Sonlight Core G
Week 8: The
Greeks!
(19th
week on Core G, so far!)
January 5-9th, 2015
Dd and I were
snowed in this week. There was a massive
car crash on the highway here, and I think they said there was about 130
cars/semi’s involved in it. So far one
semi driver was killed, and twenty injured, with more cars to get through for
final analysis. So scary! My poor husband (Dh) is driving around in a
1993 car, without four-wheel or all-wheel drive. So, he slides around and goes s-l-o-w! I am very thankful that he is doing fine
driving to work each day—we pray for him each day! We have a foot of snow already, and the wind
chill has been around -20 degrees.
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| Wed. we went on a Nature Hike together, but after that we went on hikes solo, one at a time. Sophie, our dog, got more walks that way, and we each got a little time alone (needed when your home-bound). She is wearing the scarf I made her recently--I'm not sure if you call a scarf that's ends are crocheted together a "cowl" or an "infinity scarf", but this one wraps around her head three times. |
With all the time
we’ve spent inside, we did get a lot accomplished (for us) as we started our
study on the GREEKS!
She has been
studying the Greeks, with her own collection of books, now she is using the
ones I pick!
We had finished Black Ships
Before Troy (Rosemary Sutcliff’s version of Homer’s story of the Trojan War),
and so we started The Wanderings of Odysseus (Rosemary Sutcliff’s version of
Homer’s story of The Odyssey). I might
as well just move on to sharing what we did this week, and which books we used
for our studies.
Bible:
Veritas
Press Chronicles Through Malachi
Card
79: The Ministry of Jeremiah: 626-580 BC: completed, but we will continue to
read in the book of Jeremiah.
Journey
Through The Bible
Pages
170 & 171
Dd
finished the worksheets for this card
Bible
Reading: Jeremiah 1, 2, 3, 4, & 7
Believer’s
Bible Commentary Reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, & 7
(The
odd thing with this specific card is that they didn’t assign us any specific
bible reading from Jeremiah; but just had us read a big section from the Survey
of the Bible. After reading the section,
I still felt like we hadn’t gotten enough of Jeremiah to move on, so we have
started picking chapters from this book to read.)
Men
of the Bible by Ann Spangler & Robert Wolgemuth
We
read pages 284-293, the section on Jeremiah
Lamps,
Scrolls, & Goatskin Bottles:
Pg’s
80-91
May 30, 2006
by Lawrence O. Richards
Children’s
Bible Field Guide
Chapters
7 & 8
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Wed. photo--before the heavier snow arrived
Math: |
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| I copied the "A" and "B" pages for Dd to do again, as a review |
Math U See: Pre-Algebra
We
are continuing to do our review of the lessons that we have already completed,
for this week we did Lesson 7, 8, and three days of review on 9 (Find the
Unknown). Next week we will begin our
review of Lesson 10, and see how it goes!
Science 1:
Jul 15, 1999
by Janice VanCleave
Food
and Nutrition by Janice Van Cleave
Ch.
8: Pyramid Power
Ch.
9: Making Choices and Understanding Food Labels
Ch.
10: Input-Output
Ch.
11: Food Changer: Digestion
Science 2:
Exploring
the World of Biology by John Hudson Tiner: We FINISHED this book!
Ch.
13: Mammals
Ch.
14: Frauds, Hoaxes, and Wishful Thinking
Science 3:
Aug 1, 2013
by Jeannie Fulbright
Exploring
Creation with Chemistry and Physics (Apologia)
Ch.
10: Light of the World pg’s 173-190
*Plus
Notes
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| Wed photo--when the snow was just settling in |
CNN
Student News (M-F)
Geography:
Seterra
(online geography game) seterra.com
She
played a few games, keeping her memorization of the United States fresh.
Language
Arts:
This week’s focus was on Prepositions!
I thought she had forgotten the Preposition Song we learned while doing
FLL and I played the song and chant each day, 2-6 times, Monday through
Thursday. Thursday she asked me why I
was doing it, and writing out the song on my paper—I said, ‘for YOU to learn it!”
Then she informed me that she remembers it from our FLL days! I ask her say the song; and she does!
Perfectly! I had her tell me the chant
again on Friday, just to finish our week off on the right path. She had a good laugh with me, how I kept
playing the song OVER and OVER; when all along she knew it!
Youtube:
School House Rock, “Preposition song”
Oct 17, 2011
Audio: First Language Lessons, Audio Companion Levels 1 and 2 (we still enjoy
this disc, year after year—so glad I brought it with us to the apartment.)
Item #: AASL6M
Grade 6
Retail: $41.95
Rainbow Price: $39.95
All
About Spelling 6:
Step
22: passed, plus reviews
New This Week:
Item #: 050489
Grade 5
- Grade 8
Retail: $28.95
Rainbow Price: $18.95
Item #: 050488
Grade 5
- Grade 8
Retail: $32.95
Rainbow Price: $21.95
Writing
With Skill:
Week
1: Completed
She
really did well on this in some ways, and not in another. They were wanting her to pick out a few
sentences and write some basic/easy sentences to summarize. She spent an hour each day, writing with her ‘special
flare’. She had fun doing it, but she
could have completed the assignment a lot quicker if she would have taken it
down a notch! But, she considers herself
“ a writer” and enjoyed the assignments.
We have been doing the SL LA for the past few months, and she really
seemed to work harder for this book. I’ll
keep reading the SL LA informative information, but if things continue on the
way they went this week, then I will have her do the writing assignments with
the WWS book.
History:
Item #: 025448
Grade 1
- Grade 5
Retail: $39.95
Rainbow Price: $25.50
Item #: 036454
Grade 1
- Grade 5
Retail: $21.95
Rainbow Price: $14.50
Story
of the World: Ancients (SL assignment)
Item #: 010993
Grade 1
- Grade 5
Retail: $34.95
Rainbow Price: $22.50
Audio
Chapters 20-24
Item #: 010993
Grade 1
- Grade 5
Retail: $34.95
Rainbow Price: $22.50
(We had already read Chapters 20-22, but listened to them again for reinforcement.)
Item #: 029952
Grade 1
- Grade 5
Retail: $12.95
Rainbow Price: $8.95
Activity
Pages and Tests from SOTW Activity book Ch.'s 20-24
New This Week:
May 10, 2011
by Dorothy Mills
Jun 10, 2011
by Matthew Anderson
Jun 10, 2011
by Matthew Anderson
The
Book of the Ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills (pg’s 1-43 completed)(our add-in)
Crete
and the Civilization of the Early Aegean World
*This
is a “set”, there is the big, thick reader full of material, a “student book”,
and a “teacher’s book” that all work together to give a really detailed study
of Ancient Greeks.
New This Week:
Item #: 034316
Grade 3
- Adult
Retail: $16.95
Rainbow Price: $13.50
Famous
Men of Greece by Memoria Press:
The
Gods of Greece (pg 1-10)
*I
can’t decide if I want to continue to read these aloud to Dd, or pass of this
lively, well-illustrated book to my Dd to read alone! It is one of those books that looks so good
that you (me) don’t want to miss any of it!!
Read
Aloud (Add-In History):
New This Week:
Dec 13, 2005
The
Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff (Sutcliff’s version of Homer’s epic
tale): In Process
I have to say this book is SO much easier to read than Black Ships Before Troy. I am really enjoying this book, and it's fast pace.
SL
Poetry:
Item #: 002760
Kindergarten
- Grade 8
Retail: $26.99
Rainbow Price: $17.95
Favorite
Poems Old and New—this week’s schedule completed
New This Week:
Aug 1, 2006
by Louise Cowan and Os Guinness
Invitation
to the Classics:
We read the section on Homer-“Homer:
The Iliad and the Odyssey”
Amazon.com Review
One of the many purposes of Invitation to the Classics is
to warm the heart to the masterworks of Western civilization. In doing
so, editors Louise Cowan and Os Guinness hope to "reawaken ... people to
the vibrant heritage of these classics that are rich in themselves and
in their 2000-year relationship to the Christian faith." From Homer to
Chaucer, Dickens to C.S. Lewis, each author receives a chapter that
includes a biographical sketch followed by a thorough summary of the
classic(s) he or she penned. The "Issues to Explore" sections at the end
of each chapter pose penetrating questions for interrogation of the
text as well as recommendations for further study depending on whether
your scope is technical, theological, analytical, critical, or
biographical. Once you read Invitation to the Classics, you may
agree with C.S. Lewis that we must "keep the clean sea breeze of the
centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by
reading old books." --Jill Heatherly
Mapping
for our SL IG:
Still
enjoying doing this with Dd! This week
we found Tauris, Sparta, Orestrium, Laconia, Philias…and then I had her fill
out a blank map I had of the area of Greece/Ionian Sea/Aegean Sea, Mediterranean,
and all the major towns/cities.
Timeline:
Greek related, like “Athens and Sparta – Pluto Teaches Greeks…
Kingfisher
History Encyclopedia:
Pg’s:42-55
Usborne
Encyclopedia of World History:
Pg’s:
164-192
*My
copy of this book, is in a storage box.
We have checked this book out from our library repeatedly to do our
assignments thus far. But, after we
return it in this weekend we will not check it out again. I feel like the Kingfisher book does enough
of this type of thing, and we don’t need two books of this type of superficial
information. Plus, it is hard to keep
this book for long—this library is not like our past library!!! They hold the reigns a lot tighter here. I had Dd read way ahead and returned the book.
Reader
1:
Item #: 002748
Grade 5
- Adult
Retail: $14.95
Rainbow Price: $13.50
Theras
and His Town: COMPLETED! Happily, too!
Dd
really, really enjoyed this book, and sailed right through it!
Reader
2:
Item #: 035678
Grade 7
- Grade 11
Retail: $25.00
Rainbow Price: $19.75
Glaucia,
The Greek Slave by Emma Leslie: In Process
Dd
asked for this Lamplighter book for Christmas, to read while we were on
studying the Greeks. She is enjoying it
so far!
Rainbow Resource review:
"Ancient Greece and Rome are the backdrop for this thrilling narrative of
the early Christians. This book tells the story of Glaucia, a young
woman who is sold into slavery in Rome to pay off her dead father’s
debts. Her brother, Laon, manages to escape his slave master and vows to
rescue his sister. Both siblings were raised to follow a hedonistic
Greek philosophy, but they encounter individuals who believe in one true
God. Glaucia and Laon become Christians and begin to witness to those
around them. But the life of a Christian is not an easy one; Christians
were ridiculed and persecuted for their beliefs. A moving story that
explores significant events in the early church—including the writing of
the New Testament. By Emma Leslie. 244 pgs, hc. "
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| Friday walk |
Fun
Readers:
Mandie
and Her Missing Kin by Lois Gladys Leppard: Completed
Mandie
and the Medicine Man by Lois G. Leppard: Completed
Perseus
and Medusa (Graphic Novel) by Blake A. Hoena
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| Friday picture |
Fiona’s
Lace by Patricia Polacco…Such a good story, I love Patricia Polacco! We actually live about an hour or less from
her now! How cool is that!
Anne’s
House of Dreams (The Anne of Green Gable book before Anne of Ingleside)
Into
the Woods (This is an audio from the newly released movie, based on a Broadway
play/musical…very addicting soundtrack!!!)
These
Happy Golden Years (The sequel to Little House on the Prairie)
Internet:
Awesome
Stories(.com):
Greece:
Troy; Greece: Olympian Games; Greece Sparta & Persia & Battle of Thermopylae;
Greece: Alexander the Great
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| Friday picture of our walk |
Baking:
Baking
Powder Biscuits….SO good! She added goat cheese, sharp cheddar cheese, and
parsley flakes added into the mix for good measure!
Moo Pie! It is a tofu & chocolate pie, no flour, we make it without a crust too. It is delicious! It is a bit time consuming to make; but an almost healthy way to fill a chocolate craving. It lasted around 24 hours!
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| Last week's Lego--"Swamp Prison" auto |
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| The prisoners go in the cube room, behind the driver, and the yellow gate gets closed to keep the prisoners in. |
Crocheting:
Every Day!
She
has about five projects going on this week!
It is perfect weather for crocheting!
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| Going to be a "muffler/scarf thing" |
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| Going to be a "poncho" |
Dd
completed a ‘duct tape Messenger Bag’ this week.
Next
week, we will continue forward with our study of the Greeks. Dd was asking to start The Eagle of the Ninth
this week! I think she is excited to
study the Romans too! We won’t move on
to Week 9 next week, or probably the week after that either. I think we will spend 2 or 3 weeks on the
Dorothy Mills, The Book of the Ancient Greeks and The Wanderings of
Odysseus. I think it is important to get
to know Homer and his ancient
tale. I think we will stay on card 79,
in our VP Bible program, and get to know Jeremiah
more in-depth, as well.
For
math, we still have Lessons 10-15 to complete before we start the new material
on Lesson 16. I am not sure if we will
get all five reviews passed through, or if we will need to work on some of
these lessons for a few days. I’ll
decide by how well she does on the review pages and on by how confident she
feels with each lesson. She made it
clear that she didn’t feel comfortable with Lesson 9 this week, and so I had
her work on that lesson until she did feel good about the material. I don’t want to move her forward if she is
weak on any of the previous lessons.
This isn’t a race; the goal is for her to continue to LIKE math and feel
capable with her math abilities. If you
move forward without true comfort in the material, then the student feels
unsure and sketchy about their ability.
Khan
Academy.com
I’ve
been spending some time here myself, and definitely rack up the hours more than Dd
does. This week I’ve been on the Ancient
Greek video’s and pages. This is a great
way to get a bit of refresher course on the material. I know Dd hears the video’s (as our apartment
is too small not to!) and hope that some of the material is getting in to her
too.
Chelle
had recommended these video's: Who Were the Greeks, Episode 1; and I played this
video this week. There is Episode 2 for
later.
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| It has been a great week for watching birds (squirrels and mice, too)! |
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| THREE squirrels on this feeder! They had so much fun eating our sunflower seed, and we laughed while watching them. The one on top had to keep reaching down and getting a seed, while not rocking the boat! |
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| THREE squirrels! The is one smaller squirrel behind the other side. |
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| My favorite picture this week! |
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