SL Core F Week 18 & 19 March 3rd-7th, 2014

SL Core F 

Week 18 & 19 

March 3rd-7th, 2014

It is still frozen here!  And this photo, taken by Dd, was taken on Friday when it got all the way up to 50 degrees!!!  See it melting!  Yay!  Friday we sat outside and heard groups of Sandhill Cranes flying over us ALL DAY!  I looked up what groups of Sandhill Cranes are technically called---a "siege"!

Here is Sophie--outside on Friday with us.  We spent Friday outside doing our lessons in the fresh air.

Picture by Dd.  She takes such interesting photo's.

We only had a few things to do on the "Week 18" IG, so I added those items to the "Week 19" list and we did both this week.  I wasn't counting on my migraine continuing on from last week; but with lots more pain, from last week.  I might have made this a Science or Art week or something else if I had known ahead of time; but I didn't get the memo ahead of time.  Thursday and Friday were my worst days when the pain won and I had to go back to bed in the afternoon.  But, Friday was such a beautiful day!  Dd and I spent at least 4 hours in our backyard!  She played soccer while I read our Read Aloud's in my hammock.  

Our activities for this week were--Monday we took advantage of the COLD weather and tried some craft I saw--you fill up balloons with food coloring, then add water, then shake, and put outside to freeze.

These were the insides of frozen balloons.  They didn't all freeze all the way through; and you can see some are hollow.  It just depended on where we placed them.  We put them in three different places around our yard.

Tuesday was Swim & Gym.

This was a game of Kickball; here Dd is coming in to make a "run".  After this game they did their swimming lessons.  I was kind enough not to take any photo's of that!

Wednesday was our visit to the LeFebvre's house!  I got to drink tea and chat with my friend.  Dd got to play with the boys!  She brought the swords she made from yard sticks and cardboard. They got to sword fight, they played outside, and who know's what else!  They are a lot of fun.  

Thursday was our co-op, and Dd built a 'rover' in her "Mission to Mars" class. 

 She also had Gym and Drama class.  Afterwards we went to Arbuckle Park with our ice cream cones.  Then we went to the library.  My brain wasn't working much that with my head hurting; but Dd got a few things done.

Dd made these two necklaces this week.  She has made quite a few; but I don't usually remember to take a photo of them.

Friday we spent outside in our yard---and did our lessons until my migraine got bad and I had to go to bed.  I gave her instructions on what to do without me.

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Bible:
Veritas Press: Card 38: completed
Naomi & Ruth: Ruth 1-4 
Bible: Ruth 1-4
Bible Commentary: Ruth 1-4
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament: pg. 94 & 95
VP Student Worksheets
Archeological Study Bible-Articles:
Food and Agriculture
The Kinsman-Redeemer
The City Gate

Dd doing her workbook from VP, she likes this book better than the one I printed out--you can buy the ebook and print it out yourself, or buy the book - which is more expensive; but she really likes this book better.

Veritas Press: Card 39:completed
Samson and Delilah: Judges 13-16
Bible: Judges 13-16
Bible Commentary: Judges 13-16
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament: pg. 82
VP Student Worksheets
With Bible Program we got to study Rembrandt's "Blinding of Samson"--which was very nice! and unplanned.

KJV Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture by Zondervan

The Victor Journey through the Bible by V. Gilbert Beers

 http://www.veritaspress.com/judges-kings-hs-kit-w-cd.html

The Greenleaf Guide To Old Testament History by Rob G. Shearer

The Inspirational Study Bible NKJV by Max Lucado

Readers:

1.Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2. Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan
3. Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
4. Red Pyramid Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan

Stuart Little by E. B. White

 5.Stuart Little by E.B. White: completed (I assigned her to pick a CLASSICS, and this is the Classics book she has chosen.  I've read this book to her; 2-3 times...but she likes to read the books I've read to her herself now that she is older.)
6.Max's Logbook by Marissa Moss

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Lost: A Tale of Survival (Graphic Quest)

7. Lost, a tale of survival by Chris Kreie



Dd got a new book of Victorian Paper dolls at last week's field trip at the Benjamin Harrison house.  She has been cutting for a solid week!!!  She is really enjoying this new book!

Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color (Dover Victorian Paper Dolls) by Tom Tierney

Read Alouds:

Teresa of Calcutta: Serving the Poorest of the Poor (Sower Series) by D. Jeanene Watson

Teresa of Calcutta

Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor folktale library) by Joanna Cole

Best-Loved Folktales

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window by YWAM Publishing

100 Gateway Cities

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 
(This was suppose to be a "Reader" but I wanted to be apart of it too; and not miss any of this book!  I've never read it!)

Math:
Math U See: Zeta: 20 A-E
Skip-Counting Family--the 6 family





Composer of the Week:
Antonin Dvorak

Meet the Great Composers: Book 2 (Learning Link) by Maurice Hinson

Art lesson:
from Mrs. Cole's art class 
Drawing Faces


 Dd's drawing

I took the lessons Mrs. Cole went over in class, and taught them to Dd.


Artist of the Week:
Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artist's by Mike Venezia
(I had other books that we looked at...but I'll just post this one.)   
Khan Academy's video's: Vision After the Sermon, Jacob Wrestling With the Angel, The Red Cow, & Nevermore.

online BIOGRAPHY (A&E): "The Post Impressionists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin"

With Bible Program we got to study Rembrandt's "Blinding of Samson"--which was very nice! and unplanned.

 

Core F Add-in Book for the Week:

Our Living Earth: A Story of People, Ecology, and Preservation by Isabelle Delannoy

Our Living Earth by Isabelle Delannoy

From Booklist

Arthus-Bertrand’s stunning aerial photographs, collected in his internationally best-selling series of Earth from Above books, illuminate both the planet’s extraordinary diversity and humans’ devastating ecological impact. In this volume, broadly themed chapters introduce a multitude of issues, all related to a single basic question: how do we sustain life on Earth? The eye-catching spreads center around statistics about each subject, from figures on salary disparities among men and women in wealthy countries to the amount of water needed to produce a single pound of commercial beef. Combined with clear definitions of concepts such as NGOs and fair trade, the statistics, fascinating on their own, show the profound connections among the issues. It’s both disappointing and surprising that no source notes are included for any of these numbers, greatly diminishing both the credibility of the statistics and the book’s potential as a student reference source. Still, the photographs are exceptional, and the range of subjects will give young readers a captivating, highly browsable overview of environmental issues that they can research further in better-documented, focused titles. Grades 6-12. --Gillian Engberg

Dd found a patch of green grass on Friday!  
 Language Art:

All About Spelling: AAS 6: Step 1: passed

Following Narnia:
started Lesson 4
FN vocab words: fraternizing, beckoned, stratagem, accord

Daily Grams 7:
pg. 35-39

Fix-It: Frog Prince:
Lesson 1: completed 



 

EHN/ World book:
2 x this week, we are definitely going to have our India pages done before we are done with India this time!!!  We have been working on our Research Pages each week!!



DVD:

Gandhi

It took us 4-5 viewings to watch this really long movie; it even has an "Intermission"; but well worth it.  This movie has LOTS of violence--be warned!  We had to fast forward a LOT.  This is not a movie for young children, or sensitive people of any age.  But, if you are alright with fast forwarding through the violence you really do see an excellent movie that teaches a lot about India. 

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Sat. March 1st, 2014 One Warm Day in Winter

Sat. March 1st, 2014 

One Warm Day in Winter

Snow is falling already...but we had one day to spend outside; and we did spend it outside!  Dd playing basketball; Dh cleaning the garage and working with his tools--cutting wood, and building shelves for the walls...and I picked up trash from around our yard; blown in from who knows where, filled bird seed containers, bird baths, and general puttering in the yard.  Instead of my normal SNOWY pictures; here are a few pictures of GRASS!

Dd worked on her FORT, and found her bucket, with the sticks and corn husks still in it...you can see what became of it!  Sophie, our dog, wanted to play with the chunk of ice; but had to admit it was TOO BIG for even her!

Our garden....FULL of rabbit droppings!

Our compost pile must have a family of mice still living in it.  I've seen little holes in it, and this little collection looks suspicious!!

Sophie, did find a good stick that was her size!  We did have a good romp chasing after her with it, and got it broken in two before all was done!  She needed a good play outside just as much as we did.

See all the trash on the table that I found around the outside of our fence, and in our garden---the wind blows it up against our fence every few weeks.

The Ferrel cat that allows me to feed it, that only occasionally tries to hit me!  What a cat.  Don't think this is a soft, cuddly fellow....for he is NOT.  He is very bossy, and dominant. 

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Benjamin Harrison Field Trip-in progress

Benjamin Harrison Field Trip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison

Our 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison.  He was a Brigadier General in the Civil War--on the Union side.

This is a painting of Harrison, done right after his service in the Civil War.

Benjamin Harrison was married twice; this is his first wife; Caroline.  She was an artist, and painted very well.  The house if FULL of her watercolors and paintings.  She painted BIRDS and FLOWERS as her subject matter...and I found them very appealing.  She even painted china--painted an assortment of birds on china.  His second wife, was Caroline's niece, was 25 years younger than BH!!! and he was around 64 yrs old when she had children with him.  His previous daughter was not happy with his second marriage---very upset...

BH's great grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence.  He comes from a long line of prominent men.

I did find a whole row of Dickens works in the cabinet!  Such good works were in the collection.

I forget if there were 3 or 4 levels/stories to this house; but it was 10,000 square feet!!!  

This is another painting of Caroline Harrison--I really liked her (obviously!).

This picture was from Caroline's room--this was one of her many flower paintings in the house.

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SL Core F Week 17 Feb 24-28, 2014

SL Core F 

Week 17 

Feb 24-28, 2014

This was a hard week for me--I'm under the ocean in my head; or at least that is how it feels from behind my eyes.  Having a whole week of migraine or being threatened by a migraine is NO FUN!  But, Dd and I managed to do our lessons and keep to our fairly normal routine.  I was able to push through the day, and then after 5 or 6 PM I would be on empty.  

Dd, herself had her turn with the nasty cold that I had last week.  This week was hard on her, and she actually asked to skip going to Swim & Gym because she was "empty".  She has nothing in her...poor kid.  I know just how she felt; since I had that last week.  We are ready for some healthy days--and soon!!  Thursday, after our field trip, my head was so bad I had nothing left in me--and asked Dd to do her math (that we wouldn't do any formal lessons that day together).  Well, my dearest child decided her books were calling her; NOT her math.  I asked my darling husband to get her to do her math when he got home--he apparently forgot.  So, on Friday when I asked if she ever did get her math done on Thursday, the answer was a weak, "no...".  So, we had a chat about the topic of "self-discipline" and she has to do her math page on Saturday instead of having the weekend off.  But, I wanted to be sure to share with you all how we are very much like every other homeschool family in that we struggle; and battle with the 5th Commandment on a daily basis (wish it wasn't daily though...).

Monday night she had her basketball team's pizza night and their coaches game them each a personalized trophy.  Her trophy was for "Best Offense".  She just cared about getting an opportunity to eat and play with her friends.

Tuesday night the Upwards Basketball - Liberty Baptist Church that holds it, had their awards night, and gave each of the athletes a bag with "Upwards Basketball" on it.  It has strings on it, so you can wear it like a backpack.  She had fun seeing her friends for a second night in a row.

www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org/

Thursday we had a great field trip; to Benjamin Harrison's house in downtown Indianapolis.  He was our 23rd American President.  

Our bible: Veritas Press: Judges Through Kings
Card: 36: completed
Gideon Delivers Israel: Judges 6 & 7
We read the Bible Judges 6 & 7, the Max Lucado sidebar study notes.
the Believer's Bible Commentary Judges 6 & 7,

the Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament--Lesson 78
The Archeological Study Bible: Articles: 
The Descent of Ishtar
Changes in Canaan

VP Worksheets completed
Journey Through The Bible: pg 86-89

Card: 37: completed
 Jephthah's Foolish Vow: Judges 11 & 12
read the Bible- Judges 11 & 12 (and Max Lucado's study notes)
Believer's Bible Commentary 11 & 12
The Greenleaf Guide..OT: Lesson 80
Archaeological Study Bible: Articles:

Abimelech at Shechem
Ammon
The Virgin
The Reliability of Judges
The Archeology of Philistia

*See my posts from last week to view the pictures the books we use for our bible program; I've posted them a lot on our previous weeks' posts.

No poetry this week; this week we focused on Science and Paul Cezanne.  I have a particular fondness for Cezanne; so we spent at least 20 minutes each day (or more) reading and discussing Cezanne except for Thursday.  We read two good books on Cezanne; which was as many as Dd would allow!  She did a good job discussing Cezanne's style and getting it.  We also took the week off Spelling; since we finished AAS 5 last week - I figured she could use a reward week off.



Artist of the Week:
Paul Cezanne

Cezanne (Famous Artists) by Antony Mason,

Famous Artists-Cezanne  by Antony Mason
This was just a really good book.  It took us the whole week to read; taking it a little bit at a time the way we like to.  But, it really shared all the basic's of his whole life...basically.  If I had to pick ONE book, this would be it b/c it really gives a good whole picture of who Cezanne was; although the second book shared more of his personality.


 

Paul Cezanne: A Painter's Journey by Robert Burleigh

Paul Cezanne- A Painter's Journey by Robert Burleigh
This book was good in showing the heart of Cezanne.  It had bigger photo's of him, and bigger sized copies of his paintings--for a Children's book.  I also like how this book showed Cezanne and his friend Pissaro both painting from the exact same spot; and how TOTALLY different their paintings were; they showed them one on top of the other, so we could compare and see for ourselves.

 

Art Lessons by Eleanor Schick

Unrelated Art book-- Picture book:
Art Lessons by Eleanor Schick
good little book about a young boy whose neighbor is an artist, and invites him to draw with him--at the zoo, at the park, here and there...and everywhere.  Although it is a "picture book" it really is for older children, or teens.  It guides you HOW to look at things, when you are going to draw.  How to look at your environment and wait to think about what you are going to draw...etc. some really good concepts about approaching drawing.  It is just a simple little book; and very short--with a good message.

Meet the Great Composers: Book 2 (Learning Link) by Maurice Hinson

Composer of the Week:
Stephen Foster
Meet the Great Composers, Book 2
He is the composer who wrote: "Oh, Suzanna..."
We went to youtube.com and listened to about 7 songs by various artists...instrumental and some to words...and one sung by Johnny Cash! a very prolific artist!



 Indian Person of the Week:
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa by Demi

Mother Teresa by Demi

Science:

Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright

 Apologia: Swimming Creatures...Day 5
pg. 65-86





Read Alouds:

Daughter of the Mountains (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Louise S. Rankin

Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin-completed

Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins

Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins-completed

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window by YWAM

Praying Through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window: (ongoing)
Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad

Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor folktale library) by Joanna Cole

Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanne Cole (ongoing)

 


World book/ EHN:
We worked on our EHN 3x this week!


 


Dd Reader's:

The Missing Heir (Sherlock Files) by Tracy Barrett

1) The Sherlock Files: The Missing Heir by Tracy Barrett-completed

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

2) The Kane Files: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan-in process

The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel (Kane Chronicles) by Rick Riordan

3) The Kane Files: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan- Graphic Novel

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

4) Percy Jackson-The Lightning Thief- in process

The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

5)Percy Jackson-The Lightning Thief- Graphic Novel

The Demigod Files (A Percy Jackson and the Olympians Guide) by Rick Riordan

6) The Demigod Files
*You might wonder if any of these books are her Sonlight Readers, and they are NOT.  She is ahead in her Readers.  Next week (Week 18), she is suppose to have Rickshaw Girl as her Reader; but someone suggested that I do that one as a Read Aloud, so we did that together this week (and completed it).  So, I am letting her continue on with her Rick Riordan / Greek & Roman interest until we leave India and get into her new SL Readers.  She reads very fast, and I don't want her to read the Readers for countries we haven't gotten to yet--so I'm not going to let her read ahead.  The Sherlock Files was a Sonlight Reader, it was called The 100 Year Old Secret;

The 100-Year-Old Secret (Sherlock Files) by Tracy Barrett

  and she liked it so much she wanted all the books in the series; and she just finished the last book; book 4.  So far that is all of the books Tracy Barrett has written in this series.  The Missing Heir was published in 2011, so perhaps she is working on book 5?  My Dd really enjoyed these mysteries VERY much!!!  If your dc liked the first one; you could see if your library has the rest of the series, like we did.



Language Arts:

Fix-It: Tow Sawyer: Completed this book!!!
Week 32 & 33
Following Narnia-our IEW writing program, that we've been struggling with...and taking baby, baby steps with...
Lesson 3: Completed (3 paragraphs on Janis-one paragraph on Setting/Who/What/When/Where, one on Plot/Problem, one on Climax/Resolution) She finished her outlines, then her draft, and finally her FINAL DRAFT is complete and we can move to Lesson 4 next week!  I think it took us about 2 or 3 weeks to do Lesson 3!!! eek!  But, we really did it very well, and thoroughly.

Following Narnia Vocab. words:
cunning, inquisitive, melancholy

Daily Grams 7:
pg. 30-34

Sonlight Language Arts with Core F
Week 8 & 9
Week 9, we learned about something I don't remember learning about: 
Intensive, Reflexive, and Indefinite Pronouns.  SL's LA program covers things that we haven't covered in our other programs (like those Reflexive Pronouns!), so I am trying to fit it into our week.





Math:
Math U See: Zeta: 19 A-E
Skip Counting family: 12's 



Odd:

Critical Thinking Activities in Pattterns, Imagery, Logic: Mathematics, Grades K-3 by Dale Seymour

Critical Thinking Activities in Imagery Logic by Dale Seymour 
(2 pages for fun)


What we were listening to this week:

Legacy: Hymns & Faith by Amy Grant

Hymns sung by Amy Grant; almost every day:
Softly and Tenderly
I Need Thee Every Hour
It Is Well With My Soul
This Is My Father's World
Holy, Holy, Holy
etc. etc.
(The 3 bolded songs, are some of my favorites.)


Fun activities:
Piano week!!! Finally! I was blessed with hearing Dd play again!  It had been a LONG time!  

BIG LEGO week...the rainbow loom has not been played with in a few weeks; duct tape has...and marshmallows and toothpicks have!  

Cooking:
Cooking happens practically every day with Dd.  She just is too picky for me to deal with.  When she was younger if she didn't like what *I* cooked, I gave her the option of a peanut butter sandwich; so she quickly took to the stove!!!  She has been making these wheat tortilla, egg, goat cheese wraps lately--and for any meal!  She made granola from scratch yesterday; and that was super good!  We made our "chicken finger" meal on Wednesday together.  She made the potatoes; washed, cut open, and put in loads of butter, and put in oven.  That is all I can remember off the top of my head.  Oh, and Saturday she made Lemon Bars from scratch...delicious!

My funny story for the week...so it has been SO COLD here--and on Tuesday morning the radio had just said it was 6 degrees as I was washing dishes.  Dd and our dog, Sophie walk by with a heap of blankets, heading for the back door.  Dd says they are going to eat their breakfast outside in the sunshine...with a BIG smile on her face!  How could I rain on her enthusiasm?  I tell her to have a great time, and keep the temperature to myself; smiling back at her.  They go out, and I keep doing the dishes.  Twenty minutes later she comes back in, "refreshed"; but says that it isn't as warm out there as you'd think!  She tells me that it is actually pretty cold!!!!  I had to tell her that I already knew it was cold, that the radio said it was 6 degrees; but I didn't want to discourage her from going outside.  She seemed glad that she still had gone out.  I regret not getting a picture of them out there...that would have been a great photo.  The weird thing about our weather this week was that it was so bright and sunny; but the temperatures were so bitter.

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