Dec. 31st thru Jan 4th, 2013 Sonlight Core E: Week 13
Our Children's Museum puts on a professional play a few times a year. This holiday season we enjoyed the best performance we have ever seen there (yet!).
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We had a very full week! Dh was home on Monday and Tuesday; but we did some of our lessons anyway! It was particularly nice to have him do MUS with us over his break. We are doing fractions, and Steve Demme was teaching us a way of doing the fractions in a way I was never taught.
Besides our normal lessons, we also had a special day with another friend/family in our hs group--going to the Children's Museum. Our big goal was to see one of their big, professional theater productions which they do a few times a year. The play they did this time was called: The Magic Snowman. It was definitively the best production we have ever seen at the Children's Museum!!! We also went to the Planetarium and saw a show on their dome screen called : Season of Lights. It was about Christmas; throughout time, throughout the world...and they did a great job. We rode the carousel and went through the museum like usual; but it was sooooo packed that it was difficult. We usually go when all the masses of kids are in school; but this was during a Christmas break; so the place was jammed.
Our other activities this week: Thursday night was Upwards Basketball practice and the first fame was held on Saturday morning at 9am. Dd had been so distressed that none of her teammates (all boys but one) were passing her the ball throughout practice. But, miracles do happen and they passed her the ball during the actual game and she scored 10 points!!! Yay! They won; but it was a very close game.
Our lessons:
Bible:
Starting Strong- "Stuck Like Glue" Chapter 1
DD's bible aloud: 1 & 2 Samuel
my bible aloud: 2 Chronicles
Who Is My Neighbor? (And Why Does He Need Me?) -- Biblical Worldview of Servanthood (What We Believe, Volume 3) by John Hay and David Webb
Who is My Neighbor by Apologia--pages 64-66History:
Landmark
Sounding Forth the Trumpet
The Story of the USA-Bk 3
Read Alouds:
The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America (Cheryl Harness Histories) by Cheryl Harness
Oxford Ill. Book of Illustrated Poems
Reader (Dd):
Sing Down the Mountain by Scott O'Dell (started this week)
Art:
How Great Thou Art 1
Lessons: 1-6
Math:
Math U See: Epsilon: 6A,B,C,D,E
Audio:
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Elsie Dinsmore (finished this audio book this week--6 discs, I think)
