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 This week we learnt about the black death and the beginning of the French and Britain nationalism. We played the simulation of the black death and it was quite interesting! Look at the actual simulation that we learnt from here  We used cards instead of colored blocks. And we made the black death lapbook component from Project Passport: Middle Ages . I think she makes the BEST and most creative lapbook components! We also talked about the hundred years war and Joan of Arc. For Science, we learnt about the earth and how perfect it is for us. I spent a LONG time figuring out how to make this lapbook component and I'm very proud of myself! We made this layers of the earth pop-up card as a lapbook component. We did more foreign language and read The Cricket of Times Square I make worksheets like these to go with Duolingo (Mandarin) for the younger girls. I'm letting Big Sis take a break from Master Books because I feel that they don't go in depth enough of learning the kingdo

 These two weeks we learnt about Ancient China, Japan, and Russia. A Japan samurai's helmet origami. Marco Polo's travels We memorized Philippians 2:5-11 and read about the last week of Jesus. Science We learnt about Mercury and Venus. These are the lapbook components we did for Science. For fun we are reading "Cricket in Times Square". Other things Big Sis celebrated her 13th birthday and I cannot believe she is so big now. This coming week is break week again! Big Sis is baking up a storm from the cookbook she got as a present from Big Bro. Lemon Poppyseed Cookies Berries Crème Brule.

 New Year's Week. Not that easy to finish school. Also, I have been feeling a little under the weather for the last two days of the school week. Nevertheless, we studied China, and parts of the ancient China History from Shang Dynasty to Qin Dynasty. For Science we studied about the Sun and made a lapbook component of the 10 interesting facts of the Sun. And...we celebrated New Year! It was the first year the kids stayed up (minus baby of course). We ordered Japanese food, had nachos, drinks, played Ticket to Ride, watched "Back to the Future", and had A BLAST. It was really really fun. Near midnight, we facetimed my family in Singapore and they rang in the New Year with us. Yes, the promise that never fails. For 2021.