Unit 10: Preparing
History: This week's history lessons focused on Ancient Greece and Rome. We started learning about the Greeks last week. We learned about the Phoenicians and where our alphabet came from. The one thing that I love most about our history curriculum is that they do such a great job tying together the world history with Bible history. Really you can't separate the two, but that's exactly what many public school text books try to do. It's really neat though to see how the events of the Bible fit in with the wars, events and different civilizations of those time periods. I'm really glad that my kids are able to learn history this way. We also learned about the harsh lifestyle of the Spartans, the Athenians, the first Olympics, and the founding of Rome. Sis did a written narration on the legend of the founding of Rome. We're really enjoying learning about all these different groups of people. This year we just have an introduction to each of them. Our year is suppose to be a brief overview of all of world history.Starting next year and for the 3 after that, we will begin a 4 year chronological study of history, studying each time period in greater detail...I can't wait to go back to ancient Egypt and Greece and do some of the fun projects that are scheduled!
We learned that the Spartan army used the scytale method to send secret messages that the enemy couldn't read. Sis' history project was to make her own scytale cipher. This was a really fun project. Kids love secret codes and messages. The real scytale messages were written on long strips of leather and wrapped around a cylinder, and then unraveled. The receiver of the message would have to wrap the strip around their own cylinder to read what it said, only someone with the exact same size cylinder could read it! We used white paper, and a paper towel roll. Sis thought it was cool that she has discovered a new way to write secret messages to her friends. Here is a link to a website with instructions for making the project...make a greek scytale cipher
In her Draw and Write Through History Sis only had copy work writing scheduled this week. Sis is an art nut and so she was really unhappy about not having a drawing assignment. So went online to try to find something Greece or Rome related that she could learn to draw. I finally found this awesome Youtube channel called Art for Kids Hub that gives steps for kids to learn to draw...Sis went nuts, she's drawn about 10 pictures watching those videos this week, but the assignment I gave her was to watch a video on how to draw a roman soldier...I was so impressed with the results!! I'm pretty sure this is my favorite drawing she's ever done!
Reading: Sis read "My Father's Dragon" this week as a 2nd adventure book. However she finished it one day, so I gave up on looking for more Adventure books to fill the next 2 weeks and just decided to end our adventure unit early and move on. So, we did our book project for this genre. We used the book "Book projects to Send Home (Grade 4)" for our projects. This project was called "Made for the Movies."
Sis chose "Toliver's Secret" as her book for her project. She had to imagine that her book was being made into an adventure movie. Then design a movie theater poster with one of the most exciting scenes from the book as an illustration and add a catchy captions to make someone want to watch it. Lastly she had to rate the movie with 1-5 stars and write a movie review.Then she had to stand up and present her review and poster to us.
Science: In science we finished learning about the digestive and renal system in our Apologia Anatomy book. We learned about the liver, gall bladder, intestines, urine, and a lot of other yucky stuff I won't mention! We did an experiment with cooking oil, water, and dish soap. The oil represented fats in the chyme. The dish soap, which broke down the globs of oil into small globs, represented how bile breaks up the fats during digestion. Sis also made a comic strip about digestion, and we added digestive and renal system to our little personal person model.
History: This week's history lessons focused on Ancient Greece and Rome. We started learning about the Greeks last week. We learned about the Phoenicians and where our alphabet came from. The one thing that I love most about our history curriculum is that they do such a great job tying together the world history with Bible history. Really you can't separate the two, but that's exactly what many public school text books try to do. It's really neat though to see how the events of the Bible fit in with the wars, events and different civilizations of those time periods. I'm really glad that my kids are able to learn history this way. We also learned about the harsh lifestyle of the Spartans, the Athenians, the first Olympics, and the founding of Rome. Sis did a written narration on the legend of the founding of Rome. We're really enjoying learning about all these different groups of people. This year we just have an introduction to each of them. Our year is suppose to be a brief overview of all of world history.Starting next year and for the 3 after that, we will begin a 4 year chronological study of history, studying each time period in greater detail...I can't wait to go back to ancient Egypt and Greece and do some of the fun projects that are scheduled! 
In her Draw and Write Through History Sis only had copy work writing scheduled this week. Sis is an art nut and so she was really unhappy about not having a drawing assignment. So went online to try to find something Greece or Rome related that she could learn to draw. I finally found this awesome Youtube channel called Art for Kids Hub that gives steps for kids to learn to draw...Sis went nuts, she's drawn about 10 pictures watching those videos this week, but the assignment I gave her was to watch a video on how to draw a roman soldier...I was so impressed with the results!! I'm pretty sure this is my favorite drawing she's ever done!
Reading: Sis read "My Father's Dragon" this week as a 2nd adventure book. However she finished it one day, so I gave up on looking for more Adventure books to fill the next 2 weeks and just decided to end our adventure unit early and move on. So, we did our book project for this genre. We used the book "Book projects to Send Home (Grade 4)" for our projects. This project was called "Made for the Movies." 
Sis chose "Toliver's Secret" as her book for her project. She had to imagine that her book was being made into an adventure movie. Then design a movie theater poster with one of the most exciting scenes from the book as an illustration and add a catchy captions to make someone want to watch it. Lastly she had to rate the movie with 1-5 stars and write a movie review.Then she had to stand up and present her review and poster to us.
Science: In science we finished learning about the digestive and renal system in our Apologia Anatomy book. We learned about the liver, gall bladder, intestines, urine, and a lot of other yucky stuff I won't mention! We did an experiment with cooking oil, water, and dish soap. The oil represented fats in the chyme. The dish soap, which broke down the globs of oil into small globs, represented how bile breaks up the fats during digestion. Sis also made a comic strip about digestion, and we added digestive and renal system to our little personal person model.
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