Friday, February 19, 2021

MFW: RtR and Learning Gods Story Week 27

MFW:  RTR AND LEARNING GOD'S STORY WEEK 27

This week we will learn about  Ancient Africa, Ghana, Mansa Musa of Mali, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, and Zimbabwe.  Also learn about the Babylonian Conquest, the Fiery Furnace, Daniel in the Lion's Den.  Observe things that take in water,  all things Mars, and learn about measurements.  

BOOKS


Fraction of the books we used this week. 

BIBLE

Memory Verse:  The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
~Proverbs 18:10

~Daniel 3:1-30

~Daniel 6:10-27

~Philippians 3:1-16, 17; 4:1, 2-9, 10-23


Daniel in the Lion's Den and Lion Bible Reader Cards

LANGUAGE ARTS


Latin words for the week: VIVO, VICTUM (live) and ARS, ARTIS (art, skill).


Writing their memory verse for this week.


Proofreading punctuations and reading practice.


Working on hyphens and more reading.


Hyphen and punctuation worksheet with lots more reading.


Three Brave Man worksheet, lots of handwriting practice.  


Daniel and the Lion Worksheet and reading practice. 

MATH 


Weather and Calendar chart


Word problem review


Symmetry, matching, and more word problems.


Adding and completing our Fruit Graph, asked several of our friends what their favorite fruit was and according to the chart Strawberries won.  


Learning about measurements


How many pennies does one item weigh activity.


D really enjoyed this activity, a great way to practice his counting and number identification.


Lots of adding and subtracting.

TIMELINE 


K added Muslim Turks conquer Constantinople to her timeline this week.


D added Fiery Furnace and Daniel to his timeline this week.

HISTORY 


Life in Ancient Africa, the influence of Geography, the Indian Middle Ages, African Kingdoms, gold, salt, and Ghana, and Amazing Africa and the mysterious East.  


Learned about Mansa Musa of Mali, Mali Empire, Singhai Empire, and Zimbabwe.


Read about the Far East and African Development, Zanj, and the Songhay Empire.


Brought out our fiery furnace craft that we had made in the past.  D loves playing with this and telling me the story behind it.  Found this activity awhile ago on Pinterest.

SCIENCE 


This week we will learn all about Mars, added our magnet with the other planets we have learned and she colored in her Mars planet.  


Read about Mars, Martian Atmosphere, Mars Moons, Martian Gravity, God's gift of Magnetism, and Martian Orbit.


Read about liquid water on Mars, moving to Mars, Mars surface, and the Martian Rotation.


Finding Mars in the Sky, who named Mars, and Spacecraft to Mars.  


After reading about the volcanoes on Mars we decided to make some snow volcanoes, taking advantage of the beautiful snow that fell today.  


Celery activity to see how water travels up the stem, always a favorite experiment for the kids. 


Observed how the celery looked after taking them out of the water.


Cut the celery in thin layers to observed it under a microscope.  Kids thought it was so cool to see some of the color that was absorbed by the celery.
 

Seeing how water travels up a paper towel experiment.  


Got several materials out and placed several drops of water on them to see which one would absorb water.


Observed how a wet paper towel and snow look under the microscope.  


Soak beans experiment:  Took a cup of black beans soaked them overnight in 4 cups of water.



D woke up excited to see how much water the black beans had absorbed.  The beans absorbed one cup of water.  

ART


Lesson 141: Into the Picture Gallery Understanding Color


Lesson 140: Drawing the Human Form 


Lesson 144: Into the Picture Gallery 


Rue de Paris, Wet Weather by Gustave Caillebotte

MUSIC/VIDEOS


Listened to the rest of "The Story of Beethoven".  


This week we started listening to "Peter and the World: Carnival of the Animals".


Watched the Perseverance Rover land on Mars, which went perfect with our lesson on Mars this week.  


Brain Pop App on Mars


Watched VeggieTales: Rack, Shack, & Benny.

FIELD TRIP/EVENTS 

Took advantage of enjoying some snow and sledding down the hill in our yard.  It was thick enough with a layer of ice on top to finally go sledding.  This was a total workout and lots of fun.  




CONCLUSION 

This week we learned about  Ancient Africa, Ghana, Mansa Musa of Mali, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, and Zimbabwe.  Also learned about the Babylonian Conquest, the Fiery Furnace, Daniel in the Lion's Den.  Observed things that take in water,  all things Mars, and learn about measurements.  Had lots of fun playing in the snow and making wonderful memories with the family.  Unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.  



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MFW: RtR and Learning Gods Story Week 26

 MFW:  RTR AND LEARNING GOD'S STORY WEEK 26

This week we will learn about Ottoman Turks, Constantinople, Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain, Henry the Navigator, War of the Roses, Suleiman the Lawgiver, and the Princes in the Tower.  Also learn about Elijah, Elisha, Naaman, Jonah, King Ahab, and all about the Moon.  

BOOKS


Few of the books we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse:  There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.  
~Proverbs 21:30

~1 Kings 18:1-2, 17b-39

~2 Kings 5:1-3, 9-15a

~Jonah 1:1-2: 1; 2:10-3:10

~Philippians 2:5-11

~Philippians 2:3-4

~Philippians 2:1-18, 19-30


Elijah Bible Reader card


Jonah, and Jonah and the Big Fish Bible Reader cards.

LANGUAGE ARTS


Latin words for this week:  LUNA (moon) and INTER (between, among, amid).


Writing their memory verses.


Proofreading and correcting where the commas go in a sentence and reading the first few chapters of her book.


Adding colons to the paragraph and K read the Bible Reader for D's lesson.


Filling in the commas and colons, and rewriting the paragraph.  


450 to 1 worksheet and reading some stories in his book.



K read the story of Jonah and D completed his worksheet on Jonah and learning the: ce, ci, and cy sound.


Elisha and Naaman fill in the blank worksheet and more reading practice.  

MATH 


Adding and subtracting decimals.


Finding the angle and conversion problems.


Decimal and fraction problems.


Adding and subtracting worksheets.


Adding and coloring in his dinosaur after finding the answers.


Lots of adding and subtracting this week. 


Working on skip counting by 2, 5, and 10s.

TIMELINE 


Added Muslim Turks Conquer Constantinople to her timeline this week.  


D added Elijah, Elisha, and Jonah to his timeline.

HISTORY 


Read the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turks attack, and the Capture of Constantinople.


Map of the Ottoman Empire


Suleiman the Lawgiver, the Ottoman Empire, and Europeans under attack.


Voyages of Discovery, problem areas of the future, the Iberian Peninsula, the wars of the Roses, and the causes of the war.


The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, the Wars of the Roses, Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal, and the Princes in the Tower.

SCIENCE 


Started learning all about the moon this week and the moon phases.  


Went outside to observe the moon and see what phase it was on but we weren't able to see anything due to the sky being super cloudy.  


Reviewing solar eclipse.


Read about the Lunar Atmosphere and the Lunar Eclipses.  


Our World Kids magazine came in and it so happen to have some information on the moon, and how NASA asked Nokia to create a wireless phone network on the moon.  


The Moon's Gravity, who named the Moon, and Spacecraft to the Moon. 


Tissue Trick Experiment: stuffed the tissue tightly into a glass, then turned the glass over and pushed it straight down into the water.  When we took the glass out the tissue was dry.


Magic Container Experiment:  pushed holes in the bottom of the container with a nail, took off the lid and pushed the container underwater then put the lid on it.  When he lifted the container out of the water he noticed no water came out.  Then I made a small hole on the top (lid) to let some air in the container.  As soon as some air got in the container the water started coming out.  


Read about being an Archaeologist and then I hid some dinosaur bones in the sand so they could search for it with some paint brushes.  I added some heart pasta and the cookie cutters spelling LOVE to go the Valentine theme this week.

ART


Read about Fall of Constantinople.


Lesson 139: Into the Picture Gallery 


Art Card #12 "Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci".


Kids colored in their worksheet of John 3:16 the greatest love story ever.

MUSIC/VIDEOS


Listened to the Story of Beethoven.  


Peter and the Wolf:  Identified and placed the instruments into their correct categories.


Watched a clip on the Ottoman Empire on the Brain Pop App.


Learned more about the moon.  


Moon Phases 


Eclipse


Watched VeggieTales: Jonah 

FIELD TRIP/EVENTS 


Went to Home Depot to pickup the kids workshop kits, Tic Tac Toe.


Made Brownie Chocolate Chip Bar and Red Velvet Cinnamon Rolls to celebrate Valentine's Day.


HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!


Children's pastors stopped by the house to drop off a Valentine goodie bag for the kids.  So grateful we found a church that goes out of their way for their members. 


Prepped some volcano hearts the night before so the kids could make them frizz, one of the favorite activities.  Mixed some baking soda, water, and food coloring into the heart silicone tray and froze it over night.  The next day I placed them on trays for K and D and gave them a cup of white vinegar with some droppers.  


Looked so pretty when the kids poured some vinegar on the hearts.  

CONCLUSION 

This week we learned about Ottoman Turks, Constantinople, Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain, Henry the Navigator, War of the Roses, Suleiman the Lawgiver, and the Princes in the Tower.  Also learned about Elijah, Elisha, Naaman, Jonah, King Ahab, and all about the Moon.  Celebrated Valentine's Day with lots of gifts, goodies, and crafts.  Now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.  



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