August 5-9th 2013 Core E Week 33

August 5-9th 2013

 Core E 

Week 33

We had a great week---Giz and Grampy came up to visit so we could take Grampy with us to the Indiana State Fair again with us.  Giz hasn't been doing so great with walking; so she can't go and will stay home and babysit our dog and her dog.  

Chelle--didn't you ask what an Elephant Ear was?   Elephant ears are white dough that is pulled in a oval, kind of a wobbly pizza shape, 5-6 inches perimeter, and then deep fried, and then topped with some sugar and cinnamon---and then you eat it!  Yummy!  Once a year though!  It must be 2,000 calories! I wish I would have taken a picture to show you!

The Giving Tree-food pantry
Thursday night, Dd asked one of her friends to work with us at our church's food pantry--The Giving Tree---we had such an amazing woman come.  She really needed help, and I was so glad we were there to help.  It was so great to be God's hands and offer help to someone at the right time and the right place and let her know how much God loves her---just when she really needed to hear it the most....I was so blessed to be of use.  I'm glad Dd was there to be apart of that.

Let's get to our lessons:

Bible:

Galatians chapters 1-6

Ephesians chapters 1-2

Believer's Bible Commentary

History:

Landmark History of the American People, Vol. Ch. 24

The Story of the USA, Book 4, Chap. 2 & 3

CIVIL RIGHTS:
This week's history was on the Civil Rights; we had A LOT to talk about this week!!!!  Much discussion!!  MLK vs Malcolm X and the Panthers, Jim Crow, so many aspects to consider.  -- I added in other books that I own to help our discussions along- here are a few I added in:
History person of the week: 
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler and Robert Casilla

Young Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" - First-Start Biography by Joan Mattern

Read Aloud:

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson---Completed

This was SUCH a FUNNY and GOOD book!!!!!  WOW!  I laughed out loud numerously!  I really liked this book a lot!  This book really has a great heart! 

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

Dd's Reader:

Plain Girl---Completed

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon: 26 A-F

Skip Counting Family--7 family 3 times

Composer of the week

Claude Debussy

****my favorite****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQTeCn5HBg

Claire de Lune!!!

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison

Meet the Great Composers book & CD




Artist of the Week

Da Vinci (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Leonardo Da Vinci
So impossible to go over any artist in one week; but to breeze through Leonardo in one week was particularly difficult.  I brought out about 10 different books we own on him and looked at different things and discussed various aspects about him.  The point is just to plant some baby seeds at this stage of the game; but it was really hard to go into this week knowing we were just going to do a quick peek at such a Master.

Language Arts
All About Spelling 5: Step 5 completed
Grammar Ace - Lesson 14 & 15
Roots of English-pg 1-11 (I decided to restart this book again, but instead of doing it with flashcards we would do it as a workbook; so we will see if this works better.)

Science
Apologia: Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Earth: pg 121-129 Pterasaurs
Notebooking book: writing some notes up on the key points.

Activities:
We did 2 good walks around our neighborhood this week, the State Fair, The Giving Tree, The Library, built a new small LEGO kit....piano with Giz.....Made Granola from Scratch, baked apples....that's all I can think of right now!