Aqueducts, Big Bang, and Chroma

Here the kids have designed their own aqueduct.. Please notice the water is traveling down the aqueduct into a public bath where the barbies are bathing.
I am sure all of the kids will remember who were the first people to use aqueducts and that the Romans also had public baths.

The rest of our day was taken up with all the book work. The older kids did English today, turning asking sentences into telling sentences and diagramming them. While they did this the younger ones made tents in the living room. All the kids played together in the living room with the tents and pretended they were a search and rescue team, with Trixy as the lead search dog.

In our science we learned about Venus, that its rotation is opposite of everything else and that this is a great proof that the big bang didnt happen. If there was a big bang everything would be rotating in the same direction. (of course Nathan had to add.. And it says in the Bible that God made everything mom!) ..
Venus day is long than its year and the farther away a planet is from the sun the longer its year.

In our reading of Phantom we got to meet Chroma, the leader of the color symphony. The symphony plays instruments but color comes out instead of music. They play the sun sets and every other color in the world. We looked up Chroma in the dictionary and learned it was Greek for Color!

Also.. Aqueduct is Latin.. Aque-water and ductus for channel.

For PE today all the kids walked/ran on the treadmill and we did stretches. We also had a competition to see who could hold the forearm plank the longest amount of time.

At lunch we talked about different scriptures we could remember and things we remembered about the Romans.

A great day!