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Sonlight Core F Week 32 "A" July 28th - August 1, 2014

Sonlight Core F 

Week 32 "A" LOW (left-over's week)

July 28th - August 1, 2014

We had some work still to do on our section of African study's, so we couldn't go forward until we finished those last things---which is where a "left-over's week" comes in handy.  We had pages left to do in our "Eastern Hemisphere Notes" (EHN), Best-Loved Fairy Tales of the World (from Africa), and our read aloud, David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer.  With that done, we have officially finished our study on Africa!!! Next is the Pacific Islands, then New Zealand, Australia, and lastly Antarctica.  Then we will move on to Core G, part  1 of the study of Ancient history.  We have already done part 1 and 2 of the younger study of Ancient history, but are looking forward to coming back to this part of history as the Greeks are Dd's most favorite subject.  It is always great when the subject is keenly interesting to the student, and that doesn't always happen or match up.  

We only went to the library one time this week, and didn't do much adventuring out of our apartment complex. 

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

We had a big bible week!

Believer's Bible Commentary   [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover] by W.(Author) ; MacDonald, William(Author);

Veritas Press Bible Judges Through Kings

Card 61: The End of Solomon's Reign : finished

I Kings 11  - 931 BC

read section in bible, and then Believer's Bible Commentary

Journey Through the Bible- pg. 135

completed the worksheets

The Victor Journey through the Bible by V. Gilbert Beers

Card 62: Israel Divides Into Two Kingdoms : finished

I Kings 12 & II Chronicles 10  - 931 BC

read sections in bible and Believer's Bible Commentary

Journey Through the Bible pg 136-137

workbook pages 225-234

The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament pg 102 (lesson 120)

The Greenleaf Guide To Old Testament History by Rob G. Shearer and Cyndy A. Shearer

This part of our bible study is going over Israel dividing into two kingdoms due to Solomon's getting off God's path and marrying 700 foreign/heathen wives and 300 foreign concubines, and building these women temples to their idols.  His son, Rehoboam got the southern "Judah" section, and Solomon's servant, Jeroboam got the northern section, "Israel".  Both the north and the south were wicked and not right in the Lord for many reasons.  I wanted us to do some research here and get more details, so I added in some other books:

 

DK Eyewitness Books: Ancient Civilizations by Joseph Fullman

Ancient Civilizations (Eyewitness Books) section on the Assyrians




 

Holman Illustrated Guide to the Bible by Mike Beaumont

Holman Illustrated Guide to the Bible:
Pg 44: David: Later Years
Pg 46: The Psalms
Pg 52-53: The Great Divide
Pg 54: Elijah and Elisha




 

CU:International Children's Bible Field Guide: Answering Kids' Questions from Genesis to Revelation by Lawrence O. Richards

International Children's Bible Field Guide
Pg 89-94 Kings and Prophets in Israel

 

NIV Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. and Duane Garrett

Archaeological Study Bible:
Pg 518 The History of the Northern Kingdom
Pg 551 The History of the Southern Kingdom

The VP cards for 63 & 64 are too vague---like the card that just said "Psalms", with no specific Psalms to read, so we read over half of them in the bible and bible commentary and spent a good month, or so, studying them.  We also stopped to read the A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 with that too.  The problem is that VP expects us to be reading a book called Survey of the Bible (which I have finally ordered!) and I assume that books goes over the important parts of the section we are to read.  I don't think this program is wanting us to read the whole book, but it is hard to know what to read, and which ones we can skip!!!  So although these sections were not "assigned", we went ahead reading I Kings: 13 & 14.

Card 63: Kings of Israel 
I & II Kings, I & II Chronicles  - 931-722 BC
*in process*
read  I Kings: 13 & 14 in bible and bible commentary
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament: 
pg 103 (Ch. 13 & 14) 

 

Birds of Michigan Field Guide and Audio CD Set by Stan Tekiela

Nature:

Birds of Michigan book and companion audio CD


 Music:
Return of the Keyboard, Week 2!
She played each day, Star Wars, Concerning Hobbits, etc. beautiful!



Language Arts:
(still haven't added in much on this subject--hope to soon!)

Fix it! Grammar and Editing Made Easy with the Classics

Fix It: The Frog Prince:
Week 10 completed

 

Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills : Grade 7 by Wanda C. Phillips

 Daily Grams 7:
pg's: 102-106

Pre-Algebra Instruction Manual by Steven P. Demme

Math:
She still was having some trouble with adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying a mix of negative and positive numbers, so we worked on that as well as moving forward with her next lesson in MUS.  So, she did 2 days work each day--her actual lesson, and then I continued to print out worksheet generated sheets to review those concepts.  I also showed her video's from Khan Academy, but she didn't like the video's and thought they were 'boring', but I thought it would be good to see it explained a different way to aid her comprehension.
Math U See: Pre-Algebra: 5 A, B, C, D, E
Worksheet generated sheets
Khan Academy:
Adding Negative Numbers,
Adding Numbers with Different Signs,
Adding Negative Numbers (actual problems)
Learn to Add and Subtract Negative Numbers
Multiplying Positive and Negative Numbers
Why a Negative Times a Negative is Positive

Science:

Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics (Young Explorer Series) by Jeannie Fulbright

(Together) Apologia: Chemistry and Physics
lesson 2 completed: Moving Matter: pg's 36-41

Exploring the History of Medicine by John Hudson Tiner

(Independent) The History of Medicine by Tiner
Chapters 8-18




Core F items:

EHN workpages:COMPLETED!!!

David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) by Janet Benge and Geoff Benge

David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer by Janet and Geoff Jackson

Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor folktale library) by Joanna Cole

Best-Loved Folk Tales of the World by Joanne Cole



Add-In: I had bought this book for this section:

David Livingstone: Deep in the Heart of Africa (Great Explorations (Benchmark)) by Steven Otfinoski

 
Busy Hands:
Cooking: Monday made Broiled Chicken, Thursday and Friday she made a new recipe of Broiled  Breaded Tilapia Fish, with minced carrots sauteed in butter and olive oil...awesome too!
She has been crocheting this week, and coloring Star Wars pictures.




Fun Books:

Razor's Edge: Star Wars (Empire and Rebellion) (Star Wars - Legends) by Martha Wells

Razor's Edge- Star Wars book- by Martha Wells

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti, Attila Futaki and Gregory Guilhaumond

Graphic Novel- Titan's Curse 

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #4), Vol. 4 by Rick Riordan by by Rick Riordan (Jul 12, 2009)

The Battle of the Labyrinth--she had started this 2 weeks or so ago, and then didn't read on it last week, but has got back to it again.  I think those graphic novels were too exciting to wait to read, but since she has already read this book before she could wait on it!

Audio's:

Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis

1. Wildwood (narrated by Amanda Plummer)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

2. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - completed

Prince Caspian CD (Chronicles of Narnia (HarperCollins Audio)) by C. S. Lewis and Lynn Redgrave

3. Prince Caspian

Family Read Aloud
Pappa reading aloud at night time

World War II Book 1: The Right Fight by Chris Lynch

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Pictures from July 22-25th, 2014 - the downtown public library too

Pictures from July 22-25th, 2014

This is an odd mix of some pictures I had been wanting to post.  Some are the busy hands projects Dd has been working on, nature shots, and more detail on our new library.

Busy Hands:

Our dear friend, David, had a birthday on the 24th (I think).  Dd found this picture on the internet, printed it out, glued it onto card-stock, and then decorated the frame around it for his special card. 

These are the Granny Squares she has started---she is teaching me how to make my own Granny Squares too!

This is the clay slab she made and then drew into--a red poppy, it's leaves, and the sun shining.

Dd made this over a month ago...but, I don't think I posted a picture of it.  It is something to do with Percy Jackson's sword, I think.  She did it all---it was a plastic stick that she cut down to turn into this sword.

I found this photo on my friends blog---I had not brought my camera---showing the gluten free cake Dd and her good friend had made together.  They had the best time making this cake!  You can see it in their faces!

Interesting finds found around our apartment--nature...:

I don't know what these bugs are...but the management dumped a bag of sand on the last plant that had these red bugs on them....This plant, and it's insects apparently haven't been spotted yet!

We have two rabbits living about 50-75 yards away from our apartment.

This is the very cool thistle I posted 2 weeks ago...now it has bloomed

Baby Barn Swallows-- I think four in the metal crossbars in a parking garage.

Our new library downtown:

I am slowly taking pictures of the library and putting them up here.  I feel a little uncomfortable taking pictures in the library, so I only take a few each visit!

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