Revolutionary/Founding week #6 February 2

Opening:

Song: Josh
Prayer: Lauren
Scripture: Tommy
Pledge:  Vilate
Knowledge Share: Talmage
Show and Tell: Emma

Joke of the Day: Fielding

Snack: Hyrum

Treasurer: McKade

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Melody

 

Read at Home:

    Read I Survived the Revolutionary War

Poem: Finish memorizing this poem. If you are just starting now, memorize the last three stanzas.

A Psalm of Life

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!—

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrows,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

....

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

....

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

Song: Finish learning the Star Spangled Banner.

Learn: Be able to label all states east of the Mississippi River. Use this quiz to practice, if you'd like. 

Present: Choose one of the original 13 colonies to learn about and share with us. Sign up on this document. What historical events happened there? What role did it play in the Revolution? Who were the delegates from this colony? 

Multiplication: Work on your 9 times tables 0-12

Watch:

    George Washington 

    Keep watching Liberty Kids

    Start watching American Ride on BYUtv. 

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

Revolutionary/Founding Period week #5 (January 26)

Opening:

Song: Lauren
Prayer: Tommy
Scripture: Vilate
Pledge:  Talmage
Knowledge Share: Emma
Show and Tell: Fielding

Joke of the Day: Hyrum

Snack: McKade

Treasurer: Melody

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Josh

 

Read at Home:

    Finish reading Farmer Boy

    

Poem: Continue reviewing and memorizing "Psalm of Life"

A Psalm of Life

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!—

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrows,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

....

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Writing: Who is one of your heroes? Why? Write about that person and what you admire.

Scripture: Memorize this verse: "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." Luke 3:6

Song: Review the first verse and learn the second verse of the "Star-spangled Banner"

O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Multiplication: Work on your 5 times tables 0-12

Watch:  School House Rocks Declaration of Independence

        School House Rocks Preamble of Constitution

    Keep watching Liberty Kids

Science: Learn about gravity. Watch this video (shorter for younger juniors) 

or this video (for older juniors)

What are some examples of ways we have learned to defy gravity, even temporarily (hot air balloons, for example). 

Think of ways that gravity helps you.  Watch this video for ideas.

Review: Be able to identify the 13 colonies on a map. Use this online quiz, if you'd like. Add Maine, Vermont and Florida to your mental map.

Unit project:  Continue to work on a project of this time period.  This is week 5 of 6.  Get to work and have fun!

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.

Revolutionary/Founding Period week #4 (January 19)

Opening:

Song: Tommy
Prayer: Vilate
Scripture: Talmage
Pledge: Emma
Knowledge Share: Fielding
Show and Tell: Hyrum

Joke of the Day: McKade 

Snack: Melody 

Treasurer:Josh

          Quiet Toy: Lauren 

 

Read at Home:

    Read Farmer Boy pgs 252-304

Poem: Review the first two stanzas and memorize the third stanza:

A Psalm of Life

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!—

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrows,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

Writing:

Scripture: 

Song: Memorize the first verse of the Star-spangled Banner. Here is a 
sing along video for this verse.

Oh say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there.

Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Multiplication: Work on your 2  times tables 0-12

Learn about another ancestor who came to America. Why did they choose to do so? Where did they settle? Did they find what they were looking for? Come prepared to share what you have learned. Bring a picture if possible. 

Study and be able to identify the 13 colonies on a map. Use this online quiz, if you'd like. 

Watch:

    Ben and Me available on Disney plus

    Keep watching Liberty Kids

Unit project:  Continue to work on a project of this time period.  This is week 4 of 6.  Get to work and have fun!

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.

Revolutionary/Founding Period week #3 (January 12)

Opening:

Song: Vilate
Prayer: Talmage
Scripture: Emma
Pledge:  Fielding
Knowledge Share: Hyrum
Show and Tell: McKade

Joke of the Day: Melody

Snack: Josh 

Treasurer: Lauren 

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Tommy

 

Read at Home:

    Read Farmer Boy (pgs 1-202 over the holiday) 203-251.

    Read Ben and Me

Poem: Review poems learned so far. Pick one that you are weak on and focus on it. Learn the first two stanzas of "A Psalm of Life."

A Psalm of Life

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!---

For the soul is dead that slumbers, 

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Writing: Copy the scripture out of your folder 

Copy as many poems as you would like to earn money.

Scripture: Memorize Moses 1:39 "For behold, this is my work and my glory -- to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." Write this out in your neatest handwriting.

Multiplication: Work on your 1 and 0 times tables 0-12

Watch: Johny Tremain. Available on Disney Plus

    Keep watching Liberty Kids available on you tube

Unit Study Year plan:  We are studying 4 time periods this year.  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 haversack, make moccasins, make authentic food, whittle a horse, etc...

Unit project:  Continue to work on a project of this time period.  This is week 3 of 6.  Get to work and have fun!

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.

November 17 FIELD TRIP

 Opening:

Song: Vilate
Prayer: Talmage
Scripture: Emma
Pledge:  Fielding
Knowledge Share: Hyrum
Show and Tell: McKade

Joke of the Day: Melody

Snack: Josh 

Treasurer: Lauren 

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Tommy

Read at home: Read Nathan's Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy.

Start reading Farmer Boy. Read to page 202 before January.

Writing: Write the poem Stick to It in your best handwriting. There is a copy in your folder or you can write it on a blank paper. 

Scripture: Review Isaiah 55:8-9

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.

Memorize Joshua 1:9

Be strong and of a good courage; 

be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:

for the Lord thy God is with thee

whithersoever thou goest.

Song: Review "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" and the first two verses of "America the Beautiful". Learn the last two verses of "America the Beautiful." Here is a sing along video the help you! (Second verse ends at 1:40.) 

Poem: Review the poems learned so far. Memorize the third and fourth stanzas of 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.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.

He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;

I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;

But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,

Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

Revolutionary/Founding Period week #2 November 10

Opening:

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

Joke of the Day: Josh

Snack: Lauren 

Treasurer: Tommy 

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Vilate

 

Read at Home: Finish reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Did you like how it ended? How would you have changed it if you were the author?

Poem: Review the poems learned so far. Memorize the second stanza of 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.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

Writing: Write Isaiah 55:8-9 in your best handwriting. There is a copy in your folder or you can write it on a blank paper. 

Scripture: Finish memorizing Isaiah 55:8-9

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.

Song: Review My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Practice the first two verses of "America the Beautiful." Here is a sing along video the help you! (Second verse ends at 1:40.) 

Oh, beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed his grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea.

 

Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet,

Whose stern, impassioned stress

A thoroughfare of freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America! America!

God mend thine ev’ry flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law.

Discovery: Please complete Mapping Assignment #3.  Bring them to class.  Bring your folder. 

Imaginative Arts: What do you love about America? Create art inspired by one of your favorite places in America. This could be a painting, drawing, sculpture, poem, collage, song, etc. It could also be a travel ad for a place that you haven't been but would like to visit. Use your imagination! Help us get excited about a new place to visit!  

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.