March 18-22nd 2013 SL Core E, week 20 -LOW-

March 18-22nd 2013 

SL Core E, 

Week 20 -LOW-

Here is my classroom for Nature In Art

Dd got glasses!

 We had a very busy week scheduled this week---we had our LAST LHE Co-op classes (on Thursday) and Swim & Gym (on Tuesday).  Plus, we went by the A.'s house to pick up Dd's basketball award which was a new basketball!!  Dd was so super excited to get a new basketball!!  We have a old basketball that we got at a yard sale and she has been wanting a new one for years!!!  The Lord new exactly what she wanted!

Besides the activities that we had planned for this week, we also had some major meltdowns this week.  I don't know the details of how or why; but Dd really had a HARD time dealing with her hormones.  It is hard to see a kid who never cries, to be crying over the littlest things.  On Wednesday I offered her a nap and to my surprise not only did she accept the offer, but she proceeded to sleep for over 2 hours!  So, our lessons mainly took place on Monday and Friday since we had activities on Tuesday and Thursday.  Wednesday I spent most of the day prepping for my last class for Nature in Art; which was on Animals in Nature. 

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

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

Pages: 132-163

 
Language Arts:

Rosetta Stone: 60 minutes

First Language Lessons: 4:

Lesson 52, 53

WWE 3: Week 5 day 1 & 2

Fix-It: Week 7

AAS: 4: Step 13 completed and passed

Step 14 started

  Audio's:

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleishman--we finished on Monday.  Such a really great audio!! I highly recommend it to all ages; all families.  We really enjoyed that one.  Now we have moved onto a new audio-  On Friday we started our new audio:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Unabridged edition by Taylor, Mildred D. published by Listening Library (Audio) Audio...

Math: 
 Math U See:

15 A,B,C,D,E,F

7 Family this week: 7,14,21,28,35,42,49,56,63,70,77,84
for fun on Friday, Dd wrote her 7 family in Roman Numerals!

Science: 
Apologia Zoology 1: Dd made a suet feeder and bird drawings (below)

 Add-in Reader Aloud:

Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier by James M. McPherson 

pages: 32-73

Add-in Readers:

The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Barbara Greenwood and Heather Collins

Dd finished this book. 

 

  Online:

 HISTORY: "Have Fun With History.com" we watched two history video's online: 1) Clara Barton (14 min.) 2) The Monitor and the Merrimac (2 min.)

BrainPop, and BrainPop, Jr. 

 

ART: Dd did some wonderful new bird drawings that I already posted on the previous post.

 PIANO: Dd got back to her piano this week.  It was especially  nice since she hadn't played for over a week.

SEWING: Made 3 scarves and 2 pillows (and broke the sewing machine!)

 

 

 

 

IEW:

Paragraph on Ants from Lesson 13

 

                                Ant Colonies

Ants who live together in groups called colonies work with each other.  There are about 2,000 to 10,000 ants in a colony.  No ant lives alone, because God created them to live communally.  Some ants can do more than one job, but some can do only one.  If you see a solitary ant you should know it works and dwells in a colony.  

Test Prep, Grade 5 (Spectrum) by Dale Foreman, Alan Cohen, Jerome Kaplan and Ruth Mitchell

 (we did a few pages on Monday)

Gym/Exercising:

I'm trying to make exercising more of a "subject" for us to make happen now that Upwards Basketball is over.

Wed. Dd did a Leslie Sansone dvd workout with me--1 mile--if I had to give a grade for her effort; I'm afraid she would have gotten a D-.  She was that pitiful! But, she was standing, and her feet were moving...barely!

Thursday & Friday Dd played basketball in the driveway for about an hour each time.  So, she did get a good workout those days!

Fun Stuff--not "lesson's" related: 

Dd's fun book this week:

Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster (Disney Fairies) (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) by Laura Driscoll 

 

Dd's fun audio this week:

Disney Fairies Collection #3: Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon, Fira and the Full Moon by Lisa Papademetriou, Gail Herman, Debra Wiseman and Quincy Tyler

 

movie of the week: (for the 4th time)

 

Pride & Prejudice Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Talulah Riley, et al.