Sonlight Core G Week 35 Sept. 5-11, 2016

Sonlight Core G Week 35 (of 36!!!) Sept. 5-11, 2016

99^th week on core, BiblioPLan Week 25 & 26

Heather, this is the Fig Tree you gave me over a year ago--that I call the "Friendship Tree."  I thought you might like to see how it's doing! (No figs yet!)

Hello Friends!

Monday was Labor Day, and we were still in Indiana.  Dd woke up very sick and shaky.  She felt really flu-ish and was puny the whole day, sadly.  We finished up our family audio on the ride back, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg.  The audio was narrated by Molly Ringwald, which took a while getting use to.  It was great getting to spend so much time with Dh—Thursday through Monday!  For our lessons this week, we had Monday off, and Wednesday we spent most of the day at band.

Dd not feeling well, on sofa with Agnes.

The chickens were all still alive when we returned---and 50 eggs!  We were so thankful for a church friend, Sadie, who we paid to go check on our chickens each day. We are getting around 11-14 eggs per day.

It definitely looks and feels like fall is here, as I sit here typing I have a crocheted cowl on keeping me warm.

Our lessons---I had been trying to schedule more things for Dd to do alone, but that hasn’t gone as well as I’d hoped.  I have been having to read more of our things aloud to Dd as it seems her motivation this past month has been down.  She readily admits she is in a rut.  We really don’t know what to do to help her, but continue to help her until her motivation returns.  Dd being sick, of course, didn’t help her with growing more diligent!  When I had planned out our work for this week, it was before I knew we were going to be taking a trip to Indiana, so my scheduling goals didn’t get met, and many items weren’t even touched.

Dd still needs Dh to help her with math, and as he doesn’t always get home before 8pm, she has had a low math week.  I’m hoping she can click back on and eventually be able to do her math alone again.

Aphrodite sunning herself by the front door.  They like to gather at our front door, and stare in...hinting they want more table scrapes! FunnY!

This was the FIRST week back at BAND! She had Beginning band, with her new Tenor Sax, then a private piano lesson with Mrs. March, an hour free before Intermediate Band with her borrowed Bari Sax. The first week back is always a big deal, and I’m glad it’s over!

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

Veritas Press: Gospels: Card 121: The Triumphal Entry: Completed

Journey Through the Bible: pg 304-304

Survey of the Bible: pg’s 162-173 (This section was really interesting, it broke down the last week of Jesus’ time before crucifixion.)

The Battle Plan for Prayer by Stephen & Alex Kendrick, pg’s 15-20

This is another book inspired by the film: War Room.  Dd liked that movie so much that we’ve been reading the two books that were inspired to go with them.

Math: 
Teaching Textbooks: Algebra I

49, 50, 51 (with Pappa-Dh)

Zeus, when he see's me, he starts doing this little side-ways shuffle, to get over to me.  I made it a goal everyday to hold him and he just LOVES it!  

Language Arts:

IEW SWI B: Lesson 6: Completed

Word Roots : (Latin workbook)

Pg’s 34, 35, 36, 37

Foreign Language:

DuoLongo: German, 30 minutes this week

Dd has complained about Rosetta Stone all along, and wants to try this app that, my friend, Kenda, recommended to learn a new language…so we will give it a try.

Literature/English:

Sonlight Reader, that I turned into a Read-Aloud:

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster: Completed
The Phantom Tollbooth review: This silly book was scheduled as a "Reader," but I'd always wanted to read it, and even bought a special edition.  One of the main points, or morals of the story is that "you can do anything, even if it is impossible, if you don't know that it is impossible.."  The main character is given a task that is "impossible" and yet he gets it done; only afterwards do they tell him that it was an impossible task.  This book was purely a "fun" read, really.  Dd really seemed to enjoy me reading this book to her, due to it's silly nonsense.  The story line wasn't the greatest, but we did meet some very interesting characters in this book--which, for me, was the highlight.  I'd read a review about this book, in which they likened it to Alice in Wonderland--and that really is a very good comparison.

The Outcasts of 19 Shuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg. We finished this on audio, on our drive to and from Indiana---fun story.  

Fun Reading:

Jurassic Park: by Michael Crichton (1:30 hours)

The Outcasts of 19 Shuler Place by E.L. Konisburg (3 hours)

Review of The Outcasts of 19 Shuler Place:
We really liked this story---the main character was a 12 year old girl.  She starts out at camp, while her parents are in Peru, and has one of her uncles come get her.  The camp director's son drives her and her uncle (and his dog, Tartuffe) home.  In the process the son (20ish years old) become good friends.  Their friendship was the only thing I had a hard time believing to be true--I wish the author had made her older than 12!!!  They get home and invite the young man to eat dinner with them, and the other, second uncle.  Then the 'problem' arises--the tall towers the uncles had built are set for destruction and the girl and young man decide to save them.  The girl has to enlist the help of other "outcasts" that use to live on the street to outsmart the home owners association.  Besides the age of the main character, this book was very engaging.  As a fan of good vocabulary, this book did have some interesting words.  Plus the uncles were from Hungary, so they had lots of bits of Hungarian words dashed in too, which was fun!

HISTORY:

Sonlight Read-Aloud that I turned into a Reader, which failed, so I turned back into a Read-Aloud:

Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Because Dd was taking SO long to read this, I picked it up and turned it into a RA.  I am really enjoying this book a lot!  This is one of those quintessential Sonlight-type books.  This book really envelopes you, the reader, into the time period so perfectly you can picture everything in your head so well.

Add-In History:  (not part of SL’s IG)

Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World by Gregory Blanch

This week we read on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo

This short, easy book reviews the Renaissance and the work of important artists from Italy. Includes Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Sofonisba Anguissola.

One of the main reason's I wanted to add in this book, was to highlight a few of the major artists during the Renaissance.  The second reason was that they feature a WOMAN artist, that has been gaining admiration--Sofonisba Anguissola.

 Add In History VHS:really old tapes, couldn't find a picture online.

The Life of Leonardo da Vinci, tape 1 and ½ of tape 2, still have 1 & 1/2 to go!  This VHS set has 3 tapes and is a biography of Leonardo throughout his life.  I'll post a picture of it soon.  We are really enjoying this well worked on movie.  They made replica's of so many of Leonardo's ideas, and filmed in Italy.   You really do feel like you are back in time!

Add-In History:

Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines (BiblioPlan)

Ch. 1 Completed

BiblioPlan Advanced Maps:

Week 26: The Cradle of the Renaissance

Fun History:

I just bought Liberty Kids DVD set, for Core H, and Dd couldn’t wait to get back to her American History (which she loves), so she watched an episode each day for fun:

*The Boston Tea Party, *The Intolerable Acts, * United We Stand, * Liberty Or Death, * Midnight Ride, * The Shot Heard ‘Round The World, * Green Mountain Boys, * Bunker Hill, *Post Master General Franklin.

Music:

Piano lesson with Mrs. March: 30 min

Piano: 1:25 hours

Sax: 3:30 hours

Guitar: 2:15 hours

Khan Academy music lectures: 30 min.

Science:

Khan Academy science lecture: 30 min.

Busy Hands: (5 hours for art)

Dd is back to her crocheting again—though she STILL hasn’t finished the soft shawl she has been working on for me for almost a year now!!!  This week she started a blue crochet bag, she saw the directions in a book at the library and has been working on that.

Dd's plate of all the foods she made on Thursday

Cooking: (3 hours for Economics)

Dd made the peanut butter fudge and had already been at it before I thought to get a pix of it!

Peanut Butter Fudge

Dd snapped the ends off the green beans while I read our Master Cornhill aloud.  She does a good job of finding things to do while I read aloud.

Fresh green beans—stir fried

I was a little late taking the pix again!  Boy, was this fish delicious--she said she used mayo and parmasean cheese on the topping.

Mayo Baked Talapia fish

Dd's Garlic Bread

Next week will be our 100th week, and our LAST week on Core G!  That is, if we can get our last few things done!  I have some other books that I wanted to fit into this section --The Hawk That Dare Not Fly By Day...etc, but, I think we will finish here and fit those in as we prep for Core H.

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