Week 4 Overview

A view outside of The Coleman Academy before Hurricane Irma

Welcome back to school after a break from the effects of Hurricane Irma! Week 4 ended today, on a Thursday. Every one of our 36 weeks this year is a full 5 days of learning, adding up to a total of 180 days. But, day 5 doesn't always fall on a Friday. So, sometimes our overview will be posted during the week, rather than on Friday. Now that you know all of the hard work we do from our first 3 weekly overviews, instead of listing everything we do, we will highlight things we have finished and new topics we have started. We still read, are read to, and practice piano every day, among other things, even though you may not see it listed below.

Here's some of our studies from this week:

Language Arts:

• We finished our first read aloud, The Golden Goblet, Oh, how we are going to miss Ranifer, our beloved main character.
• Psalm 139 (we are planning on memorizing ALL 24 verses!)
• Our Lesson 2 Word Winner is CRAVE! We found this word the most in our other reading

Bible & Other History & Geography:

• God created the first man and woman, how sin entered the world, the flood, and God's promise to Noah
• Ancient China, Shang Dynasty, the discovery of silk, growing rice, Japan, Kush, Africa, Sahara Desert, and Arabia

Math:

• memorizing doubles
• Subtracting numbers into the thousands with and without regrouping
• word problems: deciding the operation (add or subtract)

Science:

• Defenses of mammals- Did you know that a polar bear's hair is clear and hollow?! It's true! It just looks white from light reflection. Also, did you know that lions only see in black and white, which is how the zebra's stripes blend in so well with the long grasses to hide it from a lion (a zebra's main predator)?
• Where mammals sleep and how they deal with harsh climates

See our previous post from Monday about Usborne Quicklinks in Science and history for week 4.
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Happy Learning!