Fortis Kinder (T/Th)

Week 1 8/12-8/16

Welcome to Kindergarten! I am looking forward to getting to know your precious little ones during this first week of school. We will be working on establishing routines and expectations and getting to know one another; because of this you will not see as much reflected in the subject areas on the calendar for the week.

Over the course of the next few weeks we will be learning about the Fruits of the Spirit. Monday is an introduction to all and then we will study one per day until all are covered. The Fruits of the Spirit will be used for classroom/behavior expectations as well as being incorporated into academics, such as discussing whether the character of a book was showing the fruits.

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" Gal.5:22-23

Important Dates:
8/12 - First Day of School! Everyone (K-12) will start the day in the sanctuary for Morning Meeting.
8/12- Falcon Moms B2S @ 9:00
8/14- Spirit Day! Students can wear a Fortis T-shirt and jeans or uniform bottoms.
8/19- Moms in Prayer @ 9:00
8/26 -Moms in Prayer @ 9:00
8/26 - Open House @ 6:00
8/28 - Pizza Day/Spirit Day! Students can wear a Fortis T-shirt and jeans or uniform bottoms.

Math:

Please make sure that you are doing the introduction lessons (the hands-on teaching portion) at the bottom of the page, not just the worksheet pages. I have marked your child's workbook with a flag so that they can quickly find the next lesson. Please make sure to move this flag to the next uncompleted page after each lesson.

Reading:

We are skipping the first 26 lessons in Ordinary Parent Guide to Reading and instead teaching the single letter phonograms through All About Spelling. The All About Learning Press phonogram app is available on all tablet/phone platforms!
Please go over the yellow phonogram cards (26 alphabet letters) at least once or twice EVERY DAY.

History:

Please complete the "God Made Only One Me!" sheet with your child and return to school on Wednesday for sharing. Please write or spell any words that your child needs. It is not an expectation that they write the words, but they should draw themselves. :) Your child may also bring one special-to-them item for show-and-tell to share while they share their "God Made Only One Me!" paper.

Science:

Next week we will begin our unit on the Solar System! You are welcome to check some books out from your local library to enhance our unit at home.

Geography:

Kindergarteners will be expected to be able to point to the Continents and Oceans on a map. There is a map in your child's blue folder.
Here is the link to the song we use in class: http://www.fortisacademy.net/kinder-6th-geography/

Memory Work:

Our memory poem for this quarter is "Jesus Died Your Soul To Save." We will practice this poem daily in class. Please practice daily at home as well.
Here is the link for our poems for the year: https://www.fortisacademy.net/poetry/
You should also find a copy of the poem in your child's blue folder.

Have a wonderful first week of school! Please do not hesitate to email me if you have any questions at any time. It is going to be a fantastic year working together to guide your precious child into a greater understanding of the world God gave us.

~Love, Mrs. McKethan~

K Week 1	8/12/2019	8/13/2019	8/14/2019	8/15/2019	8/16/2019	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship
Bible	Fruits of the Spirit intro		Fruit of the Spirit: LOVE	Discuss ways to show love at home and at school.
Math	EM-A p1-3	EM-A p4-6	EM-A p7-9	EM-A p10-12	EM-A p.13-14	EM-A is the Essential Math A book Same/different
Spelling	AAS-Step 1	AAS-Step 1 p17-19	AAS-Step 1	AAS-Step 1 p17-19		To teach initial phonograms in place of first 26 lessons in OPG
Writing	Establish classroom procedures and expectations. Get to know you activity. Vertical strokes	Parents: read over p. 5-6 of HWT workbook	F,E	HWT-p 9-10 (F,E) *Watch your student carefully to ensure that they are starting in the correct position and using correct pencil grip		HWT= Handwriting Without Tears workbook
Reading	Ms. Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten		Chrysanthemum story and activity			Phonograms
History	"The Kissing Hand" and activity	Complete "God Made Only One Me!" sheet and return tomorrow for sharing.	"God Made Only One Me!" sharing and show and tell.
Geography	Continents and Oceans - Due 9/30
Science
Memory Work	Quarter 1 Poem Due 9/25

Last Week of Kindergarten :(

K week 34	5/6/2019	5/7/2019	5/8/2019	5/9/2019	5/10/2019	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Endurance					5/8 - Last day gramamr school, 5/10 - Last day logic and rhetoric school
Bible	Review		Last Day of School			5/8 - Grammar School Assembly at 1:30
Math	Review	Print and cut out activity cards. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1CiF7k5yC7ApOpOcogwgJogo8j2pNS45J Work with these all summer for a great preparation for 1st grade!	Rock Ceremony			End of 4th Quarter
Spelling	Spelling Bee		End of the year activities
Writing	Oral narration and copywork	CB pgs 78-79
Reading	OPG L88	OPG L88
History	Practice for assembly		Assembly @ 1:30
Geography	Kindergarten Memory Books
Science

“The Lord bless you
    and keep you;

the Lord make his face shine on you
    and be gracious to you;

the Lord turn his face toward you
    and give you peace.”

What an amazing year we have had together! Your little ones have grown so much in so many ways. I give thanks to God for the privilege to teach along side you. I pray that you all have a safe, relaxing, joy filled summer. I am going to miss your precious children more than you know! I love them with all my heart!

We look forward to a fun last day together on Wednesday. Remember, if you pre-paid for pizza days at the beginning of the year, our last pizza day is on Wednesday.

**Please send your child to school on Wednesday with an empty backpack, a full water bottle, snack, and a lunch (if you did not pre-purchase pizza at the beginning of the year)**

* Please plan to attend our end of the year assembly in the sanctuary at 1:30 on Wednesday.

Attire: Students may wear booster shirts and uniform bottoms.

Now that we are at the end of the school year, many parents have wondered what they can do to keep skills and knowledge up over the summer. Here are some optional suggestions for the summer months, but remember to have fun, enjoy your family time, and relax over the break!

READ, READ, READ...have your student read passages from the OPG book as well as books on their reading level.
Read aloud daily. Choose a story that the whole family would like to listen to. It is great to read a few levels above your child's personal level so they are exposed to rich vocabulary. Have your child read to you as much as possible!
Reading - First grade will pick up where we left off in Ordinary Parent's Guide to Reading next year. Review the lessons that we covered this year and have your child read on a regular basis.
Spelling -Keep reviewing the phonogram cards AND key cards. They will forget them if they don't review them for 3 months! Make it fun by having them jump, squat or do a jumping jack for each sound.
Dictate words, phrases and simple sentences that cover the spelling rules we have covered this year. Use dry erase boards, chalk on the sidewalk, handwriting paper, etc. Write more complex sentences on handwriting paper and have them copy it using proper spacing, punctuation, and letter formation. Have them copy scripture straight from the Bible if they are ready!
Math - Continue oral counting and reading and writing numbers to 100 with gentle correction on backwards numbers. Count large groups of items by making groups of 10. Work on place value - tens and ones (p.143). Tell number stories - "John has 7 cats and 3 birds. How many pets does John have?"/ "Sam has some puppies. His mom gave him 3 more. Now he has 11. How many puppies did Sam have to start with?" Encourage them to use their addition and subtraction skills, as well as the tools we have introduced (number bonds, number lines, ten frames). Have them count objects by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. Practice ways to make 10. 1st grade will start the year with this.
Review all of the geography songs that we have done this year, especially Continents and Oceans and how to "blob" them.
Dig deeper into those science units we covered (plants, weather, insects, planets). Go outside and enjoy God's beautiful creation!

You have all been so amazing to work with!

Love, Mrs. McKethan

Kinder Week 33 4/29-5/3

K week 33	4/29/2019	4/30/2019	5/1/2019	5/2/2019	5/3/2019	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Integrity
Bible	Discuss: A new way to see.	Read aloud: A dream of heaven from JSB.	Discuss: A dream of heaven.
Math	EM-B p153	EM-B p154-155 and last math journal!	EM-B p156	EM-B p157	EM-B p158
Spelling	AAS-Step 24	AAS-Step 24 p113-114 "Spell on Paper" and "Dictate Sentences" 1-3 in spelling journal to return tomorrow.	Review	Page 114 of AAS: Dictate sentences 4-6 for your child to write in Spelling Journal.		These last few lessons have been a bit more challenging. Please review them as well as blue key cards 1-16
Writing	Oral Narration and copywork	CB pgs 72-73	Oral narration and copywork	CB pgs 74-75	CB pgs 76-77
Reading	OPG L86	OPG L86 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader	OPG L 87	OPG L87 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader
History	LIttle Pilgrims		Little Pilgrims
Geography	Assess Pacific States		Review all states of the US.
Science	Plants		Plants
Memory Work	All Things Bright and Beautiful Poem Due 5/1

Important Dates:

4/29: Pacific States Assessed and Moms in Prayer @ 9:00

5/1: Poem Assessed

5/3: Fine Arts Showcase @ 6:30. Please come support your friends.

5/6: Moms in Prayer @ 9:00

5/8: Last day of school. Grammar assembly @ 1:30.

To save some teacher tears, there will be no mention in this blog post about how many days of school we have left. :) Please make sure that you are checking the main blog for school-wide information.

Math

Objectives:
1. To be able to count by 2's.
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 4/29

Memory Work

Objectives:

1. To memorize "true, good, and beautiful" pieces and recite to the class.

"All things Bright and Beautiful" is our last poem of the year. In class we are singing it to this tune. DUE 5/1.
Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, geography song, timeline song).

Kinder Week 32 4/22-4/26

K week 32	4/22/2019	4/23/2019	4/24/2019	4/25/2019	4/26/2019	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Integrity
Bible	Discuss: Going home from JSB.	Read aloud: God sends help from JSB.	Discuss: God sends help	Read aloud: A new way to see from JSB.
Math	EM-B p 147	EM-B p 148 and math journal	EM-B p149	EM-B p150-151 and math journal	EM-B p152
Spelling	AAS-Step 23	AAS-Step 23 p106-107 "Spell on Paper" and "Dictate Phrases" 1-3 in spelling journal to return tomorrow.	AAS-Step 23	AAS-Step 24 p109-113 through "Spell with Tiles". Key Card 14, 15, 16
Writing	Oral narration and copywork	CB pgs 66-67	Oral narration and copywork	CB pgs 68-69	CB pgs 70-71
Reading	OPG L82	OPG L83 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader	OPG L84/85	OPG L84/85 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader	Review L85
History	Little Pilrims		Little Pilgrims
Geography	United States: Pacific States - Due 4/29
Science	Plants		Plants
Memory Work	All Things Bright and Beautiful Poem Due 5/1

Important Dates:

4/22: Moms in Prayer @ 9:00

4/24: Pizza Day and Spirit Day!

4/29: Pacific States Assessed and Moms in Prayer @ 9:00

5/1: Poem Assessed

5/3: Fine Arts Showcase @ 6:30. Please come support your friends.

5/6: Moms in Prayer @ 9:00

5/8: Last day of school. Grammar assembly @ 1:30.

I pray that everyone has a blessed Easter weekend. The last couple of weeks of school are filled with lots of activities! Make sure you help your child practice our last poem using the link provided under the memory work section, so they can wow you at our end of year assembly!

Math

Objectives:

1. To count to 100 in tens and ones

2. To count by 5's

3. To count by 2's

4. To understand even and odd numbers.

This week we are learning about the terms even and odd. Please make sure that you complete the lesson at the bottom of the page 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 pair ai.

3. To continue to grow in reading fluency.

READ, READ, READ! Have your child read to you at least 15 minutes a day!
Remember to begin the lessons by reviewing our current sight words and reading over words/sentences from previous lessons. *Reviewing and repetition is key!
This week we focus on reviewing long vowel/silent e words and will introduce the vowel pair ai as long a.
Please follow up each lesson and mini book review, by having your child read to you, a book at their appropriate level. This should be done at a separate time of the day from their OPG lesson.

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 spell plural words by adding s or es.

The lessons are getting a bit more challenging now. Please make sure you are spending extra time making sure your child is confident and secure in the lessons. You may do this by spending extra time dictating More Words and additional phrases (aside from the ones assigned), until you are confident your child is grasping the concept.
Please introduce Key Cards 11, 12 and 13 this week. Continue to review them, 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

Science

Objectives:

1. To be able to identify the parts of a plant and what their job is.

2. To describe the life cycle of a plant.

3. To be able to discuss God's purpose for plants.

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.

Memory Work

Objectives:

1. To memorize "true, good, and beautiful" pieces and recite to the class.

"All things Bright and Beautiful" is our last poem of the year. In class we are singing it to this tune. DUE 5/2.
Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, geography song, timeline song).