SL Week 35 (70th week on Core D) April 30-May 4, 2012

This was a bit of a "light" week.  After the IOWA testing we really wanted a bit of a break.  So, we did our lessons; but not as heavily as we usually do.  We didn't have any planned activities; except AC was coming over on Friday night to spend the night.  We needed to spend some time really cleaning Dd's bedroom and rearranging her furniture, so we got a lot of housekeeping done too.


Tuesday May 2nd, 2012:
We went to the Children's Museum!  
We went to the Science Lab and each made a glove of 4 different seeds.  We also really enjoyed their microscopes and lots of interesting slides.  In the Science Port Dd made a parachute, and especially enjoyed playing the hand-held remote control for various flying aircraft-viewed through a computer.  She could have done that ALL day!  We rode the carosel two times.  Like usual we brought our lunch and ate in the cafeteria.  We spent a great deal of time in the Dinosphere.  We made rubbings from brass reliefs, sculpted dino heads with this cool stuff called: "Think Putty", etc.etc.  We went to the Water Works.  We were at the frog pond when they announced an activity was beginning.  They gave each child a clip-board, binocular, and identification papers.  They had the children listen to a short presentation about pond life, frogs, toads, etc. and then had them go on a frog search. They had to locate each frog/toad and draw an "x" on where they found them on the map located on their clip-board.  Then they had to fill in other supporting information--like sounds, smells, or other items found  (like grasses, fish, snails).  It was a lot of fun.  I've never seen them do that activity before.

This was the lab for the day--making a glove with 4 different seeds inside- it is really fun watching the seed open and the plant begin it's new life.

Bible:
"Who Is God?" by Apologia
Nightly bible: book of Revelations
Praise and Worship CD: "To God be the Glory"


Math:
Life of Fred (LOF)  "Butterflies" Chapter 11, 12, 13, 14,15,16,17,18,19
LOF "Cats" Chapter 1 (again)


Language Arts:
Thank you letter


Art:
Knitting!  really enjoying knitting
Clay Figures (the weird colored, oily clay--not her usual red pottery clay)
Piano playing every day


Music:
Debussy



Audio:
"The Boy of Mount Rhigi" by C.M. Sedgewick - finished
"Percy Jackson and the Last Olympians" by Rick Riordian - finished
"A Wrinkle In TIme" by Madeleine L'Engle - finished




  Dd's Readers:

Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann and Paul Kennedy

Marie-Grace and the Orphans (American Girl) (American Girls Collection) by Sarah M Buckey and Christine Kornacki

  

 The Salem Witch Trials (Graphic History) by Michael Martin and Brian Bascle

"Farewell my Lunchbag" by Bruce Hale

 "Run For the Hills, Geronimo!" by Geronimo Stilton

 

 

SL Week 34 (69th week on Core D) April 23-27, 2012

Week 34 on Core D

This was the BIG WEEK of IOWA TESTING!!  Wed, Thur, and Fri Dd spent her mornings taking standardized tests!! The horror!  This was really hard for Dd and she was not use to this type of thing.  So after testing on Wed. we went to the park and she played with AC; and then we invited AC to come home with us and continue to play at our house.  After testing on Wed. we went to another park and she played with AC.  Then after testing on Fri. we invited GG to go to the YMCA with us and go swimming, and eat at Subway with us too.  Then she came home and played until about 8-ish.  All the playing really helped Dd get a nice reward.

We had our normal IG activities and readings.  We are getting really tired of listening to track 15 on the Sing the Word: Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed CD!!  We listen to it sometimes on our LOW weeks too; so that makes us hear that song over and over.

We are enjoying "Swift Rivers" -- not as much as we (I) loved "The Journeyman".....which was such a great book.

Audio's this week:
"The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis (in kitchen)--finished
"Boy of Mount Rhigi" by: C.M. Sedgewick (in home library)
"Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie (in van)--finished
"Percy Jackson - The Last Olympians" by Rick Riordian (in kitchen)
"A Wrinkle in Time"  by: Madeleine L'Engle (on the  Playaway)

Dd Readers:
"Bright Path-Young Jim Thorpe" by Don Brown
"Chet Gecko-Farewell my Lunchbox" by Bruce Hale
"The Invention of Hugo Cabaret" by Brian Selznick

Bible:
"Who Am I?" by Apologia
Nightly Bible- Revelations

Flashcards-
Math
Latin/Greek
Grammar terms---what is a verb? adjective? adverb? sentence? preposition.......

Spectrum Practice pages - 2 days

Math:
MUS 16D & E
Life of Fred (LOF) Cats- chapter 1

Art:
Pottery Wheel : Made 6 pots and 1 apple--almost every day she worked in clay. On riday she had GG over and they drew big drawings of themselves in chalk on the driveway.

Cooking/Home Ec.:
Made Ice Cream from scratch, cheese tortillas, and fruit smoothie

Brain Pop & BP Jr. daily

This was our LAST week of Swim & Gym!  Dd finally got to put her Butterfly Stroke all together.   It was difficult; but she liked it.

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SL Week 33 "A" LOW (week 68 total on Core 3/D) April 14-20, 2012

Another wonderful "LOW" (left-over's week) on Core 3 or Core D; whichever you choose to say.  I guess I should begin to get use to the new names of the cores.  SL has changed the names three times in the few years I've been a SL'er.

This week our big activity is going to a Indianapolis Indians Baseball game.  The pictures are already posted before I could get this data entered.  The game was a lot of fun!  We parked in the zoo parking lot and walked across a big bridge to the game.  Our other big thing this week is that we are preparing for the IOWA tests coming up.  We are using a "Spectrum Grade 4 Test Prep" book to help us get ready.


Bible:
"Who Am I?" by Apologia: Pages 15-30
Nightly Bible as a family--book of Revelations
Praise and Worship CD- "I have decided to follow Jesus" song

Music/Composer:

Handel

Language Arts:
All About Spelling--Step 16, words & sentences for 4 days/test on the Friday the 5th day-passed.
Thank you letters--7 completed

Spectrum Test Pages--numerous

Math:
Math-U-See 14 E & F
Teaching Textbooks 91,92, quiz, 93,94, 95,96

Piano--big, big piano week.  Dd really played a lot this week!

Read Aloud:
We started "Swift Rivers"

Dd's Reader:
"Tikta'Liktak" by James Houston----finished
"The Mystery in Venice"-Geronimo Stilton

Audio's:
*"Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
" Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie

 Activities:
Swim & Gym class on Tuesday
Knitting!!