Fleur de Lis Homeschool Blog: Jun 13, 2015

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Ancients Sonlight Curriculum Core G Week 13 June 8th-12th, 2015

Ancients

Core G

"Week 13"

June 8th-12th, 2015
41 weeks on this core, so far

Check out the cheeks on this chipmunk!

A pretty good week. This was a Story of the World week, for our history study. We went over the decline of the Romans---again. With our BiblioPlan: Ancients; Augustus Caesar's World, Famous Men of Rome, Mystery of History, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and now-lastly with Story of the World we are re-hearing the story of the declining Romans. I have to say, with so many books and/or resources saying the same thing; with varying details, we are really absorbing our history facts. I think we will be pretty sharp on our Ancient history facts...at least I hope so!!!

Some highlights from this week---our apartment complex finally opened the pool and Dd was totally intent on swimming as often as she could. After Tuesdays two hour swim-fest, Dd woke up on Wednesday with a horrible ear ache! She was totally miserable, and needed a very light day to recover. I was really surprised to see her get such an ear ache, for that isn't normal for her. But, it could be that it was her third day in a row!

Dh and I had a "fun" excursion back to our storage compartment, to look through all the stacks of boxes for a "Files" box that had our car titles inside. After all the digging, we did find the title for my car, but not his. I remember last June that I paid for our Indiana new tags--thinking how I was going to be getting Michigan tags quickly and we would be wasting our money. Because, you know, I was absolutely CERTAIN that our house would sell, and we would be in our new house in **three months!!** I am so glad I can laugh at myself, because here it is June again and I still have my Indiana tags on my car, and they are soon to expire! I still just am amazed at how odd this whole process has been! I just know the Lord must have a very specific family in mind to buy our house, and He must be turning off all the hearts of the people that have looked at our house. He is holding our house open for someone special! The bank took SO long to get our loan processed, and that means that we will have to wait another two weeks before we can buy & move into our new "Spruce" house and leave this apartment behind. Dh is extremely disappointed at this new turn of events. Dd and I are also disappointed, but not as bad as Dh....he is really ready to move!

Dd makes a mean potato salad! Super tasty!

Busy Hands this week:

Dd has make a wonderful cake and icing from scratch. She made some awesome potato salad. She made herself (twice) and me (once) her famous sunny-side-up eggs and toast. I'm sure I am missing more of her cooking, because this was a cooking week! She just wanted to be in the kitchen every day. I love that she loves to cook! I am NOT a good cook; but am getting better as I get older.

Our Lessons:

Bible: Focus on Zechariah this week:

Veritas Bible Chronicles through Malachi and Job Teacher Manual

Bible: Veritas Press Chronicles Through Malachi

Card 86: Jews Return Under Zerubbabel; Temple Restoration Begins

Ezra 1-6, Zechariah 4, c. 530 BC: COMPLETED

Card 87: Temple Work Resumes Under Haggai and Zechariah

Ezra 1-6, Haggai; Zechariah

c. 530 BC: In Process

Believer's Bible Commentary [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover]

Mar 31, 1995

by MacDonald, W.(Author) ; MacDonald, William(Author); Farstad, Arthur L.(Editor)

With the bible and Believer's Bible Commentary we read:

Zechariah 1-5

What the Bible Is All About: NIV Bible Handbook, Revised and Updated

Henrietta C. Mears

What the Bible Is All About:

387-391

CU:International Children's Bible Field Guide: Answering Kids' Questions from Genesis to Revelation

May 30, 2006

by Lawrence O. Richards

SL Bible assignment:

Children's Bible Field Guide: Ch. 13

Psalm of the Week:

Psalm 123

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to you,

to you who sit enthroned in heaven.

As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes look to the Lord our God,

till he shows us his mercy.

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,

for we have endured no end of contempt.

We have endured no end

of ridicule from the arrogant,

of contempt from the proud.

This is "my page", and Dd gets her own sheet with all her independent work listed on it.

Language Arts:

Letter Writing:

we wrote a Thank You note

Fix It! Grammar and Editing Made Easy with Classics

IEW: Fix-It: (Sir Gawaiin, our third Fix-It book)

Week 2 : completed

All About Spelling Level 7 Materials

All About Spelling 7:

Step 4: passed

Easy Grammar Plus Teacher Edition

Easy Grammar, Plus

177-179

Complete Writer: Writing With Skill Level One Student Workbook

Writing With Skill

Week 16: completed

Math:

Math U See: Algebra 1

lesson 3 A-E

Science:

See the cool beetle I found this week...don't worry I let it go after 24 hours

Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology

Apologia:

Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy & Physiology

pg 215-229

write notes for Anatomy/Physiology reading

Exploring Creation w/ Botany

Exploring Creation with Botany (Apologia) Ch. 1

Leaf of the Week: Failure!!
We could not find this tree in our book! I am sure it is our fault, that it is in the book, but that we are unable to correctly assign it to the right tree! But, in science, sometimes you get it right, and sometimes you fail! We failed this week!

Here is a close-up of the leaves

Here is the bark

Another close-up--we went back twice to help identify it.

But, on the bright side---we hadn't been able to figure out which tree was producing all the ''white fluff'' that has been flying all around. We figured it out this week--it is the Eastern Cottonwood that is doing it: