Roman Houses

They had an opening in the middle of their house which was called a "compluvium". There was either a indoor garden in the middle or...
and "atrium" (or hall) or both.

Under the left roof flap:
They had no electricity and used oil lamps.
There is a mural of the countryside painted on the far wall.
They had no windows onto the busy (and noisy) street.
Rich families had piped in water and even their own lavatory.

The house flaps to the left.
They invented underfloor heating. This is a photo of the ruins showing the pillars under the floor.

The photo flaps to the left.

This explains how it worked.

The top flap of the roof:
A picture of an apartment building and information about them.

The fire flaps up and left.

Then a page flaps down.

The bottom flap of roof:
Information about the public lavatories.
And a flower box.

The flower box flaps down.

The Baths

A nice picture that has lots of information about the public Bath Houses.
The top and left flaps.
The right and bottom flaps.

Feasts & Food

A plate with different fruit.
Each flap has some interesting information on it.
In the middle is a picture of a kitchen and all the slaves getting the feast ready.

The kitchen flaps to the left to show what the feast looks like.

In the middle on the top is some food preparation. The bottom three are the three courses of the meal and examples of what they would have had.

Shops & Market Day

This third section is about the shops and markets.
Here I am writing a bit about the shops and markets under each letter.

The letters flap open to show what the shops and market could look like as well as the coins that the Romans used.

Puzzle finished

Here I am putting the last peace into the 1000 peace puzzle of a Roman Villa that Mom and I build in just 1 week.

We listened to a lovely story set in Roman times while we built. It is called "The Roman Mysteries: The Thieves of Ostia".

Ostia is the port city just 20km from Rome.

City

The second section is showing what a typical Roman city looked like.

The key on the left shows all the different buildings.

The city flaps open. On the right is a picture of what the forum might have looked like.

In the middle there is a nice picture of Romans building an aqueduct and road.

The middle picture flaps up to show a photo of an Aqueduct. This is what is still left of it after almost 2000 years (the modern city is seen on the right).
The aqueduct photo flaps to the left to show how they made their roads.

And that flaps to the right to show a photo of what is left of one of the Roman Roads in modern time.

Map

The first section of my scroll.
This map shows the Roman Empire at it's greatest in AD 100.
I have included the Legend of the start of Rome and the Greek word "Italos".

The picture of Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf.

"Italos" means "bull-calf".

The details of the story of Romulus and Remus.

How "Italy" got it's name. "Land of calves".

Ancient Rome Scroll

I have started a unit study on Ancient Rome. Mom read about "lap books" and she came up with the good idea to do a "lap scroll" instead of a book because the Romans used scrolls.

I am very excited about this unit study. We have so many books out the library (at least 20), an Audio Book, a video and a puzzle.