Sonlight Core G Week 32 July 25-30, 2016

Sonlight Core G 

Week 32 A (BP Week 22-24)

July 25-30, 2016

"Can Sophie come out and play?"

"Can you come back in an hour, we're still reading."

Hello Friends,

We have made a little progress this week, not as much as I had hoped, but Dd was asked to spend the night at her friends house.  After band on Wed. she went to "L's" Pool Party and then stayed for the night.  I was glad she was going to spend the night, but I had totally forgotten about the "day after" exhaustion that would mean (and did mean) NO homework on Thurs. (So, no lessons on Wed. or Thur.) It seems like I should have learned that lesson by now; but I guess I am a slow learner!!  So true!

Speaking of me being a slow learner---this has been one of those philosophical weeks where I go back to the same homeschooling doubts I've always struggled with.  No matter what year you ask about, I *always* have so much trouble fitting every subject into our schedule.  Science and Writing are the two most likely to get pushed to the side due to the 'only so many hours in the day' schedule.  HOW do people do it??  I certainly can never seem to maintain a perfect balance; at least a balance that pleases me!  I would guess that every homeschooling parent probably has as many of the same worries that I do, and that we all have to accept that we are each doing the very best job that we can in educating our children.  So, next week we will return to our IEW.  We did the SICCA Group "A," I think that is what it was called, now we will pick up where we left off and do the "B."  It is designed for middle school students, but I'd rather start with a program that is too easy than too hard, as that would really add too much strain to teaching.  Hopefully we can benefit from this program; it was fantastic the last time we did it.  Just thought I'd share, once again, that even homeschool families with ONE child don't even feel like they are doing homeschool perfectly, not even close!  I just aim to do my best.

Blog:
Not sure if you've noticed or not, but as my Dd is going to be officially in "high school" now, I need to be keeping track of the hours and minutes of subjects for her future transcript.  So, I am going to be trying to train myself to add in the details on my post to make sure it gets accomplished each week.  No fair judging if we do too much or too little; as we ebb and flow so much that each week is not a good indicator either way!  

Even though I had just put in new straw, the chickens have already tarnished the brand new coop with lots of their muck!  At least we took a picture of it when it was clean and nice, to remember it by.

Chickens:

On Tuesday we went to a 4-H Poultry meeting.  This was the second poultry meeting we went to this summer.  It seems our information was never given to the president of our club, and we weren't getting any of the emails.  Dd, after much thought, decided to not show one of our chickens this year.  She just doesn't feel prepared to stand in front of a judge and share. 

Our chickens are all doing very well.  It is getting much easier to round the chickens up each night, to go into their coop/run.  One night, I had left it to late, and they actually all went in without me!!  They are all doing really well and eating more greens as I've deducted some of the grain in their diet.



Eggs:
Sunday we had 8 eggs in the chicken egg box! awesome! We haven't had to buy eggs in three weeks.

Library:

We went to the downtown library this week-- I just love that library!  We also went to our local library too.

House:

Let's see---last Sunday night after we all got out of the pool we realized our pump wasn't running and the motor was super hot and giving off a horrid smell.  



So, Dh had to research, then order us a new pump.  Then after he put the new one in, the new motor was making really weird, not right, sounds.  We turned it off and investigated the wires and outlets.  Looking closely at the outlet we put the plug into, we saw it was burnt and the plastic melted!!  Dh took off the outlet and found all those wires were very old, and very wrong!  They were small wires twisted together, but they were suppose to be solid wires for the amount of voltage the pool requires. 



 Now Dh has been replacing the wires and outlet boxes and trying to right the problem.  We are very fortunate to not have had a major fire!  Dh has been working on the pool problem most of the week, and will need to order more parts.  In the picture below you can see the new gray pvc outlet line he replaced.  He had to re-wire and put in new outlets, and take out all the old wiring.  He thought it was just going to be a new pump, but it turned out to be a MUCH bigger problem.  He'll be working on this for at least another week.

This is the pump--new one in now.

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

Veritas Press: Gospels: Card 120: completed

The Transfiguration

read with the Bible and Believer's Bible Commentary, the following gospel versions on the Transfiguration:

Matt 17: 1-9, Mark 9: 2-10, Luke 9: 28-36

Journey Through the Bible:

pg 272-273

Survey of the Bible:

pg 159

Having finished Do Hard Things, Dd requested we do her favorite devotional:

The 100 Most Important Bible Verses for Teens:

pg 1-18

Church and Sunday School: 2:30 hours

Science:
Apologia General Science: Module 12: Energy and Life

completed week 1 of 2

Text: 293-311

Student Notebook: 188-195

Experiments: 12.1 and 12.3: completed 

Experiment 12.2 needed a purple cabbage leaf and I continued to forget it when I went to the store...not sure if we will do it next week or not?!


Gym/PE:
Swimming at "D" house: 4 hours

Math:

Teaching Textbooks: Algebra I:

Lesson 49 & 51 were done without problem, but she had to do Lesson 50 twice to get her score higher/understanding better.  

History:

Sonlight Timeline and Mapping:

Week 32 completed
Timeline Choice: After spending years loving the SL figures, but wanting more of them, a few years ago I went ahead and bought the big sets from History Through The Ages Timeline Set, from Home School In The Wood Publishing.  For example, the "Resurrection to Revolution" set has 280 black and white figures with name, date, and description text.  I love these!!!!  I've covered over my Sonlight figures with these, as these usually have more description in their text.  I bought mine at Rainbow Resource, no affiliation to any products, just one mom sharing what she likes...

BiblioPlan Advanced Maps:

Down Under-week 18b, Three Asian Countries-week18, and China-week 17 (my printer has died, and we are behind...new one to come soon!)

Having completed our Sonlight books for this week, but I have a few lined up to add into this section/time:

A Glorious Age In Africa: completed

Mystery of History: Middle Ages:Vol II: 

by Linda Lobar - Lessons 80-84

John Huss

Joan of Arc

Inca's of South America

Ottoman Empire

Gutenberg/Printing Press

Reader:

Ink on His Fingers by Vernon: Completed

(Reader on Johannes Gutenberg)

Famous Men of Renaissance and Reformation: by Robert G. Shearer

Petrarch & Giotto Filippo Brunelleschi and Donatello

Read Aloud:

Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
**SO enjoying this book!** It is on John Wycliffe, and his story on how he brought the bible to the common man in a day and age when only scholars had access to the Latin bible.  Highly recommend!  Even though this book is listed for younger ages than high school; I find myself enjoying the book and content very much.  

Language Arts:

Word Roots by Critical Thinking Co.

pg 29-31

Foreign Languages:

1. Sign Language: 

A Basic Course in American Sign Language

Jun 1, 1994 | EveryBook

by Tom Humphries and Carol Padden

passed lesson 8, working on 9 & 10

2. Rosetta Stone: French:

20 x 2 = 40 min. this week

Busy Hands:

We bought a dehydrator at Aldi last week ($19.99!!) and Dd put up lots of banana's and now we have a lot of dried banana chips.

Wrote a post card to G&G

Sewing:

Dd is working on two dolls

Dinner:

Dd made some fantastic Tilapia fish, gluten free elbow noodles with carrot and goat cheese sauce---yum!

Cook Out: 
Dd made the hamburgers--though I did the hardest part, taking the frozen bags out of the freezer!  She started the charcoal, got the grill all set, and cooked her hamburgers and hot dogs.  Nicely done!

Dessert:
Made one lovely, gluten-free, chocolate cake!

Music:

Parade at Byron Center (Sat.)

1:1 piano lesson with Mrs. March :30 min.

1:1 violin lesson with Mrs. Reed: :30 min.

Marching Band class on Wed.: 1:30 min.

violin practice: 1:30 hours 

piano practice: 2:00 hours 

sax practice: 7:00 hours 


Fun Readers:
The Selection: Book One: Six hours reading
The Selection: Book Two: The Elite: Six hours reading
The Selection: Book Four: Air: Six hours reading
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children: thirty min. reading 

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