SL Week 31 LOW "A" (64rd week on this core) March 19-23rd, 2012

SL Week 31 “LOW-A”  March 19-23^rd 2012

Since we finished our Apologia “Who is God?” book; we have returned to a bible study we had not finished called: “Jesus, My Shepherd” by Explore Bible Study: Beginnings II.  We are still enjoying our nightly bible study; which has been focusing on the book of Mark.

Music CD: Praise & Worship: “Praise Him, Jesus our blessed Redeemer”

Math:

MUS: Delta: 11 A,B,C,D,E,F  12 A, B

Teaching Textbooks: Lessons 71, 72, 73

Life of Fred: Butterflies: Chapter 9 & 10

Skip-Counting: 2’s & 3’s  and Doubles families (1x1=1, 2x2=4, 3x3=9….)

BrainPop: M,T,W,Th,F  BrainPop, Jr. M.

Language Arts:

All About Spelling: Lesson 14

Rosetta Stone-French- 20 min.

Typing Instructor-twice; 20 min each

Spellingcity.com-15 min.

Flashcards: FLL cards (what is a noun, verb, sentence, adj., adv.,…….)

Flashcards: English From the Roots Up—

(added in Math flashcards on shapes and measurements)

One of Dd's favorite games-the Board game—"Great States"

Home Economics—Dd made a chocolate cake and frosting (from scratch) entirely on her own…as in, I was not even in the kitchen!!!  Great job and tasty!

Read Aloud—LAMPLIGHTER book called: “Buried In The Snow” by Franz Hoffman

LAMPLIGHTER audio on web: "Charlie’s Choice"  exerpt.

Dd’s Reader:

The Story of the Erie Canal by R. Conrad Stein-finished

Robert Fulton-Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry- started

DVD: Liberty Kids: James Armistead, and Yorktown

Add-in books:

 “Adverbs-the Magic of Language” by Ann Heinrich

“The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fractions Book” by Jerry Pallotta & Rob Bolster

We have been preparing for the IOWA tests by doing some worksheets from the Spectrum Grade 4 Test Preparation.  We have been working on math, language arts, etc.

For Indiana History (in her LHE Co-Op class) she built “FORT WAYNE”.  Dd painted all the little soldiers and built a fort out of a cardboard box.  She built a tall tower in the back left corner.  She worked on it for days by herself.

Activities:  Tuesday-built a cake; Wednesday-Library, Thursday-LHE Co-Op, Saturday- we went to Shades State Park and had a picnic and hiked.

Some art and odds from Feb. & March 2012

Here are some art and geography things that Dd has done around the house:

a card I made for Dd for Valentines

  a card Dd made for me

a scratch art Dd made

Dd made this cake---all by herself; even the icing from scratch!  Yummy

These are two figures and their kite-- made out of duct tape

A mask she made out of aluminum foil

Dd and Dh made this catapult kit together.

Shades Park Sunday March 25, 2012

Here's Sophie

Heading out on the trail

 

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SL Week 31 (63rd week on this core) March 12-16th, 2012

SL Week 31

A usual SL IG format for us; with a few add-in's.  We actually got a lot accomplished this week (even with the extra warm weather around us!).  For SL we had our bible and Dd had her Discover's Bible.  The books we are working on are Imprisoned in the Golden City, Naya Nuki and Calico Bush.    Dd read the Naya Nuki book on her own; but I read aloud IITGC and CB books.  Both we very good.

We enjoyed: "A Child's Introduction to Poetry" and "American Indian Prayer Guide".

We did a good job on the "Sing the Word: Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed" cd and on our add-in cd from Giz: "Praise and Worship" "O Come Let Us Adore Him" was our featured song this week.

We fit in more focus on adverbs...I'm having Dd repeat the definition a few times each day for the past 2 weeks to really understand how adverbs work.  We added in the book: "Adverbs-The Magic of Language" by Ann Heinrichs.

We started another Lamplighter book this week: Buried In the Snow by Franz Hoffman.  Lamplighter has such a FANTASTIC collection of books!

Language Arts:
First Language Lessons--Lesson 30 & 31
Writing With Ease- Week 19 &20
English From The Roots Up--flashcards 3x this week
IEW- "Our First President" Lesson 6, kwo, rough draft, & final draft
Typing Instructor - 2x @ 20 min each
Rosetta Stone- French- 2x (15 min & 20 min)
AAS- Review Lesson 13; words & sentences, and test passed on Friday.

Piano each day.

Microscope--viewing sugar.

Math:
Math U See--9D, E, F 10 A,B,C,D,E,F
Teaching Textbooks -Lesson 70, 71, and Quiz
Skip-Counting Songs--the 4 family daily and double's daily (1x1=1, 2x2=4, 3x3=9,4x4=16...)
Life of Fred: Chapter 8 in "Butterflies" book

Review--we are preparing for the IOWA testing in April; so we have started reviewing some basic "grade 4" materials.  We went over the measurements in math--teaspoons, cups, tablespoons, yards, feet, miles, tons, ...shapes: parallel lines, parallelogram, cube, retangle prism, rectangle, octogon, hexagon, pentagon, intersecting lines, cylinder, right angle... How to make change for money..etc.etc.

Geography Songs- Eastern Europe & Map on big dry-erase board.

BrainPop: M,T,W,Th,F  BrainPop, Jr.: M.

Activities: Sunday:Church & basketball in the driveway; Tuesday: Swim & Gym, Thursday: LHE Co-Op- Art, Gym(learned fencing), and Indiana History; Friday: after our lessons we played "Moneybags" board game.

Dd's weekly reading:

 Robert Fulton Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry

*started -chapter 1,2,3,& 4.

 Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss  
*finished


 Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) by Joseph Bruchac

*finished

 PICTURES:  4H and Aqua Athlete's class--

Indiana History

Here is Fort Wayne in Indiana.

Dd and her 3 girlfriends gave a wonderful, educational skit full of humor and laughs.  They showed the fort; and served corn bread and homemade butter.  They really did a great job.  Such a good job that they asked her group to preform at a party later for adults.

Fort Wayne

Art class at LHE

Some of the drawings from the class.

Here is one of the portfolio's I made for each of the students-the top closes over like a mailbag.

SL -Core D-Week 30 "B" LOW (62th week on this core) Mar. 5-9th, 2012

Bible:


Who Is God? by Apologia---FINISHED!

Bible-nightly as a family


Language Arts:

First Language Lessons-lesson 26 & 27
Writing With Ease- Week 17 & 18
Excellence In Writing-kwo, rough draft, & final draft (Camp Life)
Rosetta Stone- French 30 min
Typing Instructor: 30 min
All About Spelling- Lesson 12

Math:
Math U See:Delta

Daily-skip-counting 9 & 4 family & doubles
Life of Fred- Butterflies, ch.3,4,5,6

Reading:
Dd's Reader: Naya Nuki-Finished,
Emma's Journal by Marissa Moss, Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac
Read Aloud: Calico Bush--Finished

Piano - daily

Activities:
Library
LHE:  Field Trip to Specks Pet Store in Avon.  This was very fun.  There were 4 "stations" which had different animals for the kids to learn about.  A Specks employee gave a short lecture about the animals in their station and let the kids interact with many of them.

Snake!

Chocolate Lab

Fish

Naked Rat---actually "hairless" and surprisingly cute.

SL -Core D-Week 30 "A" LOW (61th week on this core) Feb. 27- Mar.2, 2012

Our one add-in book this week was:

Capital by Lynn Curlee

DVD:

America: The Story of Us Starring Liev Schreiber (disc's 3&4)

Bible:

Who Is God? by Apologia
Praise and Worship CD: daily- focus on "Tell Me the Story of Jesus"
Bible-nightly as a family

Composer of the Week:
Keyboard Conversations Power & Passion of Beethoven

Geography:
Africa

Language Arts:
English From the Roots Up
Excellence In Writing-kwo, rough draft, & final draft (Genghis Kahn)
Rosetta Stone- French 40 min
Typing Instructor: 30 min
All About Spelling-Lesson 12 Test, and started Lesson 13
**extra review from FLL book 1, songs & terms & disc... also done Tue. & Wed.

Math:
Math U See:Delta
Teaching Textbooks: lesson 67,68,69
 Daily-skip-counting 9 family & doubles

Reading:
Dd's Reader: Naya Nuki
Read Aloud: Calico Bush

Piano - daily

Activities:
Mon-Upwards Basketball Pizza night!  Dd got a trophy "Most Improved Player"
Tue-Upwards Basketball Awards Ceremony
Wed: HBHE Tea Party
Thur: LHE Co-Op classes-Art, Gym, and Indiana History

Mother - Daughter Tea party

SL Core D-Week 30 (60th week on this core) Feb. 20-24, 2012

Besides our normal Sonlight IG scheduled activities we also added in:

Add-in books:
 A Voice of Her Own: A Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lasky
 The Art of Sculpture: Visual Arts (Voyages of Discovery No 7) by Scholastic Books

The Navajo (True Books: American Indians) by Andrew Santella

Bible:

Who Is God? by Apologia
Praise and Worship CD: daily- focus on "I've Got Peace Like a River"
Bible-nightly as a family

Composer of the Week:
Mozart

Geography:
South Asia & British Isles

Language Arts:
English From the Roots Up
First Language Lessons-lesson 24
Writing With Ease- Week 16
Excellence In Writing-kwo, rough draft, & final draft
Rosetta Stone- French 40 min
Typing Instructor: 30 min
All About Spelling-Lesson 11 Test, and started Lesson 12

Math:
Math U See:Delta
Teaching Textbooks: lesson 66
Daily-skip-counting 6 family & doubles
Life of Fred- Butterflies, ch.2

Reading:
Dd's Reader: Naya Nuki
Read Aloud: Calico Bush

Piano - daily

Activities:
Basketball in driveway, at practice with Upwards Basketball, Library, LHE Co-op classes: Art, Gym, and Indiana History, and basketball game.

 

 

SL Core D-Week 29 "A" Left-Over's Week "LOW" Feb. 13-17th 2012

SL Week 29 "A" Left-Over's Week "LOW" Feb. 13-17th 2012

Lots of Add-In's this week:
Who Is God? by Apologia.  I'm liking this book more and more each week.  We have been doing our SL Read Aloud Bible readings at night with Dh.  This week we read from Col and Psalms.

"Geography Songs" is still serving us well.  We focused on South Asia this week and used our large dry-erase map to test dd's comprehension.

Composser of the week: MOZART!  We had a really great week on Mozart.  We listened to "Mad About Mozart" cd each day of the week.  We also had a book with an included cd that we read and listened to called "The Magic Flute".  Listened to this disc two days.

Books on Mozart: "Lives of the Musicians" by Kathleen Krull (Ch. on Mozart)
"Focus on Composers" by Teacher Created Materials, Inc. (Ch. on Mozart)
"Great Composers" by Pierro Venturea (Ch. on Mozart)
"The Magic Flute" by Anne Gatti

Our Read Aloud: Imprisoned In The Golden City by Dave and Neta Jackson

Dd's Reader: was  " Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag" by Ann Weil

Daily Hymns were from a cd Giz gave us called "Praise and Worship" which isn't on amazon either!  We focused on "Standing on the Promises".

We had not done our poetry from last week (A Child's Intro to Poetry) so we did it this week--on Hilaire Belloc.

Typing--Typing Instructor.  But, dd isn't liking it lately.  I hope she goes back to liking it.

MUS-  Dd FINISHED GAMMA!!!!!  She did some extra this week to finish it by Friday!    We did doubles and Skip-Counting (7 family) every day too.   Dd did "Math Missions: The Amazing Arcade Adventure" video game that we bought through Amazon for 30 minutes.

Rosetta Stone-French-40 minutes

IEW-The Mongols-kwo/rough draft/and final draft done well!

We reviewed First Language Lessons 1 & 2 this week.  We did all the terms, listened to the cd and went over all the memorized poems for review.  We went through our flash cards again too.

English From THe Roots Up--flashcards (18 words) reviewed 3x this week.

AAS-Lesson 11 - 3x this week we did 20 words and 2 sentences as review; didn't get the test done yet.

Piano--Played every day this week and really is doing wonderfully.

Dvd: Magic School Bus--Ants in the Pants

Audio: Finished: Seekers: THe Quest Begins ( 7 disc book--it took us a while!)

Story of the World: Vol 3: Early American Times:Disc 7 which is Chapters 27--40.

Daily-Brain Pop
Monday's: Brain Pop, Jr.

Art book: "What is Art?" by Bob Raczka

LHE Co-Op Classes started.  I taught first period: Art, then Gym, then Mrs. Gaffe taught "INDIANA History" which was very cool and interesting (I was the teacher's assistant).

Another week of Upwards Basketball--Practice on Monday & game on Saturday.

Some of the fun books Dd read:
Lunch Lady
Boxcar Children-Mike's Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.