Core F Week 10 "B" Dec. 23-27, 2013

Core F 
Week 10 "B"
Dec. 23-27, 2013

 

Merry Christmas!

Dd had a blast with this LEGO LOTR's Pirate Ship Ambush! She has been making stop action movies with our camera and the Lego characters with it....she is having a blast with it.  She put it together in hours---I only wish it would have been bigger and more complicated---the Star Wars ship that she put together was much harder and took her much longer; and I appreciated all the brain power it had taken for her to put that together.

Say hello to MOLLY!  She helped Dd win the family game of cards...Dd whipped us all!  Giz and Grampy came on Christmas day and spent the night.  We enjoyed playing card games together...I think Molly did too!

Gingerbread and Sugar Cookies!!! 

These are our second batch--our first batch didn't have icing.  I don't like icing on cookies; but Dd really wanted to decorate---so we did both!  This batch looks much prettier!

Our new birds got to get to their new home on our bird tree!  Our tree has birds from 1998--each year we buy a new "couple" for our tree.  This year I made the 2 cardinal couples for Dh. 

The 2 male cardinals

The 2 female cardinals

Books & Things from this week:

We read Christmas picture books---that was fun!

Reader:

Henry Reed, Inc. (Puffin books) by Keith Robertson

Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson--Completed 
Dd really liked this book.  She said she would laugh out loud reading it; it was that funny!  I wasn't concerned about this one and didn't read it.

 

Read Aloud 1:

Tabitha's Travels: A Family Story for Advent by Arnold Ytreeide

Tabitha's Travels each night before bed; as a family--this is an "Advent book". (Completed)

Read Aloud 2:

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

 Pilgrim's Progress-this is in the original version-in progress.

Audio 1:

The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (Completed)

Audio 2:

The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, Book 3) by Rick Riordan

Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (in Process for Dd)

Audio 3:

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling 

Since we are listening to this in our van, and it is winter and we don't drive much--it is taking us a while to get through this audio!! 

 

 

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