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Monday

• Math
  • Notes:
    • This course uses Khan Academy. If you have not done so already, please create a free account.
    • Please be sure to take notes on important points. Write down some of the sample problems in your notes.
    • There will be practice worksheets for you to keep for your records.
  • Unit 1: Decimal place value
    • Lesson 1: Decimal place value intro
      • complete all parts of this lesson.
• Science
  • Read the first chapter on Characteristics of Living Organisms. Before you can use this site, you will need to register. Ask a parent to help you create a username and password.
  • This online textbook does not teach that God created the world in six days. It will speak of millions of years. You aren’t expected to take that as fact. You won’t be learning about this, but it mentions evolution, the hypothesis that all living things came from a single-cell organism that mutated and changed and developed into something else. That’s why people call primates our ancestors. They say they changed little by little until they became human. It takes a lot more faith to believe amazing things like DNA and the human eye were made by accident than to believe our incredible world was designed. I call it a hypothesis because it has never been observed happening and therefore cannot be called scientific theory, let alone fact.
  • Watch the video on the introduction to the characteristics of life. You can also watch this cell video. You can jump 40 seconds into it. You don’t need to know all these words, but it’s kind of fascinating watching it all work. It can give you some images in your mind for when you are learning about these things.
  • Answer the review questions 1-5 in your notebook. That’s where you stopped reading.
  • STUDY TIP: Go to the end and read the questions first. That way you can be looking for the answers while you read. It will make it easier for you if you will just take an extra minute to look at the questions before the reading.
• Social Studies
  • Watch animation about the Growth of the Nation for review and preview. You can click on the box in the corner to watch it full screen.
• Language Arts: A combination of reading, writing, and grammar.
  • Reading:
    • You will be reading Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin     
    • Chapter 1: We are Seven
      • Read the chapter
        • While reading if you come across any words that you don’t know, write them down and look them up in a dictionary.
        • Write down in your notebook:
          • a list of characters. add to this list every time there is new character mentioned.
          • a summary of what you read.
      • Study the vocabulary words.
        • Superintended: Supervised or overseen.
          Leghorn: A type of dried plaited wheat straw fabric or a hat made of such material.
          Seminary: A private residential school for girls.
          Sententiously: Concisely or pithily.
          Hair Trunk: A trunk covered with animal skin with the hair still attached.
          Genteel: Refined or excessively polite.
  • Writing
    • Later in the school year there will be cursive handwriting assignments. If you would like to get ahead start here is a cursive handwriting chart. You could laminate this chart and write and wipe.
• Bible
  • Reading the Bible is fun, especially when you Journey Through the Bible with My Place With Jesus!
    • Follow these monthly Bible readings on your own, or as a family.
    • Download journey one and begin.
    • Do one Bible reading per day. When you have finished the first one, start journey #2.
• Art
  • Self Portrait

Tuesday

• Math
  • Lesson 2: Decimals on the number line
    • complete all parts of the lesson.
• Science
  • We’ll learn about cells later, but you should remember that everything in your body is made up of cells. Each cell is about 70% water, so what atoms do you know are present in your cells? (answer: hydrogen and oxygen –H20)
  • Read about skin. You should have created a free account yesterday.
  • Watch this skin lesson.
  • Complete the review questions in your notebook.
• Social Studies
  • Read the short biography of George Washington Carver
  • Print Test 
• Language Arts:
  • Reading
    • Read chapter 2
      • While reading if you come across any words that you don’t know, write them down and look them up in a dictionary.
      • Write a summary of this chapter.
    • Study the vocabulary words
      • Spinster: A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
        Votary: Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an enthusiast.
        Muses: One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
        Plucky: Having or showing courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
        Dauntless: Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
        Brood: The children in one family.
        Foreshadow: To suggest or hint at something in advance.
    • Spelling
      • How are your spelling skills? Place the vowel combination in the correct coconut to make a word. Choose the hard level.
• Bible
  • Continue on your journey.
• Music
  • Read Hans Pfitzner’s biography
  • Listen to Das Christ-Elflein: Overture (1906)

Wednesday

• Math
  • Quiz 1 How did you do? If you did not do good. Review the previous lessons and try again.
• Science
  • Look at the diagram of skin.
  • Look at these images of skin and make observations. Write down your observations in your notebook.
    • Image 1
    • image 2
• Social Studies
  • Watch the video on the Transcontinental Railroad.
  • Read about The Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad. 
• Language Arts:
  • Reading
    • Chapter 3
      •  While reading if you come across any words that you don’t know, write them down and look them up in a dictionary.
      • Write a summary of this chapter.
  • Spelling
    • Play this spelling game.
• Bible
  • Continue on your journey.
• Physical Education
  • Go ride your bike, go for a walk, or do something that gets you moving.

Thursday

• Math
  • Lesson 3: Decimals in expanded form
    • complete all parts of the lesson.
• Science
  • Muscular System
    •  Read the section on The Muscular System.
    • Answer review questions 1-6 in your notebook. (All questions this this are to be answered in your notebook.)
• Social Studies
  • Read about the transcontinental railroad.
  • Take a ten question quiz.
• Reading
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin     
  • Chapter 4: REBECCA’S POINT OF VIEW
    • While reading if you come across any words that you don’t know, write them down and look them up in a dictionary.
    • Write a summary of this chapter.
    • Remember to add to your list of characters.
• Bible
  • Continue on your journey.
• Computer
  • Internet Review
    • Internet Safety Reminders: Do not download anything onto your computer without permission. Do not click on any advertising on a website even if it looks like a game to play.
    • You can also turn off advertising so that you don’t see bad images.
    • Don’t give out your name, age, address, phone number, email address, photo, etc., online without permission.
    • Do you remember these words: browser, desktop, window, crash, loading, refresh, download? If not, ask someone or look them up in a dictionary.

Friday

• Math
  • Lesson 4: Decimals in written form
    • complete all parts of the lesson.
• Science
  • Study the attached diagram of muscles.
  • Label the muscles. You may not know all the muscles. That’s okay! Learn from it and try it again. See if you can beat your first score.
• Social Studies
  • Read the news. Write a summary of the new article that you read.
• Language Arts:
  • Reading
    • Chapter 5: Wisdom’s Ways
      • While reading if you come across any words that you don’t know, write them down and look them up in a dictionary.
      • Write a summary of this chapter.
      • Remember to add to your list of characters.
  • Spelling
    • Play this spelling game.
• Bible
  • Continue on your journey.