April 1-5th 2013,
CORE E,
"LOW" for Week 21 "A"
Just the kind of week I like, we were at home! Dh's car broke down on Tuesday and Dd and I had to go rescue him on an off-ramp to a highway on Tuesday. He had our car all week while his car was in the shop. We prayed for a quick fix and sure enough, on Friday he came home early to pick up his repaired car! So, we were home to do lessons all Wed., Thur., and a good part of Fri. (and all Mon.). Tues. we went the G. family to the Children's Museum!!! That is one of my favorite places to go! They produce a few professional plays each year, but you have to go during Christmas break, or Spring break, or the summer to see the play, which is the only downfall to the situation. The previous posts have pictures of our day at the Children's Museum. Scroll down to see our fun pictures at the Children's Museum!!
As far as our Sonlight (SL) history we are moving into the World War time period, but I keep adding in books that we still haven't read yet that are from the decades leading up to that point and probably will continue to do that for the rest of this core! The 'Reader' I had Dd read this week is on the potato famine in Ireland in 1840, which is even before the Civil War. I had so many books that I hoped we would get to this core, and still hope to fit in as we move forward. I just thought I'd let you know why we had some books that were out of chronological sequence mixed in throughout our weeks...and will continue to have that.
Our lessons this week:
Bible:
Bible:
Proverbs--all week
Art:
Dd is working on a linoleum cut of a bird--printmaking, this should be fun!
History:
The World Wars
The World Wars: An Introduction to the First & Second World Wars by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst and Henry Brook
Read Alouds:1 (on audio)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. Amazon's book description: "The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and
strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and
betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s."
Read Aloud-at night with Pappa reading 2:
All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque
Read Aloud 3:
The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden and Lydia Halverson
Read Aloud 4:
American Tall Tales (Puffin Books) by Adrien Stoutenberg and Richard M. Powers
Dd Reader: 2
Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine) by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Here is what Amazon has posted about this book: "From School Library JournalGrade 4-6-- The horrors of the potato famine in Ireland vividly leap from the pages of this first novel. The O'Driscolls are a poor family whose lives depend on the potato crop. When it fails, they are doomed. The father has left to find work elsewhere, and when he does not return, Mrs. O'Driscoll goes to find him, leaving feisty Eily, the oldest, in charge of her two younger siblings. She also does not return, forcing the children to set out to find two great-aunts about whom they've heard stories; their alternative is going to the workhouse. At this point, the story becomes one of resourceful and determined children seeking to stay together in the hope of being reunited with the rest of their family. The tale is episodic, but should sustain the interest of its target audience. The characters are largely two-dimensional and are sometimes mere vehicles to help tell the history of the period. The book succeeds on this level, and readers are left with a glimmer of hope as the children reach their elderly aunts, but with their future still a mystery. A worthwhile addition. --Renee Steinberg, Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, NJ"
Dd Reader: 1
The Wright Brothers (Landmark Books) by Quentin Reynolds (finished)
Geography:
South America (True Books) by Libby Koponen
I'm posting this True Book b/c I can't find the picture of the workbook we have been doing. We have a workbook on South America to do for SL. We have worked on it 2 weeks ago and I forgot to put it in my blog. But, we have to use a lot of books I have in our library to find the answers. Lucky for us, I have quite a few books specifically on South America, like 2 of these "True Books" on South America and another "True Book" on Brazil, plus we've used some Atlas's and Animal Encyclopedia's to find animal answers to animal questions. I've had fun with it; but Dd has not enjoyed this very much!!!
Add-in History Picture Books:
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch
Young Teddy Roosevelt by Cheryl Harness
DVD:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy)
We have procured out last audio from the Lord of the Rings Triology- The Return of the King, but haven't started listening. But, we did watch the new movie that came out recently on DVD:
Math:
Math U See: Epsilon: 17 A, B, C, D, E, F
Language Arts:
AAS 4: Lesson 15 passed, Lesson 16 spent most of the week on---nearly ready to pass, this one had a few tough words!
Fix-It: Week 8
First Language Lessons: 55, 56, 57
WWE 3: Week 6: Day 1,2,3,4
IEW: New Paragraph, but this time Dd picked a book on Horses and did it herself.
Horses
Females called mares “marry” males
called stallions, in spring. In eleven months, the
mother gives birth in the night to a foal.
If she lies down she is ready to give birth. Within one hour the foal will be walking. A female foal is called a filly while a male
is called a colt. After a foal is born
the affectionate mother will lick the foal all over. Because a foal needs to keep in contact with
it’s mother it will purposefully butt into her.
Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems:
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems by Donald Hall
Activities:
This week has been warm enough for Dd to go outside, and that is what she has done. This has been a big week for playing in the....MUD! She has filled gords with mud, and done all sorts of great things with...MUD! She took a walk in the back field with Pappa and picked up trash TWICE! We have a LOT of trash for our recycling guy!!! Bags of plastics and papers that were flying all over! She has been playing basketball in the driveway--I played with her on Thursday. Friday she did a real Leslie Sansone workout with me. Saturday she planted the garden with Pappa---and found a family of mice living in our compost bin!!!! Mice, nothing bigger than that, fortunately!! She has been reading Narnia readers, and I'm not sure what else. She has played on the piano too.
