Week 18

OK, I have just been lame about posting any of our creative stuff lately. I just have not taken the time to scan and upload or get the pictures I have taken onto the blog. Oh well. Our unit celebration is next week and I'll get some pictures of that and then start afresh with Unit 3!

This week our focus was The Counter-revolution along with William of Orange and the Huguenots.

History: This week we studied about Henry VIII, and John Calvin and the Reformation.

Annsley:

Seth:

Together:

Literature:

Project:We designed Elizabethan masks, which we will make next week and wear them at the Unit Celebration.

Week 17

History: This week we studied about Henry VIII, and John Calvin and the Reformation.

Annsley:

Seth:

Together:

Dictation: We did quotes from John Calvin this week.

Literature:

Memory

Every week the kids draw a poem out of our past memory work to polish and perform for me. I decided to use my new Flip Camera to record them. They were happy to both have chosen short poems this week! :-)

Week 16

History:

Literature:

Fine Arts:

Dication: Martin Luther quotations.

We did not do any projects this week, but we did watch the movie Luther.

Week 15

History: This week we went into the Reformation and Erasmus.

Literature:

Church History:

Fine Arts:

Dictation: We used quotes by Martin Luter for dictation this week

Notebook Pages: We did a mini-book on Ersasmus and looked up pictures of the Northern Renaissance.

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.