Fleur de Lis Homeschool Blog: SL Week 35 (70th week on Core D) April 30-May 4, 2012

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

SL Week 35 (70th week on Core D) April 30-May 4, 2012

This was a bit of a "light" week. After the IOWA testing we really wanted a bit of a break. So, we did our lessons; but not as heavily as we usually do. We didn't have any planned activities; except AC was coming over on Friday night to spend the night. We needed to spend some time really cleaning Dd's bedroom and rearranging her furniture, so we got a lot of housekeeping done too.

Tuesday May 2nd, 2012:
We went to the Children's Museum!
We went to the Science Lab and each made a glove of 4 different seeds. We also really enjoyed their microscopes and lots of interesting slides. In the Science Port Dd made a parachute, and especially enjoyed playing the hand-held remote control for various flying aircraft-viewed through a computer. She could have done that ALL day! We rode the carosel two times. Like usual we brought our lunch and ate in the cafeteria. We spent a great deal of time in the Dinosphere. We made rubbings from brass reliefs, sculpted dino heads with this cool stuff called: "Think Putty", etc.etc. We went to the Water Works. We were at the frog pond when they announced an activity was beginning. They gave each child a clip-board, binocular, and identification papers. They had the children listen to a short presentation about pond life, frogs, toads, etc. and then had them go on a frog search. They had to locate each frog/toad and draw an "x" on where they found them on the map located on their clip-board. Then they had to fill in other supporting information--like sounds, smells, or other items found (like grasses, fish, snails). It was a lot of fun. I've never seen them do that activity before.

This was the lab for the day--making a glove with 4 different seeds inside- it is really fun watching the seed open and the plant begin it's new life.

Bible:
"Who Is God?" by Apologia
Nightly bible: book of Revelations
Praise and Worship CD: "To God be the Glory"

Math:
Life of Fred (LOF) "Butterflies" Chapter 11, 12, 13, 14,15,16,17,18,19
LOF "Cats" Chapter 1 (again)

Language Arts:
Thank you letter

Art:
Knitting! really enjoying knitting
Clay Figures (the weird colored, oily clay--not her usual red pottery clay)
Piano playing every day

Music:
Debussy

Audio:
"The Boy of Mount Rhigi" by C.M. Sedgewick - finished
"Percy Jackson and the Last Olympians" by Rick Riordian - finished
"A Wrinkle In TIme" by Madeleine L'Engle - finished

Dd's Readers: