Revolutionary/Founding Period week #1 November 3

Opening:

Song: Emma
Prayer: Fielding
Scripture: Hyrum
Pledge:  McKade
Knowledge Share: Melody
Show and Tell: Josh

Joke of the Day: Lauren

Snack: Tommy 

Treasurer: Vilate 

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Talmage

 

Read at Home: Revolutionary War: An Interactive Adventure.  Please make sure you complete at least 2 adventures.

    In the Witch of Blackbird Pond finish chapter 18  (we ended at page 168 in class)

                             ****DO NOT READ AHEAD!!!****

Poem: Review the poems learned so far. Begin memorizing this poem:

My Shadow

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;

And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

Scripture: Read Isaiah 55:8-9. How can this teaching help you trust in the Lord? Memorize the first two lines.

For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are My ways higher than your ways,

and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Writing:   Make up a story about the Revolutionary War.  What part would you want to play in it?   If you can, write it yourself.  If you need help, dictate it to a family member and they can write it.  Bring it to share.

Handwriting:  Write Proverbs 3:5-6 (Trust in the Lord...) from your folder. Use your best handwriting. 

Watch:Tea Party- School house Rock

     -Shot heard round the world- School House Rock 

Discovery: Complete Mapping Assignment #2.  Please seek out help if you do not understand.  Bring your folder to class.

Unit Study Year plan:  We are studying 4 time periods this year.  We are starting the 2nd time period.  We have 6 weeks in each time period.  The 6th week we will have a time period party.  We want you to come dressed like that day and age.  We would also like you to use these 6 weeks to make something from that time period.  While you are learning, decide on something you want to create and do it! You will bring it to show on the party day.

Some ideas:  make a tri-corn  hat, dip a candle, make a spoon, sew an apron, make a haver sack, make moccasins, make authentic food, whittle a horse, ect...

REMINDER:  We want you to do all the work you are able to do.  You can collect Van-bucks for all the homework you do.  You can earn more Van-bucks when you give us a commercial for any book you finished reading this school year or over the summer.

Colonial Period week #6 October 27

 Opening:

Song: Fielding
Prayer: Hyrum
Scripture: McKade
Pledge: Melody
Knowledge Share: Josh
Show and Tell: Lauren
Joke of the Day: Tommy

Snack: Vilate 

Treasurer: Talmage

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Emma 

 

Read at Home: Read "You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Mayflower."

   The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapt ****  DO NOT READ AHEAD!!!

Poem: Review the poems we have learned so far. Finish learning "The Wreckers." Who are the builders in your life? How do they build others? What can you do to be a builder? 

The Wreckers

Carmelo Benvenga

 

I watched them tearing a building down,

A gang of men in a busy town.

With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell,

They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.

 

I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,

As the men you’d hire if you had to build?”

He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed!

Just common labor is all I need.

 

I can easily wreck in a day or two

What builders have taken a year to do.”

 

And I thought to myself as I went my way,

Which of these two roles have I tried to play?

 

Am I a builder who works with care,

Measuring life by the rule and square?

Am I shaping my deeds by a well-made plan,

Patiently doing the best I can?

 

Or am I a wrecker who walks the town,

Content with the labor of tearing down?

Writing:  Use the handwriting pages in the folder you were given.   Practice writing the scripture. 

Scripture: 

Games: Practice checkers and marbles

Unit project: Finish up your project and be ready to show it off.  Even if it did not turn out exactly how you wanted it to- that's okay!  Also, get your outfit ready!  Please come appropriately dressed for our colonial days party. 

Learn about one of your first ancestors to come to America. What led to his or her decision to move to a new country? How old were they? Did they come alone? Share what you learn.

If you made a Root Beer label please bring it so we can label our brewsky.  I hope it tastes delicious.

Discovery Game: In the folder you were given in class, please read over the first pages.  This is the game we will be playing for the rest of the year.  Please complete Mapping Assignments #1. You might need help with this.  If you do,  please ask your parents or siblings.   Good luck on your next adventure.  Please bring your folder to class each week to play the game.

REMINDER:  We want you to do all the work you are able to do.  You can collect Van-bucks for all the homework you do.  You can earn more Van-bucks when you give us a commercial for any book you finished reading this school year or over the summer.

Colonial Period week #5 October 20

**If you had a joke, knowledge share, or show and tell from last time but didn't get to share it, come prepared to do it this week.** Also, please bring the marble bag that Lauren brought you and the one you have made for yourself.

Opening:

Song: Hyrum
Prayer: McKade
Scripture: Melody
Pledge: Josh
Knowledge Share: Lauren
Show and Tell: Tommy
Joke of the Day: Vilate

Snack:  Talmage 

Treasurer: Emma

Quiet toy for read aloud: Fielding

Read at Home: Finish reading What Was the First Thanksgiving.

Read chapters 8 and 9 (and only chapters 8 and 9!) of The Witch of Blackbird Pond. 

Poem: Review the poems we have learned so far: "Little Things," "Stick to It" and continue working on "The Wreckers."

The Wreckers

Carmelo Benvenga

 

I watched them tearing a building down,

A gang of men in a busy town.

With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell,

They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.

 

I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,

As the men you’d hire if you had to build?”

He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed!

Just common labor is all I need.

 

I can easily wreck in a day or two

What builders have taken a year to do.”

Writing:

Scripture:

Song: Become familiar with verses 1 and 2 of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (hymn #339). Use this video to sing along with, if you would like.

My country, ’tis of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims’ pride,

From ev’ry mountainside

Let freedom ring!

My native country, thee,

Land of the noble free,

Thy name I love;

I love thy rocks and rills,

Thy woods and templed hills.

My heart with rapture thrills

Like that above.

Vocabulary: Look up and write down the definitions of pilgrim, native, noble and rapture. 

Games: Practice checkers.

Field Trip! October 13

 

Read Case for a Creator for Kids

Poem: Review the poems we have learned so far. (Here is a document containing each one.) Begin learning this poem.

The Wreckers

Carmelo Benvenga

 

I watched them tearing a building down,

A gang of men in a busy town.

With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell,

They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.