Homeschool Weekly - Week Ending 04-24-09

This was another great week for school.

By the way each of the names of the books we use below is also a link to the book. A place where you can see it and buy it if you want to. So if you are interested in the resources I use just click the link to see a picture of it and a place to purchase it if you want.

History:
We covered from lesson 69 - 74
Mystery of History Vol. 2 Early Church-Middle Age
and that covered these subjects

• Roger Bacon
• Genghis Khan
• Kublai Khan
• Marco Polo
• William Wallace
• Robert Bruce
• Dante
• Aztecs
  

We also read about some of those subjects in:
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Story of the Middle Ages
100 Most Important Events in Christian History

In Choosing Your Way Through the World’s Medieval Past we did:

• Adventure 12 - When Great Adventure Called (about Marco Polo and the Crusades)
• Adventure 14 - Medieval Craftsperson

The boys love these stories. They are like the old choose your own adventure type books I read as a child, except they are about History. We read all the Choosing Your Way Through the World’s Ancient Past and now are enjoying Medieval.

In Medieval Messenger we read about

• Two new inventions - spectacles and a crane
• Genghis Khan
• Superstitions
  

In Everyday Life: Middle Ages we read and did some pages from chapter 11

They also:

• Did the Types of Castles Mini Book from http://highland.hitcho.com.au (click the first link to get the mini book, click the second link to go to the owners site for many other freebies). Especially good are these parts of her website http://highland.hitcho.com.au/ancienthistory.htm and http://highland.hitcho.com.au/tog2.htm
• did the Maya and Aztec sections of the Maya, Aztec and Inca Lapbook - I can't do a link for you now because it is still a Super Member only offering. I got it free last month and it was quite timely. We have enjoyed all the lapbooking we have done so far this year. We will do the Inca mini books the last week of school.
• read Aztecs - a Kids Discover Magazine edition
• read Growing Up In Aztec Times
  
• put Timeline Figures in their Timeline

For Science:
We did Five Kids and a Monkey Solve the Great Cupcake Caper. We read the book on Monday and did the activities in the Unit Study booklet on Tues. - Friday. I did an Amazon search and found the link to the book above but they said the set with the unit study book is not available anymore... that's too bad, it is great fun!

Math
Nathan Teaching Textbooks Geometry
Christopher Saxon 76

Language Arts
Copywork - whatever they want
Grammar
Nathan - Easy Grammar Plus
Christopher - Daily Grams Grade 6

That was our week. It was a great one.
I hope your week was great too.
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Debbie