Week 34-TOG

This week the focus has been on Roman life at the end of the empire with an emphasis on the activities on the Colosseum. We are also talking about the early church.

History:

Literature:

Church History:

Dictation: We used the first half of 1 Corinthians 13 for our dictation this week.

Writing: This week we wrote about the gladiators and the activities at the Colosseum.

Memory: We are working on adding 1 Corinthians 13 to our memory list.

Notebooking: We colored a picture of the Colloseum, listed vocab words that have to do the early church, and found some pictures of the Roman catacombs. (pictures to come soon)

Week 33-TOG

This has been a crazy week. I have had three extras to homeschool this week (my neices and nephew) since my sil is packing boxes to move. It has been great to have them with us! We have also had dress rehearsals every night for Annsley's Beauty and the Beast. This has made for a full (but fun) week!

History: The focus this week was finishing up the daily life during Roman times. We focused on the five good emperors.

Literature:

Bible: This week the focus was on the early church and the book of Acts. We also started the Church history book.


Dictation: This week our dictation was famous Roman sayings.

Memory: We worked on memorizing the first 15 Romans emperorsWriting: The kids wrote about the erruption of Mt Vesuvius and the city of Pompeii.

Notebooking pages: (coming soon)

Projects: We painted murals like they did in the Roman times to put on the walls. (We didn't paint them directly on the walls, much to the kids' chagrine!)

And, of course.....we took a Roman bath. (Men and women separate)

Week 32-TOG

How is it that we are already to Week 32?!? It feels like I just started Tapestry of Grace, and now we are almost done with Year 1. This week the main focus was on the first five Roman emperors and daily life in the Roman Empire. We also looked at the death and resurrection of Jesus.

History:

Literature:

Dictation: We used the Be-attitudes as our dictation for this week

Memory: We added the Be-attitudes and the first five Roman emperors to the memory CD.

Writing: This week for our writing we wrote a paragraph about Nero and his terrible influence on Rome.

Evaluation: We did the Upper Grammar fill in the blank quiz to test some of the vocab we learned in this lesson.

Notebooking Pages: We did the lapbooks on the Resurrection and What the Cross Means to me.

Fine Arts:This week we are going to paint a mural (not really on the wall, I hope) in the Roman style.

Week 31-TOG

History: This week the main thread of the history was the transformation from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire and some of the major people from this period.

Literature: Annsley is reading Outcast and Seth started Benjamin's Secret Journal.

Dictation: Dictation this week was famous Roman sayings, including Veni Vedi Vici from Julius Caesar.

Memory: This week we are memorizing a few lines from the Marc Antony speach in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. I was going to have them do more, but this was all I felt we could reasonably tackle this week:

Friends, Romans, countryment, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;

The evil that men do lives after them,

The good is oft interred with their bones,

So let it be with Caesar...The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answered it...

Writing: This week we wrote about Julius Caesae. We will continue to use the IEW, unit 4 type writing for the rest of the year.

Bible: The focus this week was on the parables of Jesus and we read Matthew 13-25, making a lapbook of some of the parables. The kids actually wrote the parables in their lapbooks in Spanish as their Spanish assisgnment this week.

Evaluation: The kids did the matching quiz on Roman leaders.

Notebooking pages:

Fine Arts:We made a celtic cross bookmark this week. (Pictures coming soon)

Week 30-TOG

History: This week the main thread of the history was the people and events of the Punic Wars. We also focused a little on the lives and tactics of Roman soldiers.

Literature: Annsley is continuing with In Search of a Homeland and Seth started Benjamin's Secret Journal.

Dictation: Dictation this week was The Lord's Prayer because we were talking about Jesus's ministry to the disciples. I realized that Seth had never memorized this and so it was also on our memory CD this week.

Writing: This week we wrote about Hannibal and his role in the Punic Wars. We will continue to use the IEW, unit 4 type writing for the rest of the year.

Bible: The focus this week was on the miracles of Jesus and we read Matthew 8-12, making a lapbook of some of the miracles.

Evaluation: The kids did the fill in the blanks quiz on the Punic Wars for the dialectic level this week.

Notebooking pages:

Fine Arts:We made an aqueduct this week.