March 25-31st 2013 SL Core E, Week 21

March 25-31st  2013  

SL Core E  

Week 21

Another busy week, but these busy weeks will soon be coming to an end.  Spring is just when a lot of our field trips are scheduled and therefor our activities are multiplied. I hope everyone had a good Easter!  We sure did!  We had been reading and preparing for at least a week, which really helps us to mentally be aware of the real significance of it all.

A brief outline of our activities this week:

Monday-Snow Morning!! 7  1/2 inches of snow!! Dd played in snow for hours!!!-then lessons (after lunch).  We watched a church program from Annie's.  We watched a service called "Redemption".

  Tuesday- lessons & Swim & Gym (Life Guard, Jr. Training)

Tuesday afternoon:  Tea Party/Visit at L. friends house where Dd got to go for a nice walk in the snow, while I drank tea and chatted.  She and R also played the piano together, which was lovely to hear!

Wednesday-lessons

Thursday-LHE field trip downtown, we rode with the G family to the Ruth/Eli Lilly Health Center.  We had a 1 1/2 hour interactive program (4 parts) on the various elements of the Human Body.  The part on the Immune System was WAY cool!  They had a 3D movie (we got to wear the fun 3D glasses) on the immune system.  Our teacher, Cathy, did a great job talking about nutrition and vitamins, minerals, bones, food choices.....too.  The kids got to participate in various ways, which were a lot of fun.

Thursday night, Dh, Dd, and I went with the G family to their church to participate in a SEDER DINNER! We (DD and I) "youtube.com'd" a few different episodes on "Seder Dinner" or "Seder Meal" to watch ahead of time.  It was very interesting to watch those. Wow! was that really interesting!  It was a reenactment/education on how Jews preform the Passover meal.  They explained how Jesus's last supper would have gone and what the symbolism for each thing was...we had lamb and a good meal as we participated.  What a fun thing we did as a family-and the church was so warm and welcoming to us!

Friday-Lessons and we watched another sermon from Annie's church-called "Good Friday" -this one had Annie in it!  Wonderful to hear Annie's testimonial and get to know her better.

Saturday-I got glasses for the first time in my life..."oh bother"--says Winnie the Pooh.  Saturdays are my clean my house like a crazy hen with her head chopped off day.  And I cleaned until 10pm!  Boy, did I have a lot of cleaning and tidying up to do! 

Sunday-EASTER!! He Has Risen!  up at 5:30am, leave at 6:30am, sunrise service at 7am, b-fast, Sunday School, Service, home, NAP, Giz and Grampy arrive for a few hours visit, Eat, Easter Egg Hunting begins!!! bed!  Glory, He Has Risen!  What an Amazing Day.  We did get to sing In The Garden today...DH and I just love that hymn--and we got to sing it on Easter.

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

We read from the book of Hosea--I'm not positive how many chapters, b/c we read more than we were suppose to --at least Chapters 8-14.

 Apologia-Who Is My Neighbor-(pgs 238-239)

 

"Simon & The Cross" I found the chapter that would match up with Good Friday and Easter to add into our family devotions.  It also had us add in Matthew 27: 32-54--Mark 15:21-38--Luke 23:26-49

History:

The World Wars pages 14-57

The World Wars: An Introduction to the First & Second World Wars by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst and Henry Brook

 

History Add-in: Into the West by James M. McPherson

We finished this book. It was a great add-in b/c it covered a lot of things that SL didn't really cover enough of--a lot of details that might have been missed this book pointed out.  I'm extra glad I added this book in! 

 

Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier by James M. McPherson

 

Read Alouds: (on audio)

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry- Chapters 1-3

Reader:

 The Wright Brothers--SL  Reader--Dd is really liking it!

 

Science:

Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day -- Young Explorers Series (Apologia Science... by Jeannie Fulbright

Pages 42-51  We are really loving this book.  This week we learned about birds feathers.  Did you know they have 5 different types of feathers?  Dd did a Diagrammatic drawing of a bird feather.

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon: 16 A, B, C, D, E, F

MUS Worksheet Generator: Extra division of Fractions-5 questions per day extra.

Language Arts:

AAS 4: Lesson 14-passed

First Language Lessons: level 4: lesson 54

WWE 3: Week 5, day 3 & 4

IEW: Paragraph on Ants "Miss Ant"

                                                      Miss Ant

All the ants in a colony are female.   Females which are called “workers” are the workforce for the colony.  Because ants are so talented they only take a short break each day.  Even though workers are female, they cannot lay eggs.  They usually live one to three years, and are smaller than the queen.  If you find an ant, you probably found a female worker ant.

Fix-It: Week 8

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems:

3 poems this week.

 

Extra FUN Readers:

Disney Fairies: Beck Beyond the Sea by Kimberly Moss

Disney Fairies: Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse by Gail Herman

Disney Fairies:Dulcie's taste of Magic by Gail Herman

Dd reads a lot, but I managed to get these 3 books that she read and finished this week.  There is always more; but I don't see them.  I know she has had a lot of her big Star Wars books and American Girl craft/cooking books out too this week.   

  Dvd:

(from the library)

Magic School Bus: Plays Ball, and Works Out

The Man From Snowy River

   Audio:

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien and Rob Inglis 

  *finished this audio and ordered the next one/final one (The Return of the King)

 Activities:

Chores, Painting, Piano...lots of reading and making stuff.  Bow & Arrow was back out again this week, working with the bird feeders a lot outside-lots of interest in the birds outside, chasing off the hawks, and wanting to plant (actually did plant sunflower seeds which is not a good idea this early...)