SL Core G Week 27
(BiblioPlan Wk 16)
Middle Ages
May 16-22nd, 2016
Hello Friends! A whole week of mostly spring weather! We got a lot of things done, in our education and around our new home. We were invited to go plant shopping with a church friend, Doris, the woman that had invited us over for lunch a few weeks back. So, in one week's time we bought our plants, bought dirt and peat moss, brought in at least 22 buckets of humus from out in the woods (manually), and got 75% of our garden planted. I still have two raised beds that I haven't planted in because they are still breaking down the compost inside them, but should be ready fairly soon.
What is growing in our garden so far? LOTS of celery, two lettuce types, kale, leeks, garlic, tomatoes, three kinds of peppers, marigold flowers around the plants to prevent buggies, broccoli, lima beans, kohlrobi, and lots of herbs...Dd has a lot of seedlings started, that we need to plant into the garden---lettuces, pea's, herbs....
Dh bought and mixed the sixteen bags of dirt he bought for us into the beds, and that was his contribution to the garden this year (and we both made the raised bed frames together last week). He has been sticking to working on the chicken coop, with Dd and I rotating on helping him. Dd helped me plant the young plants we had picked out with Doris. Dd also filled the pretty two hanging planters I had bought at Aldi's, with some of the flowers she picked out. She had been really looking forward to designing those baskets.
This week Dd planted the three lavender plants I bought at Costco. The cashier there had been joking about who was going to plant them, and that put a bee in her bonnet! She has still been adding more containers to start other seeds, and she is doing well with her efforts.
This has been a good music week for her. She had her private lesson (alto sax) with Mrs. March, and had her National Emblem song memorized for the most part, but needs to clean up a few sticky area's before she can be passed. She played a lot of piano again this week, and is doing well with that.
Chicken coop
One night this week Dh and Dd got one wall put up, and then on Saturday Dh and I got the last wall up! So now, all four walls are up. This week Dd helped Dh most nights, working on the coop. We put in the ceiling insulation, plastic, and started on the final vinyl cover, one of three boards in, two to go. Dh got the electrical wires for the three lights and one ceiling fan in. Dd put the ceiling fan all together, now we just need to test it. Lots of progress going on in there. We used up all the insulation we had bought for the coop, and will need to buy more, same with the vinyl ceiling boards--need one more piece. All-in-all, it is coming along, but we still need to cut a window into the wall, and a small chicken 'door' into another wall. It is a bit scary cutting into exterior walls!
Our Lessons:
Bible:
The Beautitudes
Matt 5
Bible and Believer's Bible Commentary--the BBC has pages of material on this...it is taking a while.
DC Cook Journey Through the Bible
Journey Through the Bible: pg 250
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Do Hard Things by Harris, pg. 153-155
Music:
Sax and Piano
Sax - 5 hours this week
Piano - 2 hours this week
Private lesson with Mrs. March- sax
This week Dd has been practicing really hard, memorizing the National Anthem, that she has to pass to be in the Marching Band.
Language Arts:
Writing-Various assignments
Easy Grammar, Plus
pg's 289, 293,
Bible:
The Beautitudes
Matt 5
Believer's Bible Commentary [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover]
by MacDonald, W.(Author) ; MacDonald, William(Author); Farstad, Arthur L.(Editor)
DC Cook Journey Through the Bible
Journey Through the Bible: pg 250
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Do Hard Things by Harris, pg. 153-155
Music:
Sax and Piano
Sax - 5 hours this week
Piano - 2 hours this week
Private lesson with Mrs. March- sax
This week Dd has been practicing really hard, memorizing the National Anthem, that she has to pass to be in the Marching Band.
Language Arts:
Writing-Various assignments
Easy Grammar, Plus
pg's 289, 293,
Science:
Introduction to Genes & DNA
Introduction to Genes & DNA
Usborne Intro to Genes & DNA
pg 26-62: Completed
Apologia General Science Student Notebook:
pg's 151, 155, 316
Math:
Dd redid some lessons she didn't get a great score on, -
28, 32, 35 x 2, 31
Foreign Language:
Rosetta Stone French Version 3 Levels 1-5 With Audio Companion
Rosetta Stone French
10 minutes Mon-Fri
Sign Language: Tue & Thurs
Latin:
Word Roots Level 1
pg 24-28
Word Up DVD
Lesson 6-10
Drawing:
Dd has been drawing 45 minutes per day
History:
SL Timeline and Mapping: Week 26: completed
The Rus besiege Constantinople, Vladimir, Ivan the Great, Queen Elizabeth, Ottoman Turks settle in Asia Minor, Ottoman Turks settle on edge of Byzantine Empire, Shakespeare writes Hamlet, Bubonic Plague begins in Central Asia, Black Death kills one-third of Europe's population.....
SL Timeline and Mapping: Week 26: completed
The Rus besiege Constantinople, Vladimir, Ivan the Great, Queen Elizabeth, Ottoman Turks settle in Asia Minor, Ottoman Turks settle on edge of Byzantine Empire, Shakespeare writes Hamlet, Bubonic Plague begins in Central Asia, Black Death kills one-third of Europe's population.....
BiblioPlan Companion, a Text for Medieval History
Ch. 16: India: Completed
BiblioPlan's Hands-On Maps for Middles: Medieval History, Grades 2-8
BIBLIOPLAN FOR FAMILIES / TRADE PAPERBACK
BiblioPlan Advanced Medieval Maps
Week 15 & 16
Magna Charta:
pg 17-101
The Samurai's Tale:
Dd read the first few chapters, but isn't liking this book, she is reading another samurai book that she is liking more.
Story of the World Middle Ages
Audio
Fun:
A Star Wars Audio--I forget which one...
Hawksmaid by Kathryn Lasky
Robin Hood type story--we've read it before.
Robin Hood type story--we've read it before.
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I love reading about your "country life" and look at all your progress on the garden!!! Thought of you when we found ladybugs laying eggs on our little tree by the garden. Hoping the eggs hatched and didn't get eaten by bugs.
ReplyDeleteYour spring planting will look gorgeous when it's in full bloom!
ReplyDelete(For some reason I'm not getting your posts via blog lovin' , so I'm reading this the old fashioned way - right on your blog :D)
Off to check the 2 titles you've listed at the end.