articlesforchristians

Monday

• Math
  • Find the correct time. Choose “nearest minute.” Play until you get 10 correct.
  • Round to the nearest ten.  Play until you get 10 correct.
  • Round to the nearest hundred.  Play until you get 10 correct.
• Science
  • Atoms, Molecules, Steam Engines, Matter, States of Matter
    • Take a small piece of aluminum foil. Rip it in half. Again. And again and again and again until you can’t any more. If you could keep ripping it until it was the smallest piece of aluminum in the world, that would be an atom, an aluminum atom. Everything in the world is made up of atoms. Different types of atoms come together in different combinations called molecules to make up everything you see in the world.
    • Take a look at how small atoms are. Use the slider and move to the right to see smaller and smaller things. Can you find the atom?
    • Atoms are so small that five million hydrogen atoms would fit on the head of a pin. That’s 5,000,000 atoms.
• Social Studies
  • Read about Leif Erikson.
  • More Vikings facts
• Language Arts: This will combine spelling, reading, writing, cursive writing, and grammar.
  • Reading
    • The Kitchen Clock
      • study the words
        • if you don’t know any words look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your notebook.
      • read the lesson.
  • Grammar
    • Watch the syllable video.
    • Syllable matching worksheet for review.
  • Cursive writing
    • Review the capital cursive letters
      • tracing
      • writing
• Bible
  • Creation complete the appropriate activities.
• Art
  • Self Portrait

Tuesday

• Math
  • Play this time matching game. Choose Level 1.
  • Practice with money.
    • Click on Start. Click on Easy. Click the eagle.
    • Go back to the main menu. Click on Advanced. Click on the dog.
  • Round to the nearest 100. (If you don’t remember this, watch this video)
• Science
  • Here is a periodic table to look at or to print out in color with picture examples. (Print it out if you can and put it in your notebook.) This is called the periodic table of elements. Each box is one element. Everything in the world, including you, is made up of these elements. They are listed on this table in order of their weights. Number one is hydrogen. It is a gas. It is the lightest element.
  • Read about hydrogen.
  • This year you are going to create your own book of the elements. You will work on this throughout the year. The elements will be divided by groups.
    • Today you will take an index on the side without the lines write the letter “H”.
    • On the side with the lines draw a picture or write about hydrogen.
    • Take a piece of construction paper and write Alkali Metals Group at the top of it.
    • Put the hydrogen card at the top of this paper. You will tape the card to where you can flip it to see the information on the other side.
• Social Studies
  • You will be reading The True Story of Christopher Columbus.
  • You are going to be reading the first seven chapters.
  • Today you will read chapter 1. Here is the audio version if you want to listen to it.
  • Look at the picture of Columbus. Look at a map of his most famous voyage. Here are two paintings of imaginings of what it was like when Columbus landed. What do you observe?
• Language Arts:
  • Cursive writing
    • Cursive a-z, lowercase tracing
    • Cursive alphabet, lowercase letters
  • Reading
    • The New Scales
      • study the words
        • if you don’t know any words look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your notebook.
      • read the lesson.
      • Think about How is Herbert kind to his little sister?
      • Write about how you can be kind to someone.
• Bible
  • God Makes Adam and Eve (complete the age-appropriate activities. You will do this every time).
• Music
  • Learn about the woodwind instruments.
    • read about the different instruments
    • listen to the different instruments.

Wednesday

• Math
  • Elapsed time
    • Do the whole lesson.
  • Read the bar graphs.  This site will only let you do a certain number of problems a day.  Just answer the problems until it tells you that you have reached the limit.
• Science
  • Here’s a video on how steam engines work. Tell someone what makes a steam engine work.
• Social Studies
  • Read chapter 2. (Audio link)
• Language Arts:
  • Cursive writing
    • Cursive Copy work for Ephesians 6:10-18: The Armor of God
      • Today you will be writing Ephesians 6:10
  • Reading
    • The Bear and the Children
      • study the words
        • if you don’t know any words look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your notebook.
      • read the lesson.
        • Think about this story. Do you think it is fictitious (made up)? Write about why or why not.
• Bible
  • The Garden of Eden
• Physical Education
  • Play follow the leader to get some exercise. Make each other move! Or just go outside and run around.

Thursday

• Math
  • Set the clock.
  • Then you can do your worksheet (Adding 2 digits regrouping).
  • If you can’t remember how to do this, you can watch this video before you practice with the worksheet.
• Science
  • Read about steam engines.
  • Draw a diagram of the inside of a steam engine. Color where the water is blue. Color where the steam is red. Include a firebox, boiler and steam box.
    • If you don’t remember, here’s a diagram.
• Social Studies
  • Write about what people thought about Christopher Columbus’ ideas.
  • Play the Christopher Columbus video. There are different ideas about Christopher Columbus. There are many different ideas about many events in history. People have different perspectives.
• Language
  • Cursive Writing
    • Cursive Copy work for Ephesians 6:10-18: The Armor of God
      • Ephesians 6:11
  • Reading
    • The Little Harebell
      • study the words
        • if you don’t know any words look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your notebook.
      • read the lesson.
  • Writing
    • Write a list of ten pairs of rhyming words, five of which have to be at least two syllables long. If you need help getting started, here are a few words for which you could find rhymes: darker, rounded, lighten.
• Bible
  • Adam and Eve are Tempted
• Computer
  • This year you are going to do more with typing. Complete lesson 1 of this typing program. If you want to create the free account to keep up with your typing progress.