Week 13

History: This week the focus was on explorers and Michelangelo and Raphael. We watched the movie The Agony and Ecstasy about Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel.

Fine Arts:

Literature:

Geography:Our map traced the routes of several different explorers.

Notebook pages: We did a book on different explorers and we also added some Michelangelo's work to our notebook.

Dictation: We did Michelangelo quotes for dictation this week.

Week 12

History: The focus this week is an introduction to the Renaissance, looking specifically at some of the early Renaissance artists.

Literature:

Fine Arts:

Church History:

Dictation: We are using quotes by Leonardo da Vinci for dictation.

Geography: Our map this week covered the early explorers.

Projects: We made our own tempera paint out of egg and dirt. Sorry about the photography. My camera was on a weird setting and I didn't know how to get it off. We also made invisible ink and write messages. We tried to make plastic, but it didn't work the way the directions said. All these projects are in the Leonardo Inventions you can Build Yourself book. It is a very fun book.

We made geometric shapes like Leonardo did when he illustrated the Geometry textbook.

Week 11

I am excited to start on the Renaissance. I love the Renaissance artists and I'm looking forward to studying about them again. Annsley made me so happy the other day. She said, "I can't wait until we can go to Rome and see all the art and architecture there!" And, I can't wait to take her some day.

History: The focus this week is an introduction to the Renaissance, looking specifically at some of the early Renaissance artists.







Literature:

Fine Arts:







Dication: This week we used a portion of the World Book about the Renaissance.

Geography: Our map this week covered Renaissance Italy.

Timeline: Our timeline figures were

Fine Arts: We learned about single point and double point perspective. Here are some single point perspective drawings that we did.

Here is our perspectograph. Sorry about the blurry photograph!

Unit 1 Celebration

Here is the crew in their costumes in front of the castle that we made.

Kailyn started us off with a speech on The Fuedal system. She used our project as a prop. I've included some close-up pictures so you can see the great work they did.

Here are the close-ups. God bless Playmobile!!

Seth went next and talked about medicine in the Middle Ages. He passed around spices that they used for healing in the Middle Ages.

Claire went next and spoke about the story of Robin Hood.

Annsley spoke about Joan of Arc.

Cade talked about The Black Plague.

But, the best part was sharing what they learned with the grandparents!