Week 1 May 21-25 2012

Still no IG (Instructors Guide) from Sonlight; so we are doing electives and waiting for our new IG to arrive.  We had a super busy week!  Wednesday was the Children's Museum, bank and library--Thursday I sold some duplicate books at the Plainfield Christian Church's Homeschool Sale from 9am-2:30pm--Friday we did our lessons early so we could go swimming with friends.  I was ready for some adult interaction after such a busy week.  We fit in our lessons around all our activities.

Bible:
Who Am I?  by Apologia





Art/Music:
Praise & Worship cd
Piano each day
Candle making set (see pix below)
Gardening, gardening, and watering

Math:
MUS this week (no LOF or TT) 17F-18E

Science:
SL Science 3--Week 16, 17, 18, & 19

Language Arts:
Explode the Code: pg's 100-104
Spelling: AAS -review pages from beginning of book
IEW: Story Sequence/Lesson 8/The Princess and the Pea: 3 paragraphs, editing , rough draft, another rough draft, and 2 "final drafts"

Read Aloud: (this was highly recommended in IEW  by Steve Pudewa)

Politically Correct, the Ultimate Storybook: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Once upon a More Enlightened Time, and Politically Correct Holiday Stories by James Finn Garner

Reader:

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 (Dear America Series) by Joyce Hansen

 Some of the books Dd has been reading-she went retro into her old bookshelves:
 "Give My Regrets to Broadway- a Chet Gecko Mystery" by Bruce Hale
 

"The Dusk Fairy" by Keith Faulkner
"The Pet Avengers"
"Bone-number 8: Treasure Hunters" by Jeff Smith
"Tinkerbell & the Great Fairy Rescue"
American Girl: "Oh Brother, ...Oh, Sister..."
American Girl: "Party Secrets.."
"The Lion King, Junior Graphic Novel"
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Half-Shell"
Berenstain Bears: "Go Out for the Team", "And the Week at Grandma's", "Visit the Dentist", "Mama's New Job"
Marvel Adventures: "Thor and the Avengers", &"Spider man and Avengers"
"Rosetta's Daring Day" by Lisa Papademetriou
"The Odyssey" graphic novel by Gareth Hinds--we saw this at the Children's Museum's "Info Zone" and requested it from our library.



 Children's Museum visit from Wednesday.  We jumped through hoops to make it in time for the last class (3:30pm) of the Science Lab "Build a Cell".  We've done this class before; but this time we had the teacher all to ourselves.  She sat at our table and spent 30 minutes with us explaining all about the plant and animal cells.  We (I) had a blast!  Then we finished our Science Port projects and quickly returned home.

We already miss Payton Manning.

Making a cell model: animal and plant
at the Science Lab

Fran Balkwill's science books are great! 

The circle on the left is an animal cell; the rectangle on the left is a plant cell

This is Dd's animal cell

We learned how each cell has a specific job to do--be it a eye cell or a heart cell that beats; they all have a spefic job that they HAVE to do.

Finished project.  We first made circular animal cells; then turned them into plant cells by changing their shape to square/rectangles and adding in a few more ingredients

Plants
at the Science Port

Planting the seeds

Dd made a planter with seeds inside into a necklace - one for her and she made one for me

Dd made two slides for us to take home and look at in our stereo microscope

A quick pix on our way out; showing the new things we made to take home with us.

The WATERWORKS area has always been one of Dd's favorite stops (and it is beside the science labs) at the Children's Museum

Giz gave Dd a kit to make her own candles.  It isn't exactly like the real candle making kit we did from Hands and Hearts; but Dd sure did have fun!

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