SL Week 35 "A" LOW (71 weeks on Core D ) May 7-11th 2012

This is our 71st week on this core!  It is hard for even me to believe we have spent this long on one core!  This is a "LOW" week- a continuation of Week 35 of the SL IG.  We only have one more week left of Core 3/D.

Bible:
Who is God?  by Apologia
Nightly bible time we have been reading the book of Revelations

Music & Art:
Piano each day
Debussy & Handel's Water Music
 Piano playing each day
Knitting every day (my mom sent Dd bamboo knitting needles and angora yarn)

Math:
Life of Fred: "Cats" Chapters 2-15
 Math U See: 15 A ,B ,C ,D, E, F


Landmark History of the American People:
Chapters 18-20

Poetry:
Octavio Paz and Maya Angeleo

BrainPop & BrainPop, Jr.

Flashcards:
Latin/Greek & Grammar terms

Read Aloud:
Swift Rivers (finished)

Dd's Readers:
"Kirby the Disgruntled Tree" by Lori Wick
"The Circus Ship" by Chris Van Dusen
"The Runaway's Revenge" by Dave & Neta Jackson
plus a lot of books that I didn't see - mostly graphic novels, Geronimo Stilton, etc.

Activities:
Thursday, May 10th we went to the Children's Museum.  There is a post with the pictures seperate from this weeks entry.  We had a great time.  Dd got an ice cream (waffle cone) at the CM to celebrate her finishing up on Core 3/D. At the Science Lab we did an experiment on "Trait Trinkets" which we made a bracelet on our traits.  For example, if you had curly hair you put 3 shiny red beads on your wire-but if you had straight hair you put 3 orange beads on.  We also went to the Water Works section, the carosel, the "Power of Children" exhibit, the "Treasures of the Earth" exhibit.  The new thing was that at the Power of Children exhibit they had live actors do a performance that taught about the life of that child.  We saw one show on Ruby Bridges and another on Anne Franke.  That was very, very well done!

Friday night was our LHE "Year End Program" at Westlake Church of God.  It was a very good time!  We were there until 9:44pm!

Saturday we worked up our garden and planted.  It was a real mess of weeds.  Dd did a great job helping.  She was a great help in sifting through the dirt.  Dh made a big screen to sift the dirt and Dd helped with that especially.  She rescued many worms and helped them get relocated without trauma.  Then She helped make the box beds out of cardboard.  She planted the seeds nicely in their rows and did all the watering.  We planted 10 different tomato plants and the seeds and a few other things.  I will post some pictures of the garden so you can see before and after pix.

Sometimes what is left on the dry-erase board at the end of the week does a good job of surmising what we worked on during the week.  The references to music and obligate vs. carnivores is actually from LOF!