Oct. 21-25, 2013
LOW (Left Over's Week)
Core F 4A
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| Some of our green peppers we picked this week from our garden. |
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| Some of our canning this year from our garden. |
Monday
Today was a tough day to start; as usually I get all my cleaning done on my 'cleaning Saturday', but not so much this weekend. Not only that, but my Dh was also sick---so our mess was compounded and cleaning up decreased...I woke up with a drudge! I went in with Dd to start our bible lesson and saw that I had actually put in my SL "Additional Schedule Page" that I use whenever I have a LOW (left-Over Week) and sighed relief! I had actually pushed next week off when I planned my schedule weeks ago!!! Just in the nick of time. I was really going to just keep pushing forward truth be told, and tow the line, so to speak---but, when I saw that blank form, instead of an official "to-do" list--- I knew I was fine to take a real break!!! Phew!!
So, we did a really good bible study and then had Dd do her Reader---Anne of Green Gables (she is over a week ahead of her scheduled Readers) and then we had lunch. I had a nice extra healthy lunch; and she had a lunch more on the unhealthy side.
After lunch we totally cleaned the kitchen--counters, refrig..then we worked outside for hours. I had two major chores that HAD to be done: 1) dog poop removed so I could mow this week. 2) crickets found--which isn't so easy in this cold weather. I gave Dd the choice of which she would rather do--and she chose the dog poop??? How odd is that?! I ended up doing all sorts of chores and one thing turned into another. Our neighbor had given us 2 big bags of his cut grass that needed to be dumped in our big compost pile. I had compost to take out too. Then we walked out in the acres of fields behind our home looking for crickets, and got 2 smaller ones. I tried to pry some memories out of Dd of what she could remember of her childhood. But, she really didn't have much. Dh said I should try to write some of our days down--here and there on the blog--for our memories. I cleaned up the garden and took the old tomato plants out to the field. I picked more green peppers for us to eat. Meanwhile, Dd took out her machette and hacked up things! It was great to be outside for 3 hours just doing 'stuff' in the garden, yard, or field. We did that some last week too--- for a minute I thought "we should be doing our lessons"; but then I thought to myself that winter is going to be here before we know it and now is the last time to be outside and enjoy what we can of what sun and warmth there is, while there is....and the guilt disappeared! I read a brief thing in the news a few weeks ago that the average kid spends FOUR MINUTES a day outside!!!! I just am not going to participate in that! That is crazy. So, today we did bible, readers, cleaning, and were outside---nature study or whatever you want to call it.
Dd used the old apple gizmo to peel a bunch of apples and then made a baked apple dessert in the oven. To her surprise the oven started smoking! Something had spilled in the oven the last time it had been used and not cleaned up; so we had to put in some baking soda and clean it up...then I turned up the oven and heat cleaned it for about 30-40 minutes--then I let her bake her dessert. She seemed to like it very much.
Oh! I forgot to mention---we found 4 or 5 Black Swallowtail caterpillars on our Fennel!!!! So we brought them in and put them in our bug aquarium!!! Joy! oh Joy! I have lots of fennel plants outside and hope they will survive our first frost tonight; so I will be able to feed those caterpillars!!! Which is especially nice b/c our largest praying mantis (Cleopatra II) died over the weekend. She had an abdomen injury, and stopped eating....and it just makes me so sad. I haven't typed those words out yet. I hate to admit it. Even when she was laying stiff and not moving, I kept saying that "she wasn't doing well...." when in fact I knew it to be more severe than that; but didn't want to face the truth myself.
Wednesday went on a field trip to Lone Pine Farm in Lagoda, Indiana. I will just make a separate post about that since it was such an interesting place to visit.
For Bible this week, we started VP Bible card #14: Jacob & Esau : Genesis 25 & 27
(I went to Grampy's Sunday School on Sunday--and guess what he was covering!!! This section in Genesis!! Isn't that great! It is really interesting spending weeks really digging into studying Genesis; and getting Grampy's/Kenny's insight into this book too.)
(I went to Grampy's Sunday School on Sunday--and guess what he was covering!!! This section in Genesis!! Isn't that great! It is really interesting spending weeks really digging into studying Genesis; and getting Grampy's/Kenny's insight into this book too.)
Math:
Math U See: Zeta: Lesson 5: A, B, C
History Add-In:
The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History by John S. Major and Stephen Fieser
The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History by John S. Major
(I had read this to her a few years ago; and then Chelle mentioned it and reminded me that this would be a good book to fit into our China section of Core F! Thanks, Chelle!)
Artist of the Week:
Mary Cassatt
History of Art for Young People (5th Edition) by Anthony F. Janson
American Painting by Francesca Castria Marchetti
Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull
I read sections on Mary Cassatt from History of Art for Young People by H.W. Janson (pg. 521-522); American Painting by Francesca Castria Marchetti (pg 118-123), Lives of the Artists by Kathleen Krull (pg 36-38) plus we found numerous online resources to look at together too.
Audio:
2: Great Bear Lake: In Process
Reader's:
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
1: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery- her official reader (She regrets picking AOGG's as her "Reader" because I have read her this book at least once before -who knows maybe twice before; and she remembers it so well that knows what is going to happen and therefore is kind of bored by this book. I tried to suggest she read something NEW; but she wanted to read Anne "by herself"...That is why she keeps putting in the Mandie books in the middle of reading Anne. She has also been reading Thea Stilton books....but, I'm not so excited about those!
and movie:
Anne Of Green Gables - The Continuing Story (Sep 7, 2004) Starring Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, Schuyler Grant, et al.
Reader's continue:
Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Mandie, Book 1) by Lois Gladys Leppard
2: Mandy and the Secret Tunnel by Lois Gladys Leppard---finished
3: Mandie and her Missing Kin by Lois Gladys Leppard---finished
Art:
Felt mushrooms--one red with white dots (for herself); and one white with red dots (for friend)
Felt heart and pin
Language Arts:
Dd wrote two letters
Over the weekend - 10-26th and 10-27th, we were at the farm and Dd got to do her archery and be outside and in the woods all day; both days. She had a great time!!!! She just "played around" in the woods. Plus, she got to see "Giz" and Grampy for a two meals.
