Wow! We're on the homestretch!
After this week we will take a week's vacation and then we will be left with one week of history, and two easy weeks.
This week we focused on the artists of the Renaissance.
Beginning with Shakespeare.
I made this globe theatre using the materials here and I would not have been able to do this model without the instructions here. I put a toothpick as reference. This is a minute model! =)
The girls found information about Shakespeare from here, wrote 4-5 interesting/important facts about him, and formulated these paragraphs. Then I asked them to do dress-up/openers. This is an IEW way of teaching structure and style in writing. I really like it.
Then we searched up on his plays.
We then learnt about Leonardo Da Vinci (and Michelangelo) through some reading and videos.
This is about Da Vinci.
Lastly we did a lapbook on the different events of the Renaissance.
By the way, here is where I got the lapbook components.
Science
This is our last module! We talked about stars.
And we made a solar system model. So fun! We got it from homeschoolsciencetools. If you have other things you need to get from them, they have reasonably priced science materials.
On the side note, I found this fun app (Seek) and it helps me know the many different species of plants and animals as we took our walks. It is very enlightening! I'm excited to use it for next year.
plums
Saucer Magnolia
Border Forsythia
Comments
Post a Comment