Sunday, February 28, 2021

MFW: RtR and Learning Gods Story Week 28

 MFW:  RTR AND LEARNING GOD'S STORY WEEK 28

This week we will learn about India, Christopher Columbus, Sari, King Skandagupta, Moghul Dynasty, monks in caves, the Great Indian Kingdoms, and voyages of discovery.  Also will discuss what Purim is, read about Esther, rebuilding Jerusalem, the birth of Jesus, fractions, and more water experiments.

BOOKS


Few of the books we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse:  The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.
~Proverbs 10:9

~Esther 5:1-8; 7:1-6

~Nehemiah 4:1-9, 21; 6:15-16

~Philippians 2:5-11

~1 John 1:1-4, 5-2:2; 2:3-11, 12-17; 13:23

~1 Corinthians 13


Bible Readers:  Esther and Esther becomes Queen


Gabriel visits Mary, the Birth of Jesus, Mary mother of Jesus, Shepherds and baby Jesus, Three wise Men, and baby Jesus goes to Egypt Bible Reader Cards.

LANGUAGE ARTS


Handwriting practice their memory verses.


Latin words for the week:  VERTO, VERSUM (turn) and CURRO, CURSUM (run).


Punctuation marks, proofreading, and reading practice.


Irregular verbs, quotation marks, commas, and colons. 


Proofreading, handwriting, and reading practice.


Sh, Zh sound, and reading practice.


Going back to Israel worksheet and more reading practice.


Learning about the Greek alphabet and enjoying writing the letters.


Lot of reading going on this week.

MATH 


Calendar and weather chart, skip counting, word problems, addition, and subtraction.


Word problems, symmetric shapes, and fractions.


More on symmetric figures.


Symmetric figures and fractions.


Learning all about fractions.


Cutting practice and working on fractions.


Fraction worksheets.

TIMELINE 


Added Columbus discovers North America 1492 to her timeline.


D added Esther, Rebuilding Jerusalem, and Birth of Jesus to his timeline this week.

HISTORY 


Looked at several pictures of what Indian women wore or still wear: Sari.


Read about the Indian Middle Ages, everyday life, origin of Chess, and the functions of rulers.


Kingdoms of Southeast Asia, conquerors of Northern India, and Kingdoms of Southern India.


Studies the Medieval Indian Empire, a King named Skandagupta, the bad luck servant, monks in caves, the Moghul Dynasty, and Akbar of India.


The Great Indian Kingdoms, the origins of Chinese Civilization, the Muslim conquest, Indian influence in Southeast Asia, the end of Gupta Dynasty, and African Kingdoms thrive.


Found a different recipe for Chapati flatbread on Pinterest.


She enjoyed following the recipe and making Chapatis .


Kids liked tasting the Chapatis.


We made some taco meat and tasted the Chapatis with the meat and cheese, it was pretty good. 


Coloring in Christopher Columbus's voyage on her map.


Exploring New Worlds: Christopher Columbus, a new world, early voyages, and early explorations.

SCIENCE 


Our lesson this week was on space rocks, comets, the coma, famous comets, and a comet's orbit.


How comet's got their name, asteroids, definitions, and asteroid belt.


Water takes up space experiment


Melting Ice Experiment 


Melting without heating experiment

ART


Lesson 146: Leonardo da Vinci "the Mona Lisa"


Lesson 147: Sphumato


Lesson 148: Soft Edges


Art Card #14: The Beach by Laura Knight

MUSIC/VIDEOS


Listened to "The Best of Beethoven: #9 Bagatelle no. 25, Fur Elise".


D acted out the donkey and tortoises while listening to Peter and the Wolf.


Watched "New Space Adventures: Asteroids and Comets" and "The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about: Space" on Amazon Prime.


Veggietales Esther the girl who becomes queen.


Brain Pop App:  The Mysteries of Life with Tim & Moby: Asteroid.

FIELD TRIP/EVENTS 


Got more snow this week.


My brother in law came to visit for the weekend, which the kids were so happy about it.  


Making lots of snowballs to throw at everyone.


Snowball fight 


Just like that the snow melted and Zeus & Larry Boy got to enjoy some sun.

CONCLUSION 

Got to enjoy a visit from my brother in law.  We miss being so close to our family and getting to see whenever we wanted.  It always a great time whenever they come to visit, especially for the kids.  This week we learned about India, Christopher Columbus, Sari, King Skandagupta, Moghul Dynasty, monks in caves, the Great Indian Kingdoms, and voyages of discovery.  Also discussed what Purim is, read about Esther, rebuilding Jerusalem, the birth of Jesus, fractions, and more water experiments.  Now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.  



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