* Note- anything underlined in the table above or highlighted below is a link *
Key to Abbreviations:
GP- The Gospel Project- Home Edition
HIG- Singapore Math Home Instructor's Guide
TB- Singapore Math Textbook
WB- Singapore Math Workbook
MM- Mental Math (see appendix in HIG)
CCC- Complete, check, correct
AAS- All About Spelling
FLL- First Language Lessons
SF- Sounds First Phonemic Awareness Program (click here and scroll down to Grade 1)
OPG- The Ordinary Parents' Guide to Teaching Reading
SotW- Story of the World
G&B/A- The Good and The Beautiful, Arthropods
G&B/MB- The Good and The Beautiful, Marine Biology
COMING SOON...
Tuesday, April 26- Greek Agora Project due
Thursday, April 28- Final DOGS/Spirit/Pizza day
Thursday, May 12- Last day of school
Dear Parents:
As I reflect on the quickly-approaching end of this year, I want to thank you for all of your amazing support! It is easy to see why my class is filled with wonderful children- they come from loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled families. I have had a front row seat to watch these fruits and other godly characteristics begin to blossom in the lives of your children this year. It has been a priviledge and an honor to partner with you!
With a heart full of love,
Mrs. Kuhn
Math:
I know you and your students have been so diligently working through the mental math problems at home, and here is where we see the fruit of our labor. Hopefully the transition to subtraction with renaming with numbers larger than 40 will be seamless! Always start out using manipulatives- base ten materials, in this case. Some students will only need to see them once; others will need to see the concrete step many times. When you teach HIG pg 89, remember there is another method we have taught students to use in addition to the two listed. In their example of 73-5, they teach 1) break 73 into 60 and 13, then subtract 13-5 and add the difference (8) to the 6 tens for a total of 68; or 2) break 73 into 70 and 3, then subtract 70-5 and add the difference (65) to the 3 ones for a total of 68. The 3rd strategy is to break the 5 into 3 and 2, then subtract 73-3 to get down to 70, then subtract 70-2 for a total of 68. ANY of these strategies is just as good as the others! Whichever makes the most sense to your student's way of thinking is the one they should use.
Reading:
This week we'll continue in OPG with r-controlled vowels, moving on to the /ôr/ sound.
I'm excited for the students to read this week's SPIRE decodable reader, "The Humpback Whale." It will be mostly decodable for the students. There are several multisyllable words that will enable them to practice dividing the word into syllables, identifying the syllable type, decoding each syllable, and finally blending the syllables together to decode the entire word. If you need a refresher on how to guide your student through that process, reference the Reading section in the Week 27 blog. Students will encounter r-controlled vowels in this reader, which we have covered in AAS and are just introducing in OPG. There are also several inflectional endings and suffixes (es, ed, ly, ful) that we have not taught the students, so please monitor your student's reading and give them the sounds for those endings that they will be learning about next year.
Decodable words in "Building New Walls" from the Early Reader's Bible (sight words in parenthesis): New, walls, for, the, king, but, (one), day, sad, why, (are), you, so, long, tore, down, my, (said), they, (what), do, want, me, to, do, please, let, go, home, (build), may, went, he, found, some, did, not, like, this, his, (have), (was), something, that, God, him, came, see, helping
Decodable words in "Esther is a Brave Queen" from the Early Reader's Bible (sight words in parenthesis): Is, a, brave, queen, a, man, came, to, see, Queen, someone, wants, kill, the, man, (said), what, can, I, do, ask, king, to, help, us, but, (could), not, this, she, time, must, me, him, be, want, her, went, did, he, (what), for, please, help, my, bad, them, will, too, not, like, so, now, they, that
Phonogram Game Ideas
Practice App
Composition:
Custom Handwriting Practice Sheets
Spelling:
Congratulations on completing AAS Level 2! Step 25 is the last spelling lesson of the year. The remainder of the year will be review.
Geography:
Since we have successfully learned the names of each African country, now students can use this interactive online map to review all the countries of Africa (check the box for "voice," to have the country names read out loud). Have the maps and songs ready to help them as they play!
History:
Here are some questions for discussion as you teach SotW Chapter 37-38: How was Jesus different from all of the other religious leaders we've learned about in our history lessons? Why was Jerusalem such a special place for Jewish people? What happened to the Jewish temple when the Romans attacked it? Why did the Romans choose to destroy the temple? Journal sentence: When their temple was destroyed, the Jews were forced out of Jerusalem.
Science:
G&B/MB Lesson 13- Animal Report: Pick any animal from G&B/MB and write a report using the form that was sent home yesterday. This report form is included in your textbook as well, but I simplified it a little bit, so please use the form I gave to the students to take home. Students should use neat handwriting and write in complete sentences, including proper capitalization and punctuation. All words should be spelled correctly. If your child needs to spell a word that has not been taught, please have them copy the correct spelling. There will not be an oral component to this assignment. The report is due by Thursday, May 5th.
Memory Work:
Decodable words in "Esther is a Brave Queen" from the Early Reader's Bible (sight words in parenthesis): Is, a, brave, queen, a, man, came, to, see, Queen, someone, wants, kill, the, man, (said), what, can, I, do, ask, king, to, help, us, but, (could), not, this, she, time, must, me, him, be, want, her, went, did, he, (what), for, please, help, my, bad, them, will, too, not, like, so, now, they, that
Phonogram Game Ideas
Practice App
Composition:
Custom Handwriting Practice Sheets
Spelling:
Congratulations on completing AAS Level 2! Step 25 is the last spelling lesson of the year. The remainder of the year will be review.
Grammar:
For the Final Grammar Review, students will respond orally to the questions and parents will write their answers. I am providing a hard copy so that you won't need to write in your FLL book and so that you can turn the Final Review in to me when it's complete.
Note- Final Grammar Review pg 166 is assigned next week, but you may complete it this week along with pg 165 if you prefer. Return both pages for grading by next Thursday (5/5/22).
Geography:
Since we have successfully learned the names of each African country, now students can use this interactive online map to review all the countries of Africa (check the box for "voice," to have the country names read out loud). Have the maps and songs ready to help them as they play!
History:
Here are some questions for discussion as you teach SotW Chapter 37-38: How was Jesus different from all of the other religious leaders we've learned about in our history lessons? Why was Jerusalem such a special place for Jewish people? What happened to the Jewish temple when the Romans attacked it? Why did the Romans choose to destroy the temple? Journal sentence: When their temple was destroyed, the Jews were forced out of Jerusalem.
Science:
G&B/MB Lesson 13- Animal Report: Pick any animal from G&B/MB and write a report using the form that was sent home yesterday. This report form is included in your textbook as well, but I simplified it a little bit, so please use the form I gave to the students to take home. Students should use neat handwriting and write in complete sentences, including proper capitalization and punctuation. All words should be spelled correctly. If your child needs to spell a word that has not been taught, please have them copy the correct spelling. There will not be an oral component to this assignment. The report is due by Thursday, May 5th.
Memory Work:
Books of the Old Testament: Psalms - Malachi due this week, 4/28! Here is a link to the song we practice
in class.
Quarter 4 poem: Rock of Ages will be due next week, 5/3. Here is a link to the song that we practice in class. This artist does substitute "commands" for "demands" in the 2nd stanza, so I will accept either of those words as correct.
