Week 22: Feb 23-27

Religion & Bible

Reading

Writing

MaTh

Memorizing times tables one through 6

review multiplication sums

Science

Stars

-describing stars

-constellations

-the death of a star

-supernovas

-black holes

Language/Spelling/Grammar

History & Geography

The Turks: c. 950-1450

Triumphs of the Turks

-winning land

-the crusaders fight back

-the end of the Seljuks

-the rise of the Ottoman Empire

-map of the Ottoman Empire

-the fall of Constantinople

Art & Music Appreciation

Wofgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro 

Art: study in faces

"Girl with a Turban" c.1665 by Jan Vermeer

"Nusch" 1937 by Pablo Picasso

Mbuya mask, about 1000 years old by an unknown artist from Zaire, Africa

"Summer" 1573 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Art project: 

1. cut out a big face from a magazine

2. cut smaller fruits, veggies and plants

3. arrange plants, fruits and veggies on the face trying to match up shapes

Physical Education