Sonlight Core F
Week 25
May 5-11, 2014
We are still in the MIDDLE EAST with our Core F stuff, and *I* have learned so much---hopefully my Dd has too!!! This is our last week on this area and I will be sad to see it end. This week I celebrated another birthday. On Friday Dd and I had lunch at the "L" house, and then the older "L"'s and their mom went for a two hour hike with Dd and I. It was a great hike--we saw two Downey Woodpeckers! I couldn't get a good photo of them; it kept moving and was behind some leaves.
Dh got me a wonderful birthday / Mother's Day gift: (a tool for prying up roots of weeds) Yes, in case you wondered, having your birthday days before Mother's Day is a bummer! Only one ever gets celebrated...which since my birthday comes first, that is the holiday they focus on. But, the good thing about growing older is that you don't care so much about little things like holidays and birthdays anymore.
This week in our bible program, I previously talked about how our Veritas Press didn't do a good job telling us WHICH Psalms we are suppose to read for our assignment! It is driving me crazy! I want to do the assignment; but I don't think they really want us to read all 150 Psalms! We spent most of last week (four days) on Psalms, and all this week on Psalms too. We have completed the VP worksheet pages on the Psalms, so I think we are done; but still feel guilty that I might be shorting the Psalms section. So far this has been the only 'card' that hasn't been specific.
Bible:
Veritas Press: Joshua through Kings
Card 53: David Writes Many Psalms
c. 1000 BC
We had to find examples of each of the different types. We read our bible verse, then we read what the Believer's Bible Commentary has to say about that verse.
We read: Psalm's: 37, 34,51,38,155,107.
c. 1000 BC
The Inspirational Study Bible NKJV by Max Lucado
We have this bible; and on each page it has "Life Lessons" in the margins, on the sides of each page, and we read those mini sermons each day too. In our VP workbook they broke the Psalms down into FIVE categories: 1)Praise 2)Thanksgiving 3)Lament 4)Imprecatory 5) ConfessionWe had to find examples of each of the different types. We read our bible verse, then we read what the Believer's Bible Commentary has to say about that verse.
We read: Psalm's: 37, 34,51,38,155,107.
NIV Archaeological Study Bible, Personal Size: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. and Duane Garrett
The Archeological Bible readings:
The Creation of Humans in the Sumerian Myth of Enki
Storm Gods, Storm Imagery, and Theophany
Zaphon, Olympus, Sinai and Zion: The Mountain of God
Form Criticism and the Psalm
The Shofar
Twenty-Five of the Most Familiar Psalm Lines
Composer of the Week:
George Gershwin
Meet the Great Composers Bk 2 by Montgomery
We used Youtube.com to listen to more of Gershwin's music. Gershwin is another favorite of Dd's. I've played Gershwin (especially Rhapsody in Blue) for Dd a lot during her childhood and she loves it!
The construction one house down from us---now look, there is a whole house there! Still lots of noise and trucks each day....
Artist of the Week:
MONET
Monet (Famous Artists) by Antony Mason
Famous Artists: Monet by Antony Mason
Monet (DK Art Book) by PAOLA RAPELLI
Art Book: Monet by Anna Bennett
This Black Swallowtail hatched from the chrysalis's in our house--from the caterpillars from last fall's garden.
Reader 1: (SL)
Mariner Books / 2012 / Trade Paperback
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Reader 2: (fun)
Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (Star Wars: Jedi Prince, Book 3) by Paul Davids and Hollace Davids
Dd took this House Finch picture
Core F stuff:
Youtube.com: The Powerful Ottoman's Caliphate: History of Islam (52:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy2Q3n76SW8
Dd took pix of our Iris's
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy
Reader:Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
We are really enjoying this 'page turner'. I can't seem to stop where the IG (instructors guide) tells me to! It is just too good!
Amazon summary:
"In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot -- Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for."
The Arabs In The Golden Age (Peoples of the Past) by Mokhtar Moktefi
Read Aloud:The Arabs in the Golden Age
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| Our peas are coming up |
Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window by YWAM Publishing,
100 Gateway Cities:Amman, Damascus, Jerusalem, Istanbul
We have been getting out our super big atlas and looking up each place we read about in our 100 Gateway Cities book. We also went to Google Earth and looked up Istanbul. Istanbul is really a cool place to look up! Highly recommend using Google Earth to look up cities you are studying. The 100 Gateway Cities this week, covering the Middle East, the book also gave biblical history for each city.
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Eastern Hemisphere Notes:
Three sessions this week
I'd have her do 30 minutes by herself, then I'd come over and help her for the next 30 minutes (or more)
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| Our squid for the week's Science study |
Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright
Science:Apologia: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day
Lesson 10: Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus, squid)
pg.'s 159-172 (and all the questions)
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole
The Magic School Bus: On the Ocean Floor by Joanne Cole
Math-U-See : Zeta Student Kit / Decimals and Percents by Miriam Homer
Math:Math U See: Zeta
Lesson 28 A-E
Skip-Counting Family this week: the NINE's!
Extra's:
Khan Academy: 1x for Dd
Rosetta Stone Version 4 TOTALe: French Level 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (Mac/PC) (May 2011)
Foreign Language:Rosetta Stone: French 1x 30 minutes
Dd took pix of one of our lilac's that I planted last year.
Current Events:
CNN Student News: 5x
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| Another pix Dd took of our plants...with drops of water from the rain... |
Language Arts:
All About Spelling Level 6-Teacher and Material Packet (All About Spelling: The Multisensory Program for Spelling... (2009)
All About Spelling 6:Step 8: passed
Fix-It! : Grammar and Editing Made Easy with Classics by Pamela White
IEW's Fix-It (second book-Frog Prince)
Week 6: completed
Daily Grams: Grade 7 - Student Book by Wanda C. Phillips
Daily Grams 7:pg's: 75-79
Art:
Lots of Photography!
Origami all week!!!
3 Drawings--I'll try to post pictures of this weeks stuff
Cooking/Baking:
Baked a chocolate cake, then Dh iced it.
Made TACO's! The meat cooked from scratch, added the spices, and baked the taco shells, and "plated up" the taco's. She says that plating up the food is her favorite part.
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| And one more photo that Dd took |
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