9-19 to 9-23 Kindergarten HW

Kinder 7	9/19/2016	9/20/2016	9/21/2016	9/22/2016	9/23/2016	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Faith + Proverbs 3:1-5
Math	EM-A p72	EM-A p73-74	EM-A p75	EM-A p76-77	EM-A p78	Optional Math Buddies: Count to 10
Reading	OPG-L27-40 Review, short vowel CVC readers	OPG-L27-40 Review, short vowel CVC readers	OPG-L27-40 Review, short vowel CVC readers	OPG-L27-40 Review, short vowel CVC readers		Practice blending and reading CVC words
Composition	HW-review uppercase	CB-p16	HW-review uppercase	CB-p17, p18		Oral Narration
Grammar
Spelling						Review Steps 1-4 as needed, to master 26 phonograms, segmenting, etc
History	Little Pilgrims - p14-20 God Made Many Nations		Little Pilgrims - p14-20 God Made Many Nations			Focus: Noah's Ark
Science	Insects		Insects			Insects
Geography	Greenland and Canada Due 9/21, Continents and Oceans due 12/5, Introduce South America due 10/19
Memory Work	Quarter 1 Poem Due 10/3

Important Dates: 

9/21 - Greenland and Canada Songs Due
9/28 - Pizza Day

We are really starting to see some light bulbs going off in reading! It is so amazing to see the wonder and excitement in the children as they begin this process. One of the many blessings of teaching Kindergarten!

Math 

•  We are really working on not only identifying and writing numbers 0-10, but also looking at different ways to form those numbers. In class, we do this through the use of subitizing cards, ten frames, etc. Although it may seem as though we are moving slowly, please know that our goal is to really give the children a strong foundation in number sense. Numbers are beautiful! They are everywhere! Take a look around at God's wonderful creation and see where numbers can be found. 

Reading

• We are reviewing reading words and sentences with short vowels. Please review lessons 27-29 on Tuesday and lessons 30-33 on Thursday/Friday.
• Have your child read past OPG readers for practice along with the WORD FANS that you can print and cut into word strips. Our goal is for our students to be able to blend CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words accurately in order to read the word. 

Composition (see table above)

Spelling

• Go over yellow phonogram cards and blue key cards at least twice a day.
• Please continue to review AAS steps 1-4. We will resume with step 5 in a few weeks.
• Continue blending and segmenting words (ex: cat=c/a/t, c/a/t=cat)

History 

• Creation song

Geography

• Continents and Oceans  Map and song  for practice.  Students will be asked to point to each continent and ocean as they sing they song.

• Greenland and Canada songs will be assessed on Wednesday. 

Science

• Our classroom caterpillars have all formed a chrysalis! We are marveling at God's creation!

Memory Work 

• We will be working on memorizing Proverbs 3:1-23  (KJV) during this school year. We will focus on building one verse at a time. We will go over the verse in class and use that verse as copy work.  Be sure to add this to your memory work at home. It is also a great time to discuss with your child what these verses mean and tuck God's word into their little hearts.

9-12 to 9-16 Kindergarten HW

Kinder 6	9/12/2016	9/13/2016	9/14/2016	9/15/2016	9/16/2016	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Faith + Proverbs 3:1-4
Math	EM-A p64	EM-A p65-66	EM-A p67	EM-A p68-69	EM-A p70-71	Review writing numbers 1-10, Optional Math Buddies: Count to 10
Reading	OPG-L39	OPG-L39	OPG-L40	OPG-L40	Review reading words with all short vowels
Composition	HW-B,J	CB-p15, letters B, J	HW-P, R	CB-p15, letters U, P, R		Oral Narration
Grammar
Spelling						Review Steps 1-4 as needed, to master 26 phonograms, segmenting, etc
History	Little Pilgrims - p14-20 God Made Many Nations		Little Pilgrims - p14-20 God Made Many Nations			Focus: Noah's Ark/Tower of Babel
Science	Insects		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: 

9/21 - Greenland and Canada (song only)
9/28 - Pizza Day
10/3 - Quarter 1 poem assessed 

Another wonderful week in kindergarten! We hope that your days at home are going well, and that your family has settled into a good schooling routine. We are continuing to enjoy getting to know your little ones! Remember that we are here to answer any questions or offer help and support in any way.

Math (see table above)

• Continue to make story problems a part of your daily routine!

Reading

• Cards for lesson 40 in OPG were sent out via email. 
• Please take this time to review reading short vowel words. It is perfectly normal if your child is not quick and fluent yet at reading the words, but we do want to make sure they are sounding out and blending the word at the end.
• We will send a link to WORD FANS this week. You may print them out and assemble them at home. This is a great way to practice reading short vowel words.

Composition (see table above)

Spelling

• Daily phonogram review and instruction. Focus on mastery of our 26 phonograms!
• Please continue to review AAS steps 1-4. We will resume with step 5 in a few weeks.
• Dictate phonogram sounds for your student to write. Have fun with it! Use sidewalk chalk outside, shaving cream, a tray of salt, etc. (Or just use a dry erase board) 
• Here are 2 fun songs to play word games with:

Tune: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"

Listen, listen to my word,

Tell me all the sounds you heard: /dog/

Student segments word into phonemes: /d/ /o/ /g/

Tune: "If You're Happy and You Know It"

If you think you know this word,

shout it out.

If you think you know this word,

shout it out.

If you think you know this word,

then tell me what you heard.

If you think you know this word,

shout it out.

/d / /o/ /g/

Student blends phonemes into word: /dog/

Do with several 2 and 3 phoneme words: add, eat, hi, lie, way, and, bite, cut, jug, note, nap, sip,....

History 

• 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 the 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

• Our live caterpillars will make their debut on Monday! We are excited to see them grow!

Memory Work (see table above)

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.

  00:00

  00:00

  Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.
  

  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)