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1st Grade, Rome to Reformation Week 33: Shakespeare, North American Native Americans, Stars

BIBLE We reviewed Philippians 2:2-16 HISTORY We learnt about William Shakespeare and the North American Native Americans Found this easy to read book in the library. The Globe Theatre before Big Sis colored it. We found a FUN book to listen to! For the Star Wars Fan, it is very fun. We borrowed the audiobook and found it more interesting than reading the book. Big Bro happened to find a REALLY cool stick when we played downstairs. Just in time for our arrow experiment this week! We found the "arrow" with paper attached did fly better! LANGUAGE The older kids continued on Rod and Staff English. The older two did a review for  康軒一下  for Mandarin Chinese and Lil Sis did practice on bopomofo MATH We continued to practice Math. Big Bro did some review questions from here  (I only chose SOME questions since these are WAY above level questions) SCIENCE We talked about stars, constellation and the ga...

1st Grade, Rome to Reformation Week 26: Ottoman, Spain, Man on Mat, apostles, farmer

BIBLE We memorized Philippians 2:5-9 We started reading Philippians For Lil Sis, we read about man on the mat, apostles, farmer and the seeds. HISTORY We learnt about the Ottoman Turks, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Henry the Navigator Since there are no more read alouds for the year, I started reading " Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic " to the kids. They really like the books. I got the book for free on Amazon Kindle. LANGUAGE The older kids continued on Rod and Staff English. Lil Sis worked on her bible story reading  and bible notebook.  The older two did revisions on Lesson 5-8  康軒一下  for Mandarin Chinese and Lil Sis did practice on bopomofo We learnt two more Latin words "luna" and "inter" this week.  I found an interesting game for Lil Sis to practice her sight words. I typed in the words instead of using the Dolch List. The older kids continued to read books of intere...

1st Grade, Rome to Reformation Week 25: Black Death, Renaissance, Joan of Arc, NT story for MFW 1st

BIBLE We celebrated 100th Day this week!! So fun! We memorized Philippians 2:5-8  We finished reading the gospel of Luke and the life of Jesus. For Lil Sis, we read about birth of Jesus, Jesus as a boy, Jesus being baptized, and the fishermen story Lil Sis is reading the Reader really well, but needs some prompting for some more difficult words. HISTORY We learnt about the Black Death, Renaissance, Henry V, and Joan of Arc. We finished Dangerous Journey. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! LANGUAGE The older kids continued on Rod and Staff English. Lil Sis worked on her bible story reading  and bible notebook.  The older two did a test on  Lesson 8  康軒一下  for Mandarin Chinese and Lil Sis did practice on bopomofo We learnt two more Latin words "arbor" and "tempus" this week.  We did a revision worksheet. MATH We continued to practice Math. SCIENCE We learnt about Earth t...

1st Grade, Rome to Reformation Week 24: Mongols/Russia, Marco Polo, Venus, Daniel, Esther, Angel to Mary

BIBLE We memorized Philippians 2:5-8 and reviewed the Romans 12 verses on Fighter's Verses App. Lil Sis memorized Prov 12:16 We continued to read on Luke and the life of Jesus. For Lil Sis, we read about Daniel, Esther and the story of Angel talking to Mary This angel "craft was taken from here . We watched the Esther's story on Lego. HISTORY We learnt about the Monguls, Russians and Marco Polo. We looked at pictures and videos of the Forbidden City of Ming Dynasty online. We continued to read Dangerous Journey. We really like this book! LANGUAGE The older kids continued on Rod and Staff English. Lil Sis worked on her phonics, bible books and bible notebook. She finished her workbook and now we will do bible reading, bible notebook and reading everyday. Reading from Frog and Toad I used the erasing method for her to memorize the verse We are two days from 100th day!! (actually we have passed ...

1st Grade, Rome to Reformation Week 15: Muhammad, Muslims and the Islamic Empire, Joseph

BIBLE We continued to memorize 1 Cor 12:1-3 Lil Sis memorized Pr 16:24 Kind words are like honey—     sweet to the soul and healthy for the body We continued to read on Luke and the life of Jesus. We also read about the facts of Muslims and prayed for them. For Lil Sis, she read about the story of Joseph HISTORY We learnt about Muhammad, the Islam religion and the Islamic Empire We continued on Twice Freed. LANGUAGE The older kids continued on Rod and Staff English. Lil Sis worked on her phonics, bible books and bible notebook The older two continued on Lesson 6  康軒一下  for Mandarin Chinese and Lil Sis practiced more of her bopomofo We learnt two more Latin words "discipulus" and "verbum" this week. And we also did a review "test" on the vocabulary words, thanks to mom who generously shared her resource on the facebook group. We did Spelling Power. MATH Lil Sis...