SL Core G Week 26 "D" Middle Ages BiblioPlan Wk 14 May 9-15, 2016

Sonlight Core G Week 26 "D" 

Middle Ages 

BiblioPlan Wk 14 

May 9-15, 2016

Snow! on May 15th!  

Hello Friends!

Curriculum, you know you may wonder why it takes us so long to get through our Sonlight and BiblioPlan material--we do two programs together, woven together (our attempt to!) and that takes a bit of time!  I always felt like we were rushing through our material and gave myself permission to slow down to the pace that I felt we were able to absorb the main points.  I should be very clear, that I don't think everyone should go slow, but that everyone should go their own speed and not feel pressured to let their curriculum dictate your pace!  Each family should go their however best fills their needs (and not the other way around!).  

*Skip to the "Our Lessons This Week" if you want to miss our details and blessings from the week.*

Still too cold to open the windows and get back to our painting and completing the "Rec Room."  Maybe in another week....hoping!  Today (and yesterday) we had sleet and snow!  Can you believe it?!!  What odd weather Michigan has!  It is weird to have our heat still going as we approach June!

Snow! on May 15th!

Libraries (2), Music, Yard Sales...& Blessings:

Monday we drove down to the downtown library again this week, and found a bunch of great audio's on sale!  What a blessing!!  Tuesday Dd had her private lesson with her teacher, and is close to passing her memorization test to gain entry into the Northern Lights Homeschool Band.  They already have 202 musicians signed up for this year's band! We also went to our local library.  Our friend, Michele Z. took us to Pickerel Lake on Wednesday.  I posted an entire post about this wonderful park.  We were blessed at some new clothing at yard sales on Friday and Saturday-- I really lucked out finding TWO ladies who were selling their gently used clothing, in my size!!!  The only other time I have ever got that many new shirts was when I graduated from college and my Aunt Ruth took me shopping for 'work attire.'  I thought that was going to be my life's only shopping spree---but this week I was really fortunate!  I probably got twenty new tops!  I have to say, I really felt in my heart that this was a real blessing directly from the Lord!  I was saying, 'Praise the Lord' for the next 24 hours!  Do you ever have those times that you really feel like something was clearly a blessing from God?  I do...and this was very much the case.  I really want to share how the Lord has been blessing me.  You may or may not know how difficult these past 9 years have been, but they really did pave a well-worn path between me and the Lord.

Date Night:

Dd went to a birthday party/over-night party with seven girl friends on Friday, and Dh and I got to have a real date night!  I took the opportunity, after Dd was dropped off, to spend two hours at the Christian book store finding a new bible.  Dh gave me money for my birthday recently, especially to buy my own choice bible.  Years back he and his mother had given me two bibles, but they didn't have my name engraved on them, and I wanted a bible that I picked out myself.  When the woman engraved my name, she kinda messed up, and my name doesn't look right.  She made a practice run, and then a real run over-top of it, and the ink was wobbly.  From a far it probably looks okay; but it was a bit of a bummer.  I might go back--but I'm not sure if I should make a deal of it, or if I should just let it go.  So, in one week I got to go hiking with Dd and my new friend, Michele (and her son)---then fabulous yard sales that provided me with so many new tops (a new dress-up dress for next years Christmas party, and new dress shoes to go with it), a new bible, AND Dh and I got to go out for sushi date!  Dinner--just the two of us!  That is a lot of blessing in one week!  Thanking the Lord!

Chickens:

We have all been spending a few hours here and there working on the chicken coop!  Saturday, Dh and Dd got a new wall built for it!  It is really coming along!!  The chickens are doing really well.  Saturday, Dd and I went and bought some bales of straw.  The chickens were very untrusting of it at first, but soon found they LOVED it!  They are so funny!  Our garage has a door to our fenced in back yard, and I've started taking the birds out and leaving the door open so they can get back in, if they want.  Well, it is so funny---they will enjoy being outside for a little while, but not too long.  I left them for about 40 minutes and then went to check on them, and all twenty of them had come back in the garage and wanted back inside their chicken tractor homes!!!!!!

Balancing lessons and home:

I got another five boxes mostly unpacked this week.  I am having such a hard time trying to cook, clean, get lessons done, and everything else. Do you all have that issue too?  When there are more chores, it does get harder.  But, glad I don't let any amount of work get in the way of accepting invitations to parks!   

Dd did all the plastic on the insulation on this section too

Chicken coop:

We put in the studs, floor bases, insulation, plastic, then plywood.  The square hole is where their 'shoot' or door out to their run will soon be!

This new wall was put up by Dd and Dh supervising.  They worked together for about five-six hours on Saturday.

Our Lessons This Week:

Bible: 

Veritas Press Gospels

Card 114: Completed

12 Apostles Appointed

(reading of the apostles being chosen in Matthew 10: 1-4, Mark 3: 13-19, and Luke 6: 12-16.  It is so interesting comparing the same stories in varying gospels.)  

Card 115: In Process

The Beatitudes

Matthew 5

Zeus is no longer the head-fred of our coop; "Michael Buble" is now the top Rooster!  and he is doing little attempts at crowing.  If we have to 'let one of the rooster's "go," it will be Michael.  Zeus is a much nicer Rooster and not so competitive.  This picture is of Michael Buble---btw, I did NOT name him!  A friend of Dd did, it is some inside joke.

The handsome young rooster in the center is Zeus

History:

BiblioPlan Companion for Medieval History

Chapter15: Companion

Magna Charta by James Daugherty:

In Process

Story of the World: Volume 2: The Middle Ages

Ch. 11-27

(audio--listen while driving)

Sonlight Mapping and Timeline

Week 26 completed

Science: 

Apologia: General Science: Module 9

Text done, Student Notebook done, Test done

*but, there is still one experiment I want to do with earthworms.*

Added In: The Usborne Intro. to Genes & DNA

pg's 4-25

Hike, at Pickerel Park: 2 hours

We saw masses of frogs, birds, water bugs, dragon flies, beaver dams (2), Snapping Turtle, Paint Box Turtle...all sorts of nature.  We saw a Eastern Towhee there, then came home and an Indigo Bunting was on my feeder!  Also, Red-Winged Blackbirds have been coming to my feeders this week; which is new.

Language Arts:

Writing--I had Dd write a few paragraphs on two topics, she picked one topic, War of the Roses, and secondly, on the 5th Criterion (science).

Easy Grammar, Plus

corrected pages 285, 281, 277

new: 277, 279, 283, 287

Word Roots: Level 1

pg's 20-23

Foreign Languages:

Rosetta Stone: French (10 minutes each day)

Sign Language: 

passed lessons 1-4, taught 5 & 6, almost memorized.

Math: 

Teaching Textbooks: Algebra I

Test, 33-36 

Music:
Alto Sax: 40 min. each day, plus 30 min. lesson with her teacher
Piano: 2 hours this week
Violin: 30 min. this week

Home Economics:

*wrapping Addy's gifts

*writing Thank You card to Lexi
*Dd made me a Moo-less Pie (tofu, honey, and choc. chips) for my birthday cake this year (no crust)
*Dd sewed a cool dress out of one old "dress-up" dress and some cool fabric we had.  I'll try to get a photo next week.

*5-6 hours of working with Dh on the chicken coop, what is extra nice about working with my husband, is has her do most of the work--the cutting, sawing, drilling...

*caring for the chickens (she did better this week!)

*chores--dishes, laundry, cat litter.... 

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