Rome to Reformation 2020-2021 Week 32

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

We also finished Tucker's Countryside. We really really enjoyed this sequel to The Cricket in Times Square. =)

Comments

Online Resources: Sesame Street Games

I love the Sesame Street Games ...I think they are the best for preschoolers. They teach important concepts, at the same time, making computer skills real easy. For eg, there is no "click and drag"...that's hard for them...there's "click" "move" "click". There are some games Ian really likes...(click on photo for the games) That's the Wheels on the Bus song (you press the keys foe interactive movements) Patterns. Seasons. Fun for the kids. Walking the dogs...numbers. This is alltime favorite. First you make a pitcher of lemonade. Then depending on how many monsters come, you click however many cups. I love it!

Science 2015/2016: Human Body Recap

We really had fun learning about the Human Body this year. I thought it would be meaningful to consolidate our learning. We enjoyed the Body Book more than I thought we would. I did do most of the cutting though. We also enjoyed the different videos we watched and the experiments. I think this is the most successful science year yet. The five senses Tongue the Ear The Skin The Eye Skeleton Joints Long Bone Tooth Brains Spinal Cord Digestive System Stomach The Lungs The Heart The Urinary System The Muscle Look through all our experiments and videos here .

MFW Kindergarten S-Sun Unit 2012

Tactile "s" (we didn't get Laurie, we got the $1 from Staples. ;P) Sun Dot-to-dot Arranging the cards and singing A-a-apple song Handwriting A collaborative project: The Sun Plate Finished project (it is good to have ONE project in the house) Big brother wanted to do his own version Yup! Back to the cutting and pasting I really like the new Math pages She was quite good in the drawing page. Morning Board (Yup! I definitely make things A LOT easier for me this time around, compared to here ) Earth and Sun Books we read PRESCHOOL The pre-preschooler was very happy she did the puzzle Dot-a-dot worksheet Shadow game (a new folder game we got here . Will use it for leaves too) Resources for S-Sun, see here

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