June 17-21st, 2013 SL- Core E- Week 29 "A" LOW (Left-Over Week)

June 17-21st, 2013

 SL- Core E- Week 29 "A" LOW

(Left-Over Week)

Yard Sale Prep Week---and boy what a busy week!  We officially had this week as "off" and didn't count this as a week of doing lessons; but we did get some things done which I thought I'd put down.

I was busy, busy cleaning out closets and bins pulling out all the clothes Dd had out grown while Dd did a little bit of this and that--

Reader:

Completed: Half Magic

Completed: Return to Gone Away Lake

Family RA:

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane

1) It Made You Think of Home...by Bruce Cane

Tree of Freedom - Newbery Honor Books by Rebecca Caudill and Dorothy Bayley Morse

2)Tree of Freedom...by Rebecca Caudill

Music:

Lots of Piano this week

DVD's:

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Widescreen Theatrical Edition) Starring Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen

Lord of the Ring's -The Two Towers

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Starring Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen

Return of the King

VHS:

All Quiet on the Western Front Starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray and Arnold Lucy

All's Quiet on the Western Front

(We read the book as a family read aloud, and now watched the movie.)

Garden:

Dd learned how to use the metal bender and bent the poles to make frames for our garden.

Library Program:

We picked up Dd's friend and took both girls to the "Memory Box" program at the library.  Both girls painted LOTR motifs on their boxes.  They had a good time at the event.  

Add-in books:

The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti, Jose Villarrubia and Attila Futaki

Walks:

We fit in a walk/bike around our 2 ponds this week.