Core F Week 12 Jan 6-10, 2014

Core F 
Week 12 
Jan 6-10, 2014

*I'm adding new pictures to the next post, so look below this post to see the new pictures.


We had our 2nd ball game on Saturday; here are a few pictures from the game.
 

Her basketball team is through a Christian organization--"Upwards" they do soccer, football, and cheerleading too.  The games are all at churches.  They incorporate bible study, prayer, and playing in a Christian manner as part of the program.

We had our 2nd ball game on Saturday; here are a few pictures from the game.

Another weird week!  It seems like the past 9 months have been one 'off' week after another 'off' week.  This week we had a taste of what it must be like to live in Canada or some place a lot more northern than Indiana.  We had 2 1/2  days that were BELOW zero!  and the windchill was something like -35 to -45 degrees.  The news said we only got 11 inches; but it sure did seem more than that.  The governor and mayor declared one highway closed, and told everyone to stay home unless it was an emergency.  They opened shelters for people who lost their electricity; which was something like 30,000 Hoosiers.  But, how in the world did people GET to these shelters?  The roads were covered with snow; and we didn't get any snow plowers for days to enter our neighborhood.  Dh got to stay home Monday and Tuesday with us!  It is too bad it was so cold - because it really was beautiful to see all that snow!  

Dh "HAD" to stay home Mon. and Tues. due to the weather, so we didn't do our normal lessons on those days--just bible, math, and some reading.  Our LA, Science, and the like only got done Wed., Thurs., and Fri.  It was great having Dh home extra!!!  It sure is nice having him around more!

Besides this awesome weather; which canceled Dd's basketball practice, we did get our lessons done.  Here is what we worked on this week.

Jan 4th Dd had her first basketball game and she played really well, even though she was a bit nervous.  Half the team has played with each each other last year, and 3 players have played together for the past 3 years straight (Dd is one of those) - so they know each other very well and actually have TEAMWORK, which is rare for this age bracket and for the beginning of the season.  It usually takes a few games for teamwork to take shape; but these kids already have it; which is a bit of an advantage.  They won, and Dd scored 6 points and took more shots than that.  She wasn't afraid to try for shots, and some sank!  Go Seminoles!

Bible: EXODUS

Bible: Veritas Bible: Genesis Through Joshua

Veritas Press Card 20: Completed

"The Exodus"  Exodus 13-15

Journey Through The Bible pg.64-65

The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testement 44,45,48

VP worksheets

(We had just one thing left to finish this up on Monday, so most of this work was done last week.)

VP Card: 21:Completed

"10 Commandments" 

Bible Exodus 19 & 20

Believer's Bible Commentary Exodus 19 & 20

Journey Through the Bible pg 66-69

VP worksheets

VP Card: 22: In Process

Aaron and the Golden Calf

Exodus 32

Bible Exodus 32

Believer's Bible Commentary Ex. 32

Greenleaf: 46

VP worksheets

Science:

Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright

Apologia:Zoology 2:Swimming Creatures
pg. 30-34, 
Focus: WHALES
 Dd worked in her notebook drawing a porpoise, dolphin,narwhal, and sperm whale plus her notes.  I had a few books on whales that we looked at too.  I won't list those--just some from our shelves, nothing special.  

The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope: Internet-Linked by Kirsteen Rogers

SL Science E-The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope book and coresponding workbook pages (this week she did 2 pages)

Composer of the Week:
Francois Couperin
Couperin is a Baroque composer, and we have been focusing on what a “Baroque” artist means.  We’ve covered that a few times now.  She seemed to remember a lot of the details that make up what typical Baroque styling’s.  We looked at paintings, furniture, and of course---Couperin!
 

 

Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection by Michael Rosen and Paul Howard

Poet of the week:
William Shakespeare
We finished the SL (Sonlight) book of poetry that we were suppose to spread of for the next 8 months; but I didn’t want to waste this opportunity (6th grade).  We read what SL wanted us to--and appreciated those poems, and now are moving on to poetry that I find more engrossing and enriching.  I have bought a LOT of poetry books, but decided to start us with this one because it has a sampling of all the best classical poets, and has them listed in my favorite way…Chronologically!!   I don’t know why I love things listed chronologically; but I do!  So, we started this week with William Shakespeare--from back in the 1500’s.  The book we are using is called: Classic Poetry An Illustrated Collection by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Paul Howard.  The 3 poems that we read, and re-read and discussed  were: “All the World’s A Stage”, “Be Not A Feared” (Dd’s favorite), and “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”.

Language Arts and Thank you cards:
We finally got our Thank You cards out this week.  Dd had 7 cards to mail out: my mom sent her 3 little needlepoint samplers, Uncle Jeff gave her 2 Civil War books, Uncle Greg gave her a Star Wars shirt ,light saber pen, and SW keychain, Uncle Lee gave her some chocolates and a calendar, Aunt Ruth gave her a subscription to Cricket magazine, Judy Pugh gave her a sock puppet, and Giz & Grampy gave her a rubber band loom (which I also gave her! But Giz’s was bigger and better!!!) She has gone totally crazy making those rubber bracelets!!!  She makes them, then takes them apart and remakes a new one out of the old one with newer, better designs.  She is having a lot of fun with that!

Christie-We did go with the Daily Grams 7- like you suggested we go with…not sure if I told you that.  I still haven’t done enough of it to know what my opinion is…

 
Daily Grams: Day 2-5

 

All About Spelling 5:
Step 23 (in process) plus review of sion, tion,
We are doing the review they tell us to do on Day 1; plus our GOAL is to do a big review one time per week on her “repeat offender” words; which are the word from each step that she had trouble with in the past.  I also include words that she did fine with from the past; I just flip back through our book and go over last week, or the week be fore’s list.  I try to really keep all the words from the whole book in circulation in her brain throughout a month or two.  I have to admit December was not a good month for this; but I hope to get back to our routine.

 

IEW: Fix-It: Week 26: completed
I definitely think this program is excellent!

 


Audio’s:
We didn’t hear any of our van audio this week-as we didn’t drive anywhere! But, I’ll keep it posted so we know it is in our brain---Captain’s Courageous by Rudyard Kipling.

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan--this was listened to by Dd alone on a Playaway.

(I listened to the Hunger Games alone, on a Playaway and decided Dd can wait a little longer before she hears it…all that kissing was a bit much…and manipulation…that is going to require some mature mental discussion and processing.)

Dd took a week off The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan--I’m not sure why.

The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rolling by Playaway--listened to alone by Dd. I’d read this to Dd before, so I am okay with her listening to the audio alone.



 



Readers: besides the SL book, Dd's focus has been on Greek & Roman Mythology.

Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

Breaking Stalins Nose by Eugene Yelchin--Completed

 

Then Dd has been picking and reading specific stories and sections she is interested in from the following books, listed below as she has been really interested in Greek and Roman myths:

Tales of the Greek Heroes (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green and Rick Riordan

Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancely Green

Ancient Rome (TALES OF THE DEAD) by Stewart Ross and Inklink

DK Tales of the Dead-Ancient Rome by Stewart Ross

Greek Myths by Jacqueline Morley and Giovanni Caselli

The Greek Myths by Jacqueline Morley



 

Read Alouds:
 

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan--unadapted, original version.

Focus: MONGOLIA

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window by YWAM Publishing

Praying Through 100 Gateway Cities

The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger by Lee Strobel

The Case for Christmas by Lee Strobel (read nightly by Pappa)

Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor folktale library) by Joanna Cole

Best-Loved Folktales by Joanne Cole




Our Library has this one little squirrel that is always so cute--Dd wanted me to take a picture of him for us.







Math:
Math U See: Zeta: 13 A, B, C, D, E

Zeta Decimals and Percents Instruction Manual Math-U-See by Steve Demme

 

Core F stuff: We are in Russia, but I focused on Mongolia this week. I added in these books, but we didn’t read the whole book; but the sections on Mongolia and Tibet.  But, Dd did look through all Material World--she really likes this book; and we’ve referenced it quite often over the last 3-4 years.

How People Live by DK and Dena Freeman

How People Live

Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel,

Material World

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

Hungry Planet

EHN/World Book pages--Dd finished the maps this week…and yes, we are behind on the rest of the pages; but we have a LOW (left-overs week) scheduled next week, so we can spend 30-60 minutes per day trying to get these pages caught up.


 
 Dd took this photo of our 15 year old cat "Smedley".

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