Oct 1-5, 2012 Core E / Week 7 "LOW"

Oct 1-5, 2012 Core E / Week 7 "LOW"

In Progress-

After such a big weekend (drove to Mitchell, IN on Sat for Christmas party and didn't get home until 9pm and Sunday was the church's "Ground Breaking" party) we had a lot of cleaning up to do on Monday.

Math:
Math U See: 24 A- 24E
Skip-Counting Family -12


Bible:
We started the Veritas Press Bible Program-Genesis - Joshua.  I am so thankful Michelle explained to me how the schedule works.  It isn't nearly as difficult as I thought it was going to be.  We also did Chapter 6 from Starting Strong

Starting Strong by Paula Rinehart

 

Dd's Reader: Finished - The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

Read Aloud: Across Five Aprils

Spelling:
All About Spelling-reviewed tests 14-17
Retaught Lesson 26, words and sentences

DVD:
 

Johnstown Flood narrated by Richard Dreyfuss Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Patrick Jordan, Jennifer Lee Dake, et al.

 

This movie was a bit gory and I wasn't that impressed with it.  My Dh read :

The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough

He really thought this book was much better than this movie we watched.  I was just hoping to add in a quick little tid-bit and not a whole book about this one event.
 
Grammar flashcards--reviewed all our grammar terms

Piano daily- Dd is working on some new songs with Giz.  There is some new challenge that Giz has put up for her---something about learning x amount of new songs and then she will receive $5.00!  I'm not involved in this one; but I hope it goes well!

 Monday- Library

Thursday-Field trip to Tuttle Orchard and 4H
Tuttle Orchard was really amazing.  I have a separate post just for describing it.


 4H
The kids made small robots during the meeting.  I think the robot was called a "Toothbrush Robot" or "Cleaning Robot".

  Books:

 

Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel by C. M. Butzer

 

Abe's Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln by Jen Bryant and Amy June Bates

 

The Littles and the Big Storm (The Littles #9) by John Peterson, John Lawrence Peterson, Roberta Carter Clark and Roberta Cart Er Clarke

 

Narnia Chronology: From the Archives of the Last King by C. S. Lewis, Mark Edwards and Pauline Baynes

Tuttle Orchard-Oct. 4, 2012

Tuttle Orchard-Oct. 4, 2012

We had a GREAT time at Tuttle Orchards!  They really gave a wonderfully informative tour.  I learned a lot myself; and I thought I knew a bit about this type of thing.  Some of the information was more appropriate for this year; since we had an early spring followed by a late/ surprise frost that left a "frost ring" on some of their apples.  Then because of our drought this summer, the size of their apples (and quantity) were directly affected.  She held up a specific variety (I forget now which 'crisp' it was) and it was about the size of my hand and she said normally they are at least twice bigger than it was.  I had been wondering how exactly the drought would affect an apple farm.  The pumpkins seemed fine though.

This was my favorite stop--See her puppet bee!!  She gave the best lecture on bee's I've ever heard.  Both sides of the room were full of big, blown-up pictures/posters on bees and apples.  There is a pvc pipe that goes out behind the glass case of bees.  These bees can fly in and out of this glass exhibit.  They put a little colored spot on the Queen Bee so we could easily find her in the middle of all those bees.

This is one of the many rooms/buildings the newly picked apples go through after they are picked. 

This is the back of their gift store.

Isn't this a funny "Hay Ride"!!!!  We were pulled by a tractor out to a pumpkin patch.

Good talk on pumpkin blooms--some are girl blooms; and some are boy blooms-- I didn't know that.

She showed us many pumpkins and gourds and gave a good description of each

Last stop--the playground!!

Tuttle Orchard was really amazing.  They had us go to different educational stations.  One station was on how pumpkin plants get fertilized.  They showed us around 20 different gourds and pumpkins and discussed them.  There was a bee station-- this was probably my favorite.  They covered how bees make honey; and all sorts of great details about bee life.  They had a live bee exhibit--with a tube for the bees to fly out and back.  They walked us through each stop the apples go through--from being on the apple tree, being picked, washed, sorted, sorted and washed again, and then to their different locations as a result of their sorting--the apples with any imperfections are turned into cider, the pulp that is left over is taken back out to the trees as compost.  One thing I didn't know, was that cider is actually a special mix of different apple juices mixed together to create a full, rich flavor.  The most perfect apples are sold in bags at their store. 

We had a late frost this year; so many of their apples that had started early had a 'frost ring' that makes the apple look un-perfect.  Hay ride through the pumpkin patch and we picked out a pumpkin to bring home.

Sept. 24-28, 2012 (Core E :Wk 7)

Sept. 24-28, 2012
Core E
Week 7

We still had parts of Week 6 still to do; but officially moved forward a week.  Monday, Dd officially had a cold and was puny.  On Tuesday, the farmer harvested the corn field behind our house.  We also went to the library. On Wednesday, we walked through it gathering some bits of missed corn.  Thursday, we had our LHE classes, followed by a picnic at Krannart Park.  Friday we stayed home.  Dd and Dh made Peanut Butter Fudge for the Christmas party that was held on Saturday at Spring Mill Park.  Saturday, we drove to Mitchell and had a lovely time at that park and enjoyed our visit with our family.  Sunday, we had the "Ground-Breaking" party for our church.  Things seem to be moving forward with that proposal!

Dd finished her "Reader" The Great Turkey Walk, and started The Perilous Road.  We are still reading Across Five Aprils and enjoying it very much.

Math:
Math U See: Lessons 23D, 23E, 23F, and Teaching Textbooks 5--lesson 12
Skip-Counting: 12 family

All About Spelling 3--lesson 25
Since we are so close to finishing this book; I've gone been going back over all the prior tests.  I do a few tests per day to see what Dd's retention is for the entire book.  We re-tested lessons 1-13 this week and passed lesson 25.  We started lesson 26, completing the lecture portion and some words and sentences from that section.

First Language Lessons
Lesson 7

Book of Time
Cut out and glued for about an hour on Core E events

Typing
40 minutes

Audio:
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Piano:
daily--she has been making up some really beautiful songs as well as the songs we is practicing with Giz.

Add-in books:

Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel by C. M. Butzer