A Unit Study on Ancient Rome
Objective: My daughter requested a tour of the ancient world. The second stop was ancient Rome, which we tied in to St. Valentine since it was also Valentine's Day this month. While exploring the ancient world, we wanted to examine some myths, and learn about some of their contributions to science, math and the arts. I create daily worksheets dealing with the days topic and a daily chore. My daughter gets five or six questions while my son gets three or four. I include questions about the activity of the day and if there is room, either math (simple equations or word problems) or language arts questions (like rhyme, syllables, synonyms). Spelling List and Sentence of the Week for K/1st grader : Language Arts lessons include some simple questions about the spelling list, like finding the nouns, making rhymes or counting syllables. We read and write our sentence of the week every weekday. Love, Heart, Red, Pink, White, Pretty, Rome, Volcano, ...