SL Core G
Week 3
Oct. 13-17, 2014
Eighth week on Core G so far!
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| This is the front of the card, Dd made for Dh. I like it so much I put it at the top of my page, plus below under "Busy Hands" too. |
Another week without an auto for Dd and I, but we made the best of it. Dh's car was released from the shop on Friday, a few thousand dollars later! Too bad the car is a 1994, so that hurt! Let's just say after fixing both of our auto's, we are lighter in our pockets!!! This will be some memory that hopefully we can laugh about in our future. I guess I have finally come to fully understand that THIS is our "difficult season" and to try to feel more graceful about getting through it with a better attitude. I'm reading my Secret Place devotional a lot this week, and that is helping me uplift my mood.
This week we had a birthday for Dh and Dd got sick. We didn't get out to the library or any parks, or anything like that. We did bring in our house plants that I had been keeping on our little porch, cement pad. The plants really thrived outside, and I'm sure they will be gloomy now that they are back inside; but we had 31 degrees last night, so I was right to be bring them in before the frost killed them.
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| One
of our Chickadee's, all the birds have to wait for a moment when Nutty
or Charlie isn't on the feeder. The squirrels are very selfish. |
The "making Christmas gifts" project is coming along well. Dd taught me a "Double Crochet", to make her a lovey blanket. She picked out some thick, nice, part wool-part acrylic black yarn. I've already crocheted SEVEN rolls of yarn into the blanket, and think I will need another seven to complete the blanket. I never thought it would take so much yarn!!! She is so excited about getting it, and that makes the cost of the yarn easier to swallow! I'm also crocheting my mom a scarf, and are over half way done with that. Plus, I've completed 2 of my felt birds, and started on another one. The first two birds are a couple (male and female) of Sparrows, and the new couple are Golden Finches. I'm at least started and going strong for my Christmas prep!
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| The squirrels are now eating our pumpkin....can you believe that?!! |
Dd made the best soup this week--a chicken broth, chicken and veggies soup. It was really close to being a Chicken Noodle, but no noodles! She put the chicken and the potatoes in the skillet and grilled them with olive oil and spices-- I think that is the reason the soup was extra, extra tasty. The soup had that chicken and potatoes, plus green beans and yellow corn. Dd also made Dh a wonderful birthday cake, and icing (icing from scratch, cake from a mix). She went all the way- she put the icing in the ziplock baggie and wrote and decorated the cake! The cake didn't last long!!!!
Well, let's look at what we accomplished this week:
Bible:
Veritas Press: Chronicles Through
Malachi
Card 68: In Process
Ministry and Miracles of Elisha
II Kings 2-13
Another week on 2 Kings, we read (with our bible, then with the Believer's Bible Commentary) 2 Kings 11-12. We started 2 Kings 13, but haven't read it with the Believer's Bible Commentary yet. We are close to finishing this card soon--it was a big assignment!
Sep 1, 1994
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament:
Lesson 141: Athaliah and Joash: completed
Lesson 142: Joash Repairs the Temple: completed
Add-In: Greenleaf recommended we read the book of Joel,
so we did (on Thur.)
Add-In: Mark 11:24
Psalm of the Week:
Psalm91
Psalm 91
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
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| This is Charlie, view from inside our door to the "porch". |
Math:
A difficult week! Math U See, Pre-Algebra, 12 A-C
We worked on the Distributive and the Associative Laws. Dd had a really hard time learning this lesson from Demme, so we headed over to Khan Academy for a second perspective on teaching her. It took us all week to figure out how to do pages A, B, and C. But, I think we are getting closer to fully understanding it. I am thankful to Khan Academy for their free math lessons (and so much more than just math)!
We watched the following Khan Academy math video's:
*The Distributive Property Explained x2
*Distributive Property Practice
*Distributive Property Algebraic Expressions
*Distributive Property Exercise Examples
*Distributive Property
Science:
Exploring the World of Biology by Tiner
Ch. 4: Growing A Green World, and quiz: completed
Apologia:
Chemistry and Physics: Lesson 6:
Mechanics in Motion:completed
Pg. 99-107
We used Khan Academy to prepare for the paper Dd was asked to write on Sir Isaac Newton from her Apologia lesson. We watched the following video's:
*First Law of Motion
*More On Newton's First Law
On Youtube.com we watched:
*The Laws of Sir Isaac Newton by Mind Game Studios
*Secret Life of Newton--only watched the first 20 minutes
**Paper on Sir Isaac Newton**Completed
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| This
is the female, momma: Nutty. Whenever we put black sunflower seeds
out, she gets on top of our feeders and eats all the seed. Then I open
the door to chase her off, but she isn't afraid, so she just climbs up
the tree beside our feeders and stares at me until I go back inside.
Then she climbs back down and gets back on the feeders. We play this
"game" all day long... |
Timeline & Mapping:
For the first time during a SL core, we are doing the mapping and timeline really well. We are even looking up the locations on Google Earth! I'm so glad we are finally able to fit this into our schedule. Yeah, we are going through the core much slower, but we are getting all the things in that I always wanted to fit in!
We
specifically spent time looking up the Indus Valley Civilization—and the
Mohenjo-Dara city there. That was really
great to see on Google Earth. We did a
few different searches on gathering info on the Indus Valley Civilizations.
Some of
the highlights of our timeline:
Joseph,
Hittite Civilization, Hammurabi – we looked this up again online and looked at
images of the obelisk-like stone. We had
already looked this up in previous weeks, so it was good to just reinforce who
Hammurabi was and the stone he had created to get down all the laws he listed
and enforced. Assyrian Civilization , The Story of Gilgamesh—we had read The
Hero, Gilgamesh, a few weeks ago, and again this week had another version in
our SL materials on this story. The
versions were a little bit different, so I am glad we had we read both.
The
highlights of mapping:
Canaan,
Babylon, Assur, Crete, Mycenae (sounds like: my-SEE-nay), Phoenicia (sounds
like Pfah-knee-shah), Arabian Sea, Assyria, Thebe, the Pillars of
Heracles(Hercules)-which we looked up a few weeks ago too, so we got that reinforced,
and lastly (again) the Straits of Gibraltar.
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| Dh made me a nature bouquet, the brown stalks are one of our favorites...Mullen Stalks (which made me think of my friend, Michelle, who thinks of Mullen stalks as 'weeds'! |
Busy
Hands:
Besides
the cake and soup, Dd made, for the lack of a better term, “ornaments” with her
hot glue gun.
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| These have to do with Percy Jackson...she has a story that goes with them... |
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| This has to do with Harry Potter, a symbol... |
Made a birthday card for Pappa:
Also, she worked on her
crocheting each day. She is making a
shawl/poncho, and bought red yarn to make a gift for someone else.
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| Dd made this soap holder bag--crocheted |
Exercise:
Tues, Wed,
and Fri she did workout DVD’s.
Plus, she has taken to riding her bike around our parking lot...
Audio:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: COMPLETED!
17
discs! that took a while!
Just started:
A Chickadee!
We are
reading Jill’s Red Bag by Amy LeFeuvre.
She also wrote Teddy’s Button, if you know that one—such a popular
book.
Add-In
History DVD’s:
*In Search of Myths & Heroes-we watched 2 of the episodes; “The
Queen of Sheba”, and “Jason and the Golden Fleece”. Dd was really into the one on Jason! It was great to see the actual locations of
these events. Anytime Dd gets to see and
learn about Greece, she is happy. I can’t
wait until we actually get to the Greek section in our Core G.
*Ancient
Egypt Unearthed—good.
Add-In
History Books:
("Add-In", means these books are not assigned to us through the Sonlight Core G list of books that we are to read; but are books that I decided we should read.)
Oct 15, 2007
Cleopatra
by Adele Geras (We read aloud- completed)
Miriam: Dd
completed
(*Christie mailed us this book to add-in--Thank you, Dd really enjoyed it!)
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| This
is a Nuthatch that comes all the time! He is a bit aggressive and will open his wings and kind of scare off birds. The Chickadee's are very lovely and sweet compared to the Junco's! I still really like the Nuthatches, they are just a bit more bossy! We get Blue Jays, Downey
Woodpeckers, Dark-Eyed Junco's, Doves, Chickadee's, Nuthatches, Cardinals, and
Sparrows...at least off the top of my head. |
SL/Core G
items:
Dd’s
Reader:
Hittite
Warrior: in process
The Trojan
War: in process
This is a
book that is scheduled just a few chapters each week.
Oct 30, 2012
by Editors of Kingfisher
Kingfisher
History Encyclopedia
The
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History
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| This is Charlie, the husband to Nutty, the father of Spazzy. |
Language
Arts:
*Completed one Blog
Post, on her blog
*Letters x
2
*Paper on
Sir Isaac Newton
Daily
Grams 7: pg’s 146-150
IEW’s Fix
It: Frog Prince: Week 16: completed
All About
Spelling 6:
Step 16: passed
Step 17:
in process
Add-in Fun
Books:
American
Girl, Josephina Learns a Lesson
Percy
Jackson: Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan: (just started this-)
Castle
Waiting, The Lucky Road by Linda Medley (Dd says it is a Mother Goose type of
book).
Tintin
Vol. 7
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