9/17/15

Bible:

Memory Verse - Matthew 18:15-17  We have been working on how to break our memorization up into smaller pieces to help us learn our verses.  This is our third time working with these verses, so those who have worked to memorize verses 15 & 16 will have a much easier time doing this than those who did not.

We played a Bible game to help us learn our Bible books today.  The kids are getting better at their Old Testament books

Math:

7 Times table
Intermediate 5 / Course 1 - Lesson 20 all letters and number problems.  We will be having our first math test tomorrow

Science:

We were handed out our new objectives today and reviewed the different organelles we learned about at the website, biomanbio.com.  If you go to the cells link, there is a fun activity under cell explorer the kids have been playing to learn about the different organelles.  If you are ok with it, this would be a good activity for them to do at home so they could spend a bit more time on the topic that what we have available in class.

Social Studies:

we are still sailing, some faster than others.  They are plotting their distance and course on a map using a map scale measurements, latitude, and longitude.  I go through what they are doing with them for 2 rounds, and after that,

Language Arts:

Handwriting - Lesson 3 Day 4

Spelling - Our last 3 or 4 words for spelling sentences.

Reading - I read a chapter our of Summer of the Monkeys to the kids.  We are using this to highlight what good authors do when they write, and how to tell as story, as this is our next writing assignment.

Grammar - We underlined our highlighted our nouns and colored our adjectives on our rough drafts today.

Writing - we worked on learning how to self-edit today.

Music: