Oh my... Wait... There is a Western Hemisphere? People actually inhabited somewhere outside Egypt and Mesopotamia? While I love MFW, a valid criticism is its laser like focus on "Biblical" history to the exclusion of other cultures. So it was nice to hop across the Atlantic and for the blink of an eye look at the Ancient Americas. I will admit it's hard to find bookbasket books on this area that are time appropriate. Most of the books available tell about these cultures as the Spanish explores encountered them 1500 years later, but that being said it was a lovely break. We talked about the Olmecs,Aztecs, and Incas. We did some circular weaving for an art project which the girls really loved.
In other subjects the number of vocabulary words/roots has gotten to the point that we needed a new way to review so we made a matching game.
In Bible we continued on with the Exodus and worked on a map.
In science we learned about freezing points and how dilutants effect those. The kids loved the experiment explaining why salt works to "melt" ice ( FYI it doesn't melt it.).
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