Weeks 15-22!

We have been enjoying Rome to the Reformation SO much! Weeks 15-21 covered the Middle Ages. We studied the Frankish Empire, the Islamic Empire, castles, knights, monks, the Crusades, Saladin, Richard the Lionhearted, Magna Carta, Robin Hood, William Tell, and much, much more. Since there were so many interesting topics and a great list of book basket titles, we added two extra weeks to get it all in.

Our kindergartner has continued with her daily calendar, 100 chart, and phonics/reading and handwriting. She is also joining in with the history and science portion of RTR.


Our castle is almost done! This is a time-consuming project, but worth the effort.

We have begun Exploring Creation with Astronomy. The kids are quite enthusiastic about it!
Here is our model of the planets -- the project from the TM.

This week we studied the sun. The experiment we did actually worked! We don't always have such success.

This first jar contains only water -- the light shines through and is white on the paper, showing us that the sun would look white if there was no atmosphere around the Earth.



Next we added milk, one dropperful at a time, to represent the dust and other particles in the atmosphere. The light shining through the milky water onto the paper is rosy-orange. From this we learned that at sunset the light must travel further than it does at midday, hitting more dust and particles in the atmosphere. The blue light waves are scattered, but the red waves are able to get through creating the beautiful colors at sunset.




We began our study of Ancient China and learned about the first Emperor of China, the Old Silk Road, and the Han Dynasty.


Jacob enjoying Shrimp Fried Rice for lunch.