SL -Core D-Week 30 "B" LOW (62th week on this core) Mar. 5-9th, 2012

Bible:


Who Is God? by Apologia---FINISHED!

Bible-nightly as a family


Language Arts:

First Language Lessons-lesson 26 & 27
Writing With Ease- Week 17 & 18
Excellence In Writing-kwo, rough draft, & final draft (Camp Life)
Rosetta Stone- French 30 min
Typing Instructor: 30 min
All About Spelling- Lesson 12

Math:
Math U See:Delta

Daily-skip-counting 9 & 4 family & doubles
Life of Fred- Butterflies, ch.3,4,5,6

Reading:
Dd's Reader: Naya Nuki-Finished,
Emma's Journal by Marissa Moss, Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac
Read Aloud: Calico Bush--Finished

Piano - daily

Activities:
Library
LHE:  Field Trip to Specks Pet Store in Avon.  This was very fun.  There were 4 "stations" which had different animals for the kids to learn about.  A Specks employee gave a short lecture about the animals in their station and let the kids interact with many of them.

Snake!

Chocolate Lab

Fish

Naked Rat---actually "hairless" and surprisingly cute.

SL -Core D-Week 30 "A" LOW (61th week on this core) Feb. 27- Mar.2, 2012

Our one add-in book this week was:

Capital by Lynn Curlee

DVD:

America: The Story of Us Starring Liev Schreiber (disc's 3&4)

Bible:

Who Is God? by Apologia
Praise and Worship CD: daily- focus on "Tell Me the Story of Jesus"
Bible-nightly as a family

Composer of the Week:
Keyboard Conversations Power & Passion of Beethoven

Geography:
Africa

Language Arts:
English From the Roots Up
Excellence In Writing-kwo, rough draft, & final draft (Genghis Kahn)
Rosetta Stone- French 40 min
Typing Instructor: 30 min
All About Spelling-Lesson 12 Test, and started Lesson 13
**extra review from FLL book 1, songs & terms & disc... also done Tue. & Wed.

Math:
Math U See:Delta
Teaching Textbooks: lesson 67,68,69
 Daily-skip-counting 9 family & doubles

Reading:
Dd's Reader: Naya Nuki
Read Aloud: Calico Bush

Piano - daily

Activities:
Mon-Upwards Basketball Pizza night!  Dd got a trophy "Most Improved Player"
Tue-Upwards Basketball Awards Ceremony
Wed: HBHE Tea Party
Thur: LHE Co-Op classes-Art, Gym, and Indiana History

Mother - Daughter Tea party

SL Core D-Week 30 (60th week on this core) Feb. 20-24, 2012

Besides our normal Sonlight IG scheduled activities we also added in:

Add-in books:
 A Voice of Her Own: A Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lasky
 The Art of Sculpture: Visual Arts (Voyages of Discovery No 7) by Scholastic Books

The Navajo (True Books: American Indians) by Andrew Santella

Bible:

Who Is God? by Apologia
Praise and Worship CD: daily- focus on "I've Got Peace Like a River"
Bible-nightly as a family

Composer of the Week:
Mozart

Geography:
South Asia & British Isles

Language Arts:
English From the Roots Up
First Language Lessons-lesson 24
Writing With Ease- Week 16
Excellence In Writing-kwo, rough draft, & final draft
Rosetta Stone- French 40 min
Typing Instructor: 30 min
All About Spelling-Lesson 11 Test, and started Lesson 12

Math:
Math U See:Delta
Teaching Textbooks: lesson 66
Daily-skip-counting 6 family & doubles
Life of Fred- Butterflies, ch.2

Reading:
Dd's Reader: Naya Nuki
Read Aloud: Calico Bush

Piano - daily

Activities:
Basketball in driveway, at practice with Upwards Basketball, Library, LHE Co-op classes: Art, Gym, and Indiana History, and basketball game.

 

 

SL Core D-Week 29 "A" Left-Over's Week "LOW" Feb. 13-17th 2012

SL Week 29 "A" Left-Over's Week "LOW" Feb. 13-17th 2012

Lots of Add-In's this week:
Who Is God? by Apologia.  I'm liking this book more and more each week.  We have been doing our SL Read Aloud Bible readings at night with Dh.  This week we read from Col and Psalms.

"Geography Songs" is still serving us well.  We focused on South Asia this week and used our large dry-erase map to test dd's comprehension.

Composser of the week: MOZART!  We had a really great week on Mozart.  We listened to "Mad About Mozart" cd each day of the week.  We also had a book with an included cd that we read and listened to called "The Magic Flute".  Listened to this disc two days.

Books on Mozart: "Lives of the Musicians" by Kathleen Krull (Ch. on Mozart)
"Focus on Composers" by Teacher Created Materials, Inc. (Ch. on Mozart)
"Great Composers" by Pierro Venturea (Ch. on Mozart)
"The Magic Flute" by Anne Gatti

Our Read Aloud: Imprisoned In The Golden City by Dave and Neta Jackson

Dd's Reader: was  " Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag" by Ann Weil

Daily Hymns were from a cd Giz gave us called "Praise and Worship" which isn't on amazon either!  We focused on "Standing on the Promises".

We had not done our poetry from last week (A Child's Intro to Poetry) so we did it this week--on Hilaire Belloc.

Typing--Typing Instructor.  But, dd isn't liking it lately.  I hope she goes back to liking it.

MUS-  Dd FINISHED GAMMA!!!!!  She did some extra this week to finish it by Friday!    We did doubles and Skip-Counting (7 family) every day too.   Dd did "Math Missions: The Amazing Arcade Adventure" video game that we bought through Amazon for 30 minutes.

Rosetta Stone-French-40 minutes

IEW-The Mongols-kwo/rough draft/and final draft done well!

We reviewed First Language Lessons 1 & 2 this week.  We did all the terms, listened to the cd and went over all the memorized poems for review.  We went through our flash cards again too.

English From THe Roots Up--flashcards (18 words) reviewed 3x this week.

AAS-Lesson 11 - 3x this week we did 20 words and 2 sentences as review; didn't get the test done yet.

Piano--Played every day this week and really is doing wonderfully.

Dvd: Magic School Bus--Ants in the Pants

Audio: Finished: Seekers: THe Quest Begins ( 7 disc book--it took us a while!)

Story of the World: Vol 3: Early American Times:Disc 7 which is Chapters 27--40.

Daily-Brain Pop
Monday's: Brain Pop, Jr.

Art book: "What is Art?" by Bob Raczka

LHE Co-Op Classes started.  I taught first period: Art, then Gym, then Mrs. Gaffe taught "INDIANA History" which was very cool and interesting (I was the teacher's assistant).

Another week of Upwards Basketball--Practice on Monday & game on Saturday.

Some of the fun books Dd read:
Lunch Lady
Boxcar Children-Mike's Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

SL Core D-Week 29 Feb. 6-10th 2012

SL Week 29
Besides the normal SL IG we add-in:



Bible:

Who Is God? (And Can I Really Know Him?) -- Biblical Worldview of God and Truth (What We Believe, Volume 1) by David Webb and John Hay

Praise & Worship CD

 

 Geograhpy:

Geography Songs by Kathy Troxel

 

Language Arts:

English from the Roots Up, Vol. 1: Help for Reading, Writing, Spelling, and S.A.T. Scores by Joegil K. Lundquist

All About Spelling (Level 3 Teacher's Manual and One Student Material Packet) by Marie Rippel

 

Student Writing Intensive DVD Course - Level A 

 

 Math:

Life of Fred 4-Book Elementary Set # 1 : Apples, Butterflies by Dr Stanley Schmidt

 MUS: Gamma

Daily - doubles family & skip counting (7 family)

 

 Reading:

George Washington by Edgar Parin D'Aulaire and Ingri D'Aulaire

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry and Wesley Dennis

 

 DD's Reader:

Betsy Ross : Designer of Our Flag by Ann Weil

 

 Foreign Language:

Rosetta Stone: French

 

 

Audio:

 On the Banks of Plum Creek [Unabridged] by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Audio CD - 2004)

 The Quest Begins: Seekers, Book 1 by Erin Hunter

  Listening to Lamplighter's "A Peep Behind the Scenes"

  This week was another week of "Upward Basketball".  We had a practice and a game!  Dd had a 103 degree fever on Thursday; but quickly recovered.

 

 

 

 

 

SL Core D- Week 28 "A" LOW (week 56 on this core) Jan. 30th to Feb. 3rd 2012

Since I went to the LHE Women's Retreat over the weekend; we had a lot of errands to do during our school week.   We didn't get as much done as we usually do; but Dd did have a really good attitude this week.  On Wed. while she was doing her Teaching Textbooks (TT) she got out a piece of paper to take notes:
"The answer is called the quotent.  The number you're dividing is called the divident.  The number you're dividing by is called the divisor.
             15     /         3  =     5
dividend  /  divisor=   quotent"

I was happy to see she also successfully used contractions! 
     Then on Thursday she finished her book: Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan.  She really enjoyed this book tremendously.  After she closed the book she asked me to write down some details about the book for her.  I told her she should write the things down herself; and that I would find a nice notebooking/fancy page for her to write on.  Then she wrote down a little synopsis about the book!!!  She has never done anything like that before.  Two days in a row she took NOTES!  How wonderful!  And on her own!!!  No help .... at all!  I was so pleased I went to my closet and found a little gift that I had been holding for such an occation.  She earned a new jump rope!  She jumped so much on Thursday night she had a limp on Friday!!!  Now to our lessons:

Bible: Ruth & "Who is God?" by Apologia

Geography :"Geography Songs" -Former USSR, Middle East, United States

Classical Music: "Keyboard Conversations Chopin-Greig-Liszt-The Romance of the Piano"

Hymnal Music: "Praise and Worship"-"Jesus Loves Me" and "Amazing Grace"

Audio: "On The Banks of Plum Creek" (disc 5 of 6)
"The Seekers: The Quest Begins" by Erin Hunter

Lamplighter book:  finished "Teddy's Button"

Math: Skip-Counting daily -"8" family; "doubles"
MUS: Mon,Tues, Thur, Fri
TT: Wed
Life of Fred: Apples: Chapters 15 & 16

Language Arts:
English From The Roots Up: Flashcard Review (Tues,Wed,Thur, Fri)
Writing With Ease: Week 15 days 3&4
First Language Lessons-Lesson 23

Typing Instructor- 40 minutes on Mon

Rosetta Stone - French 45 min on Wed

SL book: "Justin Morgan Had A Horse"  by Marguerite Henry

Add-In books:
Uncle Andy's (Picture Puffin Books) by James Warhola

 The Grapes Of Math by Greg Tang and Harry Briggs

The Best Of Times by Gregory Tang and Harry Briggs


 Amelia's Boredom Survival Guide (Amelia's Notebook) by Marissa Moss

 Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck Volume 1 by Don Rosa

Dd is #22

Dd had another Basketball practice on Mon.  night; and a game on Sat.   She got a "star" to iron on to her shirt for her offense and rebounding.  She scored 2 points; which is the first time she has made points; except for getting points b/c the other team had fouled her.  She also made a lot of rebounds and made a jump-ball.  I had been working with her on fighting more for the ball.  Sometimes Dd just lets the other team have the ball if they were going for it; like you would if you were playing with friends. She improved her ability to fight for the ball.

#22 is looking for the ball!

These are some pictures from Sat.'s basketball game.  This week they beat this team that had previously trounced them!  It was a good redemptive game!

She's got the ball--watch out!

SL Core D-Week 28 (week 56 on this core) Jan. 23-27th 2012

We did our normal SL stuff- Bible (Judges & Jonah & Ezekiel), The Discover's Bible, American Indian Prayer Guide, Sing the Word: Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed.  We had already finished our History book-The Lewis and Clark Expedition.  Dd read her Reader: Sarah Whitcher's Story (which she actually did NOT like very much--surprising to me).  We covered Rudyard Kipling in Poetry (one of our favorities).

For our "Add-In's":

Rosetta Stone: French

fun computer:BrainPop & BrainPopJr.

Geography: Geography Songs (Canada).  We used this in Core 1 or 2; and LOVED it; so we decided it was time to do the whole book again!!!  It is simply great!

Music: Playing the piano and "Praise & Worship Songs"  cd.  This week we listened to "Amazing Grace" over and over and over and over!  Great song to memorize!

Composer for the week: Bach "Mr. Bach Comes to Call" audio cd- fun info and music
Classical Mix disc--Chopin, Gregg.... we listened 4 days of 5.

Our extra Bible: Who is God?  by Apologia.  We are really liking this book more and more.

Math: MUS (M,T,Th,F) Gamma lesson 28 and Teaching Textbooks 4

Spelling: All About Spelling: Lesson 11

IEW:  "Donkey and His Master" kwo/rough draft/and wonderful fancy final draft completed.

Science: SL 3: page 70 & 71 worksheets

Lamplighter Books: we finished: House of Love and then started and finished: Teddy's Button by Amy LeFeuvre

Audio:
"On The Banks of Plum Creek" by Laura Ingles Wilder
"The Seekers: The Quest Begins" by Erin Hunter

Extra Books:
Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

 The Discovery of America (Geronimo Stilton #1) by Geronimo Stilton

 The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci and Jerry Pinkney



Field Trips:
Wednesday: WISH TV Station

Thursday: Monster Mini Golf with LHE

Friday: Dd spent the night at the G family's house and they took her and their dd to the Saturday morning basketball game with Upward Basketball team.  This is/was her first sleep-over.  Momma went to her first overnight since dd was born---a LHE Woman's Retreat Weekend.

SL Week 27 "A" LOW (week 55 on Core 3/D) Jan 16-19, 2012

We made our final Hands & Hearts project this week: Lavender Satchel

First we cut the muslin; then the calico.  Then she sewed the muslin bag and added in the lavender. Then she sewed the calico bag and put the muslin sans lavender inside it and closed it up...done!

Here is the pretty green calico outside bag.

The finished product!

Dd made a Dog Travois out of the "More Than Moccasins" Activity Guide:
More Than Moccasins: A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life (A Kid's Guide series) by Laurie Carlson

A "Dog Travois" for her Webkin dog.  Our real great dane/black lap Sophie was petrified of the big one Dd tried to make her wear....too funny!

Dd made antlers for her Webkin deer:

There is a circle base that holds the antlers on to it's head.

Notice the sword--this is a Narnian deer!

We had a nice nature hike at Arbuckle Park on Monday (Jan 16, 2012) and our dog Sophie had a great time getting muddy (Dd was actually MORE muddy than the dog!) .  The weather was so extremely nice we had to spend some time outside taking in the rare January warmth.  Then Dd had Basketball Practice in the evening.  

Each day Dd did some sort of exercise-walk, treadmill, exercize video, basketball in drive-way, shoveling snow on Thursday, and a basketball game on Saturday (they won).


This week our musical composer focus is on:  Schubert.
We listened to Schubert's Symphony No. 9 on Tues., Wed., Thurs., & Fri. 

Geography Songs: Greenland, Scandanavia, U.S., and major landmarks like  Holland's Windmills, The Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, and the Matterhorn. 

Science (SL Science 3)  workbook pages: 53,54,55,56, and 65

Math: Math U See 3 days, and TT 1 day

Language Arts:
WWE: week 14 day 3&4  Week 15 day 1 & 2
FLL: Lessons 20, 21, and 22
Writing: IEW : Peter The Great (video, kwo, rough draft and final draft completed)
Writing: Thank you letter to the Jones family
Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? (Words Are Categorical) by Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable

Read Aloud: House of Love by Elizabeth Cheney (Lamplighter book)

Dd's Reader: 1) Childhood of Famous Americans: Laura Ingles Wilder (finished)
2)"A Little House Chapter Book-Laura's Pa-Laura #12"

Dvd: The Magic School Bus: Busasaurus
VHS: Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Starring Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, Murphy Guyer and Sam Waterston

SL Core D- Week 27 (54th on the core) Jan. 9-14, 2012

We had a full week of lessons; a basketball practice; a basketball game, church, basketball in the driveway one day, some walks around our neighborhood.  The weather was great the first few days of the week so we took advantage of it and tried to get out some before the snow came on Wed.  Dd also enjoyed making fruit smoothies.

This week we did another of the Hands & Hearts History kits; specifically the Candle Making Kit:

Lessons:
Bible was SL (Judges & Daniel) and Who Is God?
Who Is God? (And Can I Really Know Him?) -- Biblical Worldview of God and Truth (What We Believe, Volume 1) by John Hay and David Webb

Language:
Rosetta Stone: Dd started back with 2 lessons this week

Praise and WorshipSongs CD: "Leaning on The Everlasting Arms" & "All things Bright and Beautiful"

Math: 4 lessons MUS and 1 lesson Teaching Textbook

Language Arts:
All About Spelling: Lesson 10 finished with review for lesson 5 &6
Writing With Ease: Week 14 day 1&2
English From The Roots Up-1 thru 19

Science (SL) We worked Week 11 & 12

Geography: The Middle East focus with Geography Songs.  I drew a huge map on the dry-erase board for dd to fill in.

Composer Focus: BACH
Audio: "Mr. Bach comes to call" (listened to this disc twice, in it's entirety, during the week )
Audio:"Bach's Goldberg Variations" (this is a book and cd)
Books: Great Composers by Piero Ventura, Focus on Composers by Teacher Created Material, Lives of the Musicians by Kathleen Krull.

Brain Pop-Supreme Court & Jack London (I forgot the other titles)

SL stuff:
*American Indian Prayer Guide-Paiute & Ute
*Sing the Word
*A Child's Intro to Poetry: Robert Louis Stevenson

Since we had finished our Read-Aloud I added in: The House of Love by Elizabeth Cheney
This is a "Lamplighter Book" and it is fantastic.

Dd had also finished her assigned Reader so we added-in her pick:
Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Charlotta M. Bebenroth and Al Fiorentino

and once she finished that she started:
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Beatrice Gormley and Meryl Henderson 

Add-In's:
The Girl Who Loved Horses by Paul Goble
The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola
The Raft by Jim LaMarch

Dd's fun books (some):
Hardy Boys #2 Identity Theft by Scott Lobdell
Hardy Boys #3 Mad House by Scott Lobdell
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium by Mariah Balaban
Wolverine & XMen Special Edition by Marvel Comics & Scholastic  


The past 2 weeks Dd has been working on her George Washington Paper Dolls:

Geography this week--Middle East:

Library Pix for this week:

Dd reading to Sophie our black lab/great dane mix dog--you can hardly see her!

Dd holding our "English From The Roots Up" flashcards

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SL Week 26 "A" LOW --53rd week on Core 3/D Jan 2-6th 2012

We added in a bunch of new things this week; most will be continued as we go forward.


Music: Praise and Worship Songs cd  -This week we listened to the song: All Things Bright and Beautiful each day (two times) and worked on memorizing this classic hymn.

HANDEL was our focused musical composer.  We listened to Handel's Water Music each day.
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked by M. T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes

 Great Composers by Piero Ventura

 Focus on Composers by Patty Carratello, John Carratello and Mary Ellen Sterling

Dd enjoyed playing on both the piano and keyboard this week.  She called her friend GG and they played together over the phone in their own homes...neat idea.

Add-In Read Alouds:
 The Bird's Nest (Rare Collector's Series) by Christoph von Schmid and Mark Hamby
We read the short stories in this book: The Diamond Ring, The Mother's Gift, and The Boy Who Would Not Take A Shilling.  (finished this book)

 Who Is God? (And Can I Really Know Him?) -- Biblical Worldview of God and Truth (What We Believe, Volume 1) by John Hay and David Webb
This is a daily bible supplement that we are adding in on top of our SL bible.

 The Complete Book of U.S. History by American Education Publishing
We are using this to review some of the history we covered at the beginning of this core-since it has now been a year since we covered it.  Examples, Indians, Mayan, Incans, Aztec's...  I hope to read a little from it as we go forward for review.

Geography Songs : Continents and Oceans, Western Europe

Language Arts:
All About Spelling: Step 10 from book 3.  Reviewed steps 7,8,& 9.

English From The Roots Up: Daily review of first 12 words


First Language Lessons- Lesson 19

Writing With Ease - Week 13

Explode the Code: pg's 75-77

Math U See: Gamma (Lessons from 26)

Science SL 3- 1/2 Week 10 and 1/2 of week 12
I can't find my Mysteries and Marvels of Nature book, so we are having to skip those questions and move on.

Artistic Pursuits-I forget the lesson number; but the focus was on VALUE drawings.



Dd's Reader: started and finished this week:
The First Four Years (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garth Williams

Dd has started reading the American Girl book series on Rebecca b/c she got Rebecca (1914) doll for Christmas.  This week she finished reading:
Rebecca and the Movies (American Girl) by Jacqueline Greene, Jennifer Hirsch and Robert Hunt


Audio's:
Audio in the van this week:
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, Book 4) by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garth Williams

Audio in the kitchen:

The Quest Begins: Seekers, Book 1 by Erin Hunter and Julia Fletcher (Jul 8, 2008) - Unabridged

Picture Books for the week:

 The Children of the King by Max Lucado and Toni Goffe

 The Song of the King by Max Lucado and Toni Goffe

 Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas by Elise Primavera 

Activities:
Monday: day: basketball in our drive-way with Momma & nightime Basketball Practice with team.
Tuesday: Babysat the Greene kids (basketball with Greene's in drive-way)
Wednesday: Basketball with mom & walk/bike ride with mom & dog Sophie
Thursday: Basketball practice with mom in driveway
Saturday: FIRST Basketball Game on the Upward Basketball Team--her first bb game ever!  And they won!  She got a star for "leadership" at the end of the game!