. To be able to form all lower case letters properly on handwriting lines.
3. To be able to write first and last name properly on handwriting lines.
4. To be able to accurately copy a sentence (using handwriting lines) correctly
- Keep monitoring proper pencil grip and correct letter formation! Have your student self-correct any backward letter or number! They should be gaining speed and accuracy in their copywork, by this point in the year.
Spelling
Objective
1. To be able to identify open and closed syllables.
- Please introduce Key Cards 14, 15, 16 this week. Continue to review all key cards (especially 11, 12, 13), along with phonograms at the beginning of each lesson.
History
Objectives:
1. To be able to describe key events in the Bible and to learn from them.
2. To see God's hand in every event.
- Song for the semester: The Star-Spangled Banner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKp29Luryc
Geography
Objectives:
1. To be able to sing the names of the Pacific states of the US.
2. To begin learning to draw the world map.
- Pacific States will be the last Geography song for the year! Due Tuesday
Memory Work
Objectives:
1. To memorize "true, good, and beautiful" pieces and recite to the class.
- Above the Bright Blue Sky is DUE Thursday.
- Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, geography song).
