May 6-10, 2013 SL Core E, Week 25

May 6-10, 2013 SL Core E, Week 25

We are finally getting to our electives!! Yay  Our week's activities were slower paced and slow enough to even begin to mention the library again--we go every week; but I noticed I haven't been mentioning it on the blog.  I guess I can only mention so many things and have to pick and choose what to bring up!  But, we ALWAYS go to the library--once or twice a week...even though they were 'disappointing' to me a few weeks back.

This week we started back working at our church's food pantry, called The Giving Tree on Thursday evening.  We will be back on the schedule monthly until the winter weather returns.  Dd and I could volunteer there year round; but it is a long drive to our church and I just don't want to do that in the evenings, alone, in cold, potentially icy weather.

This was Dd's last week/last class of her Swim & Gym/ Junior Lifeguard Training...at least for until it starts back up in the fall.  


Our lessons:

Bible:
Jonah 1-4
Ezekiel 21, 22, 33, 37, 40, 43, 47, 48

History:
The Story of the USA, Book 3
Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2
Wee Sing America--we listened to various songs
Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
World Wars book 132-140

The World Wars: An Introduction to the First & Second World Wars by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst and Henry Brook

 

All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque

 

Dd's Reader:
Hero Over There- done

Hero Over Here: A Story of World War I by Kathleen V. Kudlinski and Bert Dodson

Gone Away Lake- in process

Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake Books) by Elizabeth Enright and Joe & Beth Krush

Math:
MUS: Epsilon: 19F, 20 A, B,C,D,E,F
Skip-Counting Family-6- 3x per day, 5 days
Flashmaster on Mon

Geography:
States and Capitals Songs--Northern Border
2x each day, 5 days with map

Art:
How Great Thou Art: Lesson 16: angular drawings of pears and apples, plus a great drawing of a deer.
        
Meet the Great Composers:
Composer of the week: Domenico Scarlatti
This curriculum gives a written biography of the composer and then we listen to a CD of their music.

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison

Getting to Know Great Artist..series: Alexander Calder by Mike Venezia
Dd really seemed to like hearing about Calder--and I have always liked Calder myself.

Alexander Calder (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia 

 

 

Science:
Apologia:Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Earth: 
pg 63-72 (still learning about birds)
Notebook (part of Zoology 1) pg 71-72

VHS: Weather: DK video on weather

Language Arts:
First Language Lessons 4: Lesson 64, 65
IEW's Fix-It: Week 13 & Week 14
All About Spelling 4: Step 20 (passed) Step 21 (passed) Step 22
Writing With Ease 3: Day 1,2,3,4

Character & Audio:
Lamplighter Audio: 
 Sir Knight of the Splendid Way-done
Lamplighter Audio:
 Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince-done
Lamplighter Audio:
 The Robber's Cave-in process

A Value Tales Treasury by Spencer Johnson -on Harriet Tubman