Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Sonlight Core D Week 19 - (week 38 on Core 3/D) Sept 19-23 2011

Hello, Friends!

Monday was Dh and my 13th years of marriage anniversary, so our lessons were off for the day.  We had Dh home on Friday and Monday; so he had a 4 day weekend.  We still did our lessons on Friday while he did some of his things.

We are reading The Landmark History of the American People, The Story of the USA-Book 2 for our history this week.  We had already read and finished If You Were There...Constitution.  We are really enjoying our Read Aloud: Toliver's Secret-(finished now).  I thought it was going to be about a boy; when it is really about a 10 year old girl who learns how to become brave.  This is especially great b/c my dd really has not mastered 'brave' quite yet!  This is a great story for her to have read to her.

Dd finished reading these books: 
for fun:



for our lessons added in:
which was a Winter Promise/American story add-in.  She is onto reading:



We've already read our assigned readers (The Cabin Faced West  and George Washington: Our Leader so we added in:
Dd current "Reader":

The funny thing with her reading A Pioneer Sampler is that I was showing her some options on what she can read next as her 'reader' and she said she had hidden a book in her reading nook and wanted to know if she could read this book.  I thought it was going to be a Narnia or Star Wars or the like type of book; but she pulled out A Pioneer Sampler!!  This is a book I thought would be too much for her and that I would read to her.  She said she had been reading it on her own and how much she is really liking it and started telling me all about it!

We are doing good in all our areas; nothing major has changed from last week-just moving further along in our Science, Math, LA, Poetry, Sing the Word: Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed, etc. etc.

I ordered another Artistic Pursuits book:
which focuses on modern painting and sculpture.  And I ordered the gouache and supplies that goes with this book.  I am so excited to start diving into this; as is Dd.  But, I want to read the book first before we get started.  We had already started the next book, that is suppose to come after finishing this book; but we can just put it aside until after this book.  My dear friend had given me the future book and it looked so good I went ahead and backed up a step so we wouldn't miss anything.  I am really liking how simply they teach art to children in a step-by-step process. 

We are also 'harvesting' some of our garden this week.  We have brought in turnip greens, potatoes, onions, and lots of ripe tomatoes!   

We had our co-op classes on Thursday which were fun.  We went to Krannert Park afterwards to enjoy our picnic lunches with fellow hs'ers.   Then we finished up by going to the library. 


Dd has started a new "Playaway" (audio book):

and since we finished the audio: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief we have ILL (inter-library loaned) the sequel:

**don't tell Dd; but I've read ahead and am on book 3! 

This week we are reading:
Toliver's Secret 
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: William Blake
FLL-Lesson 11  - plus review of poems and terms from Book 1 & 2
WWE-Week 6
Skip Counting Songs by MUS--7 family
Bible-Acts
Discover's Bible-2 Samuel
Science-Week 8 (partial)
Indian Prayer Guide
Life of Fred-Chapter 1 (new)
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SL Core D Week 18 "B" Sept 12-16th 2011

This is our 37th week on Core 3 and we are doing fine!  We have done 2 "left-over weeks" in a row.  We had a lot going on and I wanted to extend this historic period and not rush through the Revolutionary War time period.  There is too much to read and comprehend before I want to proceed.   This week we also started a new process - Dd having her own printed out schedule for each day's list of things we are to do and have her (and her clip-board) check off each item and keep us on our time schedule.  This has worked out well so far.

On Monday we had an exciting field trip to "Bar B and M" Horse Farm; where Dd got to ride a wonderful horse named "Paris".  There was a great tour of all the stalls with the many different kinds of horses.  It was really a lovely event with smiles all around.  The children each had the opportunity to feed a horse an apple too.  I really wish I had remembered my camera....

On Thursday our LHE co-op classes began again; which is a huge deal for dd.  She literally counted down the months, weeks, and days until her classes started back up.  She has 3 classes that last 45 minutes each, which are : Gym, Games, and Speech.  Then after the classes are over at 11:45 we go to a neighboring park and eat our packed lunches with many of the children from LHE.

We are currently on lessons 14 and 15 with MUS Gamma.  We do Times Attack website about 1x week.    We are enjoying listening to Steve Demme's Skip Counting Songs-right now we are working on the 7 family.

We are on lesson 10 with FLL (First Language Lessons-3).  We started IEW-Excellence in Writing Lesson 1 in the "A" program.  All About Spelling -level 3- and we've added in "Spellingcity.com" which is really neat and I like it a lot.  And Writing With Ease is going well too....Language Arts is covered.

We have been working on having Dd do one chore per day that is about 30 minutes of work.  She is doing well at this and enjoys having her own work to do to help out.

The books we have been reading this week are:
Om-Kas-Toe: Blackfoot Twin Captures Elkdog by Kenneth Thomasma as a Read Aloud


. . . If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution by Elizabeth Levy and Joan Holub


as an add-in there was:
They Called Her Molly Pitcher by Anne Rockwell and Cynthia von Buhler
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