SL Week 27 "A" LOW (week 55 on Core 3/D) Jan 16-19, 2012

We made our final Hands & Hearts project this week: Lavender Satchel

First we cut the muslin; then the calico.  Then she sewed the muslin bag and added in the lavender. Then she sewed the calico bag and put the muslin sans lavender inside it and closed it up...done!

Here is the pretty green calico outside bag.

The finished product!

Dd made a Dog Travois out of the "More Than Moccasins" Activity Guide:
More Than Moccasins: A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life (A Kid's Guide series) by Laurie Carlson

A "Dog Travois" for her Webkin dog.  Our real great dane/black lap Sophie was petrified of the big one Dd tried to make her wear....too funny!

Dd made antlers for her Webkin deer:

There is a circle base that holds the antlers on to it's head.

Notice the sword--this is a Narnian deer!

We had a nice nature hike at Arbuckle Park on Monday (Jan 16, 2012) and our dog Sophie had a great time getting muddy (Dd was actually MORE muddy than the dog!) .  The weather was so extremely nice we had to spend some time outside taking in the rare January warmth.  Then Dd had Basketball Practice in the evening.  

Each day Dd did some sort of exercise-walk, treadmill, exercize video, basketball in drive-way, shoveling snow on Thursday, and a basketball game on Saturday (they won).


This week our musical composer focus is on:  Schubert.
We listened to Schubert's Symphony No. 9 on Tues., Wed., Thurs., & Fri. 

Geography Songs: Greenland, Scandanavia, U.S., and major landmarks like  Holland's Windmills, The Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, and the Matterhorn. 

Science (SL Science 3)  workbook pages: 53,54,55,56, and 65

Math: Math U See 3 days, and TT 1 day

Language Arts:
WWE: week 14 day 3&4  Week 15 day 1 & 2
FLL: Lessons 20, 21, and 22
Writing: IEW : Peter The Great (video, kwo, rough draft and final draft completed)
Writing: Thank you letter to the Jones family
Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? (Words Are Categorical) by Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable

Read Aloud: House of Love by Elizabeth Cheney (Lamplighter book)

Dd's Reader: 1) Childhood of Famous Americans: Laura Ingles Wilder (finished)
2)"A Little House Chapter Book-Laura's Pa-Laura #12"

Dvd: The Magic School Bus: Busasaurus
VHS: Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Starring Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, Murphy Guyer and Sam Waterston