Feb. 17th- 23rd 2013 Core E Week 18

Feb. 17th- 23rd 2013

 Core E

Week 18--Half way through this core! 

I skipped doing another LOW week and decided to keep moving forward another week.  Part of me wants to take this core really slowly, and the other part of me doesn't want to take too long to get through the core.  So, I am trying to take breaks when we NEED them rather than scheduling them and taking longer than we need to.  Since we were feeling rather run down this week, we thought it would be a little easier on us to try to just catch up on our SL (Sonlight) things than to try to do too many things for our abilities this week.  Plus, we had Giz and Grampy visit on Sat. the 16th and we didn't get our chores done.  Then on Sunday the 17th our church had the last sermon from our minister before he moved onto a new job.  That was a first for all of us; seeing a minister off to a new job!  Most of the congregation went to Stookey's Resturant for lunch; it was a lovely event.

LHE Co-op:  We are on our third of six classes with our small hs group.  I'm teaching the Nature in Art class on "Micro-Life" this week.    Dd is enjoying her 3 classes--Gym, Health, and French classes.
 
Basketball:  We had warm enough weather to play basketball in our drive way ONE day this week; then the horrid weather hit.  We had ice storms and frigid temps.  This is the last week of Dd's Upward Basketball.  Practice on Thursday, and our last game on 2-23-13 (game tied).

Our Lessons:

Bible:
 

What the Bible Is All About Handbook for Kids: Bible Handbook for Kids by Frances Blankenbaker and Henrietta C. Mears

What the Bible Is All About
2 Samuel 15,16,17,18, & 19
1 Chronicles
Ruth - the whole book, chapters 1-4

History:
We were a little behind from the week before, so we read extra in all our history books:
Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2
The Story of the USA, Book 3
Sounding Forth the Trumpet

Read Alouds:

 

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody

Little Britches - Chapters 2-13 (we were behind on our chapters in this book too, so we happily had to read it a lot this week!)
Oxford Ill. Bk of Amrcn Children's Poems

Reader 1:

Helen Keller (Scholastic Biography) by Margaret Davidson and Wendy Watson

Helen Keller--finished

Reader 2:

Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Ellen Wilson

*Dd has chosen Annie Oakley to be her person of interest!!  She really, really likes Annie Oakley!
  Childhood of Famous Americans- Annie Oakley--finished



Reader 3:
 

F is For Freedom by Roni Schotter

F is For Freedom--in process
I gave Dd a lot of different choices; but this is the book she chose as her next Reader.  We have so many books on the Underground Railroad and about the Civil War that I think most of her extra Readers will still be on those topics for weeks to come!  There is just so many great books on those historic periods.

Reader 4:
Dd wanted me to note that she read High School Musical Bonjour Wildcats this week.  She honestly reads LOTS of books each week that I don't post; like these High School Music books/"twaddle"; but she specifically asked for me to put this one in....so, there you go!  Twaddle does get read here.  

Math:
I've decided to PAUSE for a little while and let the info we've taken in to gel a little bit before we go forward.  Dd has really done great moving from thing to thing in her Epsilon book; but I just thought she could use a little break from learning new material and just have a little time to solidify what she knows already before we go forward.  For this week, she did TT (Teaching Textbooks 5) and I had Dh sit with her 3-5 times and do 2-4 fraction questions with her just as a refresher/review.
TT 5: Lessons 21-26
Quiz (? forgot what number quiz it was!)
TimesAttack-computer game--she hadn't played this in a long time and was so happy with how much better she could play it now!

Language Arts:

Rosetta Stone: two lessons

First Language Lessons:
Lesson 42, 43
She memorized the first paragraph from The Hobbit instead of their poem suggestion.

WWE 2:
we finished the book!  So glad we went back to finish the weeks we were going to skip!  We just had week 36 to do this week, and we did!  Now we can go back to WWE 3


AAS: 
Step 10 completed and passed
  Audio:
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleishman--Disc 2
Last week we finished The Fellowship of the Rings, and so we had to order The Two Towers for next.

Art:

Big, Big Piano week!!!  Yay!

Art--clay this week; just fun stuff.