Rome to the Reformation--Weeks 1-5

This school year we are using My Father's World Rome to the Reformation package.

This is our 4th year with MFW and we LOVE it!

We also use Horizons math,

Writing With Ease and First Language Lessons from Peace Hill Press,

and Rod and Staff grammar.

Here's some of what we have done in the first 5 wks.

 We have added The Roman Republic, Julius Casear, and Casear Augustus to our timeline.

The girls have added some Roman coloring pages to their notebook.

Emma's page on the founding of Rome.

We are studying the human body in science, and in the first week the girls drew a cell and labeled it.

The sense of taste. I love that Emma has added braces to her teeth.

One of Moriah's first math tests!

The girls have been learning about showing perspective in drawing.

And they made cute little clay piggies for a craft!

Weeks 12-13

Weeks 12 and 13 covers the 10 Plagues of Egypt.

We covered 2 plagues each day.

First day was blood and frogs.

The girls decided to act out a few plagues, and so we found frogs all over the house!

On the sofa, in our beds, in the cabinets, and in our food. 

Of course Dad was Pharoah, so at dinner he had frogs on his plate and red food coloring in his milk.

Here are some frogs on the mirror.

And a frog on the spelling board!

I asked the girls to think about what it would be like to have the land overtaken by frogs.

Think of the sound!

It was probably difficult to walk around without stepping on one!

The smell of the heaps of dead frogs once the plague was removed.

All because one man was stubborn, and refused to acknowledge God as God.

Then came flies and they taped little black dots to Dad's shirt.

During the livestock plague I found many "dead" stuffed animals throughout the house. 

Then came boils and hail.

The girls taped red circles to me and Ryan for boils.

 They hung little brown circles from the ceiling for hail.

There was hail in every room except the girls' room, because they were the Israelites.

Some of my favorite "plague" quotes:

"Watch out, hail machine coming through!" -Emma, pushing dad's wheelchair to use as a stool so she could reach the ceiling to hang the hail!

"Oh, and mom, you're the Queen, so sores, sores, sores, boils, boils, boils-- and all that stuff on you!"-Emma

Here's some "hail" in the sky.

Other happenings this week:

• We finished up our read aloud by Patricia St. John, Star of Light. Very good book!
• We began our new read aloud for the Christmas season, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. This is such a good book too! We'll be watching the movie over Christmas break.
• In grammar, Emma was introduced to outlining. She also had an assignment to write notes for a "How To" demonstration. She chose to explain "How to Make Johnny Cakes." That's one of her favorite recipes!
• Emma has been thankful that math has eased up on long division in her recent lessons! The focus has moved to reviewing previous material, which makes for a less painful math lesson for her!
• Moriah is still working on memorizing multiplication facts. She has also been introduced to division!
• After today we are officially on Christmas break! We'll be doing some review next week, and maybe a math lesson or two. Other than that, we are on break!! Merry Christmas!

Highlights from Weeks 8-10

We added Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph to our timeline.

They both added a page on Abraham and Isaac to their history notebook. 

Here's Emma's page on Abraham and Isaac.

And Moriah's.

They both did an Egyptian tomb painting coloring page.

This is Emma's.

And this one is Moriah's.

They made their name with heiroglyphs...this one is Emma's.

And this one is Moriah's

Moriah has been memorizing the poem "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" by William Wordsworth.

She has also been introduced to division and equivalent fractions.

She has been learning how to diagram sentences with predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives.

Emma has been studying verbs.

She is reviewing multiplication and division.

They both are memorizing the 10 commandments.

We are reading Star of Light by Patricia St. John as our read aloud.



First Day of School 2011!

Today was the first day of school for 5th grade and 3rd grade! 

These girls are the apple of their teacher's eye!!

Their teacher loves them dearly and she is thrilled to be with them for another year!!

We are using curriculum from My Father's World, and this year we'll be studying Creation to the Greeks.

 Our assignment this week is to study the beginning of our world, using the first chapter of Genesis as our text.

Here they are working on their creation worksheet for their history notebook.
I found Haydn's Creation at our local library for them to listen to while they worked on their creation worksheet.

We also began working on our timeline. I used fishing line with Command hooks and we'll use paperclips to hang pictures on the timeline. I'm hoping this works...we'll see! Today we added Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew to our timeline.

We also added Christ coming back to earth at the end of our timeline with question marks since we don't know when that will be. You'll see why I like to send the girls to art classes when you see my work below.

That would be Jesus Christ (the red triangle) on a horse, in the clouds :) I may not be able to teach art, but I just love being able to teach the girls history using the Bible as our frame of reference!

For history we'll also be using:
Victor Journey Through the Bible
Streams of Civilizations, Vol 1
Celebrating Biblical Feasts

For science we have:
Genesis For Kids
Dinousaurs of Eden
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Pyramids

We use Horizons math

We also will study Latin with Latina Christiana I

For art we have God and the History of Art

Looks like we'll have a full and wonderful year of study ahead!