June 10-15th, 2013 SL- Core E- Week 29
**in process--will add pictures when I can find where I put my camera!
Inventions kit--built the "telegraph kit"--and it really worked!
Inventions kit--built the "telegraph kit"--and it really worked!
This was a particularly LIGHT week. I had a rough go physically and mentally. I guess I was due a week of just feeling under the weather. I think there are times in life when the cards just fall a little heavier than other times and this was a particularly difficult time for me. My hands and feet were feeling very off...some cysts seemed to burst or something painful....female troubles, or as my father would say "plumbing troubles"... with all of it, I felt very low with it all and just took things slow and steady--very much one day at a time.
I hesitated to say anything personal about me having a rough time this week--but then I thought I rarely mention that I do have hard times in my blog and should make it clear that everything is not easy-peasy in our house. We do have rough patches, and health issues, and bad attitudes just like everyone else. I especially seem to have all those issues!
Monday was physically my hardest day, so we stayed home and did our lessons.
Tuesday we picked up one of Dd's friend after our lessons, and went to the library to sign up for the Summer Reading Program. After the library, we went to Arbuckle Park and walked the trail all together.
Wednesday we did lessons after Dd and I walked our 2 ponds and the little cemetery.
Thursday we had the L family over for a little Tea Party!!! Then we took one of Dd's friends with us to volunteer at our church's food pantry "The Giving Tree".
Friday we did our lessons, went to the library, had Dd's friend over to make Father's Day cards with, and went for a walk/bike ride around the 2 ponds together.
It is gardening time--so a little bit here and there each day, we work on the garden. We still don't have everything in; but each week we are getting closer. We are eating lots of strawberries.
It is gardening time--so a little bit here and there each day, we work on the garden. We still don't have everything in; but each week we are getting closer. We are eating lots of strawberries.
Our lessons:
Bible:
Genesis Ch. 37, 42, 43, 45,
2 Kings Ch. 5
Judges 1
Starting Strong by Paula Rinehart
Starting Strong: Never To Small For God--Ch. 3
Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained (VALUE BOOKS) by Paul Kent
Know Your Bible by Barbour Publishing
Artist of the Week:
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia
Getting to Know the Great Artist of the World --by Venezia
Composer of the Week:
Ludwig van Beethovan
Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison
Meet the Great Composers
History:
The World Wars: An Introduction to the First & Second World Wars by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst and Henry Brook
The World Wars--pp. 182-205
Read Aloud:
Half Magic by Edward Eager and N. M. Bodecker
Half-Magic
Oxford illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Family Read Aloud:
It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane
It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Tale of Deward Barnes, CEF, 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane
Reader:
Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright and Joe & Beth Krush
Return to Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Math:
Math U See: Epsilon: 23 C, D, E, F
Skip-Counting: 6 Family 12x this week
Geography:
States and Capitals Songs by Kathy Troxel
States & Captitals Songs: #7, Capitals of the Middle: 8 x this week
Science:
Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day -- Young Explorers Series (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright
Apologia:Zoology 1:Flying Creatures of the Earth: pg. 89-101
Zoology 1 Notebooking Journal: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) (Young Explorer (Apologia... by Jeannie K. Fulbright
Zoology Notebook--Dd made an "Egg Book"
Language Arts:
AAS 5
All About Spelling: Level 5, Teacher's Manual and Student Packet by Marie Rippel
Step 1: Review-passed
Step 2: worked on 3 days
Fix-It: IEW:
Week 18 & Week 19 completed
ScienceWiz / Inventions Kit by Norman & Globus
Inventions: Science Kit: Telegraph Kit: completed & successful!
Foreign Language:
Rosetta Stone: 1x this week
Piano: 5x this week--played with her friend when she came over too!
Playaway/ Audio:
Hotel For Dogs - Audio by Lois Duncan
Hotel For Dogs--finished!
Sewing: Dd sewed a purple, little purse-with a little button closure. Nice purse, with really tight stitching--nicely done, probably her best sewing stitches yet.
Drawing--Last Sunday she drew a great comic strip type of set of action drawings of Star Wars - "The Life of a Jedi". I liked them very much; but they were drawn on a church bulletin; so she decided to draw them again on good paper. Then she used fine drawing color pens..very nice.
Happy Father's Day Cards:
(The flower card is from me to my Dh)
Watercolor Pencil Drawings--2--bird drawings for Father's Day---Shhh!
Fun book:
The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7) by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid- The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney--completed.
Daily: BrainPop, and BrainPop, Jr.
Cooking/Baking:
Baked Cookies for Pappa--"Ranger Cookies"
Made pancakes for Father's Day--completely alone, well done!
Gardening:
Helped mow and plant and water, well done!
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