Sonlight Core G
Week 28 "A"
June 13-19, 2016
Three Rivers Parade
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| Dd is in Northern Lights Homeschool Band, and they had their first parade of the year on Thursday. |
Hello Friends!
This week some daisies started blooming, and one Tiger Lilly also opened up! It sure is fun watching the cycle of blooms change. We saw Sandhill Cranes twice this week too. Then, of course, all our normal birds and critters have been around too. This is a great time of year, warm but too dry for the mosquitoes! They should be here very soon if I remember July correctly!
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| I was in the very middle of the gym, so none of the pictures really show how big it was! I took a few pictures before the sale started and it got chaotic. |
This week (Monday) was the annual Used Book Sale at the Homeschool Building! I paid for two, six foot tables, and filled them to the brim! Plus the floor space under them! I found a lot of the Apologia science books I was wanting to buy, and many future Sonlight books I was needing too!!! I really am SO thankful for how well I scored in finding our materials. By the time to subtract the amount of money I made from the money I spent, I only spent a bit over one hundred dollars! I am very, very pleased! I hope I can sell more next year and try to get more of our books this way.
I only found one Core H for sale, and it was a 2013, but I wanted an early version (book questions all in one place), but had to buy it at the end of the day as I had no other option. Then on Tuesday I had to bring Dd back to the Homeschool Building for her sax/piano lesson with Mrs. March and found a 2008 Core H for sale in their store! So in 24 hours time I bought TWO Core H's! I figure I can sell one of them next year at the sale!
I think we will do Core H next, then Core 100, then Core 300. I will try to fit in all or part of Core 530. That is the plan for now.
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| See the lady with the piece of paper on her back? That is what you do, you write what you are looking for on a piece of paper, and put it on your back and people will tell you where they might have seen what it is your wanting....helpful! |
Wednesday Dd had her band practice--the last practice before their first parade, which was on Thursday at Three Rivers. They had over 200 students in the band, plus two color guards. They did awesome!!! Words just don't do it justice! They have a whole chorographed routine they do, and it is very high energy. They look so impressive in their uniforms, too!
This is the organization, the band is called the Northern Lights.
http://www.wmhfa.org/
Dh has been making a lot of progress on the chicken coop!
We had so much activity this week that we had to do our science experiments on Saturday, and Dd had lessons to finish up on her own too. I'm afraid it is difficult for her to manage her time with all the marching band and music things going on. She is trying to prepare for the violin/intermediate orchestra try-outs that are in the end of July as well. I've advised doing two short violin practices each day to try and speed up her process of figuring out the violin, but this is a long shot. We leave it in the Lord's hands if that door is opened or not.
Our lessons this week:
\Bible: Veritas Press: Gospels
(Matthew 5-7 with bible and Believer's Bible Commentary)
Do Hard Things
Do Hard Things by Harris
pg's 154-167
Dd is struggling again with Algebra, she did lesson 39, then redid it again to do better...then lesson 27, and redid it for a better score, then watched lesson 28's lesson twice trying to figure it out.
Rosetta Stone French:
five lessons this week (10 min's each)
We read this with Core F, then bought the audio and listened to it, but that was a few years ago now and Dd didn't remember it. So, for our 1 1/2 hour drive down to Three Rivers, and 1 1/2 hour drive back home we listened to it again. We finished it during another drive this week...our band class is a 45 minute drive (each way) so we can fit in audio's fairly easily! This is such an inspirational story about perseverance...love it!
Music:
violin - one lesson with Mrs. Reed, and practicing twice daily
sax- band practice on Wed.
sax- private lesson with Mrs. March
and daily practicing
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| This is a Baritone! |
BARITONE!
This Wednesday, Mrs. March let Dd bring home the band's Baritone (think enormous saxophone)! She played and played and played it this week! So exciting!
Parade:
Thursday at Three Rivers, MI.
Module 10: Wk 1 Completed
(On Monday I bought a used, new version of General Science, for Dd. She was so happy to get the better, more visual version!
We did the experiments:
10.1 Factors that Affect Bacterial Growth
10.2 Yeast is a Decomposer
10.3 Vegetative Reproduction
10.4 Turgor Pressure
I'll try to post the pictures I took while we did it in a few days.
Text book: 241-256
Student Notebook: 160-165
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| Agnes...knows she is loved! |
Drawing:
3-4 hours this week
plus a great card for Father's Day with minions on it!
Swimming:
Twice this week
Sonlight:
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia: done for the week
Favorite Poems Old and New: done for the week
Reader:
The Shakespeare Stealer: completed
The Shakespeare Stealer: completed
The Samurai's Tale: in process
All's Quiet on the Western Front, among a few other books she is trying to fit into her schedule, to my dismay!
Sign Language:
Lessons 1-9
Not a lot of chickens, cooking, baking, or gardening for her this week.
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