SL Core D- Week 10 May 2, 2011

I love this old picture of my Dd.  She was a flower girl !  I just had to put it in somewhere!

Happy May! I love May-it is my favorite month! (and my birthday month!)

We had a really productive week, last week. We were on a LOW and managed 3 weeks of SL Science. We also worked on one of the sets in our Young Scientist Series focusing on egg experiments. We had a blast with it. We are still working on SL Science 2; but only have maybe 5 'weeks' left. We can do one week in about one day usually.

We read some great books and enjoyed listening to SOTW. For those of you that do SOTW, how do you do it? We just read it and listen to it and that is it. Do you do anything besides that? We especially like listening during our drives.

I think we are suppose to finally start The Witch of Blackbird Pond 'officially' this week. We are on Week 10. We are really getting a good feel for the Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth colonies and how life went during that time. I had bought a bunch of books about this period and was hoping that we would get a chance; or make an opportunity for us to read these and we are actually fitting them in. Anyone have any book suggestions that go with The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

We read The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh and Helen Sewell today. It was suppose to be dd's reader; but she has already started:

My America: The Starving Time: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary, Two - Mass Market Paperback (May 1, 2002) by Patricia Hermes

She read Book One and Book Three that we owned; so I had to borrow Book Two from our library. She read them out of order; but she doesn't mind. I am glad I got to hear The Bears of Hemlock Mountain - I am glad she is enjoying reading to herself but I miss hearing all the stories from each core.


TT (teaching textbooks) is going great. Dd doesn't complain-at all- about doing her math anymore. What a blessing! What a wonderful blessing. I still miss MUS and I really liked that program; but this suits dd better and I guess she is the student-not me.

We had planted a bunch of seedlings and they were ready to be planted outside; but our weather here is so bad and rainy that they are staying inside and we have lost a few of the seedlings as a result. I may have to plant them in the rain.