{"id":573225,"date":"2008-08-11T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/08\/11\/homeschool-highlights-2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:12:00","slug":"homeschool-highlights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/08\/11\/homeschool-highlights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very lightly doing anything right now.&nbsp; Here are a few of the activities to recap:<\/p>\n<p>Vacation Bible School starts this week.&nbsp; I will go with them.&nbsp; We are all looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the writing and language arts lesson is to have them &quot;Write It Big&quot;.&nbsp; Here they are writing one of the words BIG&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3241\/2754817522_7a0d9e4514.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3030\/2754818006_460c798da9.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For history, we read a little bit about the ancient Egyptians and Romans.&nbsp; We learned:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Egyptians:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>both men and women wore makeup<\/li>\n<li>at a party, scented fat was placed on guest&#8217;s heads.&nbsp; As it melted, it covered them in scent.<\/li>\n<li>Rich children learned to read on write on paper made from papyrus reeds.<\/li>\n<li>they used picture writing called hieroglyphics.<\/li>\n<li>Kings were buried in pyramids.<\/li>\n<li>When a king died, he was wrapped in linen and became a mummy.<\/li>\n<li>Robbers would try to steal the treasures buried in the tomb with the king.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Romans:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>most did not have kitchens and ate at markets.<\/li>\n<li>rich people has art on the floor made of colored stone, called mosaics.<\/li>\n<li>wealthy Romans lay on couches for meals.<\/li>\n<li>A man wore a toga, a woman wora a stola<\/li>\n<li>The Roman army was very organized and conquered much land<\/li>\n<li>Gladiators were men who fought to the death for sport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The boys wanted to see examples of mosaics, so we looke dup some on the computer.&nbsp; We found a &quot;make your own mosaic&quot; site.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;R&#8217;s version:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3017\/2753988277_2d491410d6.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A&#8217;s version.&nbsp; When I asked him what it was, he said it was &quot;a ladder climbing up to a chicken.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3278\/2753987907_3e86dfed72.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Read Alouds<br \/>\n<\/strong>We are enjoying reading the Hardy Boy mysteries.&nbsp; We finished book one and have started book two.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very lightly doing anything right now.&nbsp; Here are a few of the activities to recap: Vacation Bible School starts this week.&nbsp; I will go with them.&nbsp; We are all looking forward to it. Part of the writing and language arts lesson is to have them &quot;Write It Big&quot;.&nbsp; Here they are writing one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}