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This week Big Bro has a full-blown schedule. He did: History Bible Writing (Language) Geometry Chemistry Foreign Language Personal Finance Introduction to Film (Art) ...and P.E. because he would go for a run or walk almost every day. That is quite a lot. He also did the first writing assignment (screenplay) from the Writers' Inc. book. I rather like how they teach and the rubric they provided. This is a warm up for him since he already did a screenplay on his own before. Intro to Film He did really well for the first quiz! The kids finished the Microsoft Excel class with dad. Love this dad. =) Now onto Powerpoint. AND...onto a break week. Link to our materials here

Bible This week we learnt more about how the bible came to us. And we started to memorize the New Testament books. History We learnt about Julius Caesar this week. (A Big Week! ) =) We drew some postcards Here's an updated map of Rome by 44 B.C. We wrote more newspaper articles. We then went on to learn about the daily life of the Romans. We watched a number of videos on the life of the Romans. They were really fun! These pages from Project Passport (Ancient Rome) are really fun! For the newspaper, there are some ad pages which are really interesting We did a "recline and dine" guide and we might use some ideas for our Roman meal in a couple weeks. We added more to the snapshots We made a Roman home page. We continued the reading of Bronze Bow. Art We were going to do a laurel wreath art, but I think I would make a wreath pattern on a pie instead, one day. Science We learnt more about the brains, nerves, and reflexes. We did an experiment to see how the hypothalamus regu

Yay! The 10th Grader survived his first week. 😀 It was a light week, as always. But he did really well. He did Geometry from EasyPeasy and I felt he did a really good job! This year for Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, instead of letting him choose which internet links to look at, I gave him a document to guide him in the links, and he has to write some recap notes, or interaction notes. this is an eg. For bible, I am giving him some follow up work too. I think this keeps him accountable with his work. I made some quick quizzes for Mark. I'm going to put these quizzes/notes/interactions I made into a page, so that I can keep adding on to them. He also started reading  Julius Caesar Next week it will be full steam, adding on chemistry, foreign language, personal finance, and intro to film. PHEW!

We took a week's break and we're ready to be back to school...again! Computer Daddy continues his 3 times weekly 15 mins every time computer lessons with the children. They are learning Microsoft Excel now. He is amazing!! History We learnt about the wars fought after Rome became a republic and the girls wrote an article on the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 B.C. 3rd Grader 6th Grader 8th Grader We also learnt about the Punic Wars and how the republic started to falter. We read/drew some postcards. (These are super fun!!) We did an interesting page on the Cursus Honorum and the SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus, the Senate and the people) These are the snapshots this week I love these! A fan deck for the famous people of Rome. We also started mapping out Rome's conquests. Art We drew Hannibal and his elephants (from Draw and Write Through History ) on the postcards Read-A-Loud We started reading Bronze Bow Latin Roots We learnt the words Unus, Duo, Tres, Quattuor and we did a sm