Fleur de Lis Homeschool Blog: Feb 17, 2014

Monday, February 17, 2014

Core F Week 16 Feb. 10-16th, 2014

Core F
Week 16
Feb. 10-16th, 2014

Studies in India this section

* I put a whole post of pictures from this week below this post!

Just in case you thought the people in the house were the only bird watchers....Smedley is here to prove to you that he is just as interested!!!! If you could only see his tail twitching in delight as he enjoys his second favorite pastime. Christie--this is the cat that is always between me and the keyboard when I am typing! He is the "on top" of everything cat. Dd has a pair of binoculars, I have a pair, and it seems to me, there is a small, third pair--is that pair for him?!! That cat! ha!

I'm going to mix up my order of things this week---you are now warned... I normally do my post in a very methodical manner; but not today---caution has been tossed aside!

For Core F, we are in India. The books we added (not SL) are:

India: The Land (Lands, Peoples, & Cultures) by Bobbie Kalman

India: The Land; was an older book that I had purchased used. It was a good book to read; but I found it to be more 'dated' than I had thought it was going to be. The book I also bought Teens in India was much more up to date and better at showing what India must be like today.

Teens in India (Global Connections) by Lori Shores

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Hungry Planet, actually had a very good chapter on a family in India; I was quite pleased with it. These are the books we read for this week on India.

Poet of the Week:
Ben Jonson
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173729
Song: To Celia

Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;

Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

And I’ll not look for wine.

The thirst that from the soul doth rise

Doth ask a drink divine;

But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,

I would not change for thine.

I sent thee late a rosy wreath,

Not so much honouring thee

As giving it a hope, that there

It could not withered be.

But thou thereon didst only breathe,

And sent’st it back to me;

Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,

Not of itself, but thee.

Norton Anthology of Poetry by Alexander Allison

The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family by Lithgow, John

I had to memorize Song: to Celia back in high school, College Prep English; and have always loved that poem. We spent a good amount of time each day this week reading different poems by Ben Jonson and to read Song: to Celia too. I was hoping that maybe she might memorize it. Dd really seemed to like Ben Jonson, and came as close as she does to fully coming out and saying that! It seems so hard to believe that he was a contemporary of William Shakespeare! The Poets' Corner book had a good 2 pages on him, and gave some lovely detail, along with poems by the artist as well. I've found this particular book handy quite a few times and am glad I bought it.

Secondary Poetry of the week:

Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (A Poetry Speaks Experience) by Elise Paschen

Composer of the Week:

Felix Mendelssohn

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2: Book & CD (Learning Link) by Maurice Hinson and June Montgomery

Artist of the Week:

Mary Cassatt

Cassatt (Treasures of Art) by Trewin Copplestone

We have also been using the World Book to look up Mary Cassatt, and other people in our studies this week--good information there! A little, mini study on Manet & Degas, who were companions with Cassatt in Paris, and in the Impressionist group.

Another Add-in Art book:

Name That Style: All About Isms in Art (Bob Raczka's Art Adventures) by Bob Raczka

Read Aloud's:

The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan-completed

Daughter of the Mountains (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Louise S. Rankin and Kurt Wiese : started this week!

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

Ahmedabed, Jaipur, Amritsar are the three cities we read.

Reader's:

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling - completed

The Beast of Blackslope (The Sherlock Files) by Tracy Barrett - completed

The Missing Heir (Sherlock Files) by Tracy Barrett - completed

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5)

by Rick Riordan:completed

Just Started:

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

*Dd has also been reading some fun graphic novels--Hardy Boys and Attack of the Clones.

Language Arts:

I won't bore you all with the details; but I'll say the curriculum we are using:

We have started back with Following Narnia; a IEW product, but it has been a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. We have had to pull out our old IEW discs to re-watch; but we have been working on it and giving it a-go. We have added the FN vocabulary words to our weekly work, doing 3 words per week; which has been fun. This weeks exciting words are: merriment, desolate, and violence. We also completed another week in our IEW's Fix-It program (week 30)

We are still progressing along very well with AAS 5(passed step 26 & 27)and Daily Grams ( Days 21-25)each day.

Science:

Apologia: Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures:pg 50-60

World Book & EHN pages--mapping

Dd's Exercise:

Mon.: Basketball practice at night

Tues.: workout dvd (Leslie Sansone)

Wed.: workout dvd (Leslie Sansone)

Thurs.: LHE Co-op--Gym class

Sat.: Basketball Game and they won!!!

Bible:

Believer's Bible Commentary [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover] by W.(Author) ; MacDonald, William(Author); Farstad, Arthur L.(Editor) MacDonald (Mar 31, 1995)

KJV Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture by Zondervan

This week we finished up the first book of Veritas Press of Joshua Through Genesis. We have added other books into the program that have helped us to really wrap our whole brains around everything we've read. We added The Believer's Bible Commentary; which has been great. I have just purchased The Archaeological Study Bible to add into our program. Last week we read bits and pieces from about 5 other books I own, as well. The VP is good; but it does make you want to keep digging! The good, and bad part of this program is that it takes at LEAST an hour to do our bible each day.

Men of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study of Men in Scripture by Ann Spangler

This week we also added in Men of the Bible; and read the section (week) on Joshua.

The extra fun mapping project this week was that I drew the map of Palestine; the division of the land between the twelve tribes.

Let's see- the nuts and bolts of the program didn't include any of the above items we did--the VP items are:

Finished card 31: we only had : Journey Through the Bible: pg's 82-85 left to complete.

Card 32: Joshua's Last Words (Joshua 23 & 24): completed

Bible- Nu. 21 & Believer's Bible Comm. Nu.21

Bible-Joshua 23 & 24

Believer's Bible Commentary- Joshua 23 & 24

The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament-lesson 73, Ch. 23

Bible Commentary-Joshua 7,8,9,10, 23,24 -we read a lot of Joshua that VP did NOT assign; but we felt needed to be read; and we re-read a lot of it as well. They skipped a lot of really, really important things that I just couldn't skip!!!!