SL Week 32 (65th week on this core) March 26th- 29th, 2012

SL Week 32   Core 3/D  March 26^th-29^th 2012 

 *Week 65 on this Core!

This week we had a normal Sonlight week; and added in some of our own stuff too.
Our Activities this week included Swim and Gym on Tuesday, LHE Co-Op on Thursday—our last class for this semester; and then on Friday we went with our friends to the   Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Lego Land (new exhibit) Dd made a plane

The last class in Dd’s Indiana History class was the day she and her group had to show the fort Dd made, perform a skit, and share the homemade cornbread and homemade butter with the rest of the class.

The fort was “Fort Wayne” and Dd did 95% of it on her own.  She spent day after day of her free time working on this project.  She really went to town without any encouragement on my behalf.  I wasn’t going to make this into a big deal; as I could tell the other kids in the class were not doing much for it; and the teacher had no expectation to make it a big deal.  But, Dd really got into it!  I used the hot glue gun to reinforce the sides of the walls and then she used it to glue her soldiers down.  I have pictures already posted for you to see; just scroll down a little farther.  The skit they did was very cool—they were in a “time machine” and went to different times at the fort to tell what all had happened there over the years.  Another girl in the group made the cornbread and another girl made the butter—both with the help of their mom’s.

Friday we went to the Children’s Museum.  We had tickets to go to the Planetarium and watch a show in the dome called “Flight Adventure’s”.  We also had tickets to the “Lily Theater” there to see a play: “Rumplestiltskin”.  It was a unique interpretation of the play and we enjoyed it.  We also went to two new exhibits—one called “Mr. Potato Head” and the other was “Lego World”  I think.  We had a great time!!

Our Read Aloud is: The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates.  So far this book is great. 

Dd’s “Readers” are:

“Meet Marie-Grace” (American Girl Collection) by Sarah Masters Buckey; and her “fun” book was: “High School Musical-Stories from East High #9 Ringin’ It” by N.B. Grace.  Should I admit that she has been introduced to the “High School Musical” scene by a friend and now she is watching the movies and reading the books with a passion that scares me!! LOL!  I liked it better when her passion was towards Narnia and Star Wars; I am not so sure about HSM things….hmmm.

The books I’ve added-in this week:

“Fraction Action” by Loreen Leedy

“Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Weights and Measures” by Jerry Pallotta

“Money, Money, Money-On United States Paper Currency” by Nancy Winslow Parker




Pictures of FORT WAYNE INDIANA

Mr. Potato Head Exhibit

Star Wars Mr. Potato Heads--cool!

Mr. Potato Head and Friends from the 1960's

Lily Theater: Rumplestiltskin

They didn't let us take pictures during the show...bummer

Planetarium Show: Flight Adventures:

Science fun this week:

Dd did this TOPS experiment last spring; and is repeating many of those exp. again this spring

The milk carton seed growing experiment

This is the outside of the milk carton experiment

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SL Week 31 LOW "A" (64rd week on this core) March 19-23rd, 2012

SL Week 31 “LOW-A”  March 19-23^rd 2012

Since we finished our Apologia “Who is God?” book; we have returned to a bible study we had not finished called: “Jesus, My Shepherd” by Explore Bible Study: Beginnings II.  We are still enjoying our nightly bible study; which has been focusing on the book of Mark.

Music CD: Praise & Worship: “Praise Him, Jesus our blessed Redeemer”

Math:

MUS: Delta: 11 A,B,C,D,E,F  12 A, B

Teaching Textbooks: Lessons 71, 72, 73

Life of Fred: Butterflies: Chapter 9 & 10

Skip-Counting: 2’s & 3’s  and Doubles families (1x1=1, 2x2=4, 3x3=9….)

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

Language Arts:

All About Spelling: Lesson 14

Rosetta Stone-French- 20 min.

Typing Instructor-twice; 20 min each

Spellingcity.com-15 min.

Flashcards: FLL cards (what is a noun, verb, sentence, adj., adv.,…….)

Flashcards: English From the Roots Up—

(added in Math flashcards on shapes and measurements)

One of Dd's favorite games-the Board game—"Great States"

Home Economics—Dd made a chocolate cake and frosting (from scratch) entirely on her own…as in, I was not even in the kitchen!!!  Great job and tasty!

Read Aloud—LAMPLIGHTER book called: “Buried In The Snow” by Franz Hoffman

LAMPLIGHTER audio on web: "Charlie’s Choice"  exerpt.

Dd’s Reader:

The Story of the Erie Canal by R. Conrad Stein-finished

Robert Fulton-Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry- started

DVD: Liberty Kids: James Armistead, and Yorktown

Add-in books:

 “Adverbs-the Magic of Language” by Ann Heinrich

“The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fractions Book” by Jerry Pallotta & Rob Bolster

We have been preparing for the IOWA tests by doing some worksheets from the Spectrum Grade 4 Test Preparation.  We have been working on math, language arts, etc.

For Indiana History (in her LHE Co-Op class) she built “FORT WAYNE”.  Dd painted all the little soldiers and built a fort out of a cardboard box.  She built a tall tower in the back left corner.  She worked on it for days by herself.

Activities:  Tuesday-built a cake; Wednesday-Library, Thursday-LHE Co-Op, Saturday- we went to Shades State Park and had a picnic and hiked.

Some art and odds from Feb. & March 2012

Here are some art and geography things that Dd has done around the house:

a card I made for Dd for Valentines

  a card Dd made for me

a scratch art Dd made

Dd made this cake---all by herself; even the icing from scratch!  Yummy

These are two figures and their kite-- made out of duct tape

A mask she made out of aluminum foil

Dd and Dh made this catapult kit together.

Shades Park Sunday March 25, 2012

Here's Sophie

Heading out on the trail

 

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