Next Week's Schedules

Liza

Week 11

	English	Social Studies (Crete)	Science	Math	Russian
Monday	Define each vocabulary word.	Read Day 1.  Add the island of Crete and the Cycladic Islands to your map and label them.  Include the Aegean Sea.  Use the Usborne Encyclopedia to help you.  Research Knossos online and write a paragraph about an aspect that interests you.		Lesson 37	Lesson
Tuesday	Use each vocab word in a sentence.	Read and summarize in writing the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.	Read about phototropism	Lesson 38	Practice
Wednesday	Write 5 sentences in which you shade the subject of each sentence blue and the predicate red.  See the rules in the “Sentence construction” section of your EM.	Draw a large and very complicated labyrinth.  Start by following the directions for a classical three circuit labyrinth.  Then expand it.	Read about gravitropism	Lesson 39	Practice
Thursday		Read Day 4 and 5.  Research Minoan goddess worship online.  Write a full page describing what you found out.	Complete project C—study plant hormones	Lesson 40	Practice
Friday		Draw a picture of Icarus and Daedalus.  Write a poem about what you imagine their adventures with flying was like.	Complete lesson 11 test questions	Lesson 41	Practice

Alyosha

Lesson 11

	English	Social Studies	Science	Math	Russian
Monday	Each day read “Johnny Tremain”.  Look up words you do not understand.  Take plenty of notes so you have information for your essay. Write definitions for your vocabulary words	Read “Spanish Explorers”	Read section on ponds	Lesson 42	Lesson
Tuesday	Make an outline from the notes you’ve been keeping.  Refer to the “Outlining” section of your EM.  You might use a web to get your ideas down on paper before organizing them into an outline. Use each vocabulary word in a sentence	Research two of the southwest missions in California, Texas, or New Mexico.  Write short reports about what you learn and draw a picture of the missions you pick.  Include information on the founders, history, and activities of the mission.	Read section on rivers.  Answer the questions.	Lesson 43	Practice
Wednesday	Begin composing topic sentences for each of the major paragraphs in your outline.  You will fill out these paragraphs to complete your report next week.	Read “French Explorers”.  Look at a map and find the Appalachian Mountains.  Can you see that they form a barrier between the area of the British colonies and the lands to the west?	Read about lakes.  Visit one in your area.	Lesson 44	Practice
Thursday	Review the four kinds of sentences in the “Sentences” section of your EM.  Identify the sentences in your syllabus.	Choose one of the extra credit options in your syllabus and learn about it.	Read about water pollution.  What threats to the water supply exist in your community? Try to think of at least two. (Hint: how much rain have we gotten this summer?)	Lesson 45	Practice
Friday	Do the sentence exercises listed in Grammar #5 in your syllabus.	Finish reading the week’s readings.  Imagine what might have happened if the French had won the French and Indian War.  How might your life be different today?	Read about the water cycle.  Complete #1 and #2 listed in that section.	Lesson 46	Practice

Misha
Week 11

Week 11

	Language Arts	Math	Science	Social Studies	CW	Music	Crafts	Russian
Monday	Read “The Valley of the Weavers”.  Draw Vv in MLB		Read “The Story of the Root Children”	Read UILE pgs. 114-115	V	Singing Recorder	Knit
Tuesday	Read “The Wreath of Birds”.  Paint Ww	Review four processes using tangibles.	Go on a nature hike.  Notice ways humans and nature interact.	On Map 2 label the two bodies of water.  Trace the Nile in blue.  Trace in red the dotted line separating upper from lower Egypt.  Shade the Nile Valley green and the Delta red.  Do map key.	W	Singing Recorder	Knit
Wednesday	Read “The Extraordinary Crossroads”.  Draw Xx.  Finger knit and paste the ‘x’s over the x in MLB	Teach how to count from 61-70.  Count piles of 10-70 items.	Choose one way that human beings and nature help one another.  Draw a picture of these interactions.	Color a picture from Egypt coloring book	X	Singing Recorder	Knit
Thursday	Learn poems for V,W, X.		Explore together ways we can help preserve nature.  Refill bird feeders	Draw a map of your room, making sure to mark directions.	VW	Singing Recorder	Knit

Also this week, Misha and I will begin reading The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book.