Sonlight Core F Week 34 August 11-17, 2014

Sonlight Core F 

Week 34  

August 11-17, 2014

Quote of the week:
Francis Bacon once remarked that:
 "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

I think we are going to finish up this core next week, a week early---but, we will see since those EHN pages always take longer than I think they will!  Plus, I think we will need a trip to go mow soon...and that will be 2 days out of our plans.

This week was suppose to be dedicated to learning about New Zealand, but we also did quite a bit on Australia too.

I finally caught the bug that Dh and Dd have had for weeks.  I really thought I was going to slip by without getting it, but no!  I was still able to do our lessons for the most part.  Thursday, I really ran out of fuel and didn't get a lot done.  I had **planned** to take Dd to Kirk Park; which is on the beach, but she said she was too tired to go play and I was so disappointed!!  

We still aren't getting a good rhythm on our lessons, and aren't up to where I wanted to be by now.  Hopefully soon we can get more done.  I think all the meal making that we have been doing for Dh and his coming home for lunch each day has really put me out of whack.

We did have 2 big things this week---on Saturday we went to Huff Park!  See post after this post for the pictures!  It was a wetlands, and very different from any park I've ever been to.  We walked out on these walkways through a wet, wetland!  Under our walk was either mud or water, and LOTS of cat-tails!  Then we went to the movies!  We had not been to the movies since Thor 2 came out and Dd was invited by a "L" family member (R) to share in her prize from that summers reading program at our library.  She won 2 free tickets, and concession stand coupons, and took Dd along with her and I was lucky enough to get invited to go with them and enjoy in on the movie with them.  We saw the movie: "Guardians of the Galaxy".  It was very emotional, and I was crying before the first 30 minutes was over!  The main character's mom died of cancer, in the hospital,....sad, sad, and touching.  The whole movie was very touching--which is unusual for an "action movie".  We liked it a lot!

Our lessons:

Bible:

Veritas Press Judges Through Kings 

Card 63-finished

I & II Kings, 1 & II Chronicles  931-722 BC

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

The Greenleaf Guide to the OT, pg. 105

Journey Through the Bible--105

(Rehobam rules over 2 tribes--Judah & Benjamin

Jeroboam rules over 10 tribes)

VP worksheets

Survey of the Bible- pg. 107-115

Survey of the Bible: A Treasury of Bible Information by William Hendriksen

Card 64

 The Fall and Captivity of Judah

Kings of Judah 1 & II Kings, 1& II Chronicles

Survey of the Bible pg 115-119

2 Kings: 25 

Worksheet pages

The Victor Journey through the Bible by V. Gilbert Beers

**This concludes what we are suppose to do for this bible study with VP's Judges Through Kings, but I want to read some more on the sections we are in before we move on to the next set of VP Bible program.**

The 100 Most Important Verses for Teens by Joy Wilt

Dd also read aloud, one of her favorite bible books:
The 100 Most Important Bible Verses for Teens


Dd's new favorite music cd's:

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Special Edition by Howard Shore (2013)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Howard Shore (2012) - Soundtrack

Current Events:
CNN Student News: M-F
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

Pre-Algebra Instruction Manual by Steven P. Demme

Math:
Math U See: Pre-Algebra 6A-E
7 family

Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics (Young Explorer Series) by Jeannie Fulbright

Science:
Apologia/Chemistry and Physics
pg 43-49







Fun Science:

Birds of Michigan Audio CDs: Compatible with Birds of Michigan Field Guide by Stan Tekiela

 

Khan Academy:
Salt and Sodium,   Mean, Median, and Mode,  Drawing Rays, Lines and Line Segments,   Equivalent Fractions,    Master Challenges-6x-,   Recognizing Rays, Lines, and Line Segments




Add-In Books for Core F this week:

Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel,

Material World by Peter Menzel


Australia book 1:
 Australia by Dalys Newman

Australia book 2:

Australia (Changing Face Of...) by Margot Richardson

The Changing Face of Australia by Margot Richardson

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel

How People Live by DK Publishing

DK: How People  Live

EHN: Overview, The Land, History, Map It, Climate, Economy, etc. etc.  I read the entire WB section aloud, and we completed the section on NZ and some on Australia.

YouTube: Topic--Australia
video's on "Aboriginal Art"
video's on "Our Generation" film 1:13:42
"The Men of the Fifth World" 52:15

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window (2nd edition) by YWAM Publishing,

100 Gateway Cities
section

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

Best-Loved Folktales
section



 

Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills : Grade 7 by Wanda C. Phillips

Daily Grams
 pg 107-108


Read Aloud 1:

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis

The Horse and His Boy--completed

Read Aloud 2:

Red Sand Blue Sky (Girls First!) by Cathy Applegate

Red Sands, Blue Sky--completed

Audio:

Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Prince Caspian--completed

Reader:

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

The Incredible Journey--in process

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Huff Park August 11, 2014

Huff Park 

August 11, 2014






 
I'm not sure pictures will do this place justice---it was really beautiful.

 

Milkweed, and see the bloom bud?  I know my friend from the "L" family knows how much I like Milkweeds!  2 of the transplants I moved into our IN home came back this year; I was so excited.  These are the plants that Monarch butterflies eat and lay their eggs on, so they are special plants.

Dd found this Preying Mantis for me to see!

I just loved these plant leaves---can you see the lines/veins on the plant?  It was even more interesting up close/ in person.

We had to see what the big fuss was about on the trails on this part---and were rebels and walked around the "Danger" signs.  I don't think they needed to put such signs up for mud and water on the walkways.  We went as far as we wanted and enjoyed the trail.

This picture reminds me of the years I spent living in Florida.

There was sign of deer everywhere.  The woman we chatted with on the trail had just seen a Doe and her two babies and told us where to look, but they were gone when we got there.

This area has a lot of these pretty thistle plants.

This park was teeming with bees, bees, bees!

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Ideas August 2014 Core G

Ideas August 2014 Core G

I am checking out Ambleside's website for some ideas on how to do Core G, and add in some extra's.  I wanted a place to keep track of the ideas I'm finding.  I have spiral notebook after spiral notebook with the suggestions I find, but never find them when I need them!  I am going to try keeping an "Ideas" spot in my blog, and see if that is more useful.

 Perhaps a spiral book for writing about Current Events?

Writing- plus Current Events idea:   Keep a calendar of events. We suggest students choose the most important 2 or 3 stories of the week and re-write them in their own words as a chronicle of the year, making the heading of each page something like "This Week in History, September 1st....

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Sonlight Core F Week 33 Aug. 4-8, 2014

Sonlight 

Core F  

Week 33  

Aug. 4-8, 2014

Dd took this picture of our dog...a close-up!

I was looking at my IG (Instructor's Guide) for Core F, and pulling out all the completed forms and decided to count how many weeks we have been at Core F---this was week 46 and perhaps 3 more weeks left--so it will take 49 or 50 weeks for us to do Core F.  It is hard for me to believe that most families do it in 36!  I really thought it wouldn't take us this long to do Core F.  According to my scheduled plans, we were suppose to be finished by now!  Oh well!  It was the weeks of packing that threw my plans to the way side.

 

Dd did this drawing of Grand Haven's lighthouse--on her own.

We had a big week, as Dd and I drove to Indiana on Monday so we could go with our "L" family friends to the 
** Indiana State Fair **
 on Tuesday (see previous post for details!).  Monday night I got our yard mowed, and check in on the house.  We met up with the "L" family at 10am and got back home around 10:30pm!  It was a great time!!!  Lots of memories were made!  So thankful for that special day!

On of Dd's pencil colored Star Wars drawing pages

Then we drove back home on Wednesday after cleaning the house and re-vacuuming it again.  I think I could vacuum that floor every day and still get something in my vacuum!  Wednesday Dd was still SO tired from the day before--she slept until 9am!  Then on Thursday she was sneezing, and by Friday she was coughing!  Dh had been sick from before we left, and she got it.  We still managed to get some of our lessons done, a little on Thursday and a little on Friday--not much, but considering how lousy she felt, I was happy.

Dd taught me how to make a "Granny Square" this week!  So fun!

The other big event from this week was that Uncle "R" died on Tuesday.  So, Dh had to go alone since Dd was sick.  Dh drove to Indiana on Friday after doing a half day, and made it to our house for bed.  Then on Saturday he drove down to Mitchell for the funeral.  I was sad that I didn't get to go and say goodbye to him.  Dh told us all about the service, and it sounded really well done.

For our lessons in Core F; we were in the "Pacific Islands"!  We had a lot of EHN/World Book pages to do in a short time, so we didn't get hardly any electives done.  But, I think it is more important at this point to finish the last bits of Core F.  I've ordered Dd's "completing a core gift"...and it is going to be really exciting to her!  I can't wait for her to see it!  I'll tell you all later, after she opens it---she sometimes see's what I write here.

Now on to our lessons from last week:

Bible:

Survey of the Bible: A Treasury of Bible Information by William Hendriksen

With our Veritas Press Bible Program, we were suppose to be reading sections out of the book: A Treasury of Bible Information Survey of the Bible by William Hendriksen, but it was expensive (like, over $30) so I never bought it.  But, then my friend has been buying and selling things used and I looked for it used, and bought it!!!!  So exciting!  The book came in damaged from the post office, it looks like it got stuck in a machine, and has black burn marks on the edge...but, it is okay for our use.  So, this week we read that book for our bible for the week.  And now, we can start to use it as scheduled for our VP bible program!  Happy about that!
Survey of the Bible by William Hendriksen
Chapter 1, pg. 1-33

MacKiev 2013 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia PC Macintosh by MacKiev

EHN/World Book:
Pacific Islands

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

Best-Loved Folktales of the World
pg 148-149

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window (2nd edition) by YWAM Publishing,

100 Gateway Cities
Addis Ababa, Asmara, Mogasishu




Reader:

Call it Courage [John Newbery Medal Award Winner, 1941] by Armstrong Sperry

 Call it Courage
(so far Dd is NOT liking this book....?)
ETA: She ended up liking this book, and stated that it had a dry start, but got better with each chapter.

The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Full-Color Collector's Edition) by C. S. Lewis

Read Aloud:
we were suppose to start Red Sand, Blue Sky, but Dd really wanted to start The Horse and His Boy this week...which was scheduled to start next week, so we did!  She loves C.S. Lewis/Narnia books!
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I by Colin Meloy

Audio 1:
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
(13 disc's...but we finished it!  So fun!)

Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Audio 2:
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis




Computer:
Khan Academy
(studies on the heart and how it works)
(I love Khan and use it more than she does actually!)

Exploring the History of Medicine by John Hudson Tiner

Science: (Reader)
The History of Medicine by Tiner
She finished the last chapters this week, and I've ordered more Tiner science books since Dd loves them so much!  They have short quizzes at the end of each chapter that she volunteered to do.

Fun books:

The Mines Of The Minotaur (Companions Quartet) by Julia Golding

Mines of the Minotaur by Julia Golding

Amulet 4: The Last Council   [AMULET BK04 AMULET 4 TURTLEBAC] [Prebound] by Kazu'(Author) Kibuishi

Amulet, bk 4, The Last Council by Kasu Kibuishi

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