The Preparing Hearts for His Glory
We learned Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, sent a threatening letter on a scroll to King Hezekiah in Judah.
We got to make our own and used a brown paper bag for our scroll project. We cut the bottoms off and then up one side.
The kids wadded up, wrinkled, balled, threw, stomped on, etc.... until their brown sack.... errrrr...... scroll paper was nice and soft.
Next, they painted water onto one side of the scroll and let it dry.
I wrote out the cursive in pencil and then let my non-cursive 8 yo, trace over top of it.
She was proud!
The boys were both able to write it in cursive on their own. They were very proud of their beautiful scrolls!
We tied our scrolls and the kids played around a bit delivering special messages.
We learned that when King Hezekiah got the letter, he went to the temple and laid it out before God and prayed. God answered his prayer. Sennachcherib's army was destroyed and didn't even set a foot into Jerusalem.
We learned of another important scroll God gave Jeremiah a message for his people. King Jehoiakim heard the words, he ignored them, and cut them out of the scroll to burn them. God's word still came true.
I can't tell you how amazed I am at this cursive! I love reading beautiful cursive. My ds has done so well in his learning and come so far in his penmanship.
The kids used Draw, Write through History to learn to draw a big fish and a Merchant ship like Jonah may have been on. I love seeing their drawings improve!
We learned about what ingredients are needed for a fossil: quick burial, water in the right amounts, and suitable materials.
Noah spent 120 years building the ark and warning the people about the great flood.
The kids learned that it is hard for scientists to put together dinosaur bones.
Our experiment had the kids each draw their own dinosaur creation without showing the others, then cut it up into 12 pieces before anyone saw what it looked like. The kids had to try to put each other's drawing back together which proved to be difficult without knowing what it looked like to start with.
It was easy for the one who knew what it looked like.
They decided that had they seen the original picture it would've been much easier to put together. Since scientists have never seen what dinosaurs look like it is very difficult for them to put together.
Our written narration this week was about King Nebuchadnezzar and his grand square city. The kids loved the idea of a hillside on top of a palace but, were disappointed to learn that he burned down Solomon's golden temple and took the people as prisoners.
Resurrection to Reformation
This week he learned about monks, Marco Polo, and the Mongols.
He learned Marco Polo was from a rich family in Italy where noodles were made. Marco Polo also saw Chinese noodles on his trip to China.
We were supposed to make homemade egg noodles but, honestly... I dropped the ball.
We were so busy we skipped the homemade part and he made extra wide egg noodles with Parmesan and butter. I know... right?!?! I feel a little bad about that one but, the kids loved them and told him he did a great job though.
He learned that during the Middle Ages falconry was a sport and greyhounds were rescued from extinction by the clergy and bred as hunting dogs for nobility. They were considered to be very valuable.
We are still working on giving a little more effort in art projects. It looks like he started on these and then just didn't finalize his work.
You might be a homeschooler if you are growing bacteria this week in the fridge and on the counter top. :p
And we were also waiting one week to see what happens to bananas as they decompose. We added yeast to one of them.
The yeast fungus is deteriorating the banana faster.
It was beautiful weather this week in Virginia so our kids of course spent a lot of time outside! So thankful for the the blessing of beautiful fall weather well into the season.
Thank you for following our homeschooling journey!
See you next week!
