Fourth Grade Week 13

We finished up week 13, and it went fairly well.  I’ve had to re-assess some of my decisions, and I’ll address those in another post.  For now, here’s how week 13 went…
Bible – Our question this week was “Why was the first person that God created a boy?”  We read Genesis 2:18, Ephesians 5:22-25, and I Corinthians 11:3 for the answer.
Math – This week Caleb worked on ordering fractions, choosing whether to add or multiply, meters and millimeters, and time patterns. 
Classical Conversations Foundations – I think Caleb is really enjoying CC Foundations.  He’s really learning a lot, and he’s having fun.  Here’s what we learned this week…

• English – prepositions ‘between, beyond, but, by, concerning’
• Science – the major groups of invertebrates
• History – the split of the Roman Empire
• Math – counting by 9s and 10s
• Latin – 2nd Declension Singular and Plural Noun Endings
• Geography – the Egyptian Empire…Egypt, Nile River, Upper/Lower Egypt, West/East Deserts, Nile Delta, Crete
• Timeline – Judah falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed; Babylon falls to Persia; Jews Return and Rebuild the Temple; Roman Republic; Golden Age of Greece; Peloponnesian Wars; Persia Falls to Alexander the Great
• Science Experiment – this week we reviewed the Naked Egg and Shrinking Egg experiments that we did at home last week.  For the naked egg, you take an egg and place it in a jar of vinegar.  Let it sit for 72 hours and watch to see what happens.  Then, take that same egg and put it in a jar of Karo Syrup to see what happens after 72 hours.

Naked egg

Shrinking egg

• Art – This week we worked on perspective.

Classical Conversations Essentials

• Grammar – We continued to review nouns, verbs, and pronouns.  We also reviewed different types of sentences.  Caleb completed another punctuation/capitalization rule and spelling/homophone sheet.

• Writing – Due to some extra-curricular obligations, we didn’t get to our writing assignment this week. 

Like I mentioned earlier, I had to re-assess some of my decisions, so I’ll share my conclusions soon.  I’ll sum it up by saying next week will bring some changes, but hopefully more fun!    Stay tuned…
On a side note – Micah is LOVING preschool.  The only thing he’s not a huge fan of is the homework.  LOL!  But – it’s only one worksheet every few days.    I think he’ll live.