We read more about Rome and learned that a triumph was held to honor conquering military generals. They were presented with golden laurel wreaths which we learned was a symbol for royalty and power.
To help with time, I made a pattern and cut a lot of the laurel leaves out of yellow paper.
We didn't paint the leaves... The kids used a brown coloring pencil to make the leaf lines.
The kids used glue to place the leaves around the green strip of paper to make the wreath.
They had a fun time making these and actually wore them around for a few days.
We talked about the terrible violent emperor of Rome, Nero, who persecuted Christians. He built a big bronze statue of himself.
We read about Marcus Aurelius and how he was a famous Roman emperor who was a stoic who tried to do what was right.
We finished the week learning that Constantine made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire after he had a dream about a flaming cross. He placed crosses on the shields of the soldiers and he won the battle!
We started reading 'Leif the Lucky'. The Vikings raided parts of the Roman Empire.
In Science, we learned that planets are fixed in their orbit around the surround. It's takes 365 days for earth to go around the sun!
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