SL Week 20 --week 40 of Core 3/D Oct 3-7th 2011

G&G had their 50th wedding anniversary celebration this past weekend.  We went down to celebrate with them.

We are on Week 20 of the IG-week 40 on this core so far.  Besides the scheduled IG items we have been adding in:
MUS's Skip-Counting Songs and focus on one family per week and write it, say it, and sing it at least 3 times each day.
FLL-Lesson 13
WWE-Wk 8
AAS-Step 4
MUS 17D-19D
We've already read the assigned Readers(The Bears on Hemlock Mountain and George Washington: Our First Leader), and the Read Aloud (Toliver's Secret) so I am adding in some new books:

The Liberty Tree: The Beginning of the American Revolution (Picture Landmark) by Lucille Recht Penner


Revolutionary John Adams by Cheryl Harness

Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz and Margot Tomes (Dd's Reader-finished)

Liberty or Death: The American Revolution: 1763-1783 (American Story) by Betsy Maestro and Giulio Maestro (Read Aloud-will finish on Friday)

The Dear America: The Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana Gregory (Dd's reader)


VHS/DVD:
American School Publishers: a Miller-Brody Dramatization:  Sarah, Plain and Tall
Magic School Bus: Gets Eaten [VHS]



NOVA: Dogs and More Dogs Starring John Lithgow

Eyewitness - Dog [VHS]

 (Dd has a 'Speech' class report to do on the topic of 'dogs' next week-researching dogs.)

 Monday we had to stop early so I could donate blood; which gave us an opportunity to go to the library ahead of schedule!

On Thursday we too are going to a farm- a dairy farm called Fair Oaks Farms.  My lactose intolerant child should love it; with her special pills!! Here is the website if anyone is curious:
www.fofarms.com/en/home

Fair Oaks Farms attractions (The Adventure Center, Birthing Barn, Tours and Cheese Plant) will remain open! So get on out to Mooville and have some fun before the season ends! Remember Cowtoberfest will be going on all month long in October, so there are more things to see and do at the farm!

Try your hand at connecting the sucking hoses to the artificial cow

Inga - gave us a lecture on the whole process

Hello Ladies!

The Milking Ride-the cows like it so well they don't want to get off after their circle is done!

I have no idea how to describe this bouncing, rubbery, bounce house-minus the house, fun contraption!

The hooves are right there--now wait another hour!

Can you see the little calf in the straw?