September Eureka

Welcome to another fun week together!

What do you think about the name? 🤞

  


Devotional Assignments 

27th	Conducting	Lead song	Pray	Carry Flag	Flag Leader	Recite	Teach	Help
	Tommy	Lauren	Anna	Alex	Hyrum	Eryn	Evelyn	Celeste

🎵 Come prepared to sing your Parody to us.
 *  Anything about the Civil War time, Harriet Tubman, blacks, Abe Lincoln, you get to decide. (it can be a story, poam, etc; you don't have to sing if you are not comfortable)

📖  Read

Abraham Lincoln (Fact Tracker Magic Tree House #25) 

Or Who was?

Or Abraham Lincoln Childhood of Famous Americans Series - wonderful book

🖉  Copy Write (copy these definitions in your CPB or on cards)

Abraham Lincoln

(1809-1865) Was a kind, simple man. He became the 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War which freed the slaves; was assassinated towards the end of the war.

P. T. Barnum

come up with your own definition of this man. write it in your own words if you can. I want to hear what you think.

Atomic Theory

Another term for Nucular Energy

Brownian motion

Particles jumping around in liquid

Periodic table of elementsThe Scientific order of Elements

Noble gases

 Seven gas elements in the periodic table

👀  Watch  with your family

*   A Beginning,  (Yes this is a repeat, but it will help you with your words, and it's an amazing video.

The Creation of Chemistry

The Periodic Table

The Electron

👂  Listen to this slightly annoying song. 

   

⭐  Do with your family  

   Click on this link of the periodic table, and play with the periodic table for a few minutes.  Do any of the elements sound familiar to you?      

*   I. Read the introduction to Chemistry for Every Kid, pages xvii-xx.

II. Perform 2 experiments from this book. 
Choose any 2 exp. from Chapter 1, Matter
Choose any 2 exp. from Chapter 3, Gases.

Record in your commonplace book what you learned from each experiment.

⒂ x 4x =

* create a user name and password on XtraMath this will help with memorization and speed for basic math skills.

*  If your ready for multiplication go here  quick flash  multiplication flash cards

 🎨  Draw or print off a ninja and hold it in your common place book /CPB, (do not tape it in) we will find out what to do with it next week when Sister Martin comes in.

⏩ Extra 

*  Any journeyman herb assignments

  You need to find a herb from your yard, or inside your house. it's okay if we double up an a few, research it. As you research  answer these questions:

 1.  3 main uses

2.  what parts of it to use

 3.  how to prepare it

 4.  any other info you thinks is useful

 5.  come prepared to present.

*  You may do anything you like with your family or on your own and report on it.  You may soar 🐦as high as you'd like!

Thinking ahead to Leadership week

Oct 4th	Conducting	Lead song	Pray	Carry Flag	Flag Leader	Recite	Teach	Help
	Celeste	Tommy	Lauren	Anna	Alex	Hyrum	Eryn	Evelyn

Vision Day 2018

Is it time to change our name?  Which one do you like?

Vanguard   _________________                             

• Tyro
• Novice
• Recruit
• Rookie
• Tenderfoot

🏴   Leadership duties for Eureka week. 

Please come prepared!   

27th	Conducting	Lead song	Pray	Carry Flag	Flag Leader	Recite	Teach	Help
	Tommy	Lauren	Anna	Alex	Hyrum	Eryn	Evelyn	Celeste

Meet our Class   

Hyrum 12 in Dec

Evylyn 12

Alex almost 10

Eryn 12

Anna 10

Celeste  turning 8 in Oct

Lauren turning 9

Sister Siufanua

          

Tommy 8

Imaginative Arts:   📽  "This is Me"

Bring a paper sack with 4 items that describe you to help the other kids know you better.

Be prepared to present it to our class.

Do Hard Things:  👂 Ask each sibling in your family to tell you thier favorite part from their reading the "Do Hard Things" book.  Write down what inspired you on a piece of paper that can be  pasted into your CPB.

Leadership:    📖 Read You Are Special by Max Lucado

 I enjoyed using a magnifying glass to see the picture of Abraham Lincoln better.  Try that, if you have one. If you don't have one, go buy one or borrow one. ;)

September History

 Civil War 1861 - 1865

1-   👀  Watch on Youtube  Lincoln for Kids

 2 -  Print off this map of USA in 1860. Then look at this site: colored map of the united states. Color and mark your printed map. Color the Union states blue and the Confederate states gray. Color the territories too in a different color. Put the border line in red. Notice that some slave states are in the North. Mark the capital of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA).  Glue your map into your CPB. You might have to cut it down to size in order to fit. 

  

3 -  📖 Read  about Harriet Tubman

4 - 🖉 Copy Write (copy these definitions in your CPB or on cards)

Harriet Tubman

• Born a black slave. She became the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. In a decade she guided over 300 slaves to freedom.

*Come prepared to discuss why Harriet Tubman had the nickname Moses.

Abolitionists

• Those who did speak out against slavery.

North/Union/Yankes/Federals

• Northerners who were willing to fight for the American form of government - for the constitutionm for the Union. They were against slavery.

South/Confederates/Rebels

• Southerns who belived in "state rights." They did not want to be part of the United States so they could be free to have slavery.

American Civil War

•  also called War Between the States, four-year war (1861–1865) between the United States (Northerners) and 11 Southern states (Southerners) that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States ofAmerica.

Secede

• To break away or withdraw from something.

5 - 📖  Read with your family A History of Us, War, Terrible War;  

• Preface ll; A divided Nation pg 11
• Chapter 1 Americans fighting Americans pg 14
• Chapter 2  The war begins pg 17

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

-Thomas Jefferson

*Come  prepared to discuss what this quote means to you.  ￪

6 -  ¢ $ What other money has Abraham Lincoln's face on it?  Come to class ready to share what you know.  Can you show us any real money with his face on it?

㊱  Math Links

Adaptive Minds  math


ABCya.com                                   
IXL.com

Xtramath.com

quick flash  multiplication flash cards

April Imaginative arts

Imaginative arts!

1. Bring your recorders!  We will attempt to play some songs all together!

2.  Bring a musical or artistic talent to share.

3. Learn 3 things about Franz Schubert and Learn 3 things about Claude Monet.  We will do one last art project!

4.  Study up on all the artists and composers we have learned about.  We will play jeopardy again!

The people we have studied are:

Beethoven                              Rembrant
Mozart                                    Leonardo Da Vinci
Handel                                    Shen Quan
Bach                                       The history of Ballet
Schubert                                 Monet

April Leadership

April Leadership

This is our last week of Leadership!  We are going to play a game that reviews everything that we have learned!  There will be treats, so come prepared!  Don't forget to review the Preamble as well!

1.  Learn 3 things about Thomas Jefferson.

2. Learn 3 things about the Continental Army.

3.  Learn about the Union and the Confederate.  Which states were a part of each of those. (Look on the Vanguard Blog).  What side do you think was right?  What side won the civil war?

4.  Review all your notes!  Remember the little notecards I gave you?  Look at those!  Here they are, if you didn't save them.  Most of the questions for the game will be from these.