Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Week 14

Back to school after a wonderful vacation and snow-filled Christmas!! Oh, it is hard to get back into the grove, especially when you are a ten year old boy!!

History: This week we looked at the Aztec and Inca civilizations, focusing on the Spanish conquest and Cortes.
Annsley:





Seth:






Together:






Fine Art: We did Chapter 3 in the Art for Kids book. We also looked at more Renaissance paintings, specifically Venetian art.






Dictation: For dictation I pulled an excerpt from the World Book about the Aztec civilization.

Writing: We are going to be writing a research paper over the next few weeks. This week we chose our topics. Annsley and Seth will be doing the Aztecs.

Geography: This week we did a map of Central and South America during the time of the Aztec and Inca Empires.
Timeline: This week we added Pizarro and Cortes to the timeline.

Notebooking Pages:






























Projects: This week we made a hydrometer from the Leonardo book.

2 comments:

Lori C., Texas said...

Great week!

Lepidoptera said...

How do you get your lettering, etc. on your notebook pages to look so nice? These are surely not done by hand entirely. I would be interested in knowing what you use.