Year 5: Rome to The Reformation, Week 1

     We started our fifth year, albeit a week late, but we started!  After placing our order for our My Father's World curriculum I decided to pull up our calendar to start scheduling subjects and saw that we should have already started.  Oops!  Luckily, my order arrived a few days later and I was able to start a week later.

     These were the goodies we got just in the nick of time along with my handy file box that has all their MFW (and any other sheets) organized by week:

     We began our studies in the founding of Rome, which is a bit of a review for the kids since we studied Rome in our Mystery of History Vol. I last year.  First up was a notebooking page about Romulus and Remus:

Next, we got to enjoy a Roman snack (as Roman as I could make it) outside as the Ancient Romans would have done.  I even played music for them:

     We're finishing up Long Story Short, our Bible study, before we move into Old Story New, which ties in with this year's history.  Plus, I love how in depth these books are and how they open up discussion for me and the kids.  MFW had a great project to help the kids remember the different types of books within the Bible.  I prepped it the night before by cutting out the covers and the next day they worked on wrapping and labeling:

     The finished project:

     All in all, in was a pretty good week.  I'm starting out slowly, as always, adding in something new every week.  In about four weeks our schedule will have our full load.  Right now, we're just working on history, reading and math.  Over the next few weeks we'll be adding science, Latin, spelling and writing.  I think that's it.  Well, at least that's it for this post!