July 30--Aug 3rd 2012

 This is Sophie's "what'd I do??" face.

It is always fun (for me) to see what was on our dry-erase boards from the past weeks...

July 30, 2012  Dd got new markers and has been having a blast making new things with them!  I enjoy this beach scene.  She has a story to go with it.  I am hoping she will write it up sometime soon!

Our lessons this week:

Bible:
Apologia's "Who Am I?"---we finished this on Friday!!!  Good book! 5 stars!

Language Arts:
First Language Lessons: Lessons 74--81
 All About Spelling 3: Step 20 completed
Writing: Thank You Cards --8 done and done well!

History:
Story of the World 3: Chapters 33-37

Science:
Queen Anne's Lace in red, blue, and yellow dyed water
SL worksheet Week 26; page 133 & 134

Exercise:
5 days of walking or biking around the 2 ponds--35-45 minutes, plus Dd made relay races inside the house on her own. The doctors wanted us to make sure Dd moved to help recover from the pneumonia and Dd would be content to just sit and read!

Math:
MUS: Alpha Test Book: test 1, 2,  22, 23,6
Beta Test book: test 5,6,19,7
Gamma Test book: 23, 27
Delta Test book: tests: 21 
Delta Book: 20F, 21C, 21D,21E,21F
Life of Fred: Edgewood: Chapters 1-4 reviewed & 7-10 new



Read Aloud:
Narrow Escape: Chapters 2-11 (ch. 12 remaining)
by Christoph Von Schmid
(A "Lamplighter" book )




Readers:
Finished: Trixie Belden: The Red Trailer Mystery #2
 

The Red Trailer Mystery (Trixie Belden #2) by Julie Campbell

started:

 

The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin

 

Board Games: this week:

Star Wars Trouble

Scrambled States of America

Sequence

 Backgammon

built a new fort out of blankets and chairs--luxury edition; it has a library inside!!

 

Activities:

Dd did most of the work baking 2 dozen cookies for church-we feed the firefighters during a training thing-y.

Library on Thursday and short visit with one of her friends, they put in their last raffle tickets at the library it was the last week of our summer reading program

Piano--BIG, BIG, BIG piano week!!!!!!! This week she really stuck to making up her own songs that were really lovely and beautiful.  It blew me away. 

Scratch Art-- A Puffins drawing

Big Paper Dolls Week

 

Abraham Lincoln and His Family Paper Dolls in Full Color (Dover President Paper Dolls) by Tom Tierney

 

Lots of marker drawings--"sky" theme from VBS 

 

Every morning Dd lays on the sofa reading various books while I drink my coffee and check in on my SL weekly chat - I wrote down some of the books this week to show a peek of some of the things she typically reads:

The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge by Joanne Cole (2010)

You're Only Old Once!  Dr. Seuss

Moss Gown by William H. Hooks

 

The Princess and the Beggar (Korean Folktale) by Anne Sibley O'Brien

 The Dragon's Pearl by Julie Lawson

Beautiful Warrior-The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu by Emily Arnold McCully

Mirette On the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

Pinduli by Janell Cannon (I love Cannon's books)

 

The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco (I love Polacco's books)

 

Winnie the Pooh- Roo's Big Nature Day by K. Emily Hutta

 

another new reader book started: set during WWII

Play to the Angel by Maurine F. Dahlberg

 

Dd did this a few weeks ago and I wanted to put it in. 

We checked these out from our library--

     


This week Dd seems to have grown up a lot.  She has really been into discussing the books she has been reading....giving LOTS of details and descriptions.  I've always asked about her books and she has always given short little comments; and then this week she has switched the ON button to descriptions!  I am not sure I wanted all that detail!!!  Becareful what you ask for!  She also really EXCELLED at her chores this week.  She went above and beyond on her chores.  I am really amazed at that too.  I am not sure what happened this week; it is like she aged a whole year on us in a blink.  I'm not sure I like it; even if she did do wonders on her chores!!

I had promised her a fun gift while we were driving to the hospital.  I knew she would NOT want needles and all that--so ahead of time, during the drive, we talked about it.  I told her if she did a good job and didn't fuss she could pick out a nice fun toy or something at Wal Mart.  So, on Friday we went to Walmart and she picked a Face Painting Kit!!! Oh MY!!!  You would not believe all the face, leg, arm, calf, ankle painting that has been going on!!!  She has had a blast with that kit!!! And she did totally great getting the IV's at the hospital--which got her back to healthy--thank the Lord!

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