Core D Week 24 "A" American History Sonlight Dec 3-10th 2011

Our lessons this week focused on art,  the American Revolution, extra bible, and advent readings.  We went to help out a widow from our church (who gave us the piano) put up her Christmas decorations (and visit).  Also, we went to the library, Upwards Basketball practice, and Conner Prairie.

We have been listening to Lamplighter Theater: 

Buried In The Snow

BrainPop & BrainPop Jr.

Great in Mighty In Council & Deed - music with SL bible

SL bible; and Explorer's Bible: Jesus, My Shepherd

Life of Fred-chapters 7-13

MUS-math Lessons from 25 and Test Booklet

Skip-Counting - 8 family

The American Indian Prayer Guide-Blackfeet Indians

First Language Lessons-review index cards from Level 1 & 2

Our Add-In's this week:

Dd's reader:

Five Smooth Stones : Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776, (My America) by Kristiana Gregory

Read Aloud's:

Money, Money, Money: The Meaning of the Art and Symbols on United States Paper Currency by Nancy Winslow Parker

  When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia: What I Learned of Freedom, 1776 by Ann Turner and Mark Hess

 Beginnings Ii Jesus, My Shepherd New Testament Lessons for Young Readers by Patricia Constance Russell and Dee M. Murtha

 Patience Wright: American Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy by Pegi Deitz Shea and Bethanne Andersen

 

"An Advent of Ideas" paperback book; given by Giz.  It is a day to day build up to Christmas devotion-type book.

The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas by Jeffrey Smith

AUDIO (in car):

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1) by C. S. Lewis and Michael York 

Audio (on computer):

Buried in the Snow by Franz Hoffman

Saturday Dd made brownies from scratch.  She did every step all by herself; all I did was lift the Kitchen Aid mixer up to the counter for her.  She ran the oven, found and gathered and measured all the ingredients.  She used our petrel  to crush up the walnuts and almonds for a topping.  She made the frosting from scratch--also completely on her own.  Her kitchen/cooking skills are really coming along well!

Lots of Field Trips and art projects this week-

Dd made our Advent candle display out of things around and candles Giz provided last year.

 A work in progress--

 Balloon &
cotton string soaked in glue

 Connor Prairie- Dec. 1836 Indiana

Dd making cookies in the historical house/Inn-1st stop

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In the kitchen; adding wood to the fireplace

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Dd got to help out in the wood shop- sawing and drilling- 2nd stop

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The School House -and spelling test!  3rd stop

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The Teacher

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The teacher's desk

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Mrs. Curtis - a resident of the town -Dd churned butter- 4th stop

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Mrs. Curtis gives a good talk on having good virtues

Some shots of the village:

This is where they let the visitors make home made candles by dipping the string in the pot of wax; we've done it here before; but it wasn't running today.

Dd making paper

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SL Core D- Week 24 (Nov.28-Dec 2nd 2011)

Big Week!  We continued reading the books we started last week - George vs George and The Pilgrim's Progress which takes us through this whole week.  We did finish The Fighting Ground by AVI.  We are reading a small booklet on ADVENT and Dd made a wonderful wreath and candle display for our Advent candles (good job!).

Dd started a new ADD-IN:
Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre (1770) (Sisters in Time #5) by Susan Martins Miller

Our normal weekly IG and lessons:
Bible:Judges-Momma  Esther-Dd
IEW: Final draft-Pearls. DVD on Boy and his Nuts, KWO, Rough draft, and Final Draft-completed
AAS:Level 3: daily, tested & passed step 9. Reviewed Book 1 -steps 18,19,20,21
MUS:Gamma: 23b,c,d, e, f, and Teaching Textbooks: Lesson 60
Typing Instructor: typing program: 45 minutes

12-3-11  (Friday-Dh has this day off from work)  A wonderful woman from church gave us one of her two piano's.  Her son and his son and she herself-brought the piano to our house.  We had a nice visit with them after unloading the piano.
12-3-11 (Friday) We get all dressed up and go to Butler University to see
The Nutcracker Ballet.  We've seen the ballet 5 times; 4 at Butler U.


Sunday-church and then later we went to Hanging Rock Camp/Church for a fundraiser.  They had the Oaks (john thomas and father) preform a musical set in the Old West about Esau and Jacob from the Old Testament.


This was our last week of Aqua Athlete's and our first night for "Meet the Coach" for Upwards Basketball.  Here are a few Aqua Athlete's pix:

You can kinda see Dd in the back left getting her lessons from Isaac!

SL Core D Week 23 "A" (week 467of this core) Nov. 21-25th 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!  We still keep our lessons going though!

Our Add-In's for this week:
A Picture Book of Patrick Henry (Picture Book Biographies) by David A. Adler, John Wallner and Alexandra Wallner

 Pilgrim's Progress by Gary D. Schmidt and Barry Moser  (finished on 12-5-11)

 George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer (finished on 12-5-11)

 The Fighting Ground 25th Anniversary Edition by Avi (in progress)

 The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas by Jeffrey Smith (Pappa reading a section each night- great bible knowledge and cultural information shared.)

AAS-Step 9 -reviewed from Book 1-Step 16 & step 18
Intro to Poetry-Emily Dickenson & Walt Whitman
IEW-KWO:Pearls, Rough draft, watched dvd on Boy & Nuts
Aqua Athlete's-Tuesday
Sewing with Giz-Thursday and Friday (on sewing machine)
Wrote letters to GG and AC and AC
Built Soda Can Robot with Grampy
FLL-Lesson 16
WWE-Week 12 day 1 & 2
MUS-24 and test Unit III
Bible Daily

Mussels

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Lobsters from Maine

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SL Core D Week 23 (week 46 of this core) Nov. 13-20 th 2011

We are reading The Story of Eli Whitney still.  This week I hope to get a few Artistic Pursuits projects done.  Monday we did 2 projects:

A deer made for Pappa-while he is hunting deer on the farm.

From the back----





Here is the bugs she made from chenelle wire brushes:

and a second one too:

Look at that stinger on the left side!  Ouch!

The two bugs together (above)




We fit in some microscope time today too:

OUR LESSONS THIS WEEK:
I often don't mention that we do watch Brain Pop every day and Brain Pop Jr. every Monday.  We also often listen to audio recordings at Lamplighter.com --go to Listen and then pick from the newest listings to get to hear an awesome audio story; or at least a portion of it.

This week was fairly normal--Math U See (lessons from Gamma, 23).  We worked on memorizing the 7 Family and Skip-Counting Songs for the 7's.
We did Artistic Pursuits (pictures are above)
We continued reading "The Story of Eli Whitney" and finished it.
We have been enjoying "English From The Roots Up" and are studying the first 10 Greek works in the book.
We worked on All About Spelling-Tested Step 7, studied and tested Step 8.  We are reviewing lessons from AAS book ONE-this week we reviewed Step 16.   
Writing With Ease-Week 11.   
First Language Lessons - Lesson 15.
Turbo Math-hand-held math game.
"Typing Instructor"-typing program 50 minutes.
We had "Aqua Athlete's" on Tuesday-gym and swim instructions.

DVD: Liberty Kids--American Revolution (great!)
Another "Add-In" this week is:
Farmer George Plants a Nation by Peggy Thomas and Layne Johnson

This week Dd is reading a "Add-In" called: The Fighting Ground by AVI.  She stopped liking it 1/2 way into it; so I decided to make the rest of it a "Read Aloud" and then she was back to liking it!!!!
The Fighting Ground 25th Anniversary Edition by Avi  


Then we went to the farm for the weekend:

Overlooking part of the fields

part of our farms fields-this year was soybeans.

SL Week 22 "A"-LOW (Nov 8-12, 2011)

Week 45 of Core 3 /  Core D.  This wasn't a spectacularly productive week for us: because we had a lot of LIFE to do-hospital visits, doctor visits, garden harvest, haircut, library, and the Children's Museum (planetarium-Egypt visit-Frog exhibit-Treasures of the Earth exhibit, carousel trips x 6....  We had a very, very difficult Monday.  Mon we also went to the dermatologist to have a bump on Dd's eyebrow looked at. Giz went to the hospital Tues.  The doc was ready to cut in out then and there.  We will give it some time and pray on it for a little while.  We visited Giz at the hospital on Thurs.  We had Aqua Athlete's on Tues.; I messed up and arrived an hour early so we got to have a Nature Walk on the trail around the complex.  We had an excellent field trip with LHE to the Children's Museum on Thur. and we went to a book sale on Friday...and two visits to the library too!

As for our lessons-
We are reading The Story of Eli Whitney.
Our bible reading is on Acts. 
Lamplighter Theatre- Teddy's Buttons
BrainPop-everyday (although, I forget to mention it most of the time on here)
MUS-Lesson 22 A-F and some test pages
English From the Roots Up-first 10 words
AAS-Step 7 & reviewed Step 6 and Step 2
Life of Fred: Ch. 5 & 6


I read to Dd:
Because I Love You by Max Lucado and Mitchell Heinze

Dd's Reading:(not her fun reading; just her 'history' reading.)
Revolutionary War On Wednesday (Magic Tree House 22, paper) by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca

Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, No. 5) by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca

Betsy Ross and the Silver Thimble (Ready-to-Read. Level 2) by Stephanie Greene and Diana Magnuson

Sam the Minuteman (I Can Read Book 3) by Nathaniel Benchley and Arnold Lobel

The Boston Coffee Party by Doreen Rappaport and Emily Arnold McCully


Playaway:

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson and Greg Call

Audio-completed this week:
Seekers #2: Great Bear Lake by Erin Hunter




Our Garden Produce Pictures:

Gave Dd a haircut on Tue.:






Photo's from our Children's Museum Field Trip with LHE:

Dd with the Transformer: "Bumblebee"

On the "airplane" landing in Egypt--great exhibit!

In the Egypt exhibit

Frog Exhibit: Dissecting Frog Slide Show

at the new FROGS exhibit

Playing Checkers

SL Core D Week 22 (Oct. 31-Nov. 4th, 2011)

Here we are on our 44th week doing Core 3 or Core "D" if you have adjusted to the new name of the same core.  We had M-T-W here at home; and did our Th-F at the farm in Mitchell.  We built tree stands in the woods for Dh's deer hunting.  We thought we would try to do our lessons on "vacation" to see if it would take some of the 'transition' out of our life.  (I'm typing this after the fact; so I can report that it didn't work.  On Monday 11-7 when we tried to start back up our lessons at home it proved to be an all day crying, highly emotional day.  Dd just does not do transitions well.  Mondays are always hard; but if we have done any traveling it seems to be much, much worse.)

This week we studied Acts for my reading of the bible and Dd read from 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles for her reading.

Our main reading for the week was : Carry On, Mr. Bowditch--which we finished.  We really enjoyed this book a lot.  Then we started The Story of Eli Whitney.

Dd's extra books that we added-in were:
George Washington and the General's Dog (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) by Frank Murphy and Richard Walz

George the Drummer Boy (I Can Read Book 3) by Nathaniel Benchley and Don Bolognese

Paul Revere and the Bell Ringers (Ready-to-Read. Level 2) by Jonah Winter and Bert Dodson

Our poetry this week was Edgar Allen Poe. 
Math-MUS-Gamma
Life of Fred-Ch. 4
IEW-Rough Draft: Oysters
Handwriting: Cursive
Board Game: Money Bags
FLL- cd reviewed the poems and songs from 1 & 2
AAS- Step 7 (reviewed each day) 

11-5 (Sat) we had Upwards Basketball Evaluations and worked for the rest of the day in our garden.  We dug up our turnips, parsnips, carrots, chard greens...hard work but fun!   

 

Happy Halloween

Dd went as Queen Kristina: