Pictures from Oct. 22-26th, 2012

Pictures from Oct. 22-26th, 2012



Happy Halloween!

 Our little Pirate!

Dd and Dh went to a COLTS game!!!  They missed Payton Manning though!

 Dd carves her Halloween pumpkin!

Dd and her friend GG carved a pumpkin together too! Not the same pumpkin--a new one!

Dh made me more strawberry jam!

Lettuce from our garden. 

It was a Lincoln Log week--no pictures of the final town; but it turned out great!

Arbuckle Park with the girls!  What a beautiful day!

At the farm!

We build these blinds for the fella's to hide in---it is so much fun building them.  This is the beginning structure or frame that we put lots of branches and small trees on.

Found this old green bottle in the woods.  Inside it was moss/lichen and some small ferns growing--very cool habitat!

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Oct. 22nd thru-26th, 2012 .Core E. Week 9

Oct. 22nd-thru-26th, 2012  .Core E.  Week 9

We are still in the Civil War; as far as history goes...
 

Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson

We added in one book that I had been saving for this time period (above).  Plus we are reading our SL history books--Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 1., The Story of the USA, Book 2 , Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2., and Sounding Forth the Trumpet.

Our electives this week:

Language Arts:

Reason For Handwriting--1 page
AAS-Level 3: Step 27 (passed test), and Step 28, and reviewed previous difficult words.

Math:
Math U See: 26D, 26E, 26F, 27 A, 27B, 27C
Skip Counting: 6 & 12 family

Science (SL):
Week 30 (2 days)

Activities:
Monday: lessons
Tuesday: Swim & Gym (and brought home our friend GG and she spent the night)
Wednesday: Arbuckle Park, hike, tennis (spent the day with GG)
Thursday: LHE Co-op (Gym, Nature In Art, and Geography), Krannert Park
Thursday night-we volunteered to work at our churches "The Giving Tree".  This is a food pantry.  We pick food for families that come in for food, we restock the shelves, and sort hang clothes donations
Friday: Lessons all day, night - packed and drove to southern Indiana for the weekend.

We had a lot of great Read Aloud books this week:
We own all these books; as we (I) LOVE good picture books!!!!!! These are some of my favorites.

Albert by Donna Jo Napoli and Jim LaMarche

 

 

The Raft by Jim LaMarche 

 

 

Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation by Mark Teague

 

Granite Baby by Lynne Bertrand and Kevin Hawkes

 

 

Houghton Mifflin LITTLE OH by Laura Krauss Melmed

 

 

The Great Gracie Chase: Stop that Dog! by Cynthia Rylant, Mark Teague and Mark Teague

 

 

A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books) by Vera B. William

 

 

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss

 

 

One Halloween Night by Mark Teague

 

 

John Pig's Halloween (Picture Puffin Books) by Jan Waldron and David McPhail

 

Dd continued on with these books on her own as Readers:

 

 

Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky and Kevin Hawkes

 

 

Pigsty by Mark Teague

 

The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed and Jim LaMarche 

 

 

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Dragonfly Books) by Mark Teague

 

 

Letters from the Campaign Trail: LaRue for Mayor by Mark Teague

 

 

The Secret Shortcut by Mark Teague