Sunday, October 18, 2009

Week 7: Oct 19-23

Religion & Bible

personal devotions

family devotions

Reading

biography of Queen Elizabeth

Shakespeare's Hamlet for kids

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Writing

journaling

MaTh

memorizing multiplication tables

working story problems

Science

How Gases Behave

Terms to know:

diffusion

pressure

volume

Experiment: Balloon pump, balloon

1. When you pump the handle, the volume of the pump's chamber is decreased so the air pressure inside it is increased.

2. Air shoots out of the nozzle, into the balloon

3. A valve in the pump prevents air from being sucked back out of the balloon.

4. Pressure inside the balloon increases so it stretches and expands. Its volume increases.

Language/Spelling/Grammar

Spelling list: Th, Ch, Sh

those

they

tooth

cloth

clothes

cheat

chatter

choose

choices

shelter

mashed

shine

share

shouting

sheets

bushes

crash

Review: unless, lettuce, puzzle

Bonus: themselves

History & Geography

Elizabethan England 1550-1600

* Elizabeth becomes queen

* The first Poor Law is passed

* Life of William Shakespeare

* Sir Frances Drake sails around the world

* The Spanish Armada is defeated

* plots and treachery

Assignments:

- time line of important dates

- assigned reading of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet

Queen Elizabeth's biography

Art & Music Appreciation

Life and work of Michelangelo - Tuesday

community choir - Thursdays

U.S. History

P.E.

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