July 1-5th, 2013, Core E, Week 30 "LOW" "A" Left-Over Week

July 1-5th, 2013, 
Core E, 
Week 30 "LOW""A" left-over week 

Happy Fourth of July

This was another 'odd' week---I guess that is normal b/c it was a holiday week--the Fourth of July, after all!  Dh took off Wed, Thur, and Fri and we got a LOT of things done around the homestead.  The biggest item was we had 4 cubic yards of mulch delivered--which is one really big truck load full!!!  That was delivered at noon on Wed and we had it all put out by 4:30 on Thurs--so we really hustled and worked fast to get it all put up/out.  

We worked in our garden some, weeded some, and was excited to see some green peppers coming along.  While at Lowe's we found a few flowers on clearance to add to our home---Dd bought herself a Hibiscus plant, even though it is only an annual.

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

Matthew 19: 13-26

Mark 10:13-27

Eph. 5:19

Col. 3:16

Matt. 23

1 Corin. 13: 1-2

Apologia: Who Is My Neighbor? pg's: 173-179

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

Math:

We took this week to use the MUS online "Worksheet Generator" for practicing how to add and subtract mixed numbers...we are trying to make sure those exercises are FIRM before we move forward.

Skip-Counting: 3 Family this week

Composer of the Week:

Robert Schumann

Meet the Great Composers

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

 

 

 

Artist of the Week:

Picasso

Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists--by Mike Venezia

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

Name That Style:all about Isms in Art by Bob Raczka

Name That Style: All About Isms in Art (Bob Raczka's Art Adventures) by Bob Raczka

 

 

Nightly Family Read Aloud:

The Freedom Tree by Rebecca Caudill

Tree of Freedom - Newbery Honor Books by Rebecca Caudill and Dorothy Bayley Morse

 

 

Dd's Playaway:

The Penderwicks

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall and Susan Denaker (Apr 22, 2008) - Unabridged

Family Audio:

Do Hard Things

 disc 2 & 3 completed

Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex Harris, Brett Harris and Chuck Norris

Dd's Reader:

Bruchko by Bruce Olson

Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures... by Bruce Olson

Daily Read Aloud:

Miracles On Maple Hill

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen, Joe Krush and Beth Krush

Language Arts:

Grammar Ace: Lesson 10

 

Science:

Apologia: Zoology 1:Flying Creatures: pg's 108-111

Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day -- Young Explorers Series (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright

DVD:

History Channel's The Bible: episode 1& 2--we saw two episodes and weren't really pleased with what they left out and what they didn't get right.  We had borrowed it from our library; and it was due back, so we didn't really get a chance to see much of it---and aren't really sure what we thought of it.  We requested it again, to see the sections they did about Jesus--we are curious how they represent Him...

The Bible TV Series 30-Day Experience Guidebook: Based on the Epic TV Miniseries "The Bible" by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey

Cooking/Baking:

Dd made this week--all from scratch--cheese (with Pappa-limes and whole milk), a loaf of bread, brownies & melted chocolate icing, ranger cookies, ranger cookies with peanut butter, Cous-cous with peas, baked potatoes---

 Art-

Fossil kit---painting fossils-see pictures below of the kit and plaster fossils she made.

Fun books:

The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti, Jose Villarrubia and Attila Futaki

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief-graphic novel

The Action Bible

The Action Bible by Doug Mauss and Sergio Cariello

 

 

Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader by Ryder Windham

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson

The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion (The Lord of the Rings) by Jude Fisher and J.R.R. Tolkien

Another Black Swallowtail Hatched this Week!!  It was a GIRL!

Found on our curtains--you wouldn't believe where we found chrysalis's! They hid behind all sorts of places; but in our curtains was a particular favorite spot.  I didn't wash our curtains this spring--that would have been just plain mean.  We still have quite a good amount of chrysalis's that haven't hatched yet, and I have every reason to think that they will hatch.

Time for the release!

Making Fossils!

Skullduggery Eyewitness Kit Fossilworks Casting Kit by Skullduggery

She has already painted them and made 3 more sets...but I need to take more pictures.  I'm wanting to paint 1 of the sets myself, it looks like so much fun!

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Garden Highlights July 7, 2013

Garden Highlights July 7, 2013

This is a Spinx Moth--you know that crazy (ugly) green caterpillars that eat your tomato plants--the ones with the hook on their ends?  Well, this beautiful moth is what they grow into!!!!  For 2 years I thought we had some kind of hummingbird at our Butterfly Bush---until I found out that the Bumblebee hummingbird doesn't come to America!  It was kind of hard to get a good picture of it with my camera--but you can kind of see it, here on my butterfly bush.

Isn't this just a cute little flower?  It is like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree!  It is it's second year with us--a Foxglove, I believe...but I need to fertilize it--or something...it just hasn't been happy since I planted it.  I was actually surprised it came back this year.  I bought two last year and it's sister died pretty quickly, but this one tried hard to stay with us.  I'm not sure what is wrong with it---she is awfully pretty and delicate.

Do you all like building up rocks?  I do!  It is just fun to do!

Part of our mulching job from this week---we put down 4 cubic yards of mulch in less than 2 days--on our backyard gardens, the sides of our house gardens, and our front yard gardens---it was a LOT of work!!! 

Dh put up a new contraption--it is going to get winter squash (acorn squash & spaghetti) and they can grow up and over the contraption, and then he will plant lettuce underneath--and the squash will be shading the lettuce from getting burnt by the sun.

I just love looking at sunflowers right before they open!  All the images preceding the opening and then the first days after they open, when they are sappy and beautiful. I guess it is hard to find an unattractive sunflower. 

Green peppers and sunflowers the birds planted!

You can see: onions, leeks, swiss chard, peppers, peppers, peppers, strawberries, "my" leeks, compost bin, tomatoes and then the neighbors yard.

A picture from the other side of the garden.  I love how the birds plant sunflowers in our garden!  It has taken over our Pea Garden! 

You know--we aren't "suppose" to let the leeks bloom like this, we are "suppose" to cut off the tops so the growth of the plant can focus under the soil---but my husband was kind enough to let me have these leeks for my own objects of beauty--the other leeks in the other areas of the garden, are for eating and won't be going to seed, like these were allowed to do.

Remember the 5 tomato plants that the rabbits ate--and were so small?  Now they are 3 feet tall!

 We planted new things here and they are all doing well---except the fennel--which didn't come up hardly at all--maybe 4 sprigs! So we need to replant that again.

 Can you see the big green pepper growing on this pepper in the center?

 Here is a close-up of the "training" of the tomato up the twine.

I just thought the asparagus with cone flower and lambs ear mix was pretty here---the black eyed susan's are about to open up to the left of the picture frame.

The Mocking Birds are already hitting the blackberry bushes! as in---eating our berries!  We put up a net; but I am not sure how much that will do to slow down the birds!  We will just have to keep planting more plants and buying black sunflower seeds to keep them happy so we can get a few for ourselves!

Can you see the bumble bee?  I took a lot of photo's of this bee on this sunflower---he could care less that I was there!

There was a much smaller bee on this daisy--maybe a "honey bee"  It was also not interested in me!

I tried to get a close up of the pistons on the Hibiscus bloom; but my camera isn't great, and I can't make it focus on what I want it to focus on!!!  Such a misery to me---but you can kind of see the pistons on the lower center of the frame....

This shot has my grape vine and our blueberry bush in it.  Our other blueberry bushes are beginning to do better.  I finally --oops, my HUSBAND finally looked up what vitamins they needed and we bought a specific fertilizer for them---I am hoping they will all get darker green soon and take off!

This beautiful little flower is a funny little flower---I bought this plant years back; after falling for it's lovely, light pink little blooms.  Then, it spread like wild fire all throughout my gardens!!!  It is a beast! it has taken over every plant!  So funny---it appears so delicate; and yet is a monster!

The two liliac bushes I planted in the back yard are doing well!  I hope they will adjust to their new home.  This has been a perfect spring and summer (SO FAR) for new plants---low heat and fairly good rain.

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