May 20-25th, 2013 SL Week 27, Core E

May 20-25th, 2013 

SL Week 27, 

Core E

5-20-13 we released one female black swallowtail, 5-21-13 we released another Black Swallowtail.  We are averaging a Black Swallowtail every other day lately.  ETA: things have slowed way down on the hatching---I don't think we've had but one new butterfly in about 4-5 days.

We have released all the Painted Lady butterfly's left.

On 5-20-2013 we had our first hummingbird visit our backyard!!!

Such pretty markings on this one~

Dry-erase board drawing--soup!

Saying Goodbye to Aunt Marilyn

Dh has had 3 Aunt's die in 9-10 months---so now he has no Aunt's left...his last Aunt died on Wednesday---Aunt Marilyn (our closest Aunt).  His words were "I'm Aunt-less."  He was very sad about this, and so am I.  We drove down to Mitchell on Friday for the viewing, and the grave-side and 'Celebration of Life' was on Saturday.  We spent Sunday with Giz and Grampy.  We tried to uplift Giz as much as we could; as Marilyn was her little sister.  This was a very hard week for us; but when Aunt Marilyn went to the doctor's on Tuesday it was just like any other doctor appointment with no signs that the end was imminent.  So, we are thankful that she did not suffer for a long time and her time suffering was very short.

Besides this family issue, we also had a planned event on Wednesday.  We went to the Plainfield Church for the annual homeschool sale.  We sold some of our books!!  How great to make a few dollars instead of just spending them! I did buy one book---on drawing bugs!

So, we didn't get a lot done this week---but here is what we did get done:

Bible:

Starting Strong: Never Too Small For God: Ch.1: 1 Samuel: 16
Exodus 5:1-21, Exodus 5:22-6:8  Romans 1:1-32, Romans 2, Romans 3, Romans 4, Luke 1:26-56, Luke 2, Matt. 2:13-23, 

Sing the Word: The Heavens Declare-- We listen to this practically every week; but I rarely list it.  We have things that we do on a weekly basis; but I don't list---like BrainPop, and BrainPop, Jr. (those we do daily, and weekly).  The "Sing the Word" disc's/music are from a family that put music to verses from the bible.  It is a fun way to do bible memory for us!

The Heavens Declare by Sing the Word 

Audio's:
 

Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex Harris and Brett Harris (Chelle recommendation)

 
Written by teens for teens, Do Hard Things is packed with humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life rebelutionaries in action. This rallying cry from the heart of revolution already in progress challenges the next generation to lay claim to a brighter future, starting today. (Amazon quote)

We have restarted our Lord of the Rings Trilogy again, with a new set of discs from our library.  This set is distracting too--lots of noise in the background.  But, we are trying again. This new version our library just got isn't great.

The Complete Lord of the Rings Trilogy & The Hobbit Set by J.R.R. Tolkien and Ensemble cast

Family Read Aloud-read by Dh at night: It Made You Think of Home-The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF by Bruce Cane

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane

Read Aloud's:

This started as just Dd and I; but now Dh is listening in on this too!  The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum.

The Winged Watchman (Living History Library) by Hilda Van Stockum

 

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

Loving the Leps!

Dd's Reader:

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Geography:

States and Capitals Songs by Larry Troxel

States & Capitals Songs: Southern Border (6 times this week)

Math: (double math week)Math U See: Epsilon 22 A-F

Skip Counting: 8 family- M-F

Teaching Textbooks 5: 27, 28, Quiz, 29

Language Arts:

Grammar Flashcards--2 times

AAS:4: Step 24-passed, Reviews,  started Step 25

Fix-It:IEW: Week 16

Following Narnia: IEW: KWO

Grammar Ace:page's 12-17

New hatchlings still arriving!

Character:

We add "Character" as a subject in our family, just like math or science.  I think this "subject" is just as important as any other!  Some lessons are easier to read about and have Dd figure out for herself than for me to spoon-feed her. Some children, like mine, might need it more than others!

A Value Tale Treasury by Spencer Johnson-
Ch. 4 on Helen Keller (determination)
"Based on the original stories, which sold more than 10 million hardcover copies, these new ValueTales® have been reimagined and reillustrated to appeal to a new generation of children. Whether you’re an adult who grew up with the original ValueTales® or you’re discovering them for the first time, you’ll enjoy sharing these universal values and helping children grow into good people—one story at a time." -Quote by Amazon.com

Lampligher Audio: The Robber's Cave---finished

Robber's Cave Dramatic Audio (Lamplighter Theatre) by A.L.O.E. and John Ryhs-Davies

Art:

How Great Thou Art: Lesson 17: finished

How Great Thou Art I & II, Revised Editions, plus Teacher's Manual

Barry Stebbing

Foreign Language: Rosetta Stone: French: 2 times this week

Activities:

Archery & bb gun & running bare footed

Baking-a cake--iced it- flowers & decorations-nicely done!

Planted in the garden

Helped mow the yard

Drawing

Embroidery--green fabric with beautiful flowers!  I'll get a photo soon!

Knitted Giz a square brown 6-8 inch block--I'm not sure what it is for, a hot pad or "pretty", or to wash dishes, or just to say, "I love you, Giz!" - (I didn't get a pix of that.)

She had a hankering for cake!

Dd made a cake and then took a piece before I could get a picture, boy, she is fast!!!

 Some pictures from our visit down to southern Indiana---

We had a cook-out on Sunday.  It was cold so the warm fire was nice.

Dd got to race around while she mowed!

And she got to stick out her tongue at me when I took her picture.

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May Pictures 2013

May Pictures 2013

 This is the card my daughter made for me for my birthday~ I really love this card!

I got a hammock for my birthday!!!

 We are still having Black Swallowtail's hatch from the chrysalis's from last fall.  It is so great to find them surprise us so many months later!

Another Black Swallowtail!

Our new Painted Lady Butterflies:

We rec'd a "kit" from New Hampshire with 8 teeny, tiny caterpillars a few weeks ago.  This is  part of our Apologia: Flying Creatures Science program.

We raised the 8 caterpillars, and then they went into their chrysalis's and then quickly hatched into lovely butterflies. 

Can you see the red dye that comes out when the butterfly hatches?  neat stuff, huh?!!

We had a field trip to Wilbur Wrights home on 5-2-13 and then went on to Levi Coffin's home after that---here are a few pix of that:

couldn't get the pictures --I'll try again later!

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May 13-17, 2013 SL Core E, Week 26

May 13-17, 2013 

SL Core E, 

Week 26

This has been another "Lamplighter" week for us.  For those of you who do not know what "Lamplighter" is, let me tell you the gist...  This is a company that found GREAT old books that had been gone out of print many years ago, and decided these books were just too great to let fade into darkness, so they started a company to get the presses going again!!!  Not only that, but these books are usually leather bound, and gold-gilted and a treasure in both content and visually to behold!!!  Then, after they started remaking the books they begain making audio recording of the books...not just any audio recordings; but over the top--amazing--5 star--audio's that rock your world! 

It is hard to think these great books that we either read or hear have been let go by the presses and the population.  These books use to be the best sellers of their time--back in the 1700's and 1800's.  All of them do have one thing in common--they very much teach and reinforce us during our walk with the Lord.   Pilgrim's Progress is a book you may know or may have already read--it would be the same type of book that Lamplighter would re-print if it stopped being printed.  Pilgrim's Progress isn't a Lamplighter book; it obviously hasn't gone out of print--but it is the same 'type' of book.  So, that is what our "Lamplighter" books are--they are really, really, really great books, that were written a good while back, that are really great for helping young and old alike to stay on the right path!

I'd just like to say for the record how much I LOVE these books; how glad I am that we make time to fit them into our schedule.  There are books, and then there are books.  I heard in the intro to one of our Lamplighter audio's this: 

 “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the books you read and the people you meet.” -Charles Jones

 

Our Painted Lady Butterfly update:  all the butterflies quickly hatched this week.  We released 5 already, and have 2 left to release today....boy is it hard to let our friends go!  What a great time we have had raising them!

 

Our last LHE small hs (homeschool) group had our last event for the season--our "End of the Year Party".  Dd and I made Peanut Butter cookies--which got compliments, btw.  It was great to see all the kids do their presentations.

Our lessons:

Bible:

Mom's aloud Bible: Ezra chapters: 1-10  and Psalms 23

Dd's aloud Bible: 1 Samuel 16, 17.  Psalm 16. Exodus 1-5

History and Add-in History:

All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque-FINISHED this family, night time RA.

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane-- we started this as our new night-time, family RA.

 

Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story (Tales of Young Americans) by Dandi Daley Mackall and Chris Ellison

 

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Starring Abigail Breslin, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack, et al.

*Kit is set during the Depression, and fit in very well with this time period.

 

Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2

The World Wars

Wee Sing America CD 

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems American Tall Tales- Rainbow-Walker...

Dd's Reader:

Gone Away Lake--and she loved it! finished.

She took Peter Pan out of the library---and she has been reading that on her own.

 

 Read Aloud:

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt by C. Coco De Young

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt--finished.

Character:

Robber's Cave Dramatic Audio (Lamplighter Theatre) by A.L.O.E. and John Ryhs-Davies--in process

The Captive Dramatic Audio by Christoph Von Schmid and John Rhys-Davies

 

Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex Harris, Brett Harris and Chuck Norris--in process

A ValueTales Treasury: Stories for Growing Good People by Spencer Johnson and Dan Andreasen -this week we read on Confucius.

The Empty Pot by Demi

Artist of the week: Van Gogh

Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia *all of this book

 

Weekend with Van Gogh by Rosabianca S. Venturi--all of this book

Cave Paintings to Picasso: The Inside Scoop on 50 Art Masterpieces by Henry M. Sayre 

*just the parts on Van Gogh and Gauguin.

Composer of the week: George Frideric Handel

 

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison

Meet the Great Composers & CD, plus disc: "Handel's Water Music no. 1, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Solomon Messiah Xerxes--we listened to this disc a few times throughout the week.

Math: Math U See:

Epsilon: 21 A-F, and Skip Counting 3x each day on the 12 Family.

 

 

Geography:

States and Capitals Songs by Kathy Troxel

 States and Capital Songs: #11, "Southern Border" song, 2x each day. 

 

Language Arts:

AAS 4: Step 22 --passed, Step 23--passed

FLL 4: 66, 67

IEW's Fix-It: Week 15, day 1 & 2

Grammar Flashcards--2x this week

The Grammar Ace: Student Workbook by Duane Bolin and Dave Lilly

Grammar Ace pg 1-9 

 

 

 Computer:

"code.org"

  BrainPop, and BrainPop, Jr.

 

Science: 

 

Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day -- Young Explorers Series (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright

pg: 218-230  and we are LOVING this!!!

 Venn diagram of butterflies and moth's in her:

Zoology 1 Notebooking Journal: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) by Jeannie K. Fulbright

 

Activities:

Archery most days--since I got a hammock as my birthday gift, I will read in the hammock and she will do her archery beside me!  It works out great!!  She had a good lesson on the piano with Giz over the phone.  She has asked for piano lessons now...but they are truly expensive...She did a Leslie Sansone workout with me on Tuesday!  We both went to the doctor on Monday.  We went to the Library this week.  End of the Year party with LHE hs group on Friday.  Plus, she has been gardening! --Oh, and don't forget all the butterfly encounters each day with our new friends!  Friday she also baked the cookies with me for the party.

Fun add-in for no reason--well b/c I really love Kathy Lasky and Kevin Hawkes, and Dd had forgotten it!

The Man Who Made Time Travel (Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (Awards)) by Kathryn Lasky and Kevin Hawkes

Odd side note: This week I wasn't feeling well, so we got some movies from the library to watch.  Disney has made some Tinkerbell movies, that I thought I really wouldn't like--but I didn't feel good; so I thought I'd sleep in the recliner for a little and feel better at least.  Well, geesh--these movies were not bad...not bad at all...and perhaps...perhaps just a bit,....dare I say...good?...!!!  Disney made girl characters that were problem solvers, and like to build things, and use tools, and appreciate nature--kind of like me!  Of course I wish they would give the glory to God!  That is the sad thing in these movies, they show the fairies as being responsible for making nature so amazing, and we all know that it is God.  But, we don't really get many movies that do give God the glory He deserves.  FWIW, these little movies were really sweet, and it is about time Disney had some girl movies that I was glad my daughter could watch, and feel like she was being totally brainwashed into some stereotype about what she could or couldn't do as a woman...like hammer or saw or "tinker"!