Core G
Week 14 "C"
Early Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages
Oct.5-11th 2015
This was a math week for us. We had Dh work with us on a dry-erase board to show us how best to do our math questions. It was really nice just focusing on math this week.
....that was as far as I got on doing a post for last week...I'm coming back to finish what I started, though it was only a paragraph!
We got back from being in Indiana over the weekend (Oct. 3rd & 4th). Dd had a **blast** playing with the "L" family! Dh and I dug up some daisy, cone flower, lamb's ear, black eye'd susan, strawberry...plants to bring back to Michigan. We also packed up the kitchen things we had kept handy for cooking while there.
Then on Monday, I had to plant all those plants! I had a fever for the first 4-5 days of the week, but it usually waited until evening before it would really get bad. So, we were able to work on our lessons some each day, but I didn't get a lot done other than just the "have to's".
Besides being sick, our van sprung a weird leak on Tuesday evening--come to find out, it was anti-freeze! Earlier in the day, on Tuesday, Dd dropped my brand new Iphone that I had only got turned on about 12 hours earlier! The front face of it shattered...but it does still work. I put in an order for a replacement front through Amazon. Wednesday we all left together, Dd and I dropped Dh off at work, and then drove his car to Band & Choir. Dh managed to buy a new radiator during his lunch..then to make a long story short, he stayed up late and put it in. Wednesday morning he woke up at 4 am thinking about the repair and decided to go out and just take out the radiator then and there! And he did! So, by Wednesday 11 pm, I had a new radiator, plus some other new things--hoses, temperature things, and cap. I was back to driving my van by Thursday---just in time for our LINK co-op.
I had to cut and fold a bunch of construction paper, and cut out 16 pieces of wax paper to help do the craft project with the KinderKids class---they put colorful fall leaves between the two pieces of wax paper, with little chunks of crayon and we ironed the crayons to melt around/on the leave. Then they used the folded construction paper as the frame for the "stained glass"....very easy and fun for the kids! It did take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to cut out all the paper---but they didn't know that!
Friday Dd and I went to her "Girl's Club" at Sherri's house. This "Sherri" is the same one that God placed at the Homeschool Building last spring when I went in asking "How do I meet homeschoolers in Michigan", and she heard me and invited us to a movie and bible study that very night! How amazing God is! We are still seeing this wonderful family, and through them we heard about joining the band and Girl's Club! So far, the only thing I found without Sherri's help is the LINK homeschool group. The event for this month was a bonfire, S'mores, and games outside. We all had a really nice time!
Then in the morning we headed back to Indiana to get our last load of things---and a few more strawberry, grape, blackberry, and cone plants! Another visit with the "L" family---and remind them to invite us to visit soon! G&G came up for lunch. Then back to Michigan.
Our lessons this week:
Another week of way too much "other" things pulling us away from our lessons, so we just did the best we could do for this Season that we are in. It doesn't help that Dd is in the middle of all sorts of "her" books, that haven't got put back in their second place position after her summer off---I'm working on that, but am somewhat thankful that her head is in a book instead of too much computer/screen time. It helps we don't have our tv reception, or any connection to anything--so we can check out a movie from the library or one that we own to watch a show.
We have had many patches of doing a LOT of homework, and I guess it will have to be fine that right now we are in a season of doing too much non-homework stuff. I have 90% decided to NOT sign up to do the LINK co-op classes in the winter. One day of Band & Choir will have to be enough for now. I've got SO much I need to be doing on the house, and I don't have any time to do it.
Bible:
Veritas Press Chronicles Through Malachi
we are on a "bunny trail" and reading the whole book of Nehemiah instead of just the few parts that VP had us read. I really like reading the whole book, or at least most of the whole book.
Bible & Believer's Bible Commentary(BBC):
Neh. 6, 7, 8, 9,10
Psalm of the Week:
Psalm 130
with B & BBC
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament:
Lesson 177: Nehemiah Threatened, but the Wall completed. The Reading of the Law.
Dd's Devotional:
Dd has been reading this book for about a month now, and really liking it:
Every Day Deserves A Chance by Max Lucado
(I didn't assign this- she saw the book and asked for me to buy it for her.)
Dd also worked on the VP worksheets that she had gotten behind in--Card 93 (Nehemiah and the Jewish Return) finished.
MATH:
Math U See: Algebra I
2A, B, C, D, E, and test completed
Skip Counting Family:
the 3 family x2 each day
we use to do skip-counting a specific family for a week at a time every week, but due to being so busy we put this on the back burner for a while.
Sonlight Timeline and Mapping:
Week 13 & 14 : completed
Re-Reading:
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
Dd finished reading this last week, but wasn't ready to answer questions on it and asked to re-read it again.
Choir and Sax practice: daily
Busy Hands:
Working on making a swing
Fun Books:
The Marvels by Brian Selznick: started
Reckless by Cornelia Funke: in process
The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke: in process
Divergent by Victoria Roth: completed
The Red Queen : completed and then restarted with a "Playaway" (which is an audio)
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan: in process
....that was as far as I got on doing a post for last week...I'm coming back to finish what I started, though it was only a paragraph!
We got back from being in Indiana over the weekend (Oct. 3rd & 4th). Dd had a **blast** playing with the "L" family! Dh and I dug up some daisy, cone flower, lamb's ear, black eye'd susan, strawberry...plants to bring back to Michigan. We also packed up the kitchen things we had kept handy for cooking while there.
Then on Monday, I had to plant all those plants! I had a fever for the first 4-5 days of the week, but it usually waited until evening before it would really get bad. So, we were able to work on our lessons some each day, but I didn't get a lot done other than just the "have to's".
Besides being sick, our van sprung a weird leak on Tuesday evening--come to find out, it was anti-freeze! Earlier in the day, on Tuesday, Dd dropped my brand new Iphone that I had only got turned on about 12 hours earlier! The front face of it shattered...but it does still work. I put in an order for a replacement front through Amazon. Wednesday we all left together, Dd and I dropped Dh off at work, and then drove his car to Band & Choir. Dh managed to buy a new radiator during his lunch..then to make a long story short, he stayed up late and put it in. Wednesday morning he woke up at 4 am thinking about the repair and decided to go out and just take out the radiator then and there! And he did! So, by Wednesday 11 pm, I had a new radiator, plus some other new things--hoses, temperature things, and cap. I was back to driving my van by Thursday---just in time for our LINK co-op.
I had to cut and fold a bunch of construction paper, and cut out 16 pieces of wax paper to help do the craft project with the KinderKids class---they put colorful fall leaves between the two pieces of wax paper, with little chunks of crayon and we ironed the crayons to melt around/on the leave. Then they used the folded construction paper as the frame for the "stained glass"....very easy and fun for the kids! It did take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to cut out all the paper---but they didn't know that!
Friday Dd and I went to her "Girl's Club" at Sherri's house. This "Sherri" is the same one that God placed at the Homeschool Building last spring when I went in asking "How do I meet homeschoolers in Michigan", and she heard me and invited us to a movie and bible study that very night! How amazing God is! We are still seeing this wonderful family, and through them we heard about joining the band and Girl's Club! So far, the only thing I found without Sherri's help is the LINK homeschool group. The event for this month was a bonfire, S'mores, and games outside. We all had a really nice time!
Then in the morning we headed back to Indiana to get our last load of things---and a few more strawberry, grape, blackberry, and cone plants! Another visit with the "L" family---and remind them to invite us to visit soon! G&G came up for lunch. Then back to Michigan.
Our lessons this week:
Another week of way too much "other" things pulling us away from our lessons, so we just did the best we could do for this Season that we are in. It doesn't help that Dd is in the middle of all sorts of "her" books, that haven't got put back in their second place position after her summer off---I'm working on that, but am somewhat thankful that her head is in a book instead of too much computer/screen time. It helps we don't have our tv reception, or any connection to anything--so we can check out a movie from the library or one that we own to watch a show.
We have had many patches of doing a LOT of homework, and I guess it will have to be fine that right now we are in a season of doing too much non-homework stuff. I have 90% decided to NOT sign up to do the LINK co-op classes in the winter. One day of Band & Choir will have to be enough for now. I've got SO much I need to be doing on the house, and I don't have any time to do it.
Bible:
Veritas Press Chronicles Through Malachi
we are on a "bunny trail" and reading the whole book of Nehemiah instead of just the few parts that VP had us read. I really like reading the whole book, or at least most of the whole book.
Bible & Believer's Bible Commentary(BBC):
Neh. 6, 7, 8, 9,10
Psalm of the Week:
Psalm 130
with B & BBC
The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament:
Lesson 177: Nehemiah Threatened, but the Wall completed. The Reading of the Law.
Dd's Devotional:
Dd has been reading this book for about a month now, and really liking it:
Every Day Deserves A Chance by Max Lucado
(I didn't assign this- she saw the book and asked for me to buy it for her.)
Dd also worked on the VP worksheets that she had gotten behind in--Card 93 (Nehemiah and the Jewish Return) finished.
MATH:
Math U See: Algebra I
2A, B, C, D, E, and test completed
Skip Counting Family:
the 3 family x2 each day
we use to do skip-counting a specific family for a week at a time every week, but due to being so busy we put this on the back burner for a while.
Sonlight Timeline and Mapping:
Week 13 & 14 : completed
Re-Reading:
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
Dd finished reading this last week, but wasn't ready to answer questions on it and asked to re-read it again.
Choir and Sax practice: daily
Busy Hands:
Working on making a swing
Fun Books:
The Marvels by Brian Selznick: started
Reckless by Cornelia Funke: in process
The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke: in process
Divergent by Victoria Roth: completed
The Red Queen : completed and then restarted with a "Playaway" (which is an audio)
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan: in process
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