Jan. 21-27th 2012 Sonlight
Core E
Week 15
We had TWO field trips scheduled this week with the bigger homeschool group we belong to--HBHE. The first was on Monday - we went to the Brownsburg Police Training Facility. I *thought* it was a self-defense class; but that was at 10am. The description sounded like we could either come to the 10am or 11am class. I picked the 11am class b/c it appeared there would be more girls, and older students at the later class. Come to find out the self-defense class was at 10am and a different class was being held at 11am. We arrived for:
"Sgt. Peter Fleck of the Brownsburg Police Department will introduce students to the role of a Crime Scene Investigator with hands on learning. This will include finger printing and solving a crime!
Note to Parents: Please be aware that this is an actual training facility and may have a fake body and fake blood. Please make sure your child understands this is not real!!"
We had a good time figuring out who the imagined murderer was. But, I was very disappointed that Dd didn't get a self-defense class like I was HOPING for. I guess I will try to go over these things myself. She has already read a whole book on the subject; and *thinks* she know ALL there is to know about self defense....and that scares me the most!
On Tuesday, my Dh took our Dd to the second field trip--to the Target Chip Ganassi Racing Tour: "A tour of the fabrication/machine shop, composite shop, paint room, electronics shop, and main garage." The racers are Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon; on this team. Dario is married to Ashley Judd. Anyway--the tour was pretty interesting if you were interested in looking at the cars and seeing how they use computers to plan how they will make all the things they need to build parts for the car. They special make all the things for the cars themselves...there is no sourcing out for parts...they hand make everything!
We also went to the library this week and picked up a few used books. Dd also had Upwards Basketball practice, and a game on Saturday (1-26-13). The Wolverines lost this game by 4 points; it could have easily gone either way. If a few of Dd's baskets would have gone in, then we would have won. We had won against this team a few weeks ago. This time they were hitting all the shots they tried for; and we missed a lot that should have gone in. Both teams scored over 50 points; so it was a high scoring game. Dd took a big 'charge' and handled getting hit hard like a champ. She also had a 'jump ball', holding on to the ball against a young man that the biggest kid on the floor. I was most proud of her for that.
Our lessons:
Bible:Dd's aloud: Daniel
Mom's aloud: 2 Chronicles---loving getting to know this history better!!
Apologia's: Who Is My Neighbor: pg 77-102
History:
Sounding Forth the Trumpet
Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2
Audio:
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder -audio by Cherry Jones
Disc 4, 5, and 6 listened to this week
Other audio selections for this week: Debussy, All Nations Shall Worhip-Scripture Songs from the Harrow Family, the CD from First Language Lessons to review our grammar terms, and Dd has officially been on a month long series of the Beatles (during her free time/baking time)
Read Aloud's:
(finished GWC)
The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America (Cheryl Harness Histories) by Cheryl Harness
Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems--we are assigned a few poems to read each week.
Reader:
Little Town on The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Liberty Street by Candice F. Ransom and Eric Velasquez
Seeing the Elephant: A Story of the Civil War by Pat Hughes and Ken Stark
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Nurse During the American Civil War!: A Job That's Not for the Squeamish by Kathryn Senior, David Salariya and Mark Bergin
Language Arts:
*IEW: Mini-books: Elephants
Mon. Draft for Paragraph 1
Tues. Draft for Paragraph 2
Wed. Typed up both paragraphs and edited
Fri. Fixed the final revisions-completed
*First Language Lessons:4: Lessons 25, 26,27, 28, 29,30
*First Language Lessons:3: Dictionary Skills: 1, 2,3,4, pages 301-307
(I skipped the last bit of the oral skills at the end of FLL 3 to fit in on slow days while we did FLL 4)
*AAS 4: Step 4: lessons and passed test
*AAS 4: Step 5: lessons and passed test
*AAS 4: Step 6: lessons started
*Memorizing "Adverbial Clauses" from IEW: M, T, W, TH, F
*VHS: WRITING FOR CHILDREN by Schlessinger Media
*Writing for Children : STORY WRITING
Math:
Math U See: 8F, 9B, 9C, 9D,9E, 9F
Teaching Textbooks 5: lesson 19
Skip Counting Family: 8 family : 3x per day
Art:
How Great Thou Art 1: 2 days this week
Lesson 9, 10, 12, 13
Tissue Paper Sunflower
Baking:
Wed: Dd made Blueberry Muffins from scratch--all by herself, found the receipe in an AG cookbook and did every single thing alone--especially the clean up!
Fri: Dd repeated Wed's Blueberry Muffins!! She really liked them a lot! Perfectly cooked, and delicious!
And we always watch our BrainPop, and BrainPop, Jr. in the mornings--- I always forget to type it up here or in my IG, that we do watch it every day; but we do! and I love it! I am the one that reminds us to do it; I think Dd would let it go; but I like it too much to let it drop! I learn so much from that little show each day!
