July 29th to Aug. 2nd, 2013 Core E Week 32 "A/LOW"

July 29th to Aug. 3nd, 2013  
Core E  
Week 32 "A/LOW"

We were due one good week of lessons--and we finally got it!  We had our field trip on Monday to the Indiana State Museum (pictures of our day following this post) to see the SPECTACULAR exhibits!  The exhibits we went to see were the Star Wars exhibit, Millinium Falcon, and the 5 Generations of Lincolns.  We had a really great 5 1/2 hours at the museum!  We could have stayed there a lot longer.  It was really fun.

Tuesday through Friday we did our lessons and had a pretty normal week--library/garden/piano/BrainPop/BrainPop, Jr./BrainPop,UK/fun books/etc. etc.  We did have our second week doing something new---Carole-a new friend on the SL forums, that is from New Zealand had told me about a website that shows video's for the Periodic Table.  We have stopped by there for 3 weeks now; but this week we really got into a daily habit of watching some of the video's.  It is from the University of Nottingham in England.  That was new and fun for us; and it looks like it is officially becoming a habit!

The other "extra" thing from this week (Sat.night) was that Dd and Dh were invited to a Indianapolis Indians vs the Louisville Bats baseball game in downtown Indy.  This was a very last minute thing...they had a super great time and brought me home some cotton candy.  I'll download some pictures later.

Our lessons:

Bible:

Judges 5, Galations 1,2,3,4

I really enjoyed Galations this week.  It really spoke loudly to me.  I encourage you all to read the first 4 chapters of Galations and see how simply Paul speaks to us.

History:

Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2. -----Ch. 30

The Story of the USA, Book 4-----Ch. 1

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Childrens Poems

Artist of the Week:

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

 Getting to Know the Greatest Artist by Mike Veneza

Kahlo

by Andrea Kettenmann

Paint and Painting

Paint and Painting: The Colors, the Techniques, the Surfaces : A History of Artists' Tools (Scholastic Voyages... by Scholastic Books and Gallimard Jeunesse

Scholastic Voyage of Discovery-Visual Arts- Sept. 1994

Composer of the Week:

--we had THREE!  I was one behind, missed him last week; but then Dd kept asking about who was the composer of Water Music, so we brought in Handel as our composer for Friday.

Composer for Mon & Tues: Franz Liszt

Meet the Great Composers

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

Composer for Wed & Thur: Johannes Brahms

Meet the Great Composers and "Baby's First Brahms" CD.

Friday- Handel- Handel's Water Music CD

Science:

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

Apologia: Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Earth: completed Bats section pg 116-118

Notebook Pages-on difference between Micro & Mega bats

Website: University of Nottingham-The Periodic Table of Video's:http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Y: Yttruim

B: Boron

Li:Lithium

Mg: Magnesium

Be: Berylliam

K:Potassium

Ca: Calcium

and perhaps a few others that I didn't write down,  we enjoyed these video's a lot.

Language Arts:

All About Spelling 5:  Step 4--all week, plus reviews of previous steps, passed Step 4

First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind: Level 4 Instructor Guide (First Language Lessons) By Jessie...

First Language Lessons 4:  Lesson 69 & Lesson 70

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

The Grammar Ace: Lesson 12 & 13

Schoolhouse Rock! - Grammar Rock [VHS] Starring Jack Sheldon, Darrell Stern and Sue Manchester

Grammar Rock-VHS

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon: 25 A-F

Math-U-See Epsilon Teacher Kit (Complete Kit) by Steven P. Demme

Skip-Counting Family: 4 family all week

Delta Test 28--Roman Numerals

Nightly Family Reader:

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

It Made You Think of Home; Deward Barnes Canadian Expedition Force 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane

Day Read Aloud: 

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson---in process

Dd's Reader:

Seventeenth Swap by Eloise McGraw

The Seventeenth Swap---COMPLETED

Dd's Reader:

Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen and Charles Geer

Plain Girl---in process

Activities: Sewing--on sewing machine - she is working on a quilt made out of her old t-shirts.  She also made a neat piece out of felt--it is a circle with an inset capital "I" with a different color; perhaps a coaster to place your cup on?  Or just a thing...she did a nice job.  She saw the plan in a book and went for it.

Dvd--this week we checked out a movie from our library:

Oz the Great and Powerful (DVD + Digital Copy) Starring James Franco and Michelle Williams

 "Oz the Great and Powerful"!!  It was fun to watch!

Star Wars Exhibit at the Indiana State Museum July 29, 2013

Star Wars Exhibit at the Indiana State Museum July 29, 2013

In Process--I took a lot of pictures; here are a few!

 

July 24th 2013 Butterfly pix

July 24th 2013 Butterfly pix--

We still have a Black Swallowtail hatch here and there--and I take a few pictures before releasing them into the wild.  This little lady got part of her tail broken off while she was flying around---but she is still beautiful!!

The Lincolns 5 Generations of an American Family exhibit July 29, 2013

Here is the exhibit we saw on Monday, July 29th, 2013

 

Indiana State Museum’s Lincoln exhibit opens

5 Generations of Lincolns-- 

By Scott L. Miley The Herald Bulletin

INDIANAPOLIS — When Lincoln is mentioned in Hollywood circles, it’s all about the film’s 12 Oscar nominations.

At the Indiana State Museum, however, the Lincoln buzz is all about its newest exhibition: The Lincolns: Five Generations of an American Family, which premiered Saturday.

The Indiana State Museum is the only venue for this ground-breaking exhibition that will run through Aug. 4.

Visitors through March 2 can also view a rare copy of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery, and a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. Because the fragile documents cannot be exposed to light for long periods of time, they are rarely on display.

The 13th Amendment, of course, was the focus of the Steven Spielberg-directed movie that details the 16th president’s tumultuous final months in office. The Indiana State Museum exhibition, however, spans five generations of the Lincolns, who first came to Indiana in 1816. The museum wanted to offer a different, more personal perspective, said Dale Ogden, senior curator of cultural history.

“There is no one person more mythologized than Abraham Lincoln,” Ogden said. “This exhibition will help break some of the myths, while also giving visitors a greater understanding of the very complex Lincoln family throughout five generations.”

More than 150 objects will be on display, including handwritten letters, photographs, Tiffany jewelry, candelabra and other family keepsakes. The Indiana State Museum has one of the world’s most important collections of Lincoln artifacts - The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection - given to the State of Indiana in 2008. Objects from this collection will be joined by about 40 artifacts on loan from several of America’s leading historical institutions.

Highlights of “The Lincolns” include:

• The Sum Book is the star of the show. With less than two years of formal schooling, at age 15, Abraham Lincoln carefully assembled sheets of paper and created his own book on which to practice math problems. Over the years, the pages were separated, but the Indiana State Museum has five pages on display. It is the largest grouping ever shown in one place.

• A cabinet designed and crafted (c. 1818) by Abraham Lincoln’s father, Thomas. Not knowing its history, a Newburgh, Ind., man bought the cabinet – then painted green – at a sale. He used it to store nuts, bolts and other items in his garage. In 2009, his son read an Evansville newspaper article featuring Steve Haaf, a South Spencer High School teacher, who restores and makes replicas of Thomas Lincoln’s furniture. While Thomas Lincoln is often portrayed as a ne’er-do-well, this cabinet demonstrates he was a true craftsman who used intricate designs and overlays in his work. This detail is especially impressive considering the rudimentary tools with which he had to work.

• Mary Todd’s Meissen porcelain figurine (c. 1835). Mary Todd Lincoln was a prolific collector of the figurines, which were made in Meissen, Germany. Moviegoers may have noticed these on the big screen. To a historian, the collection demonstrates Mary Todd’s elite upbringing. The exhibition also features a tea set crafted by a London potter, who also worked for Queen Victoria. Mary Lincoln used the tea set to serve coffee, tea and hot chocolate to guests at the Lincolns’ Springfield, Ill., home.

• Toys the Lincoln boys played with at the White House, including a toy cannon Secretary of War Stanton acquired for the youngest son, Tad. Knowing the boy was rambunctious (the two youngest sons were known to race their pet goats in the White House), Stanton disabled the fully-functional firing mechanism.

• The insanity verdict following Mary Lincoln’s trial in 1875. Sally Field’s portrayal of the former First Lady in the movie showed glimpses of her instability. For 10 years, Mary Lincoln struggled to cope with the death of her children and her husband. Her oldest son, Robert, had her arrested and charged with insanity. She was convicted and remanded to Bellevue Place sanitarium near Chicago. Historians for years have been at odds over Robert’s motives for having his mother committed.

• Photographs of the last documented Lincoln descendants, siblings Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith and Mary “Peggy” Lincoln Beckwith, who were great-grandchildren of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. They were raised at Hildene, the family estate in Vermont.