Eagle Creek Park May 9th, 2014

Eagle Creek Park May 9th, 2014

with some of the "L" family again!

We had a great two hour hike at the park!

Look at this cute lady beetle!

Can you make out the small snake in the water?

We found this black walnut just like this!

We came across snail after snail on our trail; here are a few pictures of different snails---

May Apple bloom

I've seen some of the geese parents with their baby's already this spring.

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Sonlight Core F Week 25 May 5-11, 2014

Sonlight Core F 

Week 25  

May 5-11, 2014

The Middle East (Kingfisher Knowledge) by Philip Steele

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.

Bond LH017 Weeder With Telescopic...

 
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.

Believer's Bible Commentary   [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover] by W.(Author) ; MacDonald,

 

Bible:

Veritas Press: Joshua through Kings

Card 53: David Writes Many Psalms
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) Confession  

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.

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

The Gray Tree Frog in our yard!

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)

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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)

 Dd's drawing of the Squid

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

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.

And one more photo that Dd took

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