Ancients Sonlight Core G
Week 9 “A”
(28th week on Core G, 9/36)
March 7-13, 2015
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| Actual SUNSHINE! |
Our first
taste of SPRING! The snow has been melting, and all the icicles are gone from
the buildings in our apartment complex.
This week we did manage to drive to Lake Michigan and enjoy our time at Kirk Park, and we also went to our library in downtown Grand Rapids twice. With the new arrival of warmer temperatures we were able to take a few nature hikes around our complex and open our windows in our apartment.
Our house in Indiana is STILL for sale, and we are anxiously awaking some great family to buy it so we can move out of this tiny apartment and into a cozier house! All three of us have had some health issues this week, and Dh stayed home on Monday b/c of his illness. We are all trying to recover, and the warmer temperatures are definitely helping (at least me!)
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| For more pictures of our trip to frozen Lake Michigan, see the post right after this one---lots of pictures there! |
This week we did manage to drive to Lake Michigan and enjoy our time at Kirk Park, and we also went to our library in downtown Grand Rapids twice. With the new arrival of warmer temperatures we were able to take a few nature hikes around our complex and open our windows in our apartment.
Our house in Indiana is STILL for sale, and we are anxiously awaking some great family to buy it so we can move out of this tiny apartment and into a cozier house! All three of us have had some health issues this week, and Dh stayed home on Monday b/c of his illness. We are all trying to recover, and the warmer temperatures are definitely helping (at least me!)
Timeline and
Timeline figures: Confession—I’ve been working hard—cutting out and gluing down
all our Ancient timeline figures that from Homeschool in the Woods. Year after year, I keep thinking my Dd will eventually
learn to love her timeline book; and each year she consistently tells me that I
am the only one who likes doing it! And
I do! I totally admit I think doing our
timeline is so much fun, and really puts history into a visual snapshot that I
appreciate. So, this core I have finally
stopped making her do it, and I’ve taken it as something I do, and she looks
at! A compromise! And a good laugh at a
geeky mom!
We are continuing to add various materials to our Sonlight Core G schedule to best meet OUR needs.
Our lessons
this week:
Bible focus:
The Kingdom
of Judah, Rehoboam, Abijah, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joash,
Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Menasseh, Amon
Isaiah,
Micah, Nahum…
Bible/BiblioPlan: Ancients
(I really like how this book (BiblioPlan: Ancients Companion) brings Geography, Bible, and History all together in every chapter. I really wanted to unite our bible with our history, but was unable to skillfully do that myself. I am so glad I’ve found a book that has done the work for me!!! I like it so well that I have slowed down our pace of moving forward to catch up the BiblioPlan book to where we are in history. We had already learned about the Sumerians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians…but was happy to learn more about all the ancient peoples with the new material. I am sure we were able to add the new material to our overall comprehension of the ancients. BiblioPlan has placed the figures from our bible into reality and not floating adrift any more.)
(I really like how this book (BiblioPlan: Ancients Companion) brings Geography, Bible, and History all together in every chapter. I really wanted to unite our bible with our history, but was unable to skillfully do that myself. I am so glad I’ve found a book that has done the work for me!!! I like it so well that I have slowed down our pace of moving forward to catch up the BiblioPlan book to where we are in history. We had already learned about the Sumerians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians…but was happy to learn more about all the ancient peoples with the new material. I am sure we were able to add the new material to our overall comprehension of the ancients. BiblioPlan has placed the figures from our bible into reality and not floating adrift any more.)
Ch. 17: Crete
Ch. 18: Greek Beginnings
(Homer,
Olympics, Trojan War, Sennacherib, Hezekiah’s Tunnel)
Ch. 19: India
(Rig Veda,
Hinduism, Caste System, Buddhism, the Nanda Empire-that stopped Macedoniah Grek
emperor Alexander the Great’s conquest of India in 326 BC; Maurya Empire,
Jainism,
Ch. 20: The Babylonians
(Nabopolassar,
Nebuchadnezzar (suffered from mental illness), battle of Carchemish, Daniel,
the Fiery Furnace, Ishtar Gate, Hanging Gardens…)
(Bible: Jehoiakim,
Jehochin, Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Daniel)
Ch. 21: Rise of the Persians
Persian:
Nabolpolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-Marduk,
Bible:
Ezekiel, Belshazzar, Daniel, and the Handwriting on the Wall000from Daniel
5:1-4, when Belshazzar is feasting and drinking and calls for gold and silver
goblets from the Temple of Jerusalem to drink from while offerings to
Marduck. Then in the midst of this
party, a hand appears and writes on the wall: “mene, tekel, parsin”. This foretells of his days being numbered,
that his kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
BiblioPlan Ancients Mapping:
World Continents, Egypt’s Middle Kingdom,
Egypt’s New Kingdom, The Exodus, and Wilderness Wanderings.
DVD from public library:
by Steven P. Demme
Math: Math U
See: Pre-Algebra
Lesson 23 A-E
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| Here is our assigned parking space---it actually was worse and we couldn't park in it...this is the improved spot! |
Science:
1. Archimedes and the Door of Science by
Jeanne Bendick
Ch. 1-5
This book has
been really educational! We have gone
over a lot of scientific terms and great explanations of levers (first-class or
second class levers) and mechanical advantage.
Item #: 023169
2. Apologia: Anatomy and Physiology
Pg 47-60
(with notes)
History:
Story of the World: Ancients (audio): Ch. 25-29
The Book of the Ancient World by
Memoria Press
Ch. 5: Life
of Ancient Babylon
Ch. 6 The Gods
of Ancient Babylon
The Hebrews
Ch. 1: Land
of Palestine
Ch. 2: The
Bible
Ch. 3: The
The Patriarchs
Ch. 4: Moses
and Exodus
Ch. 6: The
Kingdom of Israel (Saul, David, Solomon)
Ch. 7: The
Divided Kingdom
Ch. 8: The
Hebrew Prophets (Elijah, Isaiah)
Ch. 9: From
the Captivity to the Destruction of Jerusalem
The Hittites
Ch. 1: The
Land of the Hittites
Ch. 2: The
Hittite People and Their Cities
Ch. 3: The
Hittites and Their Neighbors
Review of The Book of the Ancient
World
I admit that
we are reading about the same information in multiple sources, but unlike the
time on the Greeks, this duplication seems to be reinforcing our comprehension
of the material. Dd was already pretty
complete in her understanding of Greek, so I didn’t really need to read as much
as I did about that topic, but I wanted to make sure she understood the boring
things as well as the exciting things. I’ve
found this book to be very good, not as good as the BiblioPlan: Ancients book,
but good. The material has brought up a
few things that thus far hasn’t been discussed in the other materials.
Sonlight History Read Aloud:
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray(Ch. 5-11)
Dd and I both
like this book very much! Written in
such a descriptive style that I feel like there is dust in my mouth at the end
of each day’s reading! I really like how
this book really transports you right into the story.
Add-in History book 1:
You Wouldn’t Want to Be In Alexander
the Great’s Army!
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| It's melting! |
Add-in History book 2:
Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
by Rosemary Sutcliff
Fun Add-in book:
Princess Ben
Logic:
Chapter 9 and
Dd typed up a page explaining what we’ve
learned so far:
“Red
Herring: whenever
we introduce something irrelevant into an argument, we are avoiding the
question. Someone may think it proves
his side, but it really doesn’t.
Special Pleading: when someone uses a double standard or
argues for an unjustified exception, he is committing the fallacy of special pleading. Example:
“Most people shouldn’t rob banks, but I’m an exception- I need the
money.”
Ad Hominem: an ad hominem attack is attacking an opponent’s character or his motives
for believing something instead of disproving his argument. Someone may have character flaws, but his
argument may still be valid.
Genetic Fallacy:
the genetic fallacy is condemning
an argument because of where it began, how it began, or who began it. No matter what you say, he will just claim
you are saying it because of your difficult past, and therefore, everybody can
ignore what you say. The idea may be
bad, but it is not necessarily bad because of the source (a good idea can come
from a bad person).
Tu Quoque: is dismissing someone’s viewpoint on
an issue because he himself is inconsistent in that very thing.”
Review of The
Fallacy Detective: At first I thought this book was going to be SO easy, but as
each week goes by and we are expected to remember and use the knowledge from
all the precious week’s chapters, we have found this to be much more
challenging! It is quite humbling to get
so many questions wrong each chapter, but I think we will eventually get
it! The first week we learned what a “Red
Herring” fallacy was, then “Special Pleading”, “Ad Hominem”, “Genetic Fallacy”,
“Tu Quoque” and we have to identify which fallacy is with numerous situations…really
quite challenging! One of the main
points is to learn and identify when people ask a question if the answer they receive
is actually answering that question, or deflecting – and not answering the
question but perhaps insulting the person, or changing the subject, or
re-directing the conversation in a different path than was intended by the
other person.
Latin:
Prima Latina
Ch. 5
Review of
Prima Latina: For some reason the southern accent our “Magistra” (teacher) has
seems to drive my daughter bonkers. We
will be finding a new program after we complete this set. In middle school, I really enjoyed the short time I studied
Latin, before I moved, and so wished that my Dd would also find Latin
interesting. My Dd does like the end of
each lesson where we work on learning a prayer and does that well, but finds
the beginning and middle section, where we go over the weeks lesson words very
slowly to be ‘not her favorite part’.
The magistra does seem to be quite wordy and perhaps (for my taste)
over-explains things too much with too many words. We re-watch the lesson each day and it does
get a bit long and drawn out. Perhaps,
if we were in the targeted age bracket then we might like it better? Every week during our lessons I have to look
up multiple words on my computer to hear how I am suppose to be pronouncing
words, and we’ve noticed that the way our magistra pronounces some words (like,
“Salve” ) do not match with the way our online searches say to pronounce those
words. It makes me wonder if we are
learning all the words the correct way, or if we are learning the southern
accented way for saying Latin?
Current
Events: CNN STUDENT NEWS
Each morning—Monday
through Friday—ten minute news show
Geography:
Seterra (U.S.
States game twice this week)
and
BiblioPlan
Maps:
“Joseph”, “Egypt’s
Middle Kingdom”, “Egypt’s New Kingdom”, “The Exodus”, and “Wilderness
Wanderings”
Language
Arts:
IEW’s Fix It (Frog Prince)
Week 27
completed
All About
Spelling 6:
Step 28:
passed
Easy Grammar,
Plus
Pg 77-91
Writing With
Skill: Week 7 completed
( Review for Writing With Skill: I have to say, I am so impressed with this book. I have struggled with finding a program that wasn't like pulling teeth to get Dd to do it, and this is it. She actually doesn't need my help with this (even though I bought the teacher's manual) but finds the directions so well done she figures it out 'faster without me'. She has been bringing me her assignments to read aloud to me, with pride in her work----that is just totally awesome, and not normal for her..not at all! I'm so glad this program is getting her to want to write, and feel confident in her abilities.)
Typing:
Nitro Type
(three days this week)
Dd earned $100,000
this week for completing 5 hours of typing.
She has been using this program for a few years now, so it is great to
see her skills improve—and they certainly have improved a great deal. She really enjoys this program and ASKS to do
it!
Nature Hikes:
Monday and
Wednesday
Thursday we
went to Kirk Park---Lake Michigan! Dd
played in the water, beside the frozen waves, and we hiked the trail.
Busy Hands:
Lego week
Keyboarding
Cooking:
pancakes from
scratch, brownies, and yummy potato salad
Audio: The 39
Clues
Book 1:
Cahill Files Operation Trinity
I *thought* I
was getting the previous book that we heard last week, but it seems that there
are different series to the series…so confusing…I enjoyed parts of this audio,
but really seemed ify about others. Disc
One starts back ‘a few hundred years ago’ and that story line—the young son
whose father doesn’t have faith in him, but his mother does, and so she chooses
him to work in the church and keep an eye on the altar piece, was very
interesting. But, then they fast forwarded
to our modern time, with two rich, spoiled kids that have a very snobbish
mother and I was very unimpressed. I
guess I am not endorsing this series…although I am a HUGE Agatha Christie fan,
and so cherish fun mystery books…just not this series. I should say, if you children wanted to read
it, there hasn’t been any thing disturbing or questionable…just pretentious.
Our maps and schedules for the week--joint effort on coloring the maps--she did the first two alone, and then I colored her three last maps...I just can't see a map be plain!
Our maps and schedules for the week--joint effort on coloring the maps--she did the first two alone, and then I colored her three last maps...I just can't see a map be plain!
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