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 We had two weeks break. First we went to Maine for a really nice relaxing family vacation. Then we took another week off. This week, we are back! =) Bible We continue to memorize 1 Cor 13:1-8. We also did the readings on Luke. History This week we learnt about monasteries, the vikings, and life in medieval towns. I added in Project Passport: The Middle Ages (Stop #4,6,8, 16, 20, and 21). The illumination pages are really fun to do! We wrote newspaper articles and advertisements. We did lapbook components We learnt about the town and the feudal system. We also learnt to play Nine Men Morris. We started reading "The Princess and the Goblin" by George MacDonald. It is quite interesting! Science We finished up the lungs model and learnt about immunity as well as a little on genes. Every week we still take a walk around our neighborhood and we spot differences in the surroundings. We also read Book 2 of "God's Design for Sex"  After that we had a lot of teaching an...

 These two weeks we have been busy. And I really forgot I did not blog! =) These are the things we did. Bible We memorized 1 Cor 1-3, 4-5 We were learning about Islam and the girls had some questions. We were so blessed that one of our friends did his dissertation in Islam studies and he was a missionary in India to the Muslims for many years. He zoomed us one day and answered our questions. It was an interesting experience. History We learnt about the Islamic invasion and the barbaric invasion. We learnt about Clovis and the Franks, and the Carolingian dynasty. We also learnt about Charlemagne, the celtic tribes of Britain and how Christianity started to take place in the western Roman world as well. I added in some teaching from Project Passport: Middle Ages (Stop #3). For these two weeks I mostly taught from Streams of Civilization and the girls listened to Story of the World. We finished Twice Freed. The girls colored the Book of Kells. Science We learnt about the circulatory ...