SL Core H Week 6C Jan 16-22, 2017 BiblioPlan Companion and Timeline Sonlight Book of Time

SL Core H 

Week 6C (1500-1600)

Jan 16-22, 2017

with pictures of our Timeline Book and BiblioPlan's Companion (Early Modern History)

Agnes

Our Sonlight "Book of Time."  I thought I'd share a few pictures of our timeline book, and our BiblioPlan Companion book, just to share.

Hello Friends!

I really like our Sonlight Timeline book.  I've ordered quite a few of the Homeschool In The Woods timeline packages.  Their figures have more information on each person than the ones we were getting from Sonlight.  I put in CardStock with Scotch tape to extend the amount of space I have for each page 

Our Book of Time

Violin Lessons re-started:

     Dd started violin lessons at one of the big music stores in Grand Rapids this week.  The instructor, Irena, was a tough one to gauge.  We will give her a month or two to find out if she is permanent.  During Thursday night's Strings Group at church, Dd and her friend Hailee both played their violins for one song.  Normally Dd and Hailee just play their guitars, but they are thinking of expanding their sound.  Paul has spent the last week learning to play the banjo!  They are really having a lot of fun in the Strings Group!

I'm putting in a few pictures of our BiblioPlan Companion, to share with anyone interested.  I've found that no one I know has ever heard of these great history, church history, and geography books.  So, I am sharing a few pictures to those of you who might be interested.

Agnes being super cute and cuddly. 

Chickens:

The chickens are all doing well.  We had a warm up, so I let them out twice, only to hustle them back inside their coop.  There is a tricky hawk that seems to show up whenever I let the chickens out.  I cleaned out their coop this week, and they always have such fun scratching through the new straw.  

Sophie, our dog :
had a pretty good week.  She only threw up one time.  Her appetite is back, and she had more energy than last week.  It is hard knowing she has cancer, but not being able to really access how well she is feeling.  I hate to think she could be in pain, and not know!  I'm monitoring her, and she is getting quite spoiled!

BiblioPlan Companion for Early Modern History

Dd:

Dd was so tired and 'off' this week that she didn't really shine much.  She even napped on Tuesday; which doesn't happen much.  A band friend offered us her older FitBit, and for a cheap enough price that I said, 'yes.'  I am hoping it might help encourage her to make more of an effort to exercise with me....well, she did do one mile with me, but that was it!
Dd didn't get all of her chores done this week.  I remember my mom saying to me: 'It's easier if I just do it myself,' and as a parent, boy, do I see the truth in that, but I still try to go through the trouble of pushing until she gets her work done.  I do see how much easier it would be to do many things myself, but then Dd wouldn't be learning how to do things.  Frustrating, but important! 

BiblioPlan Companion for Early Modern History

Italy:

Dh has another meeting that he has to attend, in Bologna, but this time Dd and I are going with him.  We are going to go to Rome and Florence as well as Bologna.  We've already started watching video's on YouTube on traveling to Italy for ideas.  Giz and Grampy have offered to stay at our house while we travel...can you believe how kind they are?!  Sophie will be spoiled!  They are going to bring their black lab, who is also ailing so both dogs will be very well cared for.

Church:
I emailed our pastor to share that we decided to become members at our church, but the night our elders meet next will be when we are in Italy.  So we will have to wait until March before we can share our testimony and apply for membership....  This Sunday I got to lead the discussion on our Woman's Study on the book "Gideon: Your Weakness, God's Strength" by Priscilla Shirer.  I have no idea how well I did..but I studied hard for it!!

Dh:

Dh has had to work some crazy hours lately, plus last Saturday and this Saturday too! 

BiblioPlan Companion for Early Modern History

IEW: SWI-B to SWI-B Continuation Course:

We are almost finished the SWI-B, that I bought used at the hs sale last summer.  I went on IEW's site and chatted with them, inquiring about what we should do next.  We really love the DVD instruction courses and didn't have luck with the books, so we wanted to stick with the DVD sets.  The person I chatted with said we should do the Continuation Course after finishing.  I thought we should go on to level "C," but they said the Continuation Course was the way to go.  So, I ordered SWI-B Continuation Course ($199) from their website.  It arrived this week.  Inside the small box was the set of DVD's and inside a clear velum package was the Student Notebook.  I was to go on the website to print out the other materials.  I was expecting a 3-ring binder for the Student Notebook, and another 3-ring binder for the Teacher's Manuel; which is what I got when I had ordered from them years ago when we did SWI-A.  I tried to follow the instructions to print out the Teacher's Manual, but couldn't figure out the instructions.  After trying for days, I called them on Friday for help.  The woman on the helpline was kind enough to put the files on my account, on their website.  I asked her about the binders and she just told me how they only mail out the Student pages now.  I have to say, I was super disappointed at what they gave me for two hundred dollars!  I've had to print out over 200 pages on my home printer, to just get the basic information.  There is still over 200 more pages I could print out if I wanted Student Examples and other information.  It took me hours to print out, hole-punch, and put all these pages in two new binders...plus, I really am disappointed!

Academics:

Bible: 

Bob Jones: That I May Know Him: pg's 32-49

*We really aren't learning anything new with this program, I'm making us continue to read through more of this, and give it a chance.  So far, I am under-impressed.

Church, Sunday School, Wed,'s Olympians: (Volunteer 1 1/2 hours),

Thursday's Strings Group: Hymn's on guitar.

Bible Verse In Cursive:

This week Dd chose Psalm 108 v. 1

Psalm 108[a]

A song. A psalm of David.

1 

My heart, O God, is steadfast;

    I will sing and make music with all my soul.

Student Bible Reading (independently):
Luke 2, 3, 4, 9, 10

History:

BiblioPlan Companion for Early Modern History

Sonlight Timeline Week 6 (for Book of Time):
Frederick I, King Philip's War, Indians fight colonists, King William's War, King George's War, Pontiac's Rebellion, William Penn-who establishes Pennsylvania and was based on Quaker beliefs, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton....

 Read Aloud:

BiblioPlan Early Modern History Companion: Ch. 4: Jamestown, Part II: Completed

Story of the World: Early Modern:

Ch. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

BP Advanced Maps:

2b: America Geographic Regions

Week 4: Jamestown Part II
Week 5: New France (Canada)

Reader:

George Washington's World: pg 71-107

Reader:

A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh: COMPLETED

(This use to be in Sonlights Core H, I kept it in)

Reader:
Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley: COMPLETED

We read this, way back, maybe Core 1/A--and I remember thinking how this, like all other Diane Stanley books, was so good we should read it again when we came back around to this point in history...so we did!

FUN Reader:
Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer: Completed
Amazon summary: 
Though born without great beauty, wealth, or title, Anne Boleyn blossomed into a captivating woman. She used her wiles to win the heart of England's most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and persuade him to defy everyone--including his own wife—to make her his new queen. But Anne's ambition was her fatal flaw. This is the true story of the girl everyone loved to hate.

Carolyn Meyer's engrossing third novel in the award-winning Young Royals series tells Anne's fascinating story in her own voice—from her life as an awkward girl to the dramatic moments before her death.


Language Arts:
LA Week 1 Activity Sheet
(from Core G, Week 1--focus on adjectives)

BiblioPlan Companion for Early Modern History

Math:

Math U SEE: 7A. B. C. D. E

Science:

Apologia Physical Science: Module 3: 

Study Sheets in Student Notebook: pg: 335-339

Painless Poetry by Francis McPake

pg 81-90

Word Roots: pg 66-70

Exercise:

20 minutes Leslie Sansone DVD

45 minutes games at Olympians

Music:

Piano Lessons with Mrs. March: 30 minutes

Beg. Band: On Tenor Sax: 1 1/2 hours

Inter. Band: On Alto Sax: 1 1/2 hours

Violin Lessons at Meyer Music: 45 minutes

Practice: though week isn't up--I'll update later.

violin: 1:50 hours

piano 1: 30 hours

alto sax:  1:30 hour

tenor sax: 1:00
flute: 30 minutes

Dd is working on these maps...I think it has to do with a story she is writing....

Art:

Drawing and Watercolors

Chores:
Chicken Care, Dishes, Vacuuming, etc.


Gideon by Priscilla Shirer:
I lead our woman's bible study class on one section of Gideon, Day Three.  I wanted to share one section that I found very thought-provoking.  Shirer picked four bible verses for us to look up that share 'God's will for people.'  I found it very interesting which exact verses she picked. 

1: Micah 6:8
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
    and to walk humbly[a] with your God."


2. 1 Thessalonians 4:3
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification:[a] that you abstain from sexual immorality;

I read further down and found chapter 4 to be very good.  Here is 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12:

11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, 

12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1 Thessalonians 5:18
18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Ephesians 6:6
Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.


Matthew 22:37-38
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.

I like Mark 12:30 even better than it's bible twin (Matt 22:37-38), as Mark's version includes that we love the Lord with all your strength, and somehow I like that better:
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a]

My notes from the selections Shirer assigned:

Micah 6:8 (My notes)
Do justly, Love Mercy, and Walk HUMBLY with the Lord.

1 Thess. 4:3 (My notes)
 That we are to aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.  
In Everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Ephesians 6:6 (My notes)
Doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord and not to men knowing that whatever good anyone does He will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Christian standards of performance, with a sincere desire to please God and to gain the merit and approval of the Lord. Knowing that we are not working to please other people; but to please God in our thoughts, words, and actions.


1 Thessalonians 5 (My notes)
Be at peace among yourselves, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all, see that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, always pursue what is good both for yourself and for all, rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks, test all things, hold fast what is good, abstain from every form of evil.  Wear the protective covering of a consistent godly life.  The three cardinal elements of Christian character: Faith, LOVE, and Hope.


Well, I just thought I'd share a piece of Shirer's bible selections on God's will for us to study and think on.  I liked it so much I spent a week studying those selections with Dd.  

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