Sunday, August 4, 2013

July 29th to Aug. 2nd, 2013 Core E Week 32 "A/LOW"

July 29th to Aug. 3nd, 2013  
Core E  
Week 32 "A/LOW"

We were due one good week of lessons--and we finally got it!  We had our field trip on Monday to the Indiana State Museum (pictures of our day following this post) to see the SPECTACULAR exhibits!  The exhibits we went to see were the Star Wars exhibit, Millinium Falcon, and the 5 Generations of Lincolns.  We had a really great 5 1/2 hours at the museum!  We could have stayed there a lot longer.  It was really fun.

Tuesday through Friday we did our lessons and had a pretty normal week--library/garden/piano/BrainPop/BrainPop, Jr./BrainPop,UK/fun books/etc. etc.  We did have our second week doing something new---Carole-a new friend on the SL forums, that is from New Zealand had told me about a website that shows video's for the Periodic Table.  We have stopped by there for 3 weeks now; but this week we really got into a daily habit of watching some of the video's.  It is from the University of Nottingham in England.  That was new and fun for us; and it looks like it is officially becoming a habit!

The other "extra" thing from this week (Sat.night) was that Dd and Dh were invited to a Indianapolis Indians vs the Louisville Bats baseball game in downtown Indy.  This was a very last minute thing...they had a super great time and brought me home some cotton candy.  I'll download some pictures later.

Our lessons:

Bible:
Judges 5, Galations 1,2,3,4
I really enjoyed Galations this week.  It really spoke loudly to me.  I encourage you all to read the first 4 chapters of Galations and see how simply Paul speaks to us.



History:
Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2. -----Ch. 30
The Story of the USA, Book 4-----Ch. 1
Oxford Illustrated Book of American Childrens Poems



Artist of the Week:
Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

 Getting to Know the Greatest Artist by Mike Veneza


Kahlo
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by Andrea Kettenmann



Scholastic Voyage of Discovery-Visual Arts- Sept. 1994



Composer of the Week:
--we had THREE!  I was one behind, missed him last week; but then Dd kept asking about who was the composer of Water Music, so we brought in Handel as our composer for Friday.
Composer for Mon & Tues: Franz Liszt
Meet the Great Composers

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

Composer for Wed & Thur: Johannes Brahms
Meet the Great Composers and "Baby's First Brahms" CD.

Friday- Handel- Handel's Water Music CD


Apologia: Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Earth: completed Bats section pg 116-118
Notebook Pages-on difference between Micro & Mega bats

Website: University of Nottingham-The Periodic Table of Video's:http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Y: Yttruim
B: Boron
Li:Lithium
Mg: Magnesium
Be: Berylliam
K:Potassium
Ca: Calcium
and perhaps a few others that I didn't write down,  we enjoyed these video's a lot.


Language Arts:
All About Spelling 5:  Step 4--all week, plus reviews of previous steps, passed Step 4
First Language Lessons 4:  Lesson 69 & Lesson 70

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The Grammar Ace: Student Workbook by Duane Bolin and Dave Lilly

The Grammar Ace: Lesson 12 & 13

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Schoolhouse Rock! - Grammar Rock [VHS] Starring Jack Sheldon, Darrell Stern and Sue Manchester

Grammar Rock-VHS

Math:
Math U See: Epsilon: 25 A-F
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Math-U-See Epsilon Teacher Kit (Complete Kit) by Steven P. Demme

Skip-Counting Family: 4 family all week
Delta Test 28--Roman Numerals


It Made You Think of Home; Deward Barnes Canadian Expedition Force 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane



Day Read Aloud: 
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont


In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson---in process



Dd's Reader:
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Seventeenth Swap by Eloise McGraw

The Seventeenth Swap---COMPLETED



Dd's Reader:

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Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen and Charles Geer

Plain Girl---in process

Activities: Sewing--on sewing machine - she is working on a quilt made out of her old t-shirts.  She also made a neat piece out of felt--it is a circle with an inset capital "I" with a different color; perhaps a coaster to place your cup on?  Or just a thing...she did a nice job.  She saw the plan in a book and went for it.

Dvd--this week we checked out a movie from our library:

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Oz the Great and Powerful (DVD + Digital Copy) Starring James Franco and Michelle Williams

 "Oz the Great and Powerful"!!  It was fun to watch!