Saturday, January 10, 2015

Sonlight Core G Week 8 (The Greeks) Jan. 5-9, 2015



Sonlight Core G
Week 8: The Greeks!
(19th week on Core G, so far!)
January 5-9th, 2015



Dd and I were snowed in this week.  There was a massive car crash on the highway here, and I think they said there was about 130 cars/semi’s involved in it.  So far one semi driver was killed, and twenty injured, with more cars to get through for final analysis.  So scary!  My poor husband (Dh) is driving around in a 1993 car, without four-wheel or all-wheel drive.  So, he slides around and goes s-l-o-w!  I am very thankful that he is doing fine driving to work each day—we pray for him each day!  We have a foot of snow already, and the wind chill has been around -20 degrees. 

Wed. we went on a Nature Hike together, but after that we went on hikes solo, one at a time.  Sophie, our dog, got more walks that way, and we each got a little time alone (needed when your home-bound). She is wearing the scarf I made her recently--I'm not sure if you call a scarf that's ends are crocheted together a "cowl" or an "infinity scarf", but this one wraps around her head three times.
With all the time we’ve spent inside, we did get a lot accomplished (for us) as we started our study on the GREEKS!  

She has been studying the Greeks, with her own collection of books, now she is using the ones I pick! 
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Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of 'The Iliad'

 We had finished Black Ships Before Troy (Rosemary Sutcliff’s version of Homer’s story of the Trojan War), and so we started The Wanderings of Odysseus (Rosemary Sutcliff’s version of Homer’s story of The Odyssey).  I might as well just move on to sharing what we did this week, and which books we used for our studies.

Bible:
Veritas Press Chronicles Through Malachi
Card 79: The Ministry of Jeremiah: 626-580 BC: completed, but we will continue to read in the book of Jeremiah.
Journey Through The Bible
Pages 170 & 171

Dd finished the worksheets for this card



Bible Reading: Jeremiah 1, 2, 3, 4, & 7
Believer’s Bible Commentary Reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, & 7
(The odd thing with this specific card is that they didn’t assign us any specific bible reading from Jeremiah; but just had us read a big section from the Survey of the Bible.  After reading the section, I still felt like we hadn’t gotten enough of Jeremiah to move on, so we have started picking chapters from this book to read.)

Men of the Bible by Ann Spangler & Robert Wolgemuth
We read pages 284-293, the section on Jeremiah

Lamps, Scrolls, & Goatskin Bottles:
Pg’s 80-91


Children’s Bible Field Guide
Chapters 7 & 8

Wed. photo--before the heavier snow arrived

Math:
I copied the "A" and "B" pages for Dd to do again, as a review

Math U See: Pre-Algebra
We are continuing to do our review of the lessons that we have already completed, for this week we did Lesson 7, 8, and three days of review on 9 (Find the Unknown).  Next week we will begin our review of Lesson 10, and see how it goes!

Food and Nutrition by Janice Van Cleave
Ch. 8: Pyramid Power
Ch. 9: Making Choices and Understanding Food Labels
Ch. 10: Input-Output
Ch. 11: Food Changer: Digestion

Science 2:
Exploring the World of Biology by John Hudson Tiner: We FINISHED this book!
Ch. 13: Mammals
Ch. 14: Frauds, Hoaxes, and Wishful Thinking


Science 3:
Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics (Apologia)
Ch. 10: Light of the World pg’s 173-190
*Plus Notes
Wed photo--when the snow was just settling in
CNN Student News (M-F)

Geography:
Seterra (online geography game) seterra.com
She played a few games, keeping her memorization of the United States fresh.


Language Arts: 
This week’s focus was on Prepositions!  I thought she had forgotten the Preposition Song we learned while doing FLL and I played the song and chant each day, 2-6 times, Monday through Thursday.  Thursday she asked me why I was doing it, and writing out the song on my paper—I said, ‘for YOU to learn it!” Then she informed me that she remembers it from our FLL days!  I ask her say the song; and she does! Perfectly!  I had her tell me the chant again on Friday, just to finish our week off on the right path.  She had a good laugh with me, how I kept playing the song OVER and OVER; when all along she knew it!
Youtube: School House Rock, “Preposition song”

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Audio: First Language Lessons, Audio Companion Levels 1 and 2 (we still enjoy this disc, year after year—so glad I brought it with us to the apartment.)

Item #: AASL6M
Grade 6
Retail: $41.95
Rainbow Price: $39.95
All About Spelling 6:
Step 22: passed, plus reviews


New This Week:

Item #: 050489
Grade 5 - Grade 8
Retail: $28.95
Rainbow Price: $18.95

Item #: 050488
Grade 5 - Grade 8
Retail: $32.95
Rainbow Price: $21.95

Writing With Skill:
Week 1: Completed
She really did well on this in some ways, and not in another.  They were wanting her to pick out a few sentences and write some basic/easy sentences to summarize.  She spent an hour each day, writing with her ‘special flare’.  She had fun doing it, but she could have completed the assignment a lot quicker if she would have taken it down a notch!  But, she considers herself “ a writer” and enjoyed the assignments.  We have been doing the SL LA for the past few months, and she really seemed to work harder for this book.  I’ll keep reading the SL LA informative information, but if things continue on the way they went this week, then I will have her do the writing assignments with the WWS book.


 History:

Item #: 025448
Grade 1 - Grade 5
Retail: $39.95
Rainbow Price: $25.50

Item #: 036454
Grade 1 - Grade 5
Retail: $21.95
Rainbow Price: $14.50

Story of the World: Ancients (SL assignment)


Item #: 010993
Grade 1 - Grade 5
Retail: $34.95
Rainbow Price: $22.50
Audio Chapters 20-24
Item #: 010993
Grade 1 - Grade 5
Retail: $34.95
Rainbow Price: $22.50

(We had already read Chapters 20-22, but listened to them again for reinforcement.)

Item #: 029952
Grade 1 - Grade 5
Retail: $12.95
Rainbow Price: $8.95
Activity Pages and Tests from SOTW Activity book Ch.'s 20-24


New This Week:

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The Book of the Ancient Greeks, Text

May 10, 2011
by Dorothy Mills


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The Book of the Ancient Greeks, Student Guide

Jun 10, 2011
by Matthew Anderson


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The Book of the Ancient Greeks, Teacher Guide

Jun 10, 2011
by Matthew Anderson
The Book of the Ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills (pg’s 1-43 completed)(our add-in)
Crete and the Civilization of the Early Aegean World
*This is a “set”, there is the big, thick reader full of material, a “student book”, and a “teacher’s book” that all work together to give a really detailed study of Ancient Greeks.


New This Week:

Item #: 034316
Grade 3 - Adult
Retail: $16.95
Rainbow Price: $13.50

Famous Men of Greece by Memoria Press:
The Gods of Greece (pg 1-10)
*I can’t decide if I want to continue to read these aloud to Dd, or pass of this lively, well-illustrated book to my Dd to read alone!  It is one of those books that looks so good that you (me) don’t want to miss any of it!!



Read Aloud (Add-In History):

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The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff (Sutcliff’s version of Homer’s epic tale): In Process
I have to say this book is SO much easier to read than Black Ships Before Troy.  I am really enjoying this book, and it's fast pace.



SL Poetry:

Item #: 002760
Kindergarten - Grade 8
Retail: $26.99
Rainbow Price: $17.95

Favorite Poems Old and New—this week’s schedule completed

Invitation to the Classics:
We read the section on Homer-“Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey”

 Amazon.com Review
One of the many purposes of Invitation to the Classics is to warm the heart to the masterworks of Western civilization. In doing so, editors Louise Cowan and Os Guinness hope to "reawaken ... people to the vibrant heritage of these classics that are rich in themselves and in their 2000-year relationship to the Christian faith." From Homer to Chaucer, Dickens to C.S. Lewis, each author receives a chapter that includes a biographical sketch followed by a thorough summary of the classic(s) he or she penned. The "Issues to Explore" sections at the end of each chapter pose penetrating questions for interrogation of the text as well as recommendations for further study depending on whether your scope is technical, theological, analytical, critical, or biographical. Once you read Invitation to the Classics, you may agree with C.S. Lewis that we must "keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books." --Jill Heatherly

Mapping for our SL IG:
Still enjoying doing this with Dd!  This week we found Tauris, Sparta, Orestrium, Laconia, Philias…and then I had her fill out a blank map I had of the area of Greece/Ionian Sea/Aegean Sea, Mediterranean, and all the major towns/cities.
Timeline: Greek related, like “Athens and Sparta – Pluto Teaches Greeks…

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia:
Pg’s:42-55

Usborne Encyclopedia of World History:
Pg’s: 164-192
*My copy of this book, is in a storage box.  We have checked this book out from our library repeatedly to do our assignments thus far.  But, after we return it in this weekend we will not check it out again.  I feel like the Kingfisher book does enough of this type of thing, and we don’t need two books of this type of superficial information.  Plus, it is hard to keep this book for long—this library is not like our past library!!!  They hold the reigns a lot tighter here.  I had Dd read way ahead and returned the book.


Reader 1:
Item #: 002748
Grade 5 - Adult
Retail: $14.95
Rainbow Price: $13.50
Theras and His Town: COMPLETED! Happily, too!
Dd really, really enjoyed this book, and sailed right through it!

Reader 2:

Item #: 035678
Grade 7 - Grade 11
Retail: $25.00
Rainbow Price: $19.75
Glaucia, The Greek Slave by Emma Leslie: In Process
Dd asked for this Lamplighter book for Christmas, to read while we were on studying the Greeks.  She is enjoying it so far!
Rainbow Resource review:
"Ancient Greece and Rome are the backdrop for this thrilling narrative of the early Christians. This book tells the story of Glaucia, a young woman who is sold into slavery in Rome to pay off her dead father’s debts. Her brother, Laon, manages to escape his slave master and vows to rescue his sister. Both siblings were raised to follow a hedonistic Greek philosophy, but they encounter individuals who believe in one true God. Glaucia and Laon become Christians and begin to witness to those around them. But the life of a Christian is not an easy one; Christians were ridiculed and persecuted for their beliefs. A moving story that explores significant events in the early church—including the writing of the New Testament. By Emma Leslie. 244 pgs, hc. "


Friday walk

Fun Readers:
Mandie and Her Missing Kin by Lois Gladys Leppard: Completed
Mandie and the Medicine Man by Lois G. Leppard: Completed
Perseus and Medusa (Graphic Novel) by Blake A. Hoena
Friday picture
Fun Read Aloud:
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Fiona’s Lace by Patricia Polacco…Such a good story, I love Patricia Polacco!  We actually live about an hour or less from her now!  How cool is that!


Anne’s House of Dreams (The Anne of Green Gable book before Anne of Ingleside)

Into the Woods (This is an audio from the newly released movie, based on a Broadway play/musical…very addicting soundtrack!!!)
These Happy Golden Years (The sequel to Little House on the Prairie)

Internet:
Awesome Stories(.com):
Greece: Troy; Greece: Olympian Games; Greece Sparta & Persia & Battle of Thermopylae; Greece: Alexander the Great
Friday picture of our walk

Baking:
Baking Powder Biscuits….SO good! She added goat cheese, sharp cheddar cheese, and parsley flakes added into the mix for good measure! 

Moo Pie! It is a tofu & chocolate pie, no flour, we make it without a crust too.  It is delicious!  It is a bit time consuming to make; but an almost healthy way to fill a chocolate craving.  It lasted around 24 hours!

Last week's Lego--"Swamp Prison" auto
The prisoners go in the cube room, behind the driver, and the yellow gate gets closed to keep the prisoners in.

Crocheting: Every Day!
She has about five projects going on this week!  It is perfect weather for crocheting! 
Going to be a "muffler/scarf thing"

Going to be a "poncho"





Dd completed a ‘duct tape Messenger Bag’ this week.

 

 

Next week, we will continue forward with our study of the Greeks.  Dd was asking to start The Eagle of the Ninth this week!  I think she is excited to study the Romans too!  We won’t move on to Week 9 next week, or probably the week after that either.  I think we will spend 2 or 3 weeks on the Dorothy Mills, The Book of the Ancient Greeks and The Wanderings of Odysseus.  I think it is important to get to know Homer and his ancient tale.  I think we will stay on card 79, in our VP Bible program, and get to know Jeremiah more in-depth, as well.

For math, we still have Lessons 10-15 to complete before we start the new material on Lesson 16.  I am not sure if we will get all five reviews passed through, or if we will need to work on some of these lessons for a few days.  I’ll decide by how well she does on the review pages and on by how confident she feels with each lesson.  She made it clear that she didn’t feel comfortable with Lesson 9 this week, and so I had her work on that lesson until she did feel good about the material.  I don’t want to move her forward if she is weak on any of the previous lessons.  This isn’t a race; the goal is for her to continue to LIKE math and feel capable with her math abilities.  If you move forward without true comfort in the material, then the student feels unsure and sketchy about their ability.

Khan Academy.com
I’ve been spending some time here myself, and definitely rack up the hours more than Dd does.  This week I’ve been on the Ancient Greek video’s and pages.  This is a great way to get a bit of refresher course on the material.  I know Dd hears the video’s (as our apartment is too small not to!) and hope that some of the material is getting in to her too.

Chelle had recommended these video's: Who Were the Greeks, Episode 1; and I played this video this week.  There is Episode 2 for later.



It has been a great week for watching birds (squirrels and mice, too)!
THREE squirrels on this feeder!  They had so much fun eating our sunflower seed, and we laughed while watching them.  The one on top had to keep reaching down and getting a seed, while not rocking the boat!
THREE squirrels!  The is one smaller squirrel behind the other side.


My favorite picture this week!



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1 comment:

  1. Love all the snow pictures! Especially because the cape looks so awesome in it!!! Wow that messenger bag is amazing!!!!

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