Sonlight Core G Week 34 "C" August 29-Sept 4, 2016 (BiblioPlan Week 25)

Sonlight Core G Week 34 "C" 

August 29-Sept 4, 2016 

(BiblioPlan Week 25)

Hello Friends!

We had an unexpected trip to Indiana this past week!  Of course, I had our full week's homework all figured out, and then Dh said he could get Thursday and Friday off work, and of course, Monday was Labor Day, so he had that off already.  So we left on Thursday morning, and returned Monday.  We tried to get in as much of our assignments before we left as we could.  A friend from church was willing to check on our chickens and collect our eggs while we were gone--she collected 50 eggs while we were gone!  Speaking of eggs, we brought Giz and Grampy 6 dozen eggs for their Black Lab, Kate, who is not doing well.  Kate is 14 years old, and her organs aren't doing well.  She won't eat dry dog food anymore, but is willing to eat scrambled eggs.

The tree Dh and I were wed under.

On our drive down to see Giz and Grampy, we stopped off and looked at our old house and had a two hour visit with our friends the "L" family!!!!  Two of the children were not home, so we did miss seeing them!  But, I had a lovely cup of tea with my friend, Heather, and Dd got to have some sword fighting with the other kids.  It was really great getting to spend some time with old friends.  They might be coming up to visit us next month!! Yay!

Giz gave Dd her guitar that she had bought a few years ago, when she was going to learn how to play the guitar, but couldn't find the time...retirement for them is more work than when they worked!  Dd has been loving the guitar, and found it is very similar to play as the violin.  She even played on our ride home in the van.

One of the highlights of our visit was going to the Drive-In.  Our old hometown has a wonderful Drive-In....I just now thought it would have been a good picture to share here, but I didn't think of it at the time.  We saw Finding Dory; which was really well done!!!!  So nice to have a Disney/Pixar movie that I didn't cry at, or a parent didn't die in!  I can't say the same about the second movie: Pete's Dragon.  Pete's Dragon was a mess!  First we are introduced to Pete, in the backseat of his parents car as they are driving down the highway.  We literally watch as their car almost hits a deer, swerves, and is flipping in the air, toys and gear floating all around.  In the first 10 minutes our lovely main character is orphaned.  Then immediately after his parents die, he starts walking away from the wreck---and is surrounded by a pack of wolves!!  A pack of wolves!!!  Oh my!  My daughter couldn't get over that!  Luckily a dragon arrives and scares off the wolves.  Then as he approaches Pete, Pete asks: "Are you going to eat me?"  Oy.  That isn't even the parts where I cried---it actually get's worse and more depressing later when a mean adult captures the dragon (Elliot).  I definitely don't recommend this movie---it went from sad to blue to downright depressing.  Then the last 30 seconds of the movie have a "perfect, happy ending" which is the only positive note in the whole movie--so we didn't leave the movie with an eye tick after being traumatized by the series of unfortunate events.  We all, Dh included, did really like Finding Dory!  A movie that any kid would love, and not be too terrified or feel emotionally battered. 

Dh and I got to hike one of my favorite trails, at one of our favorite parks---Spring Mill Park, Trail 3.  Just Dh and I went to the park and hiked a trail that I have hiked over and over throughout the years.  It was nice to have some time alone hiking together.  Dd got some alone time with Giz, her grandmother.  They played music together and worked out in the yard, clearing trails from dead limbs.  Giz now rides a golf cart around their 5 acres, and Dd had a blast driving it as much as possible!!!

Dh and Grampy put up a new storm door on their house.



We filled in some washed-out holes on the long driveway.






 Dh and Grampy also put up a new mailbox at the farm (the other one got hit by a car and demolished). 



 Giz was so happy Dh helped Grampy to get some projects done that needed getting done!

We went to church with Giz and Grampy.  They have the nicest little church, up on a hill, surrounded by farms.  It is always interesting to drive by the Amish family's house on the way and see what they are up to---this time they had built a small greenhouse behind their home.  We drove past a little black horse and buggy that an Amish man was driving on his way home.  It is so nice to hear the clicking of the horses hooves as they trot past our farm--I miss those sounds when not at the farm.  The other lovely thing about our farm is the night sky---since we are in the middle of NO WHERE, there aren't any city lights to brighten the sky, so the sky is black and the white stars just pop out in display.  I *love* the night sky at the farm.  Even in our small town in Michigan, we don't have anything like that...I can barely see the stars here--so sad!

After church on Sunday Giz had some family over for lunch.  It was really nice getting to see everyone.

It is always great to see the trees we planted as seedlings, now getting so tall and beautiful.  Since our last visit some had been cut down, as they were dying or getting too close to other things...so, bitter sweet really.

Our lessons:

Bible: (3 hours)

Veritas Press: Gospels: Card 121: In Process

The Triumphal Entry

 Read bible and Believer's Bible Commentary:

Matthew 21: 1-11

Mark 11: 1-11 

Luke 19: 28-40

John 12: 12-19

Check out the soybeans---our area in Indiana had so much rain all summer, and now all the fields we saw looked amazing.

Language Arts: (2 hours)

All About Spelling 7: reviewed blue cards

IEW: SWI B:

final draft on last paper

Word Roots: Level 1

pg 33, 34

Math: 

Teaching Textbooks, lesson 48 with Pappa,

Khan Academy, Prime Factors and fractions

Drawing:(2 hours)

Dd bought some black drawing paper and white ink pens and has been drawing and writing with it.

Giz, Dd, and Grampy

Foreign Languages: (1 hr)

1) Sign Language: passed lessons 9,10, & 11

Rosetta Stone: French: (45 min)

45 minutes this week

History: (6 hours and 45 min total)

The Kingdom Strikes Back: pg 22, 23(15 min)

Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World- Add-In: (1:30)

pg's 1-25

Famous Men of the Renaissance & Reformation: (30 min)

Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464 AD)

Mystery Of History Audio: (BP's assignments) (1 hour)

Lesson 19: Cortes & Pisarro

Lesson 36: Bartolome de Las Casa

Monks & Mystics, Early Church History: (2 hours 30 min)

Councils of the Medieval Church,

John Hus,

Other Medieval Christians

Master Cornhill (Sonlight Read Aloud that I turned into a Reader)

(1 hour) *Dd is having a very hard time wanting to read this one, I might have to turn it back into a Read Aloud.

BiblioPlan Maps: Advanced Medieval
Week 24: exploring explorers map

The Phantom Tollbooth: (5 hours under Literature)

Ch. 5-13

(This was suppose to be a Reader, but I wanted to read it too, so we switched up the last R, and RA.  This is a funny non-sense type book.  I thought this was going to be a serious book, but it is kinda like Alice in Wonderland, in a very absurd fantasy land, with lots of word-plays...Whether/Weather..etc.  

Music: (11 hours, 20  min)

Fundamentals of Piano Theory: Unit 6: (1 hour)

Piano lesson with Mrs. March (30 minutes)

Violin lesson with Mrs. Reed (50 minutes)(last lesson for a while)

violin practice: 1:30

sax practice: 2:30

piano practice: 2:00

Guitar: 3:00

Science: Apologia General Science:

Module 14 The Human Respiratory and Circulatory Systems

Text:358-363

Notebook: 221-223

Sophie, enjoying our hike on Trail 3 at Spring Mill Park.



FUN AUDIO:


The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by e.l. konigsburg
5 hours and 23 minutes

...........

Chicken Coop Aug 22-29, 2016 Insulation

Chicken Coop 

Aug 22-29, 2016 

Insulation 

I got a late start on taking pictures!  We had already insulated the inside of the chicken coop, now we were going to insulate the outside of their walls...which are actually inside our barn, but since we don't heat or cool the barn, we thought it better to keep our chickens warm in the Michigan winters.  Supposedly their body heat will keep them warm---I'll let you know.

This is a great picture because you can see just how deep the insulation is on these boards!!!  This isn't some flimsy foam board...not at all!  This is serious insulation what was made for shipping pharmaceutical materials and made very well!  We cut outside to keep the nasty foam from being inhaled.

This is Side "A"

This is Side "B"
Side "B" has our door to go in and out on it, and our light/ceiling fan switches on it.

One piece to go!

The last piece put up, the spot above the door.

Then I stuffed shim's in all the cracks and got out the wonderful spray foam and sprayed it in all the spots to make a mostly airtight insulation.  Now we have to cover the insulation with plywood for a finished job.

..............

Sonlight Core G Week 34 B August 22-29, 2016

Sonlight Core G 

Week 34 B 

August 22-29, 2016 

I need to get an 'after' picture of these rooms, as the color turned to almost blackish blue by the time she got all the coats on.  She wanted it to look like a night sky to go with her glow-in-the-dark stars she has on her ceiling.  She also painted the other room of the loft this dark blue color, but has now decided to paint that other area a deep, dark red color.  

Hello Friends!

Good weather lead to lots of working on the house, and less time on our lessons this week.  Because we could turn off the AC, we could get to some painting. 



 Dd had a massive week of working on her bedroom loft.  She used up all the dark blue we had; rearranged and sorted her whole space!  I gave the basement 'rec room' it's second coat of green paint.  The basement bathroom took most of my week's hours of labor...boy, were the walls a challenge!  The hard part of this house, was that the previous owners we huge fans of wall-paper.  I know of at least THREE layers of wall-paper in that small space.  

I didn't manage to get a 'after' picture yet.  Dd decided to try out a purple/lavender color on the walls when I wasn't there...

Giz tried to take off some of the paper when here (when we went to Niagara Falls), and she accidentally left a lot of notches out of the dry wall with her tool.  I had to use a lot of Spackle to repair the holes.  I could go on, in detail, to all the things I had to do in that bathroom--but, I'll just say I worked on it for hour after hour!  It is almost ready for a layer of Kilz next.

Five cardboard panels in this side, at this point.

Dh and I worked hard on the chicken coop, and did some work on the bigger, extended run too.  We had planned on just working on the new fencing for the extention, but rain pushed us inside, out of the mud.  So, we put up the outside insulation around the chicken coop.  Dh had some of these big insulation boards from his work, that they were going to thow out, so he brought them home for us to use to keep our chickens extra warm.  We already had bought and installed insulation when we made the walls for the chicken coop, on the inside, but this new insulation was for the outside of the coop.  The outside of our coop is actually inside our barn/out-building, but since our barn is not heated or cooled, we thought we could use all the insulation we had to make sure our chickens aren't stressed by the weather in Michigan!  

All panels in, on both sides!  We had to cut each panel to fit each slot individually.

Wednesday was my appt with my doctor--- I had to wait almost 3 weeks to get in!  I won't go into all the details, but she took me off my migraine medication which was really taking a huge toll on my blood pressure (way too low).  I can thankfully say that after being off it my blood pressure has begun to come up some and my daily headaches have stopped! Praise the Lord, and my doctor.  

I've enclosed some lovely pictures of Fallsburg Park, throughout this post!

We went to Fallsburg Park for a little picnic, and short walk around.  We thought we were meeting some friend there, but I had hit 'reply' to the wrong person, and communication failed.  It was still really nice to go to the park with Dd.

Friday-Monday morning we had one of Dd's friends over for a long weekend of fun.  I picked her up on Friday at 11:30 and brought her home on Monday at 9:30, so that was a good, LONG, visit!  I took the girls to the library and Ball's Ice Cream Shop on Friday.  They swam and watched a LOT of movies---LOTR & Star Wars.

Our garden is home to the most awesome spider!  She has a bee hanging in a cocoon in the web's center.  I wish I could share how really cool the web is, and how magnificent her coloring is, but all I have are these pictures--which doesn't do it justice.

Let's get to our lessons:

Bible:

Fervent by Priscilla Shirer

Math:

No Math this week

Science: 

Apologia General Science:

Quarterly Test (third quarter)

Magic School Bus VHS "Get's Eaten"

never too old for MSB!

Sonlight Read Aloud:

The Phantom Tollbooth: in process

Sonlight Reader:

Master Cornhill

The roots from this tree form a huge skirt around it's base---really beautiful.

History:

BiblioPlan Companion: Medieval History

Ch. 23: The Spanish Reconquista

Ch. 24: Explorer's From Portugal and Spain

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

pg 230-231

Favorite Poems Old and New

pg 452-453

Home Economics:

Made Hamburgers and Started Grill

Grilled Hot dogs

Painting Bedroom--18 hours over week

Cleaning and Rearranging, inside and outside house: 13 hours

Chicken Care: collecting eggs, cleaning straw: 2 hours

Kitchen chores: 2 hours

Our garden is doing great!!!

Library:

Two visits this week

PE:

Swimming in pool : 2 hours

Hike at Fallsburg Park:

I've put in a bunch of our pictures from this lovely park throughout this post to share with you.

Music:

Lesson with Mrs March (piano lesson): 30 minutes

Fundamentals of Piano Theory: Unit 5 completed

Saxophone: zero

Piano: 3: 30 hours/minutes

Violin: 1: 30 hours/minutes

............