{"id":14565,"date":"2020-05-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=14565"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:47:23","slug":"4th-6-weeks-of-4th-grade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/4th-6-weeks-of-4th-grade-2","title":{"rendered":"4th 6 Weeks of 4th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benjamin also finished up his 24th week right before the shelter in place so I&#8217;m playing catch up for him too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bible:\u00a0<\/strong>Benjamin is currently joining Hannah for her bible reading requirement during morning devotions. Then he has a section of scripture to read to himself each day and some memory work for each week. Usually scripture, but he did work on the Gettysburg Address during this unit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In history\/social studies<\/strong>, we continued with our second half of American history with our spines <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Landmark History of the American People, Volume 2,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Children&#8217;s Encyclopedia of American History<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The World Wars<\/span>. We have selections from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wee Sing America<\/span> for some cultural tunes\/poems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-naomi-benjamin.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14567\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-naomi-benjamin-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-naomi-benjamin.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-naomi-benjamin.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-naomi-benjamin.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-naomi-benjamin.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Read Alouds<\/strong> included\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Roll of Thunder<\/span>,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0Hear My Cry<\/span> (which always makes me cry), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">King of the Mound<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Winged Watchman<\/span> (which also makes me cry), and poetry selections from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Oxford Illustrated Children&#8217;s Poems<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading \/ LA: <\/strong>We have spelling with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 2<\/span>, cursive assignment, grammar with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Grammar Ace<\/span>, and vocabulary with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise 3000, Book 4<\/span>. We also have a creative writing assignment and current events assignment each week.<\/p>\n<p>During this unit, Benjamin read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">George Washington Carver<\/span> (I think he really liked learning about him),\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thimble Summer<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gone Away Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Science<\/strong> is in a pretty good routine. We continued with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mysteries and Marvels of Science<\/span>, and used <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TOPS Electricity<\/span> with Discover and Do DVD for our weekly experiments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26-benjamin-rj.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14568\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26-benjamin-rj-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26-benjamin-rj.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26-benjamin-rj.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26-benjamin-rj.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26-benjamin-rj.jpg?w=1038&amp;ssl=1 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Math:<\/strong> Horizons 4 is going well. Ben does pretty good with math concepts and the hardest part is getting him to show the steps instead of doing them in his head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extras<\/strong> are our favorite part. It has impressed me that Benjamin is still tinkering away at learning the harmonica, his favorite songs to try right now are Beatles songs. Haha. We do language with Duolingo. He finished up the winter basketball season during this unit and wants to play soccer this summer. We had a lot of visits with sister during this time with fun outings. We also had family time with a MN trip for super grandpa&#8217;s funeral and Joel&#8217;s 5th bday party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin also finished up his 24th week right before the shelter in place so I&#8217;m playing catch up for him too. Bible:\u00a0Benjamin is currently joining Hannah for her bible reading requirement during morning devotions. Then he has a section of scripture to read to himself each day and some memory work for each week. Usually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201,2979,303],"tags":[2060,81,2980,793],"class_list":["post-14565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-e","category-science-homeschool","tag-24-weeks","tag-benjamin","tag-core-e","tag-update","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-2979-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-3MV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14745,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/5th-6-weeks-of-4th-grade","url_meta":{"origin":14565,"position":0},"title":"5th 6 Weeks of 4th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"May 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"We finished up week 30 a couple weeks ago, but have had a bit of a busy time getting sister and associated activities recently. We have about a month left. Bible:\u00a0Benjamin is currently joining Hannah for her bible reading requirement during morning devotions. Then he has a section of scripture\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/114-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/114-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/114-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/114-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/114-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15226,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/finished-4th-grade","url_meta":{"origin":14565,"position":1},"title":"Finished 4th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"July 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin finished up 4th grade this week. Somewhere in there, we got off a week from Hannah but oh well. The second half of American History is pretty rough, but we made it and learned a lot. Bible:\u00a0Benjamin is still joining Hannah for her bible reading requirement during morning devotions.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200724_150247-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200724_150247-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200724_150247-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200724_150247-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200724_150247-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14152,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/halfway-through-4th-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":14565,"position":2},"title":"Halfway through 4th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"February 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin also finished up week 18 right before our trip to MN, I'm just catching up still. ;) Bible:\u00a0Ben continues to join Hannah in her bible reading goal for devotions. Then we have a book called Starting Strong, school readings, and passage memorization each week. History\/social studies: The second half\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/19-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/19-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/19-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/19-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/19-benjamin.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13570,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/1st-6-weeks-of-4th-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":14565,"position":3},"title":"1st 6 Weeks of 4th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"October 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"^ There is a sloth up there mom! Benjamin has also finished up his first 6 weeks (a few weeks ago now) of 4th grade. We are in the second half of American History. It isn't always very pretty but definitely exciting all the advances we have made since we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07-benjamin-sloth.jpg?fit=960%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07-benjamin-sloth.jpg?fit=960%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07-benjamin-sloth.jpg?fit=960%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/07-benjamin-sloth.jpg?fit=960%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10668,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/4th-6-weeks-of-2nd-grade","url_meta":{"origin":14565,"position":4},"title":"4th 6 Weeks of 2nd Grade","author":"Becca","date":"April 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"24 weeks down, only 12 weeks left! We are scheduled out to the end of June which should be just right for a little break before next year. Bible goes well as our start off devotion in the morning. Benjamin is still listening in on Hannah's Girl's Ministries work but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/eggs-benjamin.jpg?fit=952%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/eggs-benjamin.jpg?fit=952%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/eggs-benjamin.jpg?fit=952%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/eggs-benjamin.jpg?fit=952%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8302,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/4th-6-weeks-of-1st-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":14565,"position":5},"title":"4th 6 Weeks of 1st Grade","author":"Becca","date":"February 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Only 12 weeks left. I'm enjoying going through this core again. For bible, we are reading through the New Testament during our devotions and working through Leading Little Ones to God for school. He also has a memory verse or two each week. Benjamin recited Psalm 23 for our rangers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benjamin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/kids\/benjamin-kids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06-benjamin-xwing.jpg?fit=1200%2C830&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06-benjamin-xwing.jpg?fit=1200%2C830&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06-benjamin-xwing.jpg?fit=1200%2C830&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06-benjamin-xwing.jpg?fit=1200%2C830&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06-benjamin-xwing.jpg?fit=1200%2C830&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/12-benjamin.jpg?fit=1500%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37894,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions\/37894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}