History for Week of January 11-15, 2016

This week we will change how we are doing our Reading and History.

We will be doing History on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  This week we will read Chapters 16-22 in A History of Us Book 2 Making Thirteen Colonies by Joy Hakim.

Please have children read these chapter before Wednesday.  We will discuss these chapter on Wednesday.

On Thursday and Friday we will attempt to build a replica of a New England village to include Meeting House, the Inn, the Mill, School, furniture maker, copper smith and black smith, the stocks, the well, and the common.  Wish us luck!

Reading for Week of January 11- 15, 2016

This week we will change how we are doing our Reading and History. This week we will read Chapters 9-12 in Blood on the River James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone.  We will discuss these chapters all at one time.  Please have students read them on Monday evening.  Monday we will create of map of Jamestown and write in our journals.

Reading will be done on Mondays and Tuesdays and History will be done on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Monday night, please have students read Chapters 9- 12 for discussion on Tuesday. On Monday we will create a map of Jamestown and write in our Journals.

Don't worry about History for Monday or Tuesday.

For our Gala Project, we are decorating a bookcase.  If your child has old books they don't read anymore and you would like to donate them for the project, please send them to school.  These books will be taken apart and the pages will be used as decorations on the bookcase.  If your child can not bare to part with their books, I certainly understand.

Bookcase

Upcoming Events

January 18- MLK Holiday building Closed

January 22- Donuts for Dad

January 26- CAC Grades 3-5 Magic Theater 10:30

January 29- 100^th Day of School

February 5- Gala

February 9- Shrove Tuesday (Dinner at Church)

February 10- Ash Wednesday/ Beginning of Lent

February 12- Valentine Card Exchange

February 15- Student Holiday, Building Closed

February 16- Parent Conferences will be scheduled

Math for Week of January 11- 15, 2016

In Math we will on:

Monday- Complete Chapter Review

Tuesday- Complete a Study Guide

Wednesday- Take Chapter 2 Test

Thursday- Go over test and do test corrections

Friday- Lesson 4-1 Decimal Place Value

Decimal Place Value

Bible and Latin: Jan 11-15

Memory Verse: To be recited on Tuesday the 19th 

Matthew 4:3-4

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”  But he answered, “It is written,

‘One does not live by bread alone,

    but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Bible
Tuesday - Temptation of Christ, read introduction and complete corresponding worksheet
Wednesday - Bible reading on the Temptation, complete worksheet
Thursday - Work on finishing our Jesus Ministry Window project.

No, there are not! 

Latin 
Monday - Chapter 9 Quiz, study pages 52-53 in preparation and chant your 2nd Declension Neuter Endings
Friday - Chapter 10 Review over chapters 6-9. To be completed by next Monday for easy 100. We will check and make corrections.

Reading for Week of January 4-8, 2016

We will begin reading a new book this week.  It is Blood on the River James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone.

We will create a journal to use as a diary and other assignments.

Journal

History for Week of January 4-8, 2016

In History we will read 3 chapters a night in our new A History of Us Book- Making Thirteen Colonies.  The students will recap what they have read and color and label a map of Virginia, and create a map of Jamestown.  They will create a cartoon of Indians and colonists and create a pamphlet to encourage more colonists to come to America.

Jamestown

Cartoon

For week of January 4-8, 2016

This week in Math we will work on

Monday and Tuesday- with prime factorization.

Wednesday and Thursday- with  common factors, greatest common denominators.

Thursday and Friday- with multiples and lowest common multiple

Prime Factorization

Greatest Common Factors

Lowest Common Multiples