HISTORY 2 - we learned about Clovis - the king of the Franks who united Gaul and became the first Christian king in Europe. the boys really got into his story - all Frankish kings had to have long hair or they couldn't be king. he doubled the Christian membership when he converted his people. we also learned about Charlemagne (means Charles the Great in French) who expanded the Frankish empire to include parts of what are now Italy and Germany. he was into learning and one of his abbots developed the alphabet with lower case letters and added spaces between words for the first time. we reviewed a lot about what we've learned so far about the Middle Ages.
SCIENCE 2 - learned about Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone. talked about how sound travels (it's all vibration) and how the telegraph was used. we made a whisper phone using tin cans and string. they thought this was really funny and I showed them my ancient phone with the cord on it. they couldn't believe that people could only walk as far as the cord could go and still talk on the phone. I told them that the phone is a recent invention - 150 years old - and they thought that that was like a million years ago! "that's not recent, Ms. Rachelle! that's so old!" I told them that cell phones have only become common since shortly before they were born and they couldn't believe that either. we took the unit assessment and they did very well. I will still review pitch and volume occasionally because they sometimes get them mixed up.
FOR NEXT WEEK: make sure the next unit for science 2 is in their folders. we'll do the point folders on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend! Rachelle
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