Mar. 4-8th 2013 Core E Week 19
Maple Syrup Days at McCloud Park
Maple Syrup Days at McCloud Park
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Our lessons this week are still on the light side, as I am still fighting the flu (as is Dh). It has been an exceptionally cold March with snow still being very interactive in our weather pattern; which is unusual.
We also had two big activities on Thursday and Friday that interferred with our lessons. Thursday was class 4/6 of our co-op. Dd has: Gym, Health, and French. I teach a Nature in Art class--which is a drawing class-pencils. Friday we drove to McCloud Park for a Maple Syrup demonstration. It turned into an ordeel (I get lost!): I should mention at the beginning I had planned to be there, at the park 36 minutes EARLY so we could look/play at the Nature Center there (which is very cool). We were the LAST family to arrive--everyone in the trip was literally standing around waiting on us....no pressure. I would think that maybe getting so lost wouldn't be a huge deal to everybody; but it is one of my weak spots as I have absolutely no sense of direction.
We drove to pick a friend for Dd, 20-25 minutes to her house. Then headed to the park. We had a field trip to see how we get maple syrup. We have been on this exact field trip before and it is a lot of fun and educational. So, we head out after picking up friend, G, to the park--a 31 minute drive. After 31 minutes my Garmin says "You've Arrived!"We literally are in the middle of nothing. I know we are really close!! But, I don't have the faintest clue which way to go!!! So we drive around for 46 minutes lost, stopping people who drive past us going the other way, I pull into a fire station-it looked empty.- asked a man on a street--and we plug in our second, "back-up" Garmin.
While driving around on these back country roads, one road was pure snow and sluice and I ran over a huge squirrel (which for me is HUGE, as I am a huge animal person), but the girls didn't even notice, so I just kept driving and didn't let them know. Part of the roads were all mud and gravel and infested with potholes so we were jumping around like popcorn. Finally after the 46 minutes of being lost we saw the sign and arrived.
G said her mom was going to be so mad at me--and that upset me, so I kept missing my turns and would have to turn around. (The mom wasn't mad, btw!) It was just a big mess. So, after the field trip and when we got home-- I hate to admit it; but I went to bed!!! I just hit overload!
Bible:
We spent the week on Proverbs! Proverbs 1-11 and we read the book of Ruth- which is only 4 chapters long. It is really different reading Proverbs to Dd as she is older now and can really learn the lessons of Solomon. It has been a long time for me too. I have been very glad to get back to this book in the bible! It has so many applications to daily life.
Sing the Word: The Heaven's Declare(CD): Lamentations 3:22-23
Science:
Apologia Zoology 1: Flying Creatures: Pg 12-30
Built a Nature Journal
Snap Circuits--did/built various things,like the Happy Birthday song... this is an electricity kit.
Math: Math U See: Epsilon: 12 A,B,C,D,E,F
12 family 4x and we did some halves--what is half of 30, 40, 80, 50.....
Language Arts:
AAS 4: Step 11 completed and a big review from steps 1-5
FLL 4: lessons 44,45,46
Fix-It: Wk 4, 5
WWE 3: Week 3: Day 1,2,3,4
Reader:
George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist (Sower Series) by David Collins, Robert F. Burkett and Joe Van Severen
Fun Reader:
*this image is for the sequel, Amazon didn't have our book-but our book looks just like this, Artemesia leaning on the rail of a ship.
Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas by Tanith Lee (Jul 6, 2006)
Read Alouds:
