Friday, August 26, 2011

SL Core D Week 17 -LOW Aug 22-26th 2011

This week we finished SL Science Week 3 and Week 4.  We did more Radish experiments and started the Corn & Beans experiment--The Balance.


Our Read Alouds:
The Corn Grows Ripe (Puffin Newbery Library) by Dorothy Rhoads and Jean Charlot

The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin by Cheryl Harness

Time For Kids: Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents by Editors Of Time For Kids


Dd's books this week

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh and Helen Sewell  -finished


Martha Washington: America's First Lady (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Jean Brown Wagoner--still reading




Math this week was a mix of MUS-Gamma and Teaching Textbooks 4 and Math Missions video game and board game and TimesAttack online multiplication game.  We have also been listening to MUS' skip counting songs--focusing on the 6 family.


Our bible this week was another good week from:

Sword Fighting by Karyn Henley




Music this week has focused on:

Hymns 4 Worship: Amazing Grace by Various Artists

Debussy: Clair de lune & Other Piano Favourites by Claude Debussy and Francois-Joël Thiollier


Hands & Hearts : Early American kit--continued

Pictures were posted earlier today, but we redid the Tea Brick.  This time we actually drank the tea from the brick.  Dd made the Talking Feather and the Cross Necklace this week also.


Artistic Creations (sampling)


Tops: Radishes: Green Thumb August 2011

Real leaves-jagged  Cotyledons-heart shaped
Geotropism "Before" shot 8-16-11

The seeds in water grew; the seeds in vinegar &/or salt water didn't
Geotropism-"After" 8-25-11 The seedling was placed upside-down; and is now righting itself
Close-up of "real leaves"

Hands and Hearts Early American History Kit - Aug 2011

H&H Apple Pomander kit
H&H Cross Necklace
These are rubbings from the Tea Brick; then we drank the tea itself-which was good!