Sonlight Core G
Week 1 "A" (LOW) "Left-Over's Week"
(doing the things we didn't get done on our Week 1 IG)
Sept. 2-7, 2014
I haven't done a great job taking "busy hands" lately---so here are a few things she has been working on. I really like what she did to her sword. It use to be just a plain white sword with Sharpie drawings on it.
Black and silver duct tape with Sharpie marker
This week Dd and I went to the downtown library twice. Our apartment pool was still open this week;
though it was suppose to be closed! What
a treat! Dd got to swim here another
FOUR times! That cut into our lessons, but it will be closed soon.
Then on Saturday we went to Kirk Park, on Lake Michigan, and she
got to swim all day—either with me or her Pappa.
We also went to the apartment: Dog Park each
day with our dog, Sophie! I think Dd
likes going as much as our dog does!
We went to a nice church on Sunday, and I got a good ‘food
for thought’ message:
Count
Your Days.
To me, that
encourages me to want to be sure I spend the days I have with my daughter doing
the right things. I guess that would be
different from family to family. For me,
I think my two biggest hopes of how we can spend our days are:
1) Showing her
the Lord and His word---
2) Being outside, in parks and on walks---looking at acorns,
birds, mushrooms, leaves, moss, etc. etc. all of the Lord’s works of art.
I would want her memories of me to be of showing her The Way,
and taking her outside to be closer with the Lord.
Our lessons:
Veritas Press: Chronicles Through Malachi
Card 66: completed
1 Kings 21 870 BC: Elijah Confronts Ahab
(Ahab had married Jezebel, and in Ch. 21 she has Naboth
murdered so King Ahab (King of Samaria) can have the vineyard Naboth owned and
wanted. Naboth didn’t want to sell his
inheritance to the King, but keep it in his family, so Jezebel had him lied
about then killed.
Read 1 Kings
21
from bible and Believer’s Bible
Commentary
Student Worksheets completed from VP
Journey Through the Bible-pg 146 & 147
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament pg. 110, Lesson 128
Jezebel Murders Naboth, Ahab Repents
Holman Illustrated Guide to the Bible pg. 55-57 (Prophets in
the North: Jonah, Hosea, Amos)
For SL, we read from the International Children’s Bible Field
Guide, pg.s 1-12 (Chapter 1)
I’ve been trying to add in a Psalm each week since Dd has
been growing close to them, and I hope to help her study of them. This week we studied Psalm 91, and read it with the
bible and Believer’s Bible Commentary.
Psalm
91
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a]
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[b] 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.”
This week Dd got a book in from the library. She requested it, and was so excited to start
reading it! She is such a fan of Rick
Riordan, and this is one of his newer books:
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods. So far she has read the following chapters
(and what interesting titles for these chapters!):
*The Beginning and Stuff
*The Golden Age of Cannibalism
*The Olympians Bash Some Heads
*Zeus
*Hestia Chooses Bachelor Number Zero
*Demeter Turns Into Grainzilla
*Persephone Marries Her Stalker
*Hera Gets a Little Cuckoo
*Hades Does Home Improvement
*Poseidon Gets Salty
*Zeus Kills Everyone
*Athena Adopts Hankerchief
*You Gotta Love Aphrodite
How about those titles?! Funny! Dd has spent hours and hours on this book,
and only likes it more as she gets deeper into it!
Math:
Math U See: Pre-Algebra: She still wasn’t 100% on the first 5
lessons, so we did another week of “Worksheet Generator” pages to get her to
the point that she is ready to start Lesson 6 next week. I love how MUS insists that if you aren’t
ready to move on, then stop and keep practicing until you are ready for the
next lesson!
Art:
Drew and Painted 2 flower paintings
She worked for 3 days on one of her swords…I’ll have to take
a picture…it is something to do with Percy Jackson’s sword/pen.
Language Arts:
AAS; Review Week/ Refresher
SL Language Arts: she did the worksheets and the writing
assignment on “Her Favorite Place”:
My Home
By XXX
The heat shimmered as it rose off the
drying corn field below the bright blue sky speckled with clouds. The lake shimmers with multicolored light as
the sun touches it with gentile fingers.
The grass is darkened from all the heat, but the sunflowers are still
bright in their many shades of yellow, red and black as they lean against the
dark, muddy brown of the fence. An
occasional dragon-fly or humming bird darts by in the heat of the afternoon
sun. A red-wing blackbird sings from a
nearby branch, proclaiming his territory.
The hum of a car engine grows fainter as it continues on its
journey. All becomes quiet, except for
the occasional twittering of a bird.
The End
Language Arts continued:
Daily Grams 7:
Pg. 119-123
Fix-It (Frog Prince):
Week 12 completed
Current Events:
CNN Student News.com
(wrote a sentence about the show 2x)
Science:
Microscopes- both—looked at fossils and nature finds on them, and slides. She got out the microscopes and did worked on her own; then showed me what she found.
Science Reading:
Exploring The World of Biology by John Hudson Tiner :pg 1-12
Core G items:
Story of the World Vol 1:
Ch. 1 & 2
Pg. 1-24
The Usborne Encylcopedia of World History:
104-109 and 114-115
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (from downtown library)
Pg. 1-11
Favorite Poems Old and New:
Pg. 1-15
Reader:
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Read Aloud:
Ch. 1-5
Add-In’s For Core G:
Ancient Lives: Unlocking The Mysteries of Daily Life in
Ancient Egypt. This is a 2 disc set,
with 4 episodes, we watched 2 or 3 episodes.
This was really a very good, educational program done by the “History
Channel”—BUT, twice they got a little too descriptive about sex and I fast
forwarded rather than waiting to see if it was going to be too much info for my
daughter. If you are okay with fast forwarding, or
want to watch it before you let your children watch, it was very good and
explained things very well. It was great
to see the tombs and places we are reading about. I am not positive how detailed their part was--I just didn't wait around to see!
Audio:
Mystery of History Vol. 1
disc 1: completed
started disc 2
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