Sunday, February 22, 2015

Ancients, Core G Week 8 "F" Feb. 16-20th, 2015

Dd took this photo

 Core G- ANCIENTS

Week 8 “F”  
Our 25th week on Core G

(We have stopped moving forward in our Sonlight program, as we dig a litter deeper before moving on to the Romans. After an extended study of the Greeks, we are currently restarting over our study of Ancients, for a fairly quick refresher before getting back on the Sonlight program. This week we focused on the Sumerians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, etc.)

Feb. 16-20, 2015









We had a fairly good week, we didn’t get too much done, nor did we go too easy…it was just about right.  I had much higher goals than we accomplished, but we have been wanting/needing more time to work on crocheting, so that was good.  Crocheting is good therapy for winter ills; whichever kind you have.




Mini-Updates:

Snails- we have at least SIX babies now! 


Can you see the three babies in this picture?



Our house in Indiana- still nothing to report, it is on the market and had three groups/families go through last Saturday to see it, so it is getting some action, but no buyers.  At least one of the families that looked was waiting for their house to sell before they could buy—so they are in the same boat we are in.






Church search—we have been going between two different churches for the past six months, and appear to be no closer to settling into one.  After each service we like that church more!




Our lessons:



“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.”

Corinthians 15:58



Instead of doing a ‘bible study’ this week, we read our BiblioPlan Ancients book, which starts with Genesis 1.  Each chapter is about 3/4th’s of a bible study, and 1/8 geography, 1/8 history.  It was nice to incorporate bible history with history.  When we started Core G our bible and our history were not united and I felt we missed an opportunity.  We are going to read BiblioPlan up to where we left off with history (the Greeks), then moving forward we will include the BiblioPlan along side with our SL stuff. 



It isn’t just the BiblioPlan Ancients that we are using as our refresher, but the Holman Bible Atlas, and the Dorothy Mills book set: The Book of the Ancient World (reader, student, and teacher books).  It does get a bit redundant having three sources, but we are finding there is unique information in each book.





History:



BiblioPlan Ancients:

Chapter 1: Creation and the First People

Ch. 2: The Early Egyptians & Noah

Ch. 3: Early Writing, the Sumerians, and Babel

Ch. 4: Abraham

Ch. 5: Hammurabi & Issac

Ch. 6: The Assyrians, Gilgamesh and Jacob

 Book of the Ancient World, Student Study Guide


 Book of the Ancient World, Teacher Edition





Book of the Ancient World

The Book of the Ancient World by Dorothy Mills (Memoria Press)

Ch. 1: The Land of Egypt

Student worksheets

Ch. 2: Earliest Egypt

Student Worksheets

Ch. 3: Egyptian Buildings

Student Worksheets

Ch. 4: Egyptian Books & Writing

Student Worksheets



 Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History

Holman Bible Atlas:

Section: Part Two:

Ch. 4: The Old Testament Period

Ch. 5: The World of the Patriarchs

Ch. 6: The Egyptian Experiment








Add in Book’s:
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 The Sumerians by Elaine Landau


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Ancient Egypt by Daniel Cohen



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Ancient Wonders by Tim Wood



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by Abigail Wheatley, Struan Reid, John Woodcock and Ian McNee



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Eyewitness Books Ancient Egypt by George Hart


Khan Academy for sections on “Ancient Near East”




YouTube: 
Archimedes the Greatest Mathematician 6:54







Logic:




The Fallacy Detective

Lesson 5 & 6





Latin:

Prima Latina

Ch. 3

We watched the section 3 episode each day for review





Language Arts:



IEW’s Fix-It Frog Prince:

Week 25 completed



All About Spelling 6

Step 26: passed






Easy Grammar Plus

Pg’s 57-65



Letters:

Two Typed letters to the “L” family



Novel:

Dd worked on her novel on Wed, Thurs, and Fri





Writing With Skill

Week 5: completed







Science:


Apologia Exploring Creation Human Anatomy and Physiology

Pg.s 19-35





Science Reader:



Galen: and the Gateway to Medicine: COMPLETED







The World of Physics by John Hudson Tiner

Ch. 4 and quiz (Simple Machines) continued from last week.








The World of Chemistry by John Hudson Tiner

Ch. 1 & Ch. 2 (plus quizzes) completed








Math:

Math U See: Pre-Algebra

20 A-E





Audio:


Bridge to Terabithia: COMPLETED

By Katherine Patterson (we’ve heard this audio multiple times now, and always enjoy it.)



**ODD’s**

Dd has been enjoying an “APP” for weeks now, like 5 or 6 weeks, and I thought I would share it for others who might be interested in a fun musical game: SMULE PIANO

She plays songs from the Nutcracker Ballet, Bach, Ella Fitzgerald, and more contemporary songs too.




Geography:

Seterra:

Geography games online (Free!)

2x this week


Typing:

NitroTyping:

She played daily this week, for about 30-40 minutes per day.  Dd loves to improve her skills with these races.  (Free online!)




Current Events:

Cnn Student News

10 minutes of commercial free news geared for middle and high school students.







Mapping:

1) BiblioPlan Maps: The Seven Continent

2) BiblioPlan Maps: Ancient Egypt

3) BiblioPlan Maps: The Sumerians



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Reader:

Anne of Ingleside: COMPLETED
by L.M. Montgomery


DVD:

Anne of Green Gables

FIVE disc edition, from our library







Momma's/My page

Dd's Page








This is a camo infinity scarf / cowl



In Process---scarf

I think this fits on her wrist and arm


A saggy hat--on purpose, she followed the directions, it is suppose to be slouchy.

Dd made Dh a winter hat

Another view of the hat she made for Pappa!

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I am working on a funky blanket, with lots of colors, and left-over yarns.  It is either very interesting or very ugly...can't decide which, that is why there is no photo of it!!!

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