School Summary - Diving into Ancient Rome & Meeting Julius Caesar

Tenor's self-portrait for science

I respectfully ask that you not pin pictures of my children to Pinterest. Thank you!

A Summary of August 12-23

We had another 1/2 week of sorts where we did our My Father's World studies and electives but put the 3 Rs on hold. Our second week was a full week of everything. While the work wasn't overwhelming, the attitudes everyone had didn't quite help things go smoothly. We've been wrestling through those issues and trying to still get the schoolwork done. I'm hoping in another week or so we'll be more into the routine of doing school.

Here's what we did these two weeks:

Things that were scheduled:

Math

Language Arts (Grammar, Spelling, Penmanship, Reading, and Writing)
I still need to decide what I'm going to do for Soprano's writing. I just need to sit down and look at the IEW Student Intensive A and figure it out.

Electives:

They started all their electives. The work is spaced out so that it hopefully won't be too much during our weeks with all of our regular work. They continued with Typing and both added in
Spanish, Geography, PA History, and Civics.
Soprano did her first Home Ec lesson and Tenor jumped into Greek.

My Father's World Rome to the Reformation-

At the end of last year, we finished up MFW with Alexander the Great and Ancient Greece. This year we picked up with Ancient Rome.

Bible: We started reading about how the Bible came to be.

Science: I'm not using the anatomy resources as scheduled by MFW. We were blessed to be able to buy a complete set of the Answers in Genesis curriculum so we'll be working out of the Human Body volume but adding in MFW books if they fit. We'll read most of the First Encyclopedia of the Human Body, do a few experiments from The Human Body for Every Kid, and maybe 1 or 2 things the Body Book. I also picked up the Magic School Bus Human Anatomy science kit on Amazon that we'll incorporate. These first two weeks of MFW we did a few introductory lessons, read about Leonardo Da Vinci's scientific work, had a lesson about cells, tissues, and organs, and one on the skeletal system. We did the cell model

Lemon Jell-O and a grape for our cell model

and backbone model from Human Body for Every Kid.

Making the Backbone Model

Soprano's self-portrait for science

Science Body System wheel

History: We read about how Rome was founded,

Soprano's narration about Rome's founding

the Punic Wars, the conquest of Greece, Pompeii, and Julius Caesar.

Soprano's Pompeii worksheet

Tenor's coloring sheet done while we read Augustus Caesar's World

Tenor's Roman School page

I'm also incorporating Story of the World Volume 1 as well as Mystery of History Volume 1.
Week 1, we skipped Streams of Civ on days 1-3. Instead I read SOTW 9209-211, p212-213, and p227-230. Week 2, we skipped the SoC reading and substitued MOH p334-336.
We also made our wax tablets using tan Sculpey clay and little wood 'mosaic' trays from the craft store.

Other MFW: 

Music: Week 2 we started listening to the story of Haydn.

Art: Lots of lessons on perspective in the first two weeks.

Extras:

Web:

The Great Empire Rome

Judea Under Roman Rule

Lebanon Under Roman Rule

Hannibal

Punic Wars: Rome and Carthage

Voyage Inside the Cell

Osmosis Demonstration with a Raw Egg

Osmosis in the Kitchen

Discovery Video: Cells

Mt. Vesuvius in Ancient Rome

Pompeii 

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Summary

BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales: Julius Caesar Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

Julius Caesar (Besame Mucho)

Julius Caesar Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

Dead Sea Scrolls Confirming Today's Scripture

Haydn's Surprise Symphony 2nd Movement

Videos:
Julius Caesar's Rome
Roman City

Favorite Books:

Roman Numerals I to MM by Arthur Geisert
See Inside Your Body by Katie Daynes

Things that we didn't get to:
Cell Activity Video
Rome Reborn Video
The History of Missions Video