Lecture Notes: Homeschooling High School May 9th 2017 (Transcript Info too)

Lecture Notes: Homeschooling High School

May 9th, 2017

at the Homeschool Building
(Transcript Info Too!)

Zeus's feathers are coming back in!  He is doing great now!

Hello, Friends!

I attended a free lecture on preparing for high school that covered some basic things we should know.  It was pretty basic information, but I thought I'd share my notes in case anyone might benefit from my sharing.

Typical high school (HS) Class requirements:(22-24 credits)

4  YearsMath

4 English (you can create your own study on books your student is interested in)

3 Years Science

3 years History

2 Years of a World Language

Electives: Typical "electives" are:

Communication, Computer, SAT Prep./Study Skills, Health, Music, Art, Financial Planning, Vocational classes, and/or anything that reflects your child's interests and/or future plans.

Agnes got her snuggly, 'Love,' and took a nap with her!

Accreditation:

As teachers of our homeschooling student, we are legally allowed to create our student's transcript and create their diploma.  If you don't want to make your own you can pay for one to be made, or go through an umbrella school; which would cost.

Michigan Merit Curriculum--our state's specific requirements:

4 Credits of Math--Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2...

4 Credits English

3 Credits Social Studies

1 Credit PE

1 Credit visual, performance, or applied arts

1 online learning experience (like an online class or course, or do study skills online)

World Language

SAT Prep/ Study Skills Online:

If you know which college they want to go to you can plan your student's classes according to meeting that colleges' specific requirements.  You can go to their website to see what they are looking for or want in potential students.

Personality/ Career Test Placement:
What are your student's long term plans?  These tests can help sort out potential avenues to pursue.

Nuthatch

Transcript Enhancement Ideas:
Honor Society /  Job Shadowing / Volunteering
Honor Society: you can contact your local Honor Society and see if your students grades/scores are high enough for them to be admitted into the group.  The Honor Society usually meet once per month.  The Honor Society's website:https://www.honorsociety.org/ 

Job Shadowing/Volunteering: 
Ask church members, relatives, etc for any job shadowing or volunteering opportunities as that may enhance your student's transcript.

What Determines a Credit:
1. Completing a high school credit =1 credit
2. Log the hours, 120-180 hours of work = 1 credit
3. You can take all four years to get 1 credit if you are only doing that subject sparingly.

Red Squirrel

Vocational School:
There is the Kent Career Technical Center in our area for students who aren't on the college path, but want to start learning a vocation...think electricians, plumbers, heating/cooling, car mechanics...

Teaching High School:
1. Many subjects are written for the student to do alone, text written to them and for them.
2. Use a home school tutoring organization.
3. Instructional DVD's
4. Form a co-op and hire a teacher for that subject.
5. Don't let fear keep you from your desire to educate your student at home.



Opportunities to Earn College Credits:
1. Dual Enrollment (taking classes at a college while in high school)
2. AP classes (advanced placement)
3. CLEP (College-Level Examination Program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Level_Examination_Program
4. Articulation Credit (This wasn't explained very well...)  I think this is referring to co-ops that  you don't set up, like GRACE Academy here in Grand Rapids...but, I could have misunderstood.

Community College: 
Chose classes that they (your student) will be successful taking and are mature enough to handle the pace.
For CLEP; they study online or with a book and then take the college level test for that subject.  They would "test out" of some subjects and "bank" some of these credits ahead of time; i.e. before they officially begin college (as high schoolers).

AP means Advanced Placement.  Some colleges prefer their students to do AP vs CLEP vs CC (Community College) vs Articulation.  This is another situation that if you knew which college your student was interested in going to you could ask them which they prefer.

Red Squirrel in our feeder

Transcript General Info:
1. Basic Student Information
2. Keep Accurate Records
3. Record Course Titles
4. Record Final Grades
5. Assign a GPA (grade point average) 
6. Provide your grade scale: what is your "A" vs "B"? and how do you grade?  What percent of the grade is for tests vs class participation?  Have a formula and keep that in your records.
7. Provide extracurricular activities
8. Organize by SUBJECT or YEAR, especially is senior year is 2 years long it might be a better idea to organize by subject instead of by year; especially if you are doing a "Super Senior" year--which is when you take two years for your twelve grade year.
9. Keep a list of the books read, and be prepared for this question when applying to colleges as it is a common question.  The student should be prepared to share what they favorite is and WHY, with details prepared ahead of time; well-thought-out answers.
10. Awards won.
11. Parents ALWAYS keep a copy of their 'official' transcript.  Some students re-enter college again later in life and you will always be responsible for sharing their high school transcript...for their entire life!  Keep a copy handy!

Grading:
How do you arrive at a grade?  Perhaps these are part of your formula? 
Attendance, Participation, Daily assignments, and Test scores....
One example may be: Daily work 35% and Tests 65% = grade



SAT: Standard Achievement Test
Contact your local high school's guidance counselor to schedule taking the SAT, for free.  Or you can go to their website and find the nearest location they are testing, find out when it is and pay their fee, if you don't want to involve the local high school.

College Entrance Exams:
1. When to Prepare?  Many public school students begin in the 8th grade!!!! Yikes!  Many students will have tutors to help them achieve higher scores.  The reason behind all the serious effort and commitment is that the score they get on the SAT or ACT will be how colleges determine if they might qualify for a scholarship.  Scholarships are very competitive!  In our seminar, the discussion on scholarships sounded like it would be near impossible to get a good scholarship.  I hope that isn't true!

PSAT
Like the SAT, you would need to contact your local high school's guidance counselor to schedule this test for your student.



SAT vs ACT
It 'used' to be that colleges wanted the ACT scores in determining if your student would be accepted into their college, but the people at SAT underbid the people at ACT and now it is cheaper for colleges to accept the SAT scores.  In preparing for either test you can look online for a lot of prep info and/or library books, or order or use book stores for the newest prep books for these tests.  You can look at which subjects are being tested in the SAT and make sure your student is ready to be tested on those specific subjects.

Work Permits:
Contact your local high school for work permits.

Scholarship Opportunities:
Scholarships are getting harder and harder to get.  Colleges are not only accepting American students, but also international students.  Perhaps you can find local scholarship opportunities.



Applying to Colleges:
Generally, students apply to colleges and take tours of those colleges in their Junior year, finalizing their college choices in their Senior year.

Well, that about wraps up the notes I took for our free lecture.  I didn't realize I would be contacting the local public high school for anything, so that was a complete surprise!  I hope this may be helpful to someone!

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SL Core H Week 18 May 8-14, 2017 (mid 1700-1800) Driver's Ed Week 2/4

SL Core H 

Week 18 May 8-14, 2017 
Time: Middle 1700-early 1800's

Driver's Ed Week 2/4

Hello Friends!

Another eventful week, a fox entered our lives, in a bad way!  Thursday morning I looked out the window and saw a scared, obese, new-to-me, obviously-not-homeless (wagging belly gave that away!), orange cat.  Hesitantly, the cat and I stared at each other for quite a while before it walked off.  Looking back, I understood why it looked so scared.  About ten minutes after the cat left, I looked out again and saw a young, small, also-orange, fox!  Oh my!  I was actually very excited to see it!  I don't think I've ever seen such a cute young fox.  I ran around the house, from window to window watching it.  If I only knew then what I know now...that that fox was going to wait all day for me to let my chickens out in the late afternoon for their 30-50 minutes of grass eating and foraging.  I use to let them out 'free-ranging' for hours, but after Zeus's attack I've started a more cautious approach. I stayed out with them for a bit, then came in to do a few dishes.  Dd yelled out, "fox! fox! fox!!!" and I went running! Panic, chaos as I opened the sunroom door, and literally ran into the screen door, pushing the whole door out and onto the deck without stopping until I was out in the yard, stomping in every direction looking for the offender.  I ran all the way off our yard to the road and never did see the fox, so I returned to our yard to gather all the chicks back to the coop.  There was one chicken that never moved, so I figured she was safe where she was and went after all the panicking chickens all over.  When I went back to her, I then noticed she was heaving for breath, and her eyes kept rolling back.  I knew then and there that she was dying.  I was sick thinking I was going to loose this wonderful chicken, all because I let the chickens out on the same day I saw that fox.  You would think I would have kept everyone, but I was naive.  I literally would have fired me, if I worked for me!  How could I leave those chickens out alone, even for a minute, when I had seen a fox that very morning?!?!  I was so exasperated with myself.  Later, Dd had the bright idea that we should call our injured chicken, "Foxy" after her run-in with the fox.  I put her in the garage, with food and water, and closed things down for the night as Dd and I had our "Strings Group" at church.  I know the members thought I was crazy as I included praying for my chicken in our opening prayer, but I was so worried and know the power of prayer.  Well, long story short...with TLC and time alone, our wonderful, "Foxy" has improved each day.  After 2 days I finally had the nerve to pick her up and look for any injuries, only to find one small area that the fox must have hit with a tooth.  I thought it was going to be a puncture wound.  I saw one drop of blood on her when I picked her up after the attack.  But, whatever the injury was, it must be healing with the Lord's help!  

Barred Owls:
The past three weeks the owls, a couple, have been hanging out around our house.  It never fails that as soon as I let the chickens out into our yard to forage I will hear one owl call out to it's mate.  Of course they had been quiet all day and I wrongly thought they were at someone else's house only to find out they are still with us.  This week I literally chased one out of a Mourning Dove's nest beside our house, and Dh chased one out that was trying to get into the Phoebe nest on our deck.  They are very active and trying hard to hunt lately; they must have a nest of their own that they are trying to satisfy.

Driver's Education:

Week two accomplished, and Dd is driving us around.  She is doing very well, but the extra driving required to get to the classes is very hard on me.  I feel like our days are just piece-meal and I'm not getting the normal things accomplished that we normally can.  I am SO glad that we don't normally keep this kind of hectic schedule!  Plus, I feel like all this hopping around hasn't help our morale either.

Book Making:

You just never know what new thing Dd is going to make, and this week it was making books.  She did the first one for herself, and then the second one was for her friend, Addy.  Addy's birthday is this week.  She found some video's on how to make books at YouTube.

Garden:

The seedlings we planted last week are starting to sprout!  This week we went out to the spot I found in the woods that had such good humus.  This time Dh drove our truck down there so I didn't have to use the wheelbarrow!  We figured that must be the spot where the previous owners, who owned horses, must have picked to dump their horse manure.  I'm so glad we found it, as it has had years to break down and become great planting soil for us to use.

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High School Prep class- that I attended this week:
In Indiana, there was a class you could pay for to hear great info on how to prep for high school---how to make transcripts, prepare for college, or work, or vocational schools, testing....  I never could get into one of those classes, so was SO happy to see the Homeschool Building (where we have our band classes, hs square dances, hs library, hs Resource Store...) hosting a class for just this purpose!  I will type up my notes in another specific post soon but wanted to share that I had attended.  These types of classes so a great job of aiding self-reflection and questioning how well we are doing at our home educating.  To be honest, I know we are NOT meeting our potential! Not at all!  I could go on and on about our weak areas, but I still think that no matter how poorly I would grade my teaching I still think I am providing a much better learning environment for my daughter than any high school.  I think we would still be having days where teen attitudes are making learning extremely difficult, but I know (mostly) on how to back up and try things at a different angle to work with our specific issues.  And I always come back to the fact that when I graduated high school I remembered so little, except for all the friends and athletic teams I enjoyed.  I hope Dd can remember her friends too but with hopefully more academic material and a LOT more biblical discernment than I did!  If all else fails, she will now her bible very well!



Driver's Education, and the transit there and back again three days this week, made our educational assignments difficult.  Even though I didn't assign a lot of our normal subjects, she still didn't get a few areas completed.  I didn't even put those other subjects on this post, but there were other things she was suppose to do and read that she didn't even get around to.

House:



I've been painting polyurethane on the Rec Room floor this week.  I think I managed three coats this week.

Henna, Week Two:

Dd bought some henna and has been going crazy decorating her feet, legs, hands, arms!  She's having fun!

Heather, do I prune the fig tree now?

Our lessons this week:

Church, Sunday School, Olympians Group (Volunteer 1 1/2 hours), Strings Group



Bible: Walking With Bilbo by Sarah Arthur
Chapter 13: Choose Your Own Adventure
Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Joshua 24:14-15; Psalm 119:26-32; Proverbs 19; John 14:15-23

Ch. 14: Stick to the Path
Quote from The Hobbit:
"Good-bye! Be good, take care of yourselves---and DON'T LEAVE THE PATH!"
Doesn't that sound so similar to what we say to our children all the time, to stay on God's path!

"The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose the easy way.  But the gateway to life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it."  Matthew 7:13-14

This is a Red-bellied Woodpecker

Bible verses:
Proverbs 3:5-8; Proverbs 4 (she listed a bunch of lines, so we just read the whole chapter)

Proverbs 22:6King James Version (KJV)

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Check out this super small egg---not from one of our young chicks, but from one of our year old Buff Orpington's!!!! Weird!

Ch. 15: The Unlikely Hero
"So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord's work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless."
1 Corinthians 15:58

The verses of this chapter:
Judges 6:11-16; Matthew 13: 53-58; Mark 12:41-44; John 6:3-13; Galatians 1:11-18

Can you see the chickens foraging in the background?

Audio/Audible:
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(20 hours audible, in-process)

This is a Phoebe, and she (and her husband) have a nest on our deck with babies in it.  The neat thing about Phoebe's is that they flit their tails up and down when they are sitting.  Their call sounds like they are saying, "Phee-bee."  

History Audio:
Story of the World: The Modern Age by SWB
Chapter One: Victoria's England



History Read Aloud:
A Heart Strangely Warmed by Louise Vernon (in-process)
Sonlight had this scheduled as a Reader in one version of my IG, and as a Read Aloud in the other.  Since it is on John Wesley, one of the founders of the Methodists, and church history, I wanted to read it along with Dd.  John Wesley was born 1703-1791, born in England.  This easy read covers our time in history as well as learning a bit about a branch of Christianity I didn't know well.  Our main character was asking Wesley about what was the 'method' behind the Methodists, and was told that the goal was:

"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can."



History Reader:
Abraham Lincoln's World by Foster (in process)
Dd LOVES this Reader!



Literature:
GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens
Ch. 23-29
I am loving reading Dickens with Dd.  We are thoroughly appreciating every word!

Dickens Great Expectations (Christian Guides to the Classics) Item #: 056097

Besides this chapter by chapter guide, we are using the Sonlight vocabulary and questions with each chapter.  This guide has been extremely helpful.  I wish I had found more of these kinds of guides to help us dissect books more often, not that all books need to be examined this closely, but some, like Dickens, prove well worth the effort.  

This was the first book Dd made this week, she also made a second book as a birthday gift for Addy.

Dickens DVD: Little Dorrit

I'm making Dd wait to watch the newest BBC version of Great Expectations, but, I am allowing her to watch Little Dorrit (BBC, recently) that I love!  Such an awesome version 2008 Claire Foy.

Sonlight Reader:
Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin (in process)

GoodReads summary: 

Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have an unusual houseguest: Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France and the most feared man on earth. Once lord and master to eighty-two million souls, now, in 1815, Napoleon is a captive of the British people. Stripped of his empire and robbed of his young family and freedom, he is confined to the forbidding, rat-infested island of St. Helena. 

The one bright star in Napoleon's black sky is Betsy, a blazingly rebellious teenager whose family is reluctantly housing the notorious prisoner. Betsy is the only foreigner Napoleon's ever met who is not impressed by him -- and Napoleon is more than intrigued. 

An unexpected alliance is formed. And a remarkable friendship between emperor and girl spawns gossip and inspires Betsy to hatch a daring and dangerous scheme that could threaten both their lives and shake entire empires to their foundations.

Black-capped Chickadee

Math:

Khan Academy, 30 min per day

 Writing/English:

Wrote a book report, short, on her last Reader; The Broken Blade

Fun Reader:

I Like Him, He Likes Her by Phyllis Renolds Naylor

Art:

Bookmaking, Dd spent hours each day learning how to make books by sewing sections of folded paper together and then sewing those sections together.  She made two different kinds of book covers--unique to each book.

Home Economics:

Average week, dishes, vacuuming house, tuna sandwich, made a Mother's Day cake and icing, pasta and meat sauce, chicken care...

Music Lessons:

Piano lesson with Mrs. March: 1-hour lesson (next week off)

Violin lesson with Christie: 30 minutes

Strings Group: 1-hour lesson

Music Practice:

violin, piano, ukelele, 

(Her Alto Sax was in the shop getting a spruce-up)

Driver's Education Classes:

M,T, W : 4-6 pm (6 hours this week)

Driving with teacher: T & W: 2 hours each

Driving with parents: 2 hours (6 hours this week)

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SL Core H Week 17 May 1-7, 2017

SL Core H Week 17  

May 1-7, 2017 

Hello, Friends!

In Process of completion!!!

Zeus has improved so much after his horrific dog attack.  He is back to his old self again; doesn't he just look like trouble now?!!

I had scheduled our week thinking Dd would only have three Driver's Education classes, but at our first class, the teacher had us all schedule six more class times for driving purposes; which was double what I was expecting.  The forty minute drive, each way, had me driving two hours per day on most days.  The first class was for both the new student and parent(s), and I was really impressed with the organization.

CRAZY Driver's Education Training Begins!! Oi!

Monday, Dd had violin lessons from 2-2:30 followed by Driver's Ed 4-6 pm.  Tuesday we drove 40 minutes out another way to have her piano lesson with Mrs. March, at 2 pm.  Then back to Grand Rapids for Driver's Ed (DE) from 4-6.  Wednesday was my dentist day-- 2 1/2 hours in the chair (don't ask!!!!), followed by our volunteering at church for the Olympians group at night.  Thursday was back to DE from 4-6 pm, then our Strings Group in the evening.  Friday Dd had her first "DRIVE" with her teacher from 3-5 pm.  Dd drove for a full hour!  I thought that seemed like a long time for a first drive!  They scheduled her with another student, which turned out to be a good thing, as she could assess how he was driving and hear the teacher's comments too.  Saturday Dd had another drive from 10-12 pm.  Dh went with us to Grand Rapids, and while Dd was in class we got to go shop yard sales!!! FUN! FUN!  (Heather, I found two chairs you will love!) I found Dd a few Christmas gifts! Yay!  Only three more weeks of DE; hope we can maintain sanity!

Zeus's feathers are all coming in!  His feathers look black and dirty b/c I had used Bag Balm and Neosporin on his wounds and now he is back to his dirt baths, and that combination makes for a dirty looking rooster!  But, eventually the muck will be gone.  All his scabs and wounds are healed now, and new feathers come every day!

Chickens & Ducks:

All our critters are doing very well.  Zeus is doing really well!  The older hens are all molting; which means the number of eggs we are getting is getting fewer and fewer.  The hens are not looking as great as the usually do.

This is Aphrodite, our favorite chicken when she was little.  She was just so beautiful with her coloring.  You can tell by her enormous chest that she eats a good deal!!!

House:

I sanded down the Rec Room floor, after the second coat, and ended up scraping up 15 percent of the floor!  I think I was a tad too zealous about getting a smooth floor!!  I worked hard getting the third coat of paint down, as I didn't have much paint left and had to really roll it on thin, which was hard!  By the end of the week, I painted on the first coat of polyurethane, and at least two more coats will be needed.

Heather--look what we found at a yard sale! Two matching chairs!!! Brand new! Praise the Lord!  Come have tea soon, I've got our new tea sipping chairs! Below is the cross-stitch I also found this spring at a yard sale!

The little side garden area is the new potato section that will get higher and higher as the potatoes grow.

Garden: 

And the spring planting has begun!

After Dd's DRIVE, and our yard sale splurges, we worked on our garden.  Dh and I planted quite a few different things that can handle being planted in cold weather! 

 The weather here has been erratic, and we've been having frosty cold mornings.  This year's new thing is a potato stacking, growing thing that Dh saw on YouTube as a way to grow lots of potatoes!  We do love our potatoes!

Accomplishments:

It sure doesn't feel like we are accomplishing much this year.  I'm hoping next year won't be so busy, as Dd might hopefully pass her audition into Intermediate Orchestra and then we won't have to devote another spare day to driving to her violin tutor, and she can have both her band and orchestra classes completed on the same day.  She won't be taking Begining Band this year so the orchestra class will be at that same time slot.  She does want to continue taking piano lessons with Mrs. March, and I am hoping she can keep her slot to do that during that same day as band and orchestra, and get all that done on one day.  I'm hoping if we have a little less of our time focused on music perhaps we will have more time to devote to our other subjects.  

Agnes has a very unique way of rolling her paws up and in when she lays down.  I've never had a cat that did this before.

Don't buy your child a new Rick Riordan book when they are in the middle of an assigned Reader!

You know so many of the problems we come across are one's that are actually my mistake!  For example, I was asking Dd where she was in the Reader this week (Betsy and the Emperor) as she just didn't seem to be progressing.  Finally, she admitted that she has been reading the new Rick Riordan book.  Dd asked me to buy her this book and I did.  I should have, should have told her once she finishes the Reader I gave her THEN I would give her the new book.  So many times I get mad at how things go, and then I realize if I had figured it out before I could do better at this parenting and teaching thing!  The biggest problem is I am so busy and she has more time to plan how to approach things.  This is just like when she was a baby; I'd figure out how to parent a three-month-old, and she would grow and change, and I was always just figuring things out when she would change and I'm always a step behind!  I guess the teen years are similar in how I feel a step behind!  I need more organization and less distraction!  I wish I was a bit smarter in how I parent and plan.

Dd drew me this new drawing of a Phoebe this week, and used her new markers.

This is the form I make for Dd to use each week.  It is too time consuming I know, but with all our different things, and how often things change, this keeps us going.

Planning:

Before I had Dd I worked with mentally retarded people and one of the lessons I learned was how to plan ahead for positive situations.  A bribe is when, in the middle of chaos, you offer that person something they really want in order to stop the chaos.  For example, if they are putting up a fuss in the grocery store you let tell them they can pick out a candy bar to eat...if only they would stop fussing! 

A reward Dd got this week--a new Star Wars figure

 A REWARD is a preferred method of giving someone something they want without having to go through the fuss.  BEFORE you go into the store you set it up so that you explain that IF they can go to the store with you and have good behavior all the way through the store, THEN you will give them a reward (candy bar, hike, gum, pen....) afterward. And if they misbehave you stick to your guns and do not give them a reward, let the consequences happen so they can learn you mean what you say.  I need to improve my reward system planning.

a gift from my mother-in-law

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

Walking With Bilbo by Sarah Arthur 

Ch. 8-12

This is a very interesting book, themes from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are used to learn more about the bible. We are liking this devotional and all the bible verses they have us look up at the end of each chapter. Each chapter has a theme and a handful of bible verses connecting the two.  For example, I'll share some of our lessons from this week's reading:

Wish this was a video; you should see how crazy chickens get when it is dirt-bath time!

The Word on Seeking and Finding:

Proverbs 2:1-8, Isaiah 65:1, Jeremiah 29:12-13, Matthew 7:7-8, Matthew 13:44-46, Luke 15:3-10, Acts 17:22-27

One nice day when the chickens were outside eating grass Dd and I decided to see how the young chickens would like to explore the big chicken coop---here they are!  They seemed to like it, but were too afraid to walk down the plank into the inner coop.  Hopefully soon we can combine all our chickens together and reduce all the work I'm having to double.

The Word on Pity and Mercy:

Psalm 51:1-12, Psalm 103:8-18, Isaiah 55:6-7, Jonah 3:10-4:11, Matthew 18:21-35, Luke 18:9-14, 

James 2:12-13 and 4:11-12

Ephesians 2:4-7

(4 But3 God, being rrich in mercy, sbecause of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even twhen we were dead in our trespasses, umade us alive together with Christ—vby grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and wseated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable xriches of his grace in ykindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

The Word on Departing from the Truth:

Genesis 3:1-13, Psalm 32:1-5, Proverbs 12:17-20, Acts 5:1-11, Ephesians 4:14-15, 1 Peter 3:10

The Word on Hard Choices:

1 Kings 3:16-28, Daniel 6:1-16, Mark 12:13-17, Luke 20:1-8, John 11:47-53, Romans 8:35-39

The Word on Help Un-Looked For (the eagles):

Psalm 33:13-22, 61:1-4, 121:1-8, 124:1-8, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 24:43-44, 2 Corinthians 6:2

One quote from our reading this week:

"Other times He sends people our way at exactly the right moment, including those from whom we'd rather not accept help."

From Ch.2 on page 97

Psalm 46:1:

 God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.

We also read Psalm 60, 121, 124, 26, 32

Psalm 121

A song of ascents.

1 

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—

    where does my help come from?

2 

My help comes from the Lord,

    the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 

He will not let your foot slip—

    he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 

indeed, he who watches over Israel

    will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 

The Lord watches over you—

    the Lord is your shade at your right hand;

6 

the sun will not harm you by day,

    nor the moon by night.

7 

The Lord will keep you from all harm—

    he will watch over your life;

8 

the Lord will watch over your coming and going

    both now and forevermore.

Live Like a Jesus Freak: Spend Today As If It Were Your Last by DC Talk
 Ch.1

The BBC Manuel: Turning Your Bedroom into a Bible College by Gregg Johnson

pg 82 & 83

(My bible study is Gideon by Pricilla Shirer and re-reading Peril and Peace: Chronicles of the Ancient Church (History Lives series) I recommend both!)

Church, Sunday School, Youth Program, Volunteering at Olympians, playing in church's Strings Group on Thursday nights.

Math:

We took the week off math.

Science:

Apologia Physical Science: Module 5: The Hydrosphere: Test passed,

Hummer, our Bantam Rooster with a huge heart..though he is tiny!

Driver's Training by Navigator:

Week One completed

Class time: 6 hours

Drive time: 2 hours

Watching drive, in car with another student: 2 hours

plus studying and reading the textbook at home

Language Arts:

I think I forgot to add that Dd has been writing all her Thank You letters.

Agnes admiring my favorite picture of Dd and Barclay

Poetry:

The Best Loved Poetry of Jacquline Kennedy Onassis: by Caroline Kennedy

Tableau by Countee Cullen

The Flowers by R.L. Stevenson

In Just-Spring by ee cummings

The Song of Wandering Aengus by Yeats

Art: 

Crocheted Cowl: Completed

Crocheted me a gift pillow!

Dd received these markers for her Easter gift, and she has been using them like crazy!  The gray is already about out!

Drawing lots

History:

Abraham Lincoln's World by Foster

ix-25

(Dd again told me how much she enjoys reading these Foster history books.  This is her third Foster history book and she really finds these books to be FAR superior to the current SL choice, which is The Kingfisher Encyclopedia.)

Sweet Hades- Bantam rooster

History Reader:

Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin

Ch. 1-3

She was scheduled to read up to chapter 8, but her Rick Riordan book took over...that Rick Riordan!!

History Reader:

In Search of Honor by Donna L. Hess: COMPLETED

She finished this book this week, the last five chapters

Read Alouds:

A Heart Strangely Warmed by Louise Vernon

Ch.1

John Wesley is a fiery preacher who is stirring up the people in London. One day, while peddling his father’s wares, Robert Upton meets Wesley and his life is changed forever. Robert and his father start going to Wesley’s meetings. Gradually, Robert begins to understand what Wesley’s preaching is all about. As he allows God to work in his life, Robert finds that his own heart, like Wesley’s, is strangely warmed. For 9-to-14-year-olds.

Vernon has written a lot of these short bible history books.  This book is 126 pages and an easy reader.  I appreciate these short biographies that help me to keep important people straight!  This was a Reader, but I didn't want to miss out on it so I made it a Reader! 

 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

SO excited to be reading this with Dd!!!  This week we read chapters 18-22.  I bought a guide to help me teach this book from Rainbow Resources--

Dickens Great Expectations (Christian Guides to the Classics) Item #: 056097

Plus, we are using the Sonlight vocabulary and questions with each chapter.  SL had scheduled us to read 2 chapters each day, but we did one chapter per day, which was taking about an hour to do.  

Henny Penny

Fun Reader:

 Trials of Apollo Bk 2 The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

Audio:

The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes Vol 1

(this is a 20-hour audio so it is going to take us a while!)

Physical Education:

Saturday Dd repeated last weeks good efforts at mowing the yards! 

Music:

Dd is still having her violin lessons (30 min) with Christie.

Dd is also still having her piano lessons with Wendy (30 min). 

We bought a new Alto Sax music book which gave Dd a bunch of new music to play!

We both enjoyed the Strings Group at church, Dd played the ukelele.

Besides the classes/groups, Dd practiced her piano, violin, and sax this week.

I had scheduled a lot more things to do this week that she do; I think next week I will try to lower my expectations while she is doing her driver's training.  I'm glad she is taking drivers education so seriously and doing well, and I'll make our academics next week easier to accomplish.

Have a blessed week!

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