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| Many Thanks to Heather, for our card and gifts!! |
Core G,
Sonlight
Week 8 “E”
LOW
(Left-Over’s Week)/ Light Week!
Feb. 9th-13th,
2015
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| These are the gifts Dd rec'd from the "L" family! |
After a few
really studious weeks, we (*I*) needed a really light week. The past few weeks we have really pushed our
limits of being hard working, which is good to do when one is snowed in and can’t
get out much. Our studious winter weeks
make up for our much looser schedule when the sun is shining! Some weeks we look almost "too studious" and it probably looks like we work too hard; but I assure you we have our LOW/Light weeks that we need for some R&R.
We still had
reading left to do in our last three Greek books; and did manage to complete
those—phew! We worked a little each day,
but managed to allow lots of getting NOTHING done! I had such high hopes for making lots of
Valentines gifts and cards; and didn’t manage to get any of that done! I really seemed much more unproductive than
Dd—who was quite the busy beaver!
Dd worked
all week on my Valentines gift—a beautiful tea pot cozy, with pretty yarn
flowers on top. She also finished the
blue bird she had previous started and gave that as a VD gift too. Dd made pancakes twice this week, the second
time I helped with the skillet so I could try out Coconut Oil. Heather “L” had encouraged me to try it out,
and I finally went online and read up on it, enough to feel comfortable cooking
pancakes with it! I’ve requested a cookbook from the library
that focuses on coconut oil too, to continue to learn more about it. It did taste GREAT with the pancakes, and Dd
went right to using it as body and face lotion for herself. She already uses olive oil, and was excited
to try another natural lotion.
Mini-Updates:
The weather---as I write this it is 5 degrees with wind chills going down to -10 to -35. On 2-15-15, and it is -8 degrees, not wind chill! We have broken records with how cold it is! We have snow, snow, and gusting snow! There were closings all over the bottom of the tv screen all day today!
Our house in Indiana---still not sold, but we had three or four showings scheduled for 2-14-15...praying they go super well!
Dh's job----He is doing crazy hours right now, but as of this week he has a team of nine employee's---and more to come, which should help his hours eventually to come down. He is still much happier and hopeful here. The company is coming up on some serious deadlines in the next 30-60 days; which are a make them or break them deal...prayers appreciated.
Snails---our lovely snails are doing super well! Dd has really decreased feeding them, and it seems to be helping on the smell.
No outings this week, we were, in my opinion, "snowed in"---not literally since my Dh did drive to work each day, but I was not encouraged to drive and tempt fate! I need to grow more bravery!
Kendra said she liked to see our home made schedule sheets, so I've been putting some up for her, and other visual people to see our general items. I don't always do a great job jotting down everything we have done, but I get about 3/4th of our stuff down. This week I really didn't even try to keep track, I was being a very un-motivated person this week! I wrote out our assignments last weekend and we used that as our guidelines.
Mini-Updates:
The weather---as I write this it is 5 degrees with wind chills going down to -10 to -35. On 2-15-15, and it is -8 degrees, not wind chill! We have broken records with how cold it is! We have snow, snow, and gusting snow! There were closings all over the bottom of the tv screen all day today!
Our house in Indiana---still not sold, but we had three or four showings scheduled for 2-14-15...praying they go super well!
Dh's job----He is doing crazy hours right now, but as of this week he has a team of nine employee's---and more to come, which should help his hours eventually to come down. He is still much happier and hopeful here. The company is coming up on some serious deadlines in the next 30-60 days; which are a make them or break them deal...prayers appreciated.
Snails---our lovely snails are doing super well! Dd has really decreased feeding them, and it seems to be helping on the smell.
No outings this week, we were, in my opinion, "snowed in"---not literally since my Dh did drive to work each day, but I was not encouraged to drive and tempt fate! I need to grow more bravery!
Kendra said she liked to see our home made schedule sheets, so I've been putting some up for her, and other visual people to see our general items. I don't always do a great job jotting down everything we have done, but I get about 3/4th of our stuff down. This week I really didn't even try to keep track, I was being a very un-motivated person this week! I wrote out our assignments last weekend and we used that as our guidelines.
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| Momma's Scheduling/Notes/Reminder Page |
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| Dd's page |
Our LIGHT
lessons this week:
Bible:
Veritas
Press: Chronicles Through Malachi
Card 80:
completed
The Fall of
Jerusalem / II Kings 25/ c. 586 BC
Read II
Kings 25 with Bible and Believer’s Bible Commentary
Greenleaf
Guide to the Old Testament (pg 126)
Journey Through
the Bible: pg. 172-173
Survey of
the Bible: pg. 114-117
Dd completed
the accompanying worksheets
Mapping:
BiblioPlan Ancients Map: Early Greek World
The Book of
the Ancient Greeks: FINISHED BOOK!
Pg. 378-386
The Book of
the Ancient Greeks: Student Book: FINISHED BOOK!
Famous Men
of Greece: FINISHED
BOOK!
Pg’s 81-171
Tools of
Ancient Greece: FINISHED
BOOK!
Ch. 5-10
Current
Events:
CNN STUDENT
NEWS
Monday
through Friday
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| Early in the week, before the new snow, but very cold temps. The 'bog' froze over enough for Sophie to leap across. |
Nature
Hike/Science:
2 hikes with
Momma and 1 with Pappa
Prima Latina
(latin)
1 session on
Monday, Ch. 3
Math U See:
Pre-Algebra
19 A-E
DVD:
The Greeks: Crucible
of civilization (PBS): EXCELLENT!
Dd picked
this out from the downtown library, and I had low expectations, but found it to
be SUPER good! It covered so much of
what we read in The Ancient Book of Greeks.
I highly recommend this DVD.
I highly recommend this DVD.
Research
topic:
Socrates and the Socratic Method
We watched a
few video’s on youtube regarding this, and some searches as well.
Anne’s House
of Dreams: FINISHED BOOK!
: by L.M. Montgomery
: by L.M. Montgomery
Dd’s FUN Reader:
Anne of Ingleside: In Process
by L.M. Montgomery
by L.M. Montgomery
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| The poncho Dd made for herself (but, I keep borrowing it!) |
She kept busy! She completed the poncho she had been working
on these past few weeks, and it looks great!
Then she went to work on her Valentine’s gifts. She spent many hours in her room with the door closed working on things!
A few pictures from Sat. 2-14-15 of the newest, coldest snow:
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| Dd made me a tea cozy for my teapot! Just like the kind Heather L. makes! |
A few pictures from Sat. 2-14-15 of the newest, coldest snow:
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Enjoying your post here, with my cup of tea. It's birthday's here for both children this week ... so I'll email once that is done n dusted.
ReplyDeleteYour dd has clever hands! Love the tea cosy especially ♥
Thanks for including some snow pictures, for our morbid fascination :D (We can feel the cold coming off them!)
Have a good week ahead Tracy!
with love,
your NZ pal
Wow that tea cozy is awesome!!!! Tell Larkin she did a fabulous job!!!!! Good to hear a little news via this post....hope the showings went well. Need to catch up on the rest of your recent blog posts. Had about an inch of snow today. We didn't have to leave the house once! It was SO nice!!!!! third week of Lighthouse this Thursday. We miss you! I am in the dissection class with James -- very fun! Also in German with David. Hope that Eric's work continues to go well, especially upcoming deadlines.
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