July 29th to Aug. 3nd, 2013
Core E
Week 32 "A/LOW"
Core E
Week 32 "A/LOW"
We were due one good week of lessons--and we finally got it! We had our field trip on Monday to the Indiana State Museum (pictures of our day following this post) to see the SPECTACULAR exhibits! The exhibits we went to see were the Star Wars exhibit, Millinium Falcon, and the 5 Generations of Lincolns. We had a really great 5 1/2 hours at the museum! We could have stayed there a lot longer. It was really fun.
Tuesday through Friday we did our lessons and had a pretty normal week--library/garden/piano/BrainPop/BrainPop, Jr./BrainPop,UK/fun books/etc. etc. We did have our second week doing something new---Carole-a new friend on the SL forums, that is from New Zealand had told me about a website that shows video's for the Periodic Table. We have stopped by there for 3 weeks now; but this week we really got into a daily habit of watching some of the video's. It is from the University of Nottingham in England. That was new and fun for us; and it looks like it is officially becoming a habit!
The other "extra" thing from this week (Sat.night) was that Dd and Dh were invited to a Indianapolis Indians vs the Louisville Bats baseball game in downtown Indy. This was a very last minute thing...they had a super great time and brought me home some cotton candy. I'll download some pictures later.
Our lessons:
Bible:
Judges 5, Galations 1,2,3,4
I really enjoyed Galations this week. It really spoke loudly to me. I encourage you all to read the first 4 chapters of Galations and see how simply Paul speaks to us.
History:
Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2. -----Ch. 30
The Story of the USA, Book 4-----Ch. 1
Oxford Illustrated Book of American Childrens Poems
Artist of the Week:
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia
Getting to Know the Greatest Artist by Mike Veneza
Kahlo
by Andrea Kettenmann
Paint and Painting
Paint and Painting: The Colors, the Techniques, the Surfaces : A History of Artists' Tools (Scholastic Voyages... by Scholastic Books and Gallimard Jeunesse
Scholastic Voyage of Discovery-Visual Arts- Sept. 1994
Composer of the Week:
--we had THREE! I was one behind, missed him last week; but then Dd kept asking about who was the composer of Water Music, so we brought in Handel as our composer for Friday.
Composer for Mon & Tues: Franz Liszt
Meet the Great Composers
Composer for Wed & Thur: Johannes Brahms
Meet the Great Composers and "Baby's First Brahms" CD.
Friday- Handel- Handel's Water Music CD
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: completed Bats section pg 116-118
Notebook Pages-on difference between Micro & Mega bats
Website: University of Nottingham-The Periodic Table of Video's:http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Y: Yttruim
B: Boron
Li:Lithium
Mg: Magnesium
Be: Berylliam
K:Potassium
Ca: Calcium
and perhaps a few others that I didn't write down, we enjoyed these video's a lot.
Language Arts:
All About Spelling 5: Step 4--all week, plus reviews of previous steps, passed Step 4
First Language Lessons 4: Lesson 69 & Lesson 70
The Grammar Ace: Lesson 12 & 13
Grammar Rock-VHS
Math:
Skip-Counting Family: 4 family all week
Delta Test 28--Roman Numerals
Nightly Family Reader:
It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane
It Made You Think of Home; Deward Barnes Canadian Expedition Force 1916-1919 by Bruce Cane
Day Read Aloud:
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson---in process
The Seventeenth Swap---COMPLETED
Plain Girl---in process
Activities: Sewing--on sewing machine - she is working on a quilt made out of her old t-shirts. She also made a neat piece out of felt--it is a circle with an inset capital "I" with a different color; perhaps a coaster to place your cup on? Or just a thing...she did a nice job. She saw the plan in a book and went for it.
Dvd--this week we checked out a movie from our library:
