SL Core D Week 22 (Oct. 31-Nov. 4th, 2011)

Here we are on our 44th week doing Core 3 or Core "D" if you have adjusted to the new name of the same core.  We had M-T-W here at home; and did our Th-F at the farm in Mitchell.  We built tree stands in the woods for Dh's deer hunting.  We thought we would try to do our lessons on "vacation" to see if it would take some of the 'transition' out of our life.  (I'm typing this after the fact; so I can report that it didn't work.  On Monday 11-7 when we tried to start back up our lessons at home it proved to be an all day crying, highly emotional day.  Dd just does not do transitions well.  Mondays are always hard; but if we have done any traveling it seems to be much, much worse.)

This week we studied Acts for my reading of the bible and Dd read from 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles for her reading.

Our main reading for the week was : Carry On, Mr. Bowditch--which we finished.  We really enjoyed this book a lot.  Then we started The Story of Eli Whitney.

Dd's extra books that we added-in were:
George Washington and the General's Dog (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) by Frank Murphy and Richard Walz

George the Drummer Boy (I Can Read Book 3) by Nathaniel Benchley and Don Bolognese

Paul Revere and the Bell Ringers (Ready-to-Read. Level 2) by Jonah Winter and Bert Dodson

Our poetry this week was Edgar Allen Poe. 
Math-MUS-Gamma
Life of Fred-Ch. 4
IEW-Rough Draft: Oysters
Handwriting: Cursive
Board Game: Money Bags
FLL- cd reviewed the poems and songs from 1 & 2
AAS- Step 7 (reviewed each day) 

11-5 (Sat) we had Upwards Basketball Evaluations and worked for the rest of the day in our garden.  We dug up our turnips, parsnips, carrots, chard greens...hard work but fun!