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Sunday, August 11, 2013

August 3-11th 2013 Pictures

August 3-11th 2013 Pictures
I am sharing a little bit of INDIANA with you all with the pictures this week!

Dd earned a new LOTR LEGO prize!

INDIANA STATE FAIR

Dd and Dh at the Walt Disney Exhibit---very fun exhibit!

Dd rode her first park ride ever---with me--the Ferris Wheel!

Our favorite part of the fair: The Pioneer Village

Heather----is this who you did your Easter Egg's with this year???

We have to have some cow's and chicken's in our picture's ---we are in Indiana after all!

Our other favorite part of the fair is the HONEY place! We get honey ice cream, and honey sticks. This year we bought beeswax scented with lavender to put on our dry skin---heavenly!

I personally LOVE the 4H poster displays! I always spend forever reading as many as I can! My poor family had to wait for me! I plan on doing some pressed flowers like this poster'er did.

We had 2 Black Swallowtail Butterflies hatch this week---which was great! These are the pictures from the first part of the week. We did go to the Indiana State Fair; but those pictures aren't ready yet. I'll download those in a little bit--check back later!

I released this butterfly---and it flew away; and then flew back into our yard! I've never-ever had that happen!!! And then SHE flew over to this Black-Eyed Susan flower and I took her picture! It was really neat to see her return!

This is the chrysalis she hatched from. We had a fennel next to our pea plants in the spring. The momma butterfly laid her eggs on the fennel, and I watched the caterpillars for weeks, and then we brought in the chrysalis that was on the pea stalk and put it in our aquarium. It only took about 2-3 weeks until she hatched.

Dd and Dh were invited to join GG and her dad right on the 2nd row to watch the Indianapolis Indians baseball team play! How cool is that! They had a great time out all together! It was a Dad's and Daughter's night out!

A few weeks ago Dd and Dh went to a see the woman's basketball team here in Indiana--the FEVER play---here are a few pictures from that game too:

Dd and Dh had a really nice time at the game--and ate well! Free tickets from Dh's vendor contact through work.

Garden August 1st 2013

I'm falling behind on getting garden pictures into the blog this year--- half of the pictures I took didn't come out. The camera didn't focus (and I didn't know) and the last half of the pictures were ALL fuzzy--but here are some that I took first that were okay, but they were my 'fun' photo's! But, my veggie pictures didn't turn out.

There are a few bee's on this sunflower--can you see them?

There is a beetle on this sunflower---very cool!

Friday, August 9, 2013

Ancients---links and resources

Ancients---links and resources
mostly from Chelle

http://www.last-in-line.info/search/label/Ancients%20during%202013

http://education-portal.com/academy/course/western-civilization-ancient-near-east-to-1648.html

http://www.last-in-line.info/2013/09/favourite-books-list-ancients.html

Greeks:

A wonderful collection of photographs of Greek Architecture.

Who Were the Greeks--from Chelle
Who were the Greeks. BBC. youtube (can't guarantee all of the content in this, as we haven't watched it yet :-)
Part 1
Part 2

Maps:
http://aurorak12.org/gateway/academics/Social%20Studies%20Dept.%20Pages/documents/ANCIENTGREECEPDF.pdf

I find lists are helpful, and not sure if you've browsed through these (ignore as needed)
http://forums.welltr...story-booklist/
http://amindinthelig...ancients_8.html

Romans:

Roman Myths and Religion Free Web game:

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/roman-myths-and-religion.html

Sunday, August 4, 2013

July 29th to Aug. 2nd, 2013 Core E Week 32 "A/LOW"

July 29th to Aug. 3nd, 2013
Core E
Week 32 "A/LOW"

We were due one good week of lessons--and we finally got it! We had our field trip on Monday to the Indiana State Museum (pictures of our day following this post) to see the SPECTACULAR exhibits! The exhibits we went to see were the Star Wars exhibit, Millinium Falcon, and the 5 Generations of Lincolns. We had a really great 5 1/2 hours at the museum! We could have stayed there a lot longer. It was really fun.

Tuesday through Friday we did our lessons and had a pretty normal week--library/garden/piano/BrainPop/BrainPop, Jr./BrainPop,UK/fun books/etc. etc. We did have our second week doing something new---Carole-a new friend on the SL forums, that is from New Zealand had told me about a website that shows video's for the Periodic Table. We have stopped by there for 3 weeks now; but this week we really got into a daily habit of watching some of the video's. It is from the University of Nottingham in England. That was new and fun for us; and it looks like it is officially becoming a habit!

The other "extra" thing from this week (Sat.night) was that Dd and Dh were invited to a Indianapolis Indians vs the Louisville Bats baseball game in downtown Indy. This was a very last minute thing...they had a super great time and brought me home some cotton candy. I'll download some pictures later.

Our lessons:

Bible:

Judges 5, Galations 1,2,3,4

I really enjoyed Galations this week. It really spoke loudly to me. I encourage you all to read the first 4 chapters of Galations and see how simply Paul speaks to us.

History:

Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2. -----Ch. 30

The Story of the USA, Book 4-----Ch. 1

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Childrens Poems

Artist of the Week:

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Getting to Know the Greatest Artist by Mike Veneza

Kahlo

by Andrea Kettenmann

Paint and Painting

Paint and Painting: The Colors, the Techniques, the Surfaces : A History of Artists' Tools (Scholastic Voyages... by Scholastic Books and Gallimard Jeunesse

Scholastic Voyage of Discovery-Visual Arts- Sept. 1994

Composer of the Week:

--we had THREE! I was one behind, missed him last week; but then Dd kept asking about who was the composer of Water Music, so we brought in Handel as our composer for Friday.

Composer for Mon & Tues: Franz Liszt

Meet the Great Composers

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison

Composer for Wed & Thur: Johannes Brahms

Meet the Great Composers and "Baby's First Brahms" CD.

Friday- Handel- Handel's Water Music CD

Science:

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

Apologia: Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Earth: completed Bats section pg 116-118

Notebook Pages-on difference between Micro & Mega bats

Website: University of Nottingham-The Periodic Table of Video's:http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Y: Yttruim

B: Boron

Li:Lithium

Mg: Magnesium

Be: Berylliam

K:Potassium

Ca: Calcium

and perhaps a few others that I didn't write down, we enjoyed these video's a lot.

Language Arts:

All About Spelling 5: Step 4--all week, plus reviews of previous steps, passed Step 4

First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind: Level 4 Instructor Guide (First Language Lessons) By Jessie...

First Language Lessons 4: Lesson 69 & Lesson 70

The Grammar Ace: Student Workbook by Duane Bolin and Dave Lilly

The Grammar Ace: Lesson 12 & 13

Schoolhouse Rock! - Grammar Rock [VHS] Starring Jack Sheldon, Darrell Stern and Sue Manchester

Grammar Rock-VHS

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon: 25 A-F

Math-U-See Epsilon Teacher Kit (Complete Kit) by Steven P. Demme

Skip-Counting Family: 4 family all week

Delta Test 28--Roman Numerals

Nightly Family Reader:

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane

It Made You Think of Home; Deward Barnes Canadian Expedition Force 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane

Day Read Aloud:

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson---in process

Dd's Reader:

Seventeenth Swap by Eloise McGraw

The Seventeenth Swap---COMPLETED