For Bible History, we went through Nehemiah. It was interesting to see his faith, and fun to tie some of it into Babylonian history. Rabbit did awesome memorizing the Isaiah 40 passage. I am so proud of her.
These two weeks focused mainly on Greece. We learned about drama and the Olympics. It was also interesting to find out about the start of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. We finished up learning about Alexander the Great. It was too bad he died so young. But, I also felt like it was God's timing again.
In Science, we finished up Archimedes and the Door of Science. Rabbit got the concepts pretty well. I love the idea of just analyzing things and studying the universe and asking questions. It was neat to see how science got started.
There were two things recommended in the manual we didn't do. The first was to hold a mini-Olympics. I didn't tell the kids to do it, but I think Rabbit was reading about it in one of the book basket books, and after lunch one day I could hear them out in the yard having contests that were like Olympics. We didn't do the end of year Greek feast, but that was fine.
Rabbit did okay with the Vocabulary words. She missed 2 on her "final" test for vocabulary.
We didn't do all of the God and the History of Art the last two weeks. The Old Schoolhouse was having a sale, and I bought the Draw and Write Through History books and Rabbit did a couple of drawings from there, instead.
We enjoyed reading Aesop for Children. Some of the tales we've heard, but many were new. It was fun to discuss the truth of some of them, and amazing how many applied to current life.
Overall, Creation to the Greeks was a great year. Nothing took overly long (except maybe some of the art work and acting out the 10 Plagues). It is a different flavor than Exploring Countries and Cultures. Some weeks there wasn't much for the book basket. But toward the end there were some great books. The boys joined in for some of the Science. Science was, well, hit or miss. Sometimes the experiments wouldn't work, even after posting over on the message board. Sometimes we didn't do them. We don't have any South-facing windows, and window ledges or place to put things in front of a window are few and far between, so things requiring growing plants during the window months weren't done. But, I think it was good.
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