Children's Museum Heroes Exhibit

Children's Museum Heroes Exhibit
April 2nd, 2013

Highlights from the Heroes exhibit---now that I have to compress my photo's I'm getting selective!

Hans Solo

Thunder bolt

Darth Maul

The Riddler

The Silver Surfer

..

Children's Museum Gecko Exhibit

Children's Museum Gecko Exhibit
April 2nd, 2013

Here are a few highlights from the Gecko Exhibit!  We sure had a great time.  We listened to a short lecture and were given a clip-board and sent on a mission to investigate a specific gecko.  We had to find the details for our gecko--skin, eyes, habitat, etc. for it and put it all down in a folder given to us.  We had a lot of fun looking at the many cases of gecko's!!!!!

March 25-31st 2013 SL Core E, Week 21

March 25-31st  2013  

SL Core E  

Week 21

Another busy week, but these busy weeks will soon be coming to an end.  Spring is just when a lot of our field trips are scheduled and therefor our activities are multiplied. I hope everyone had a good Easter!  We sure did!  We had been reading and preparing for at least a week, which really helps us to mentally be aware of the real significance of it all.

A brief outline of our activities this week:

Monday-Snow Morning!! 7  1/2 inches of snow!! Dd played in snow for hours!!!-then lessons (after lunch).  We watched a church program from Annie's.  We watched a service called "Redemption".

  Tuesday- lessons & Swim & Gym (Life Guard, Jr. Training)

Tuesday afternoon:  Tea Party/Visit at L. friends house where Dd got to go for a nice walk in the snow, while I drank tea and chatted.  She and R also played the piano together, which was lovely to hear!

Wednesday-lessons

Thursday-LHE field trip downtown, we rode with the G family to the Ruth/Eli Lilly Health Center.  We had a 1 1/2 hour interactive program (4 parts) on the various elements of the Human Body.  The part on the Immune System was WAY cool!  They had a 3D movie (we got to wear the fun 3D glasses) on the immune system.  Our teacher, Cathy, did a great job talking about nutrition and vitamins, minerals, bones, food choices.....too.  The kids got to participate in various ways, which were a lot of fun.

Thursday night, Dh, Dd, and I went with the G family to their church to participate in a SEDER DINNER! We (DD and I) "youtube.com'd" a few different episodes on "Seder Dinner" or "Seder Meal" to watch ahead of time.  It was very interesting to watch those. Wow! was that really interesting!  It was a reenactment/education on how Jews preform the Passover meal.  They explained how Jesus's last supper would have gone and what the symbolism for each thing was...we had lamb and a good meal as we participated.  What a fun thing we did as a family-and the church was so warm and welcoming to us!

Friday-Lessons and we watched another sermon from Annie's church-called "Good Friday" -this one had Annie in it!  Wonderful to hear Annie's testimonial and get to know her better.

Saturday-I got glasses for the first time in my life..."oh bother"--says Winnie the Pooh.  Saturdays are my clean my house like a crazy hen with her head chopped off day.  And I cleaned until 10pm!  Boy, did I have a lot of cleaning and tidying up to do! 

Sunday-EASTER!! He Has Risen!  up at 5:30am, leave at 6:30am, sunrise service at 7am, b-fast, Sunday School, Service, home, NAP, Giz and Grampy arrive for a few hours visit, Eat, Easter Egg Hunting begins!!! bed!  Glory, He Has Risen!  What an Amazing Day.  We did get to sing In The Garden today...DH and I just love that hymn--and we got to sing it on Easter.

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

We read from the book of Hosea--I'm not positive how many chapters, b/c we read more than we were suppose to --at least Chapters 8-14.

 Apologia-Who Is My Neighbor-(pgs 238-239)

 

"Simon & The Cross" I found the chapter that would match up with Good Friday and Easter to add into our family devotions.  It also had us add in Matthew 27: 32-54--Mark 15:21-38--Luke 23:26-49

History:

The World Wars pages 14-57

The World Wars: An Introduction to the First & Second World Wars by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst and Henry Brook

 

History Add-in: Into the West by James M. McPherson

We finished this book. It was a great add-in b/c it covered a lot of things that SL didn't really cover enough of--a lot of details that might have been missed this book pointed out.  I'm extra glad I added this book in! 

 

Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier by James M. McPherson

 

Read Alouds: (on audio)

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry- Chapters 1-3

Reader:

 The Wright Brothers--SL  Reader--Dd is really liking it!

 

Science:

Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day -- Young Explorers Series (Apologia Science... by Jeannie Fulbright

Pages 42-51  We are really loving this book.  This week we learned about birds feathers.  Did you know they have 5 different types of feathers?  Dd did a Diagrammatic drawing of a bird feather.

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon: 16 A, B, C, D, E, F

MUS Worksheet Generator: Extra division of Fractions-5 questions per day extra.

Language Arts:

AAS 4: Lesson 14-passed

First Language Lessons: level 4: lesson 54

WWE 3: Week 5, day 3 & 4

IEW: Paragraph on Ants "Miss Ant"

                                                      Miss Ant

All the ants in a colony are female.   Females which are called “workers” are the workforce for the colony.  Because ants are so talented they only take a short break each day.  Even though workers are female, they cannot lay eggs.  They usually live one to three years, and are smaller than the queen.  If you find an ant, you probably found a female worker ant.

Fix-It: Week 8

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems:

3 poems this week.

 

Extra FUN Readers:

Disney Fairies: Beck Beyond the Sea by Kimberly Moss

Disney Fairies: Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse by Gail Herman

Disney Fairies:Dulcie's taste of Magic by Gail Herman

Dd reads a lot, but I managed to get these 3 books that she read and finished this week.  There is always more; but I don't see them.  I know she has had a lot of her big Star Wars books and American Girl craft/cooking books out too this week.   

  Dvd:

(from the library)

Magic School Bus: Plays Ball, and Works Out

The Man From Snowy River

   Audio:

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien and Rob Inglis 

  *finished this audio and ordered the next one/final one (The Return of the King)

 Activities:

Chores, Painting, Piano...lots of reading and making stuff.  Bow & Arrow was back out again this week, working with the bird feeders a lot outside-lots of interest in the birds outside, chasing off the hawks, and wanting to plant (actually did plant sunflower seeds which is not a good idea this early...) 

Computer Coding Information

Interested in Computer Coding?

There is a website called:

code.org
http://www.code.org/

it is a free website that teaches how to code for free.  I've done it, Dh has done, and Dd had done it---so, it really is family friendly and it is FREE.  Click on the box: " Students: Learn in Minutes "

youtube has a 5 minute(below) and a 9 minute video(at youtube) about code.org that is really interesting:

What most schools don't teach


I might have linked it above. The youtube video is about code.org is called "What most schools don't teach".  For those of you interested in coding those are the two things I've found out about...maybe of interest to you?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc&feature=player_embedded

March 18-22nd 2013 SL Core E, week 20 -LOW-

March 18-22nd 2013 

SL Core E, 

Week 20 -LOW-

Here is my classroom for Nature In Art

Dd got glasses!

 We had a very busy week scheduled this week---we had our LAST LHE Co-op classes (on Thursday) and Swim & Gym (on Tuesday).  Plus, we went by the A.'s house to pick up Dd's basketball award which was a new basketball!!  Dd was so super excited to get a new basketball!!  We have a old basketball that we got at a yard sale and she has been wanting a new one for years!!!  The Lord new exactly what she wanted!

Besides the activities that we had planned for this week, we also had some major meltdowns this week.  I don't know the details of how or why; but Dd really had a HARD time dealing with her hormones.  It is hard to see a kid who never cries, to be crying over the littlest things.  On Wednesday I offered her a nap and to my surprise not only did she accept the offer, but she proceeded to sleep for over 2 hours!  So, our lessons mainly took place on Monday and Friday since we had activities on Tuesday and Thursday.  Wednesday I spent most of the day prepping for my last class for Nature in Art; which was on Animals in Nature. 

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

Who Is My Neighbor? (And Why Does He Need Me?) -- Biblical Worldview of Servanthood (What We Believe, Volume 3... by John Hay and David Webb

Pages: 132-163

 
Language Arts:

Rosetta Stone: 60 minutes

First Language Lessons: 4:

Lesson 52, 53

WWE 3: Week 5 day 1 & 2

Fix-It: Week 7

AAS: 4: Step 13 completed and passed

Step 14 started

  Audio's:

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleishman--we finished on Monday.  Such a really great audio!! I highly recommend it to all ages; all families.  We really enjoyed that one.  Now we have moved onto a new audio-  On Friday we started our new audio:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Unabridged edition by Taylor, Mildred D. published by Listening Library (Audio) Audio...

Math: 
 Math U See:

15 A,B,C,D,E,F

7 Family this week: 7,14,21,28,35,42,49,56,63,70,77,84
for fun on Friday, Dd wrote her 7 family in Roman Numerals!

Science: 
Apologia Zoology 1: Dd made a suet feeder and bird drawings (below)

 Add-in Reader Aloud:

Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier by James M. McPherson 

pages: 32-73

Add-in Readers:

The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Barbara Greenwood and Heather Collins

Dd finished this book. 

 

  Online:

 HISTORY: "Have Fun With History.com" we watched two history video's online: 1) Clara Barton (14 min.) 2) The Monitor and the Merrimac (2 min.)

BrainPop, and BrainPop, Jr. 

 

ART: Dd did some wonderful new bird drawings that I already posted on the previous post.

 PIANO: Dd got back to her piano this week.  It was especially  nice since she hadn't played for over a week.

SEWING: Made 3 scarves and 2 pillows (and broke the sewing machine!)

 

 

 

 

IEW:

Paragraph on Ants from Lesson 13

 

                                Ant Colonies

Ants who live together in groups called colonies work with each other.  There are about 2,000 to 10,000 ants in a colony.  No ant lives alone, because God created them to live communally.  Some ants can do more than one job, but some can do only one.  If you see a solitary ant you should know it works and dwells in a colony.  

Test Prep, Grade 5 (Spectrum) by Dale Foreman, Alan Cohen, Jerome Kaplan and Ruth Mitchell

 (we did a few pages on Monday)

Gym/Exercising:

I'm trying to make exercising more of a "subject" for us to make happen now that Upwards Basketball is over.

Wed. Dd did a Leslie Sansone dvd workout with me--1 mile--if I had to give a grade for her effort; I'm afraid she would have gotten a D-.  She was that pitiful! But, she was standing, and her feet were moving...barely!

Thursday & Friday Dd played basketball in the driveway for about an hour each time.  So, she did get a good workout those days!

Fun Stuff--not "lesson's" related: 

Dd's fun book this week:

Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster (Disney Fairies) (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) by Laura Driscoll 

 

Dd's fun audio this week:

Disney Fairies Collection #3: Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon, Fira and the Full Moon by Lisa Papademetriou, Gail Herman, Debra Wiseman and Quincy Tyler

 

movie of the week: (for the 4th time)

 

Pride & Prejudice Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Talulah Riley, et al.