SL Week 31 (63rd week on this core) March 12-16th, 2012

SL Week 31

A usual SL IG format for us; with a few add-in's.  We actually got a lot accomplished this week (even with the extra warm weather around us!).  For SL we had our bible and Dd had her Discover's Bible.  The books we are working on are Imprisoned in the Golden City, Naya Nuki and Calico Bush.    Dd read the Naya Nuki book on her own; but I read aloud IITGC and CB books.  Both we very good.

We enjoyed: "A Child's Introduction to Poetry" and "American Indian Prayer Guide".

We did a good job on the "Sing the Word: Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed" cd and on our add-in cd from Giz: "Praise and Worship" "O Come Let Us Adore Him" was our featured song this week.

We fit in more focus on adverbs...I'm having Dd repeat the definition a few times each day for the past 2 weeks to really understand how adverbs work.  We added in the book: "Adverbs-The Magic of Language" by Ann Heinrichs.

We started another Lamplighter book this week: Buried In the Snow by Franz Hoffman.  Lamplighter has such a FANTASTIC collection of books!

Language Arts:
First Language Lessons--Lesson 30 & 31
Writing With Ease- Week 19 &20
English From The Roots Up--flashcards 3x this week
IEW- "Our First President" Lesson 6, kwo, rough draft, & final draft
Typing Instructor - 2x @ 20 min each
Rosetta Stone- French- 2x (15 min & 20 min)
AAS- Review Lesson 13; words & sentences, and test passed on Friday.

Piano each day.

Microscope--viewing sugar.

Math:
Math U See--9D, E, F 10 A,B,C,D,E,F
Teaching Textbooks -Lesson 70, 71, and Quiz
Skip-Counting Songs--the 4 family daily and double's daily (1x1=1, 2x2=4, 3x3=9,4x4=16...)
Life of Fred: Chapter 8 in "Butterflies" book

Review--we are preparing for the IOWA testing in April; so we have started reviewing some basic "grade 4" materials.  We went over the measurements in math--teaspoons, cups, tablespoons, yards, feet, miles, tons, ...shapes: parallel lines, parallelogram, cube, retangle prism, rectangle, octogon, hexagon, pentagon, intersecting lines, cylinder, right angle... How to make change for money..etc.etc.

Geography Songs- Eastern Europe & Map on big dry-erase board.

BrainPop: M,T,W,Th,F  BrainPop, Jr.: M.

Activities: Sunday:Church & basketball in the driveway; Tuesday: Swim & Gym, Thursday: LHE Co-Op- Art, Gym(learned fencing), and Indiana History; Friday: after our lessons we played "Moneybags" board game.

Dd's weekly reading:

 Robert Fulton Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry

*started -chapter 1,2,3,& 4.

 Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss  
*finished


 Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) by Joseph Bruchac

*finished

 PICTURES:  4H and Aqua Athlete's class--

Indiana History

Here is Fort Wayne in Indiana.

Dd and her 3 girlfriends gave a wonderful, educational skit full of humor and laughs.  They showed the fort; and served corn bread and homemade butter.  They really did a great job.  Such a good job that they asked her group to preform at a party later for adults.

Fort Wayne

Art class at LHE

Some of the drawings from the class.

Here is one of the portfolio's I made for each of the students-the top closes over like a mailbag.

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.