FEBRUARY / MARCH

3rd Grade: 

• MATH: students are learning about fractions and reviewing Roman Numerals, multiplication, and division. 
• LANGUAGE ARTS: the students are working on sentence structure and identifying parts of a sentence.  By the end of March the students will be able to identify nouns, verbs, helping verbs, adjectives, adverbs, subjects, and predicates. 
• LITERATURE: The 3rd grade students have finished reading The Secret in the Maple Tree.  In March they will start reading the Christian classic, Pilgrim’s Progress.  

4th Grade: 

• MATH: we are working on common factors, advance application of fractions, multiplication, division, and Roman Numerals. 
• LANGUAGE ARTS: the students are working on sentence structures and identifying verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and helping verbs. 
• LITERATURE: The students just finished reading School Days With the Millers.  Next, they will be reading Wisdom and the Millers, and they will finish the school year with the Christian classic, Pilgrim’s Progress.

COMBINED SUBJECTS: The combination class is working together on Spelling 4, Science 4, and History 3. 

• SCIENCE: the students are wrapping up the unit on “life in the sea”.  Next, they will be exploring “life in space”. 
• HISTORY: the students will be studying Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, and Louisa May Alcott.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoy teaching your child with the A Beka curriculum.  It is a constant learning experience for the students, and a gratifying experience for the teacher.