Sunday, January 18, 2015

Sonlight Core G (Ancients) Week 8"A" (GREEKS) Jan 12-18, 2015

Sonlight Core G

Week 8 “A”

Extended Greek Study

(Second week at our Greek Study)

Jan.12-17, 2015




 

Sunday Jan 11th, we tried a new church near our apartment buildings.  The church we had been visiting was 30 minutes away, the roads were covered in snow/ice, so we decided perhaps we could try a more friendly and closer church!  This new church was very friendly!  We had quite a few people come over and shake our hand and ask our name. ETA: We went back again this week!  Such a good service!  



We ended last week with me having a fever, and then for this week Dd and I both had a fever each day until Thursday when Dd was finally free from hers.  With both of us not feeling well, it was hard to get our lessons done.  Dd was so sickly that she couldn’t think and we had to postpone some of the harder material until she felt better(Monday and Tuesday were her worst days, Thursday and Friday were mine).  But, she started feeling better on Thursday, and that is when my migraine started to kick in.  Friday, I was able to do our bible study, and then my migraine got too bad and I had to go to bed…for the day.  Dd said it is “good” that I have migraines because then she has to do “independent study” and do all our assigned things on her own.  She did a really good job and figured out most of the list/IG page I had made, and she walked our dog for all the daytime walks. I was really glad she was able to do so much of her work alone this week.  But, we still had to do our last page of math for the week on Saturday.



We had a really good “Nature Hike” week on the trails around our apartments.  I do see how the Lord worked things out for us here more and more—the woods, the recycling, being so close to the Aldi grocery store, close to the downtown library…I do feel thankful for those things.

HOUSE: There is no new news regarding our house in Indiana...right now is the wrong season to be selling a house!!!!  I'm praying for it to sell, and for a new home for us---asap! 

VAN: Well, my van is back from it's THIRD trip to the expensive automotive repair shop.  I'm glad!  Now we can go somewhere again!



MICE: Just an update on the mice in our apartment…we haven’t had any! Praise the Lord!  I think we have gone three weeks now!



SNAIL: Well, another week of the snail living!  We have all sorts of tubes sticking out of the tiny tank…but it seems happy!  The smell is getting better too--- I think Chelle was right when she said that perhaps we were over-feeding it, and the food was gunking up the tank.  Thanks, Chelle!




Busy Hands this week: Pictures in a few days will be added to this post!


 




 


 Dd took a cardboard pencil box and covered it with duct tape, then covered that with her favorite quotes from various books.

This is the "infinity scarf" or "cowl" I made for Dd.  It wraps around three times.


She unraveled this---it was going to be a hat, but she messed up a few times



She made a sheath for her sword.  It is made of cardboard, duct tape, and glow-in-the-dark paint




This is going to be a 'muffler-scarf'

She made a stuffed animal out of duct tape and stuffing

She started on a hat for Pappa




She made a necklace




She is crocheting a “camo poncho”.











She made me an AWESOME blue crocheted hat (like she made for James and Andrew).



She made granola from scratch.





She made her own stencils to make herself a  “Camp Jupiter” shirt, she wanted one for Christmas, but didn't get it (or a Camp Half-Blood shirt); so she made her own!

And then covered it with glow-in-the-dark:



And she re-did the Camp Half-Blood shirt too:
I really like the horse she made! 




She made baked cheese chicken breasts.



Giz sent us a “Dog Coat”, but it needs Velcro sewed on to fit Sophie specifically, Dd has started on that.



Worked all week on a letter to her Indy friend, Shiloh—mailed.




ME: I am knitting a blue scarf for me (same yarn that Dd used to make my hat).  I completed the red cardinal bird that I had been working on for Aunt Ruth.  Now if I can get myself motivated to go to the Post Office and mail it!


The "Birthday Bird" I made for my Aunt Ruth's January birthday




 



I don’t know exactly how many years Dd has been into Percy Jackson and the Greek myths that come along with his series, but she has been focused on this topic for years now.  As Rick Riordan (the author) continued to write, she continued to follow.  We were scheduled to study the Greeks with this Sonlight Core (Core G), but we are doing it in a much extended way.  I think it will take us about another two weeks to complete the book that I have decided on continuing (The Book of the Ancient Greeks, and the Teachers and Students guides that go along also.).  I have heard of other homeschoolers taking two years to do this core, but I hope we don’t take that long.



Bible:



We are continuing to extend our card in Veritas Press: Chronicles Through Malachi.  Since VP didn’t list any specific chapters to read, we are going through the book bit by bit.



Card 79: In Process

The Ministry of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 626-580 BC



We read the chapters 11,12,13,15, 17, & 18 in our Bibles and with our Believer’s Bible Commentary.
 My favorite bible section this week:

Jeremiah 17:7-8New International Version (NIV)

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.

They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
    and never fails to bear fruit.”


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Lamps, Scrolls & Goatskin Bottles by Julia B. Hans

Pg 96- 107







Math:

Math U See: Pre-Algebra

We are wrapping up our review of the lessons we have completed in our book.  I copied out the “A” page from the lessons we were to review on a blank page so Dd could watch the presentation and re-do the lesson.  Some of the lessons were not available online, at the Worksheet Generator site that MUS offers!  It appears that after Pre-Algebra there isn’t a worksheet generator available!  That is disappointing as I really do use that site often.  Dd re-did the following lessons:

10, 11,12,13, & 14

She will do the review for lesson15 on Monday and then Tuesday we will start again with NEW material…our review being completed, and ready for the last half of this material.



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Science 1: Focus on Newton

Exploring the World of Physics by John Hudson Tiner

Ch. 1: Motion

Ch. 2: Laws of Motion

(and quizzes for each)

We watched the following YouTube video’s about this material, and found the MacMillan Space Centre a very good resource:

*Professor Mac Explains Newton’s First Law of Motion (not great)

*Newton’s Second Law of Motion Experiment by Hunter Arpaia (not great)

*Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion by MacMillan Space Centre (good!)

*Newton’s Second Law of Motion by MacMillan Space Centre (good!)

*Newton’s First Law of Motion by MacMillan Space Centre (good!)


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Science 2:

Food and Nutrition by Janice Van Cleave

Ch. 12, 13, 14, 15 completed



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Science 3: (Dd alone)

Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physic’s:

Lesson 11: Thermal Energy & started Lesson 12: Electrifying our World

Pg’s 191-203


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Science 4: (Dd alone)

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine

Pg.vii to 14



Nature: Nature Hikes for Dd x 3



Language Arts:



All About Spelling 6: Step 23: passed

And reviews

IEW’s Fix-It: Frog Prince:

Week 21 completed



Writing With Skill:

Week 2 completed



Journal and Blogging







Geography:

Seterra, online game x 2






Current Events:

CNN Student News

Dd and I both enjoy this weekday program—it lasts ten minutes, and is a good summary of the events going on around the world.



History Add-In’s:
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Famous Men of Greece

Pg’s 13-31

We have had a bit of trouble with this book, since Dd had read and then listened to the audio of Rick Riordan’s Greek Gods, many of these stories are not new to her, and many times we have already heard the story repeatedly.  This is such a great book, filled with such LOVELY illustrations, but, we have already passed much of this information.  We will continue to go through it and search for new information.


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The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff: Completed

SUCH AN AWESOME BOOK!!!!!!

I found this book so much easier to read than the book before this one—Black Ships Before Troy.  This was a very good version of Homer’s epic tale of the story of Odysseus.




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by Dorothy Mills

The Book of the Ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills

We read pages 45-146 –Chapters 1-8

And we completed the worksheets for Chapters 1-6



Glaucia, the Greek Slave




Lamplighter Publishing / Hardcover


Lamplighter’s Glaucia, The Greek Slave

(Reader for Dd): in Process






Sonlight History Items:


 The Trojan War




Trojan War: in process

Ch. 5- 7




Hardcover Text, Vol. 1: The Ancient Times, Story of the World





Story of the World: Ancients:

Read Ch. 24 & 25

Activity pages and questions for Ch. 24

(My migraine on Friday prevented us from getting the Activity pages done for Ch. 25—next week we will try again!)

(BTW, Dd says this is her favorite history book we are reading.)





YouTube:

The Aeneid: The Animated Short



Khan Academy: I watched and played quite a few things from Khan Academy this week.  Khan Academy has so much information regarding the Ancient Greeks, and their artwork.  This is a very good resource—and a FREE resource as well!!!



 




Audio 1: (Dd and I)

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder: completed

This is a terrific audio!  LOVED it!  This is a continuation of the Little House on the Prairie/Town stories.  Mary goes to her College for the Blind, and Laura studies and then begins her teaching career.  Almonzo generously takes her home from her teaching post each weekend.  The house that she is staying in is very stressful, as the mother of the house is half insane (at one point, Laura wakes up to this woman yelling at her husband in the middle of the night, with a butcher knife in her hand!  Laura refused to go to sleep that night, for fear of her life! Gasp!  Almonzo slowly grows on Laura, and in the end she agrees to marry him!  He builds her a home, on his stead, and we leave the newlyweds on their porch looking to the future.  This is probably the saddest one of the stories---Laura, our favorite home-body, leaves home for good…sniff. Sniff.



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Audio 2: (just Dd)

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

We’ve read and listened to this before…Dd just likes to re-listen!




 Anne of Green Gables Novels #6: Anne of Ingleside



Fun Book: Dd

Anne of Ingleside





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Item #: 049786

Kindergarten - Grade 8

Rainbow Price: $64.95



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Mar 20, 2012






Weekly Schedules
When we extend our core out, we use Sonlight's "Additional Schedule Page"(s).  I make one for me, and the things we do together, and I make one for Dd, for the things she will do alone.  This week, with Dd not feeling well, she didn't have a lot of things on her solo page.  But, then Friday while I had a migraine she had to do the items on my page by herself.
My schedule

Dd's schedule




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