SL Core G Middle Ages Week 25 April 10-15, 2016 BiblioPlan Week 13 Francis of Assisi Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm

SL Core G Middle Ages Week 25 

April 10-15, 2016 
BiblioPlan Week 13 

Francis of Assisi Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm

Last week's opening picture was SNOW, then a few days later we rushed up to heat!  It only lasted for two days, but we enjoyed every minute of it!  We did all we could outside.  Can you see the pet taxi on the right of Dd?  Dd decided pitiful kitty Agnes needed to share in the fresh air!



Dd's sax has been returned!

Dd has enjoyed having two sax's this past week!  We will return the rented one soon.  It was interesting for her to compare the two, now that she has a bit of experience.

Hello Friends!

Things are still a bit crazy here--we had Dd's birthday, and we have had some celebrating last week, this week, and the next week!  I'm not sure spreading it out was a good idea---live and learn!

Picnic at Kirk Park

It was SO cold! and the wind cut right through...but, we still had a wonderful time.

Dd received some LOTR figures, and she took them along with us and took action pictures of the figures about our goings on...she had such fun setting up each picture.

Dh took a day off work and we all went to Kirk Park, on Lake Michigan together as a family to celebrate Dd's birthday!  It was a great day! We went all day!

Since we didn't get as much done as I wanted, and Dh had to work on Saturday, so we fit in a bit of our left-overs then.  

A quick summary of our lessons:


Bible:


Veritas Press: Gospels
Teaching by the Sea
Matt 12: 15-21 God's Chosen Servant
Mark 3: 7-12 A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

The Withered Hand:
Matt 12: 9-14 Sheep
Mark 3: 1-6
Luke: 6: 6-11


We read each story with our Bible and Believer's Bible Commentary---I just love our BBC.

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Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

Alex Harris, Brett Harris

Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
We are deliberately taking our time, stretching this great book out , as part of our bible study/character study.






Christian Studies IV: Memoria Press: 
a few pages a day



Trial and Triumph
Anselm
Bernard Clairvaux
Francis of Assisi



Monks and Mystics by Mindy and Brenda Whithrow


Francis Assisi

BiblioPlan: Medieval, Renaissance & Reformation Companion (2 Book Set)

BiblioPlan Companion of Medieval History
 Chapter 12: Completed

BiblioPlan Advanced Maps:
Map 6 & 7



Math:
Teaching Textbooks Algebra I


Music:
Lots of Music happening!  Sax, piano, and trying out the violin some.  On Dd's birthday, she asked to go to a music store and try some string instruments---she got to try the cello, base, and a half-base, I think!?  The sales person spent about 40 minutes with us, and shared a lot of helpful information.  Dd had a great time trying them all out--she would love to get a cello and take lessons for that.  But, they sure are expensive!
Dd spent about 4 hours on the sax, about 2 hours on the piano, and about 1 hour on the violin.  It was a good music week.





Science:


Apologia General Science
Module 8: in process
(Completed Week 1 of 2)
Student Notebook and Experiment 8.1: Completed

Seidman Park

Nature Hikes:
We met up with my friend from KinderKids (co-teacher), as she showed us a lovely park and hiking trail!  We all did the trail for over an hour.  Plus, we went to Kirk Park for a good long visit--on Lake Michigan.

Finally, someone in Michigan has taken us hiking!!!  Nice trail! Seidman Park

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia 


YouTube History: In Process
Macbeth 1978
I found an old Judy Dench, Ian McKellen
(Magneto and Emperor Palpatine in one play.)



Sonlight Reader:



Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray




Art:
Drawing
1 hour plus per day this week





Foreign Language:

Sign Language:
Lessons 1-4
(took the week off french)


Lamplighter Audio:
http://lamplighter.net/c/lamplighter-theatre/
Titus: A Comrade of the Cross
Episode 3: Completed


Language Arts:

IEW's Green Knight: Fix-It
Week 8: Completed

Easy Grammar, Plus
273-275

Cooking:
Hamburgers, she made the grill--charcoal--and grilled

Dd planned out her cake, and worked hard getting it *just* right!

She made her birthday cake and icing 



Pancakes from Scratch

Kirk Park trail

Fun Books:
**The Reason Dd didn't finish Adam of the Road**



Rangers Apprentice, The Lost Stories by John Flanagan: In Process




Sidekick to Mockingjay by Katherine R. Miller from welovenovels
: Completed





Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin: In Process





*no picture* The Way of the Warrior, Bk 1: In Process




Staff of Serapies by Rick Riordan: Completed




Crown of Ptolemy by Rick Riordan: Completed




Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan: Re-Reading

Dd made some silly putty for fun:

Even Sophie was surprised at Dd being able to play two sax's!

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Chicken Tractor #2 and Getting Outside!

Chicken Tractor #2 and Getting Outside!

This time it was my turn to build a Chicken Tractor with Dh.  Most nights, after a l-o-n-g day at work, we would get in an hour or two of puttering in the woodshop making a revised Chicken Tractor.  

I know it looks like my husband is doing all the work, but that is only because I stop working to take a few pictures!  I did just as much cutting on the table saw, circular saw, and miter saw as he did!  He just loves having his picture taken! (ha! joke)

Sophie is a big fan of the chickens...almost TOO interested!  She doesn't want to eat them, just lick them...a little!

Here the girls are....happily in the grass!

The chicks are all doing really well.  Yesterday I had 10 in the garage, and 10 outside in the tractor, so they could spread out some.  I'm still making sprouts for them, to add to the greens (grass, spinach, dandylions...) I've been feeding them.  They are acting more like chickens, and still seem to grow more each day!

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Praises in April, taking a moment to be Thankful to the Lord, and sharing how wonderful our Lord is!

Just thought I'd share my heart a little today:

 This morning while praying, and boy, did I have a lot to pray about, but while praying, it occurred to me, that the Lord is using our new church and some of the new friends I've made, to route love to me.  It just so plainly shows me how prayer works, although it usually takes some time!  For YEARS I often pray, to the Lord, "Lord, let me FEEL that you love me." and I hate to admit just how often I pray that, but I do! I'm sure I always will pray for that.

One of the things I'm seeing, now that we accepted our moving to Michigan, spent a year in a tiny apartment, and have finally found our home, is that I can now see just how the Lord has been getting my needs met, and sending love and care our way.  Not just my needs either--very much my Dd's, and very much my Dh's too!  

Some of the blessings that have come since we submitted to His will and moved to Michigan from Indiana:

Dd now has three very good girlfriends that love all the "nerdy" things she loves (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Percy Jackson/Rick Riordan books, Ranger's Apprentice, Swords.....it goes on, but these friends are "hand-crafted" to match up with her in a way that only can be aligned by God. (BTW, "nerdy" seems to be something that the girls *like* being!)

Dd finally is getting the music education she has desired since she was four.  She really loves making music, and always wanted to know how to read music, how to play, and I had zero knowledge to share with her.  Now she is in a large band, and soon to be in the Northern Lights Homeschool Band (the largest homeschool band in the nation!).

Dd has trees to climb, a pool, and space to be.  She gave up a really awesome huge bedroom, but the one here is in a "loft" so that kinda makes it special in it's own way.

Dh is finally working with people that have become his *friends.*  Dh has a very funny sense of humor, and he is so delighted that he can have all sorts of running jokes with his co-workers; which lightens the weight of so much to do.  He actually works way more hours here than he did before, so that part is hard, but his co-workers make working so much easier--and I think he actually gets to laugh there!  Laughing is always a blessing!

Dh's got an assistant three weeks ago---which is a huge, Praise the Lord!  She seems to be custom delivered by God as well!  Boy, did I pray a lot for her, and for her to help Dh with his huge job.  I always find it so crazy that company's expect you to get a job done, but don't give you the tools to do it!  Sort of like asking someone to make chocolate-chip cookies, but not allowing the purchase of chocolate chips!  

Dh has been out in the out-building trying to fix his new, very "used" truck (currently fixing the automate brake system), and helping either Dd or me make chicken tractors.  Honestly, he went from spending his little time after work, before bed, watching tv, and now he has too much "work" to do!   The "work" being those jobs described above, that he so enjoys doing!  Last month he made the first chicken-tractor with Dd, then this month, he and I have made a second one!  It is so great to actually DO something with him, and I'm sure he feels the same way too!

As for MY blessings, that have come as a result of our move---

Instead of just having one friend that cared for me, I now have a fair few, with the feeling that our church will perhaps lead to a few more.  

I'm surrounded by trees and birds...say  no more!

Because Dh currently works for a stable company, I don't have that horrible feeling that he could be fired "any minute," like I had in Indiana.

Dd is very, very happy here.  Her needs are being met, and then some!  She is very aware of the blessings the Lord has provided here, compared to Indiana, and truly thanks the Lord for these provisions.  I love that she can compare and see the Lord working in her life, at a fairly young age, so she knows how He cares and loves us each so uniquely and specifically.

Dd is in Band, Choir, "Girls Club," soon to be in Marching Band (with a trip to Niagra Falls with MB), and in a Writer's Club.

Dd gets to play her sax, violin, and piano as much as she wants...and can actually READ the music now!  That makes her SO HAPPY!  Out of the three of us, she has really benefited the most from our move.  Her world has gone from black and white to color.  

I have to admit, while in Brownsburg, Indiana, I wondered where the Lord was---We were praying through each day, studying our bibles with zeal, following the Holy Spirit, and generally doing all the "right" things, and yet here we were with such a beyond-words-horrible job for Dh, me in a tree-less neighborhood of concrete and cars, and Dd doing okay, but lots of room for improvement and growth.  I just didn't get it.  I knew and FELT that my needs were just not being met, but being patient, and hoping the Lord would help.  Fast-forward through two really tough years and here we are in Michigan!  Not that things are at all easy here, they certainly are not! but, there is new threads of peace here that we didn't have before.  

Here we found a church!!!  Both of the churches we had being attending fell through for various reasons, and all our searches and visits to church after church kept leading to nowhere (both in Indiana and in our apartment).  I truly believe the Lord didn't want us to find a new church home there, as that might have lead us to not accept the job offer here.  But, with so few connections in Indiana, we were willing to follow His will a bit easier.  Some day I will look through my church notebook and count up all the dozens of churches we have visited the past ten years!  So many churches where people did not come over and welcome us, or interact with us at all.  I could see how new Christians, trying church for the first time, would not feel the welcome they need in order to stay connect and gain fellowship.  Luckily we are fully vested in the Lord and always hoped we would eventually find a welcoming/loving/kind church congregation.  

But, as a Christian, it sure does disappoint me that so many (80%) didn't welcome us more than handing us a bulletin and passing the plate.  I can't imagine what God must think of our churches?! Yikes!  I digress, I am SO thankful for our new church!  Last Sunday, on of the elders came over to us and literally said, "We just LOVE having you guys here!"  Can you imagine?!  I said, "I just LOVE that we found such a loving church!"  I always make it clear, that I believe WE are the ones more blessed by finding them, than they could be having us---does that make sense?!  I can't begin to emphasize how big my desire was to find a church HOME!  So, I am very much Praising The Lord! and I will always make more of an effort to welcome new visitors after our experiences visiting so many churches these past years, and I hope YOU do too!!! 

I want to make sure I do say, that we have a lot of strife--a lot of migraines, bad health, and difficulties still!!!  Maybe even more strife, so far, in Michigan than we had in Indiana! Things are not easy!  But, through all the weekly problems (daily problems), I can see all these blessings and answered prayers coming up and shining through all the chaos.  I do get down-hearted, and fairly easily, but I like to try and remember all the things that the Lord has been providing to help me make it through with the peace He has promised us.  His PEACE in my heart gives me so much strength on the days that are over-burdened, and I so appreciate His life-lines.  I can see His hand in my life each time I look out the window here, and hear the birds!  

Because He Lives!

I can face tomorrow

Because He lives

All fear is gone

Because I know

He holds the future

And life is worth the living 

Just because He lives

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Apologia General Science Experiment 8.1 A Simulation of Using Index Fossils to Order Rock Layers

Apologia General Science Experiment 8.1 

A Simulation of Using Index Fossils to Order Rock Layers

This was a pretty easy experiment to do, though it took five minutes of parent prep before student could participate.  This chapter is focusing on the differences between Uniformitarianism (Bill Nye, non-Christian-type of scientist theory/ideology; the world is billions or trillions of years old.) and Catastrophism (that the Bible is accurate, the flood and other major events caused varying sedimentary layers; the world is fairly young--a few thousand years old.)

We needed 18 Index Cards, pencil/pen, and paper...I think it took us about fifteen minutes all together.

I drew stars on three cards, squares on three cards, triangle, circles, straight line, and "x's" on three cards.

 Then I made three stacks, arranging the cards in exactly the same way, and wrote down the order I had made the stacks.  Then I had to remove two cards from each stack and turn the stacks over to Dd to figure out what the order was originally.

Then she looked through the stack and figured out the sequence...which completed the experiment.  Then we discussed how the cards were acting like specific fossils in the strata, and how Uniformitarians use those specific fossils to generate the fossil record, and guess their timeline.

So, the Uniformitarianist believe the strata took milllions/billions of years to form.  Then you turn the page in our text, and it shows a person standing in front of a tall strata--this strata was formed in 5 hours from Mt. Saint Helens--showing that catastrophies do, in fact, made strata in less than 'millions of years.'

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Sonlight Core G Week 24 / BP Week 13 *Middle Ages* April 4-8, 2016 Anselm of Canterbury, The Great Schism of 1054, Norman Conquest,

Sonlight Core G *Middle Ages* 

Week 24 / 

BP Week 13  

April 4-8, 2016

Hello Friends! 

I'll post the chickens again in a few days, they are doing really well.  This weekend they got a lot of veggies and extra good food!  I've been giving them some sprouts too--which they love.  So far the only thing the chickens didn't like was potato peels.

Prayers Answered:

Yesterday, after ten days, our band teacher emailed me to say that one of the families in our band had contacted her, telling her they found TWO sax's in their home when they got home from Spring Break!  I'm so glad, but I also feel a bit worn down from this whole thing.  We went through so many emotions, and rented the sax for a month, which cost.  I'm thankful.

UGH:

It snowed everyday this week.  Snow, snow, snow...day after day.  I'm somehow going slow enough to not get in an accident; my trick---get in the slow lane, and never-ever pass anyone!  I just go slow and keep a LOT of distance between me and the car ahead of me...a lot of distance! so I might have lots of time to stop, without hitting them.  So far it is working well.

Birds:
I saw a Baltimore Oriole - this is a very rare sight!  How exciting.  I saw three Sandhill Cranes flying/landing.  Pine Siskins are coming to our feeders regularly--which are a new breed for me to see.  Oddly enough, I haven't heard the Barred Owls this week, and they had been really talkative.  Then there is the normal birds, the Phoebe's, Black-Capped Chickadee's, Cardinals, Hairy & Downy Woodpeckers, finches (we have had House Finches and Golden Yellow Finches here, Blue Jays have visited 2-3 times this week.  And a few Sparrows--I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, but that is a good summary.

Activities this week---

Our town library

Band/Choir classes 

1:1 lessons with Mrs. March

Dd had two friends spend the night!  They had a lot of fun.

Truck:

Dh is still working on the truck---he is re-doing the automatic brake system.

Our lessons:

Bible:

Veritas Press: Gospels

Card 113: in process

Focusing on the Miracles of Jesus

Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris

We are loving this book, and trying to slow it down as much as we can so we can absorb as much as we can.  High Recommend!

Christian Studies IV: Memoria Press

pg's 4-11

Science:

Apologia General Science

Module 7: Completed, test passed

Audio 1:

How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler

(This is another resource that we are trying to do it very slowly so we can absorb.)

Sonlight Read Aloud:

The Second Mrs. Giaconda by Konisburg

*Highly Recommend!  This was a delight to read!*

Sonlight Reader: In Process

Adam of the Road

Favorite Poems

weekly assignment

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

weekly assignment

BiblioPlan Books:

BiblioPlan Companion: A Text for Medieval History

Ch. 10: England After the Norman Conquest: Completed

Ch. 11: Germany, Russia : Completed

Ch. 12: The Crusades, the Diaspora: in process

Monks & Mystics:

A Divided Church: The Great Schism of 1054

Anselm of Canterbury

BiblioPlan Advanced Maps

Map 9 & 10

Trial and Triumph:
Peter Waldo 

Alfred the Great

YouTube: 

The Crusades- Pilgrimage or Holy War? Crash Course World History #15

Language Arts:

assigned Dd to write up the Battle of Hastings for me

Easy Grammar, Plus:

265, 269, 271

The Creative Writer: PLOT

started this book, chapter one

Math:

Teaching Textbooks: Algebra I

16-20 and Test

Audio: 

Lamplighter

Titus: A Comrade of the Cross

Foreign Language:

Sign Language: Lessons 1-4

Rosetta Stone: French

Current Events:

CNN STUDENT NEWS

Music:

Lots of music this week.  Dd has been enjoying her rented sax!  She had a "chair challenge" this week.  She had her two band friends bring their instruments and they all jammed and tried each other's instruments.  One friend plays two instruments (flute and trombone), and they all got to experiment.

Busy Hands:
Lots of drawing going on, she has a good friend that is also into drawing, so that has helped encourage her to draw a lot more.  

Glass beads/loom--she has made two bracelets, made out of thread and glass beads, done on her "Bead Weaving Loom Set."

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