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April 14-17    DK. First History Encyclopedia -  Kingfisher Encyclopedia of History - First Farmers April 14-17   E. H. Gombrich. Little History of the World      - Once Upon a Time (Causal Nature)      - The Greatest Inventors of All Time      - The Land by the Nile  Kingfisher Encyclopedia of History      - The First Humans  DK First History Encyclopedia      - Early Humans (Instructional Reading)      - Stone Age (Instructional Reading)  History as it Happened (Geography)      - Prehistory      - Africa  Oral Narrations: - Ancient Egypt Facts Projects & Topics: - Decoding Phonetic Hieroglyphs - King Tut (Observe & Copy//spacial reasoning, art & motor skills) -Greek Amphora - Ea-Nasir & Ancient Scams - Writing in Alphabetical Hieroglyphs  - Ancient Egyptian Memes - Ancient Instruments: Ocarina, Lyre - Ancie...

April  20-24 Reading - Skills:  DK. First History Encyclopedia / Stone Age (Instructional) Reading - Literature:  World Book. Enigmas of History - The Mysteries of the Trojan War / The Trojan War/ The Story of the War   Oral Narrations: The Mysteries of the Trojan War - The Story of the War (Summary of the Iliad)      There was a party and a bunch of goddesses and gods there, but Eris didn't get invited because she was the goddess of discord. She got a golden apple with an engraving that said "to the most beautiful". So three people fighted over it and then they chose some guy eventually and he chose the third goddess because she promised a hot babe, Helen.      But Helen was already married so the king of Sparta, to get her back, put an expedition against Troy.  Grammar: (Kumon) Irregular Plural Nouns Verbs Spelling: Dolch Words/Spelling Rules Which/Witch Write Very Every Does Their There They're Blue Eight Laugh Together Writi...

April 13-17  Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia  Chapter 1. Planet Earth Fossils and Geological Time - comprehension & finding information 1.  What is a fossil?      "... the preserved remains of a once living organism." 2. How old is the Earth?      "...Earth's history began over 4.55 billion years ago." 3. What part of an organism usually survives to become fossils?      "....usually only the hard parts such as shells or bones survive." 4. What is radioactive dating?      "Some minerals can be accurately dated by calculating the amounts of radioactive elements within them... which decay at fixed rates." 5. What ended the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago?      "...thousands of species, including dinosaurs... became extinct... an asteroid hit earth..." 6. What usually caused mass extinction events?      "... mostly volcano induced climate change. Rarely... large asteroids or...

Ancient India Hinduism & Buddhism Adapted excerpt from The Dhammapada , by Eknath Easwaran;      Like the Buddha, the sages of the Upanishads did not find the world capricious . Nothing in it happens by chance – not because events are predestined , but because everything is connected by cause-and-effect . Thoughts are included in this view, because they both cause things to happen and are aroused by things that happen. What we think has consequences for the world around us, for it conditions how we act.         All these consequences (for others, for the world, and for ourselves) are our personal responsibility. Sooner or later, due to the laws of nature, it is sure to come back to u s. Someone who is always angry, to take a simple example, is bound to provoke anger from others. More subtly , a man who pollutes the environment will eventually have to breathe the air and drink the water that he has helped to poison.    ...

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