Thursday, July 30, 2020

MFW: RtR and Learning Gods Story Week 4

MFW:  RTR AND LEARNING GOD'S STORY WEEK 4

This week we will work on memorizing the books Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1, 2, & 3 John, Jude, and Revelation.  Will read about The Roman Empire and their bathhouses, family life, some of the games and toys they played with.  Also will learn about Octavia wed Antony, Herod the King of the Jews, to Athens and Return, the Future Empress, the Siege of Jerusalem, and the turning point of Rome.  Talk about the Five Senses especially on the sense of smell and all things flowers.  Will start reading the book "Bronze Bow".  D will work on short vowel sounds, practice on his reading and handwriting, and continue to work on his numbers.

BOOKS


Books of the week

BIBLE

Memory Verse: If you really want to become wise, you must begin by having respect for the Lord...
~Proverbs 9:10

~Titus 3:1-2

~Philemon 6

~Hebrews 11:1

~James 1:2-4

~1 Peter 3:9

~2 Peter 1:2-3

~1 John 4:12

~2 John 6

~3 John 4

~Jude 24-25

~Revelation 21:1


This is the bible and devotion we use for our studies and for everyday reading "Easy Reader Adventure Bible" with the kids.  We love this bible and it makes it super easy for the kids to understand what we are reading.


Teach the wise and they will be wiser.  Teach the righteous, and they will learn more.  
~Proverbs 9:9

So Jesus grew both in height and in wisdom, and he was loved by God and by all who knew him.
~Luke 2:52

As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life.
~2 Peter 1:3a

LANGUAGE ARTS


Latin words for this week:  SEPTEM (seven) and OCTO (eight).


Learning about helping verbs, cursive handwriting, and Latin spelling.


Worked more on helping verbs, verbs, and some reading practice.


Linking verbs and reading her chapter book.


Lots of reading, spelling words, and handwriting practice.


Phoneme Segmentation cards review.


Spelling words, reading, and handwriting practice.



Learning about singular and plural words.


He is improving so much in his reading and reviewed his short vowels.

MATH 


Weather, number of the day, and calendar chart.


Adding to their 100 chart.


Word problems and subtracting decimals.


Reviewing her Roman Numerals, subtracting decimals, and fraction work.


Counting review 1-10 and color by number.


Counting blocks and placing them in order by number and size.


Working on Arnold Alligator.


He had fun building Bernie Bear and making his own creation.


Handwriting practice, counting, and number recognition.


Played the Guess my Number Game, he really enjoyed playing.

TIMELINE 

None this week.

HISTORY 


Learned about Roman family life, the way they relax, and the game of knucklebones.


Made Knucklebone pieces and really liked playing the game.


Read about Herod the Fugitive, Octavia weds Antony, Virgil and Isaiah, Herod the King of the Jews, and the Future Empress.



Colored in her picture while reading Augustus Caesar's World.



Kids made their version of jewel-studded pig.


The Siege of Jerusalem, a turning point of the Law of Senate, ,and the love story ends.


Worked on learning the languages of the Bible and then he copied some of the Hebrew letters for Genesis 1:1.

SCIENCE 


Read more about how flowers grow, reviewed green bean plant life cycle, and observed the growth of our two beans from last week.


A picture of when we watched a seed grow in a jar a few week ago, did this ahead of time so we could observe it this week.


Made a model of the human face, she thought it was a bit creepy.


Went over the Five Senses with D using our lapbook.  


Soaked 25 beans over night for this weeks experiment.


Wrapped our 25 beans in two soaked paper towels then wrapped them in aluminum foil.  Each day we take 3 to 4 beans out and open them to observe what changes they have gone through.


Observing a few of the beans under a microscope.


Few pics of how the beans looked under a microscope.


Learned more about our sense of smell and taste, the kids smelled and tasted a bit of my French Vanilla coffee.


Poured some vanilla on two cotton balls and placed it in a jar, they smelled it and then walked around to see if the smell was still in their noses.


Collected some flowers to press to make a bookmark.

ART


Lesson 128: High or Low Vantage Point


Kids made their own clay creations: Turtle & Flying Seal.


Practiced some relaxation skills to prep himself for drawing.


Lesson 129: People in Perspective


Got inspired this week to create some art for our wall.  I actually liked how it came out and it went perfect on our art wall.  Can't wait to keep adding the kids paintings to the wall.

MUSIC/VIDEOS


Practicing a new song this week: Go and tell Aunt Nancy.


Listened to Haydn's "The Creation: Chaos and Achieved thy Glorious Work"


Learned more about our sense of smell by using our Brain Pop app.

FIELD TRIP/EVENTS 


Our new norm, never leaving the house without our mask.


When did they grow up.


One of the things the kids really like doing is feeding Larry Boy his superworms.  

CONCLUSION 

This week we worked on memorizing the books Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1, 2, & 3 John, Jude, and Revelation.  Read about The Roman Empire and their bathhouses, family life, some of the games and toys they played with.  Also learned about Octavia wed Antony, Herod the King of the Jews, to Athens and Return, the Future Empress, the Siege of Jerusalem, and the turning point of Rome.  Talked about the Five Senses especially on the sense of smell and all thing flowers.  We also started the book "Bronze Bow".  D worked on short vowel sounds, practice on his reading and handwriting, and continued to work on his numbers.



MFW: RtR and Learning Gods Story Week 1