History: Sis started learning about the time of King David and the Greeks this week. We learned that although David was a man after God's own heart he still fell into sin. God graciously forgave him and allowed Jesus to be born through David's line.
Above is Sis working on her history timeline .We will study Ancient Greece in greater detail in a later year. This year is an introduction. We learned a little about Greek Mythology. We talked about the fact that the Greeks believed in many gods and that many fairy-tale type stories and poems were written about those gods. Many of the things in our world today, including the planets are still names after the Greek gods. We read the story of Paul and Barnabas in Acts, where the people of Lystra thought Paul and Barnabas were the Greek God's Zeus and Hermes, because they healed a lame man by the power of Jesus. many of the Greek god's were adopted by the Romans of that day. We know only the one true God has the power to heal and is worthy of worship.
Then of course what would a study of ancient Greek be without studying the Trojan war? The craziest thing is that a lot ofthe story of the Trojan war is a legend about the gods. How much of the war part is true we don't know. We read the book "The Trojan Horse."
For Sis's Draw and Write Through History she drew a sheep like David took care of and a Trojan Horse.
For our art/history project we were suppose to make a poster with our name and it's meaning. We didn't like the idea of that project, it just sounded boring to us. So we had a 3D hand art project that we've been wanting to try for a while. We decided to do this for our weekly project instead. Sis loved it! We did however still put her name and it's meaning on our picture. We also still did all of the discussion questions and research in our curriculum that was related to the project. Sis researched why name meanings were important in Bible days. We looked up the meanings to the names Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and Ruth. We discussed how each of the names meanings were significant to the persons life.
Reading and Language: We did a huge review in language this week of everything we have learned and practiced this year up till now including, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, proof reading and sentence diagramming. Sis finished reading Toliver's Secret in her Adventure genera for Drawn into The Heart of Reading. It was suppose to take another 2 weeks, but she begged to read ahead, so looks like she'll be starting a 2nd adventure book next week instead. We also started learning about fables this week. We started reading Aesop's Fables and discussing them. I really like the hard cover copy that came with the curriculum it has beautiful illustrations and contains 20 classic fables. This week we read several of them Sis said her favorite was " The Country Mouse and the City Mouse."
Science: In science we are still learning about the digestive system. We learned all about digestion, the stomach, esophagus, intestines, etc. We also have been learning about teeth because they play a very important roll in the digestion process. One experiment that we did was to see how acidic drinks affect the enamel of teeth. We used a large animal tooth and soaked it in Coke for the week. After only one day our tooth was very badly stained. After a week it was obvious that the Coke was eating away at the enamel of our tooth...gross! We also learned about what happens when we burp, vomit, and use the restroom (to say it politely) GROSS again, but oh so interesting to a 9 year old!
We also did an experiment to see what happens to food in our stomachs. Sis put a piece of bread and a little water in an airtight bag. She then squeezed and released the bag over and over like the muscles of our stomachs contract to break down the food. In a few seconds the bread was all torn apart and broken into smooshy pieces.
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