June 3-7th, 2013 SL- Core E- Week 28
**Pictures at bottom of post**
No Activities this week, or visits--just a quite week at home. We took advantage of this by doing some deep cleaning and going through our spare bedroom some too. Thursday we spent the entire day cleaning and didn't do any lessons at all. Besides focusing on cleaning, we also spent a LOT of time each evening on our garden. It is nice to just get out of our house and be outside for hours and hours. We "camped out" this weekend in our backyard! It is kind of funny that our backyard it quieter than most of the campgrounds we go to!!! Usually when we go to a campground there are all these other people and their music and noise (plus they stay awake MUCH later than we do!!!!). We had a great time in our backyard. We had a lovely grill-out and great game of Skip-Bo. This was a different week than usual for us -- it was more of a summer break with a little time spent on our lessons; but mostly getting our house, and our garden in order---then just having fun.
Here is what we did get done, when we did do our lessons (M, T, W, 1/2 F)
Bible:
Romans - Chapters 10-16 (end of Romans)
Math:
MUS: Epsilon: 23 A, B, C
Skip-Counting Family--7's -3x (M,T, &W)
History:
The World Wars pg's 162-181
Wee Sing America Songs
Family Read Aloud:
It Made You Think of Home... --in process
It Made You Think of Home... --in process
It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane
Poetry:
Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Read Aloud:
Half Magic by Edward Eagar
Half Magic by Edward Eager and N. M. Bodecker--just started-Chapter 1
Playaway-AUDIO-
Hotel For Dogs - Audio by Lois Duncan (Dec 1, 2008) - Audiobook--Dd has checked out this audio book a few times from our library (BPL) b/c she likes it so well, so it may seem familiar.
Dd's Reader: Finished!
Dear America: My Name is America: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A WWII Soldier: Normandy France, 1944
The Journal of Scott Pendalton Collins: A World War 2 Soldier by Walter Dean Myers
Geography:
States & Capitals Songs--Capitals on the Southern Border-track 1 (M,T, &W)
Computer-Code:
Code.org (1x this week)
Language Arts:
AAS 4: Step 27 passed. We spent M,T, W, & F on reviewing the material from the whole book, we've been reviewing previous chapters all along; but a lot more lately. Friday we took a big final test and she completed AAS 4!!!! Yay!
Following Narnia: IEW: We worked on her paragraph and she typed up her paragraph. We will look at it again to make sure the final draft has all the dress-up's and it is completely finished next week--(Lesson 1)
Grammar Ace: Lesson 9:completed
VHS: Best of Schoolhouse Rock
Roots of English: M: pg's: 1-11, T, pg's: 12-14
Roots of English by Paul O'Brien
FLL:4: Lesson 68
Science:
Apologia: Zoology: 1:Nesting continued
Pages 83-88
Artist of the Week:
Matisse
Getting to Know...Matisse
Henri Matisse (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia
A Weekend with Matisse-Rodari
Weekend with Matisse by Rizzoli
Famous Artists-Matisse-by Antony Mason
Matisse (Famous Artists) by Antony Mason
Composer of the Week:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison
Meet the Great Composers
Fun books Dd read this week:
Star Wars Clone Wars-Curse of the Black Hole Pirates-(finished)
The Curse of the Black Hole Pirates #2 (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) by Ryder Windham
A Chet Gecko Mystery-The Malted Falcon-(finished)
The Malted Falcon: A Chet Gecko Mystery by Bruce Hale
Activities:
cooking--well, on Thursday while I was cleaning up a storm, Dd cooked up a storm!! She made a super lunch: Grilled Fish, 2 types of brown rice, and macaroni and cheese. Friday she baked Blueberry muffins from scratch---super good!! And baked potatoes. Saturday, she and Pappa grilled all sorts of veggies, deer steak, and chicken. She did a great job cooking this week.
Monday Dd had a really FUN activity---she worked with Pappa in the kitchen turning good steak into superb hamburger with the help of our Kitchen Aid. She worked hard, and it looked like she had fun doing it. Wow! those hamburgers were terrific, they put them through the processor twice this time and it was so delicious!
Monday she totally cleaned her room--top to bottom! She has never (ever) done such an excellent job!!!
Piano---lots this week! I am always so appreciative to hear the piano going!
Gardening--she has been helping us plant and water in the garden.
Biking--she, Sophie (our dog), and I have been on 2 walks this week. We have 2 big ponds with walking trails around them that we can do--and we did them this week. I dug up 5 Milkweed's and transplanted them in our yard; but it doesn't look like Milkweed like to be moved....we are still hoping.
Some pictures from our weekend:
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| One happy camper! |
This strawberry was almost as big as a tennis ball!!!! It was so huge!
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