2020-2021 Rome to Reformation Week 7

Some interesting side notes of our lives.

We have been trying to spend the Saturdays doing car rides. To visit the five boroughs of NYC. Last week we went to Manhattan. This we went to Brooklyn and saw the first roller coaster, the Cyclone.

I also started diamond painting with my girls.

Big Sis finished her cross-stitch. She did a wonderful job!

Last week we had our first communion at home.

Bible

We read Luke on John's and Jesus' births.

This video from the Bible Project is very helpful

History

This week we went back to Roman history, after a detour to the Roman life.

We learnt about Augustus Caesar, Tiberius, and the Judio-Claudian kings.

The Roman lands by the death of Augustus

We talked about the five emperors during Pax Romana and made this page.

Some of these postcards are just hilarious.

We wrote more articles and read some chapters from the Augustus Caesar's World

We learnt about some more latin words and the girls found it amusing that my name Ann Su is just a scramble away from "annus"

We also finished Bronze Bow. Next we will finish Galen, and go on to Twice Freed.

Science

This week we learnt about the skin

We made one skin model together. It was fun to learn and review the layers.

Observing the skin with and without moisturizer.

8th Grade

Big Sis had quite a few tests this week which she did really well.

She and Big Bro finished a chapter for foreign language (Chinese) and did their test.

She also did more microscope labs on cells.

This is a slide on my cheek cells under 250X. SO. COOL.

That is Spirogyra under 100X

and Spirogyra under 250X

Paramecium under 100X

Paramecium 250X

By the way, this is the microscope we are using. It is affordable and works well for us.

These are more of our lunches

This one was a GREAT hit

Hurricane Isaias swept through NYC and brought down many of our big branches. We saw the devastation when I took Wee Bro on a walk the next morning.

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