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We had a most delightful vacation last week and felt that we rested well. This week we continued to learn about the reformers The girls wrote keywords for 4-5 facts about Ann Askew, read their sentences to me (younger ones), then I asked them to do a dress-up. These were their final result I made these posters. We didn't write about John Calvin, but we taught about TULIP. This is for John Knox. The girls made notes for Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, getting their facts from this website . or here I ventured into asking them to do 1 sentence opener as well. I felt that using the IEW way of styling and structuring writing is really effective! This is one of the writings Baby Sis had to do for English. I asked her to do keywords (of facts), and then do a dress-up. Science This week we learnt about Kuiper Belt. When we were in vacation, I downloaded the Skyview Lite App  It was REALLY  REALLY cool to see the constellations!!! This app helped us to find the stars. Otherwise, I don't t...

 This week we learnt about the Reformers. We did some lapbook components on them. I dug out my Institute of Excellence in Writing (Andrew Pudewa) lessons that I got a few years ago and decided I'm going to start teaching writing in a different manner!! Now I'm listening to the lessons DVD by DVD (I'm almost half way). For John Wycliff, I let Baby Sis paste the info about him on the lapbook. For Lil Sis I worked with her using keywords. For John Huss, we read the passage together and wrote the keywords together. If you know IEW, you can see the keywords. Then they have to retell me the sentences they wrote from the keywords. They then wrote the piece out on their own. For Martin Luther, I asked them to do the keywords on their own. This was Baby Sis' Then they retold the story to me and I typed them out. After that I asked them to do one dress up each. Lil Sis did a "who-which" and Baby Sis did a "ly" word.  We did the same for William Tyndale. I als...