MFW: RTR AND LEARNING GOD'S STORY WEEK 12
This week we will learn about Nero, more on Galen, Gladiators, Paul in Rome, Vespasian and Titus, Roman Colosseum, Jewish Temple, Early Church, Chariot Races, and more on Roman Emperors. Also learn about the under the sea, review the Creation, introduction on the first four books of the Bible, lots of reading, spelling, and math. Work on all things of our brain, spinal cord, and how it works and its importance, and how to be healthy to make our body work properly.
BOOKS
Few of the books we used this week.
BIBLE
Memory Verse: A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
~Proverbs 13:1
...so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
~Romans 12:5
~Genesis 1:1-5, 6-8
~Romans 12:3-5, 3:23; 5:8; 8:28; 12:1-5
~Revelation 1, 2:1-11; 3:14-22; 4 & 5
A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.
~Proverbs 17:17
I will sing to the Lord because he has been so good to me.
~Psalm 13:6
So in Christ we who are many form the body, and each member to all the others.
~Romans 12:3-5
A wise son takes his father's advice. But a person who makes fun of wisdom won't listen to correction.
~Proverbs 13:1
Started reviewing the Days of Creation, D is making a booklet with each day. He loves making little books so he can carry them around and show everyone what he made and learned.
Day 2 of Creation: God created the Sky and Waters, he loves his booklet.
After reading about the Formless Earth in the TM we made jello to go along with the lesson. The TM had a different recipe then the one we used, I had a lot of left over jello from K's Rome to Reformation lesson.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Imperative sentences and searching for words in a thesaurus.
Made a game for the kids with spelling words, K got into the game with D. It really helped boost both of them in their spelling. They would race each other to see who could write it first correctly. Helped K boost her confidence, this dyslexia thing has really had her down a bit, but we are praying she pulls through this.
Working on the oo sound and reading.
MATH
100 Chart, weather, calendar, and number of the day chart.
Greater than, less than, multiplying and dividing decimals and fractions.
Dividing, multiplication, addition, and subtracting decimals and fractions.
Making a story with numbers, this boy has made us laugh so much with his wild stories.
Timeline fun counting backwards, matching numbers, and skip counting by 2s by jumping on the numbers.
Adding and subtraction fun.
Adding worksheet to see the secret message on the worksheet and lots of subtraction on his other sheet.
Quincy Quetzal and Rhonda Rabbit
Counting some animals under the sea.
TIMELINE
Added Destruction of Jewish Temple
HISTORY
Learned about Paul in Rome, John and the Great Vision, and The Seven Stars.
Learned more about the way Romans entertained, games, Julio-Claudian Dynasty, Claudius, Nero, The Flavian Dynasty, The Five Good Emperors, and Organization of the Christian Church.
Learned more about all things Chariot Racing and the Roman Empire conquering force.
Started reading "Trial and Triumph" and learned about the Early Church and Polycarp.
D started learning about the history and author of the first 4 books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.
Read about "The Sign of the Fish" and how its believed that the Christians used to use the symbol of the fish to tell other Christians they believed in Jesus Christ.
Read about Revelation and the Roman Empire and how big it is.
After reading about how big the Roman Empire was K colored in her map all that belonged to the empire. She was also surprised the list of emperors on her worksheet.
This week we started reading "The Story of the World" by Susan Wise Bauer.
Dressed up like a Roman using one of our blankets, they wanted to use the red one for show that they were royals. They thought it was so comfortable and stayed like that for awhile.
SCIENCE
Read about under the sea and then he observed the shark we have in a jar, I also read about sharks while he looked at the shark.
How things bend in the water experiment: put a spoon in a clear glass of H2O resting on one side. It looked bent because of the light reflected from the spoon bends when it leaves the H20 to go into the air and to your eye. D was surprised with how the spoon looked bent in the water.
After reading about the formless Earth we poured water into a square and circular container to show how water changes into the shape its poured in.
D learned about the Ocean Food Web and Intertidal Zone Organisms, which to be honest I actually thought he would go over his head but he actually understood everything. I really need to stop not giving him the credit he deserves, he is so smart.
Read him the story of the "Five Little Fish" then he made his own ending with the fish eating the shark. We loved the new ending and the excitement on his face.
While reading about the ocean he went fishing with his "Gone Fishin" game.
While working with K I had D play a Dominio Game of Under the Sea we got from Dollar Tree.
Last year at one of our co-ops D was taking a class on Ocean Animals, his teacher made a seek and find bag filled with rice and ocean animals. He always enjoys playing with this.
Made a frozen brain, got the mold from Dollar Tree, added red food coloring to the water and then froze it over night. The kids thought it was pretty neat to see the frozen brain. After discussing the different parts of the brain and its functions they wanted to the lick the brain. Didn't taste too good...lol. Next time we will make a jello brain.
K made her spinal cord model while I read all about it and then we added it to our board.
Read all about the importance of being healthy, which has really motivated the kids to work more on keeping their body in good shape.
ART
While reading several stories of "The Rainbow Fish", D colored in his own Rainbow Fish.
For his art work D had to draw pictures in layers and he chose to draw GOD has the center of his picture with angels all around him. He drew himself on the bottom worshipping God. Love his heart and how much he loves GOD.
After reading all about the many symbols people use for Christianity K drew her own symbols.
Drew a picture and taped it to our back door for D to trace. He did a great job and thought it was a cool way to draw
MUSIC/VIDEOS
Listened to "The Best of Mozart: Serenade in G Major Eine Kleine Nachtmuslk".
The Mysteries of Tim and Moby: Brain
Watched "Shark Eden, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory" on Disney Plus,
FIELD TRIP/EVENTS
Took a virtual tour to the Seattle Aquarium, since we couldn't go to one this week.
CONCLUSION
This week we learned about Nero, more on Galen, Gladiators, Paul in Rome, Vespasian and Titus, Roman Colosseum, Jewish Temple, Early Church, Chariot Races, and more on Roman Emperors. Also learned about the under the sea, review the Creation, introduction on the first four books of the Bible, lots of reading, spelling, and math. Worked on all things of our brain, spinal cord, and how it works and its importance, and how to be healthy to make our body work properly. Another wonderful week of learning together, now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.
GOD BLESS!
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