SL Core G Week 30 July 4-9, 2016

SL Core G 

Week 30 

July 4-9, 2016

Agnes being sweet.  She ate a hair rubber band and has been a little in-active this week.  Hoping she feels better soon.  Glad she threw up most of it. 

Hello Friends!  
We had another parade this week--Richland, MI on July 4th.  Giz and Grampy got to watch Dd in her marching band for the first time. Giz cried so was so emotional seeing Dd's band.  I'm so glad that once or twice a year Dd has family that will come support her, I sure didn't have that, and I know how much it means to Dd.  Giz and Grampy left on July 5th (Tuesday) and we got back to our normal schedule, though we have all been really tired this week.

Chicken news:

I think it was Monday we put 1/2 the chickens in the coop---10 chickens from one chicken tractor.  They did just fine.  Then Tuesday we put the other half in with them.  There was a little arguing, but not too bad.  Then, in the evening, Dd heard a big fight---only to find out the two minor roosters had got in a big fight.  Alpha and Beta were separated and poor Beta got a big puncture wound on the back of his head/neck.  I've been taking care of his wound, and trying to figure it out.  So, I have been keeping the two roosters separated--one in each of the two chicken tractors we have while all the other chickens in the coop.  



I have been letting those free chickens enjoy a bit of free ranging this week.  Alpha is going to be going to my friend, Michele's farm, as their new stud.  Their other rooster had gotten really aggressive and attacked her; which led to his "downfall" (replacement).  I'm not sure what we will do with Beta, once he recovers, *if* he recovers...his wound is pretty deep.

This is the week our chickens started laying!

I cooked up our first egg for Dd

The chickens are laying in the straw, we haven't built the nest boxes yet!  I guess the chickens don't really "need" those boxes after all!

This is four days worth of eggs---so far only one egg each day.

Dd is using the computer/internet program, Smart Music, to help her with her violin practices.  She is sounding better!

Music:

This week Dd had the Richland parade (on Monday).  Wednesday she had her 1:1 piano lessons with Mrs. March, then marching band practice, and then in the late afternoon she had her violin lesson.  Dd has decided she won't be ready for the violin try-outs this July, and to stop taking private lessons every week, and switch to every two weeks and try out for the orchestra perhaps in January or next July.  She is really loving the violin, but wants to go slower.  I think she only has about a month left of marching band---three more parades.

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

Veritas Press: Gospels

card 117: completed

Death of John the Baptist

The following sections read with Bible and Believers Bible Commentary:

Matt 14: 1-12 

Mark 6:14-29

Luke 9: 7-9

and Dd finished the VP worksheets associated with card

Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris

pg. 188-198

Taking it slow and enjoying this book again.

Journey Through the Bible: 

pg 260-261

Giz and Grampy *thought* they were buying a Star Wars poster, as a joke, for the chicken coop---but, once they opened it they saw it had been misplaced in the wrong tube.  Now we have some weird poster up in our coop.

Math:

Teaching Textbooks: Algebra I

(Monday off) four lessons this week, 40-43

Sonlight (SL) History & Assignments for "Week 30:

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Favorite Poems Old and New




Story of the World: Middle Ages
Ch. 28-31

SL Reader:

Shadow of a Bull: in process

Can you see the gray door on the right side of this picture?  That is the new door the guys got put up to finish up the coop.  The door handle still has to be put in, but this is good enough for the chickens to be moved in.

SL Read Aloud:

I, Juan de Pareja

I, Juan de Pareja: in process

We read this book back in 2010, but Dd doesn't remember it.  It is really good!  But, not a fast reading kind of book.

Giz gathered a bouquet of flowers as a house warming gift to the girls!

Foreign Language 1:

Sign Language: passed lesson 5, reviewed 5 & 7

Foreign Language 2:

Rosetta Stone: French: 55 minutes:

earned another prize!

We treated Giz and Grampy to ice cream before they headed back home.

Science:

Apologia General Science: Module 11

pg. 265-277

We are putting off the experiments to do them next week.

Music:

piano, alto sax, baritone sax, violin

Dh and Grampy made a roost for the inside of the coop.

Busy Hands:

Dd made these soaps herself...without me, sniff!

Soap Making Kit:
pictures to be added later!

Helped Pappa change the tires on the Subaru


Drawing:
Did a really nice drawing of a Mockingjay; I'll post pix of it later this week.

Friendship Bracelet:
One of those knotted cotton colored embroidery thread thing-y's.

Haircuts:
Dd gave me a haircut, and then I cut her and Dh's hair.

Fun Books:

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

A Whole New World, A Twisted Tale of Aladdin by Liz Braswell

Rec Room:

Giz, Grampy, and Dd went out and bought a new green paint for the Rec Room.  Giz finished painting the last wall with Kilz so we could finish the walls.  

G&G brought some "mosquito plants" for us from Indiana,  I planted them behind my lavender and in front of the fence.  Hoping they adapt quickly.

Chelle---wondering how our snails are doing?

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