Sonlight Core H Week 11 (1500-1700's) March 20-25th, 2017 (First week of spring)

Sonlight Core H Week 11 (1500-1700's) 

March 20-25th, 2017 

(First week of spring)

This is the watercolor set Dd bought at JoAnne Fabrics, with the gift certificate my mom gave her for Christmas!  

"Before" Remember how cute and small they were, just a few weeks ago?

"After"This is how big the ducks are this week...compared to just a few weeks ago!

Hello, Friends!

Illness:

We had a much better week.  Dh's health scare has improved; which is a huge relief.  My bug is slowly improving, and Dd is better too.  Whatever bug we got has been very difficult to shake.

"Before"  Here are the same Isa Brown chicks, just a few weeks goes by and...

"After"  The Isa Browns are really changing a LOT!  Their brown feathers are coming in fast!

New chicks & Ducks:

The chickens and ducks have been a handful!  The ducks manage to spill water all over their brooder and I have to change the towels three times a day to keep the chickens dry.  The ducks have grown enormously!  My, they are such super fast growers!  They eat, drink and poop like nothing I've ever seen.  The worst part, my Dd was so determined to get these cute duckies, and yet she is very slow on keeping their brooder ship-shape.  If I had to do it over, I would not have gotten these ducks.  They are cute and all, but I am not set up for ducks and am fumbling with how to keep them.  I checked out a book from the library this week to give me some ideas.  I've put them in my bathtub twice this week to help them to clean out their noses, as they 'pant' with their beaks open due to the chicken dust.

Friends:

Thursday night, Hailee came over to help Dd on her violin playing--'her fourth finger' something or other.  And in return, Dd is helping teach her piano!  Hailee has a few years of violin under her belt and does a great job of helping with violin technique, but hasn't had piano lessons, so they are sharing technique skills.

Friday night Dd spent the night with her longest-known friend in Michigan.  It is now TWO years ago that this friend, and her mom, invited us to a movie and bible study; which was our first "Girl's Club."  So thankful for Dd having such a good, long-standing friendship that opened up so many doors.  It was through this friend that we learned about band!  Dd played her clarinet, another instrument that she has grown to like more and more.  

Instrument Fitting:
When we first decided that Dd would join the band we had to schedule an appointment with a music store to do an "instrument fitting."  The store brought out about ten different instruments-- Alto sax (not tenor, for some reason), clarinet, trumpet, french horn, flute, baritone, trombone, and tuba.  With no experience in playing any of these instruments before her goal was just to see if her mouth and will-power could work together to make a sound.  If I am remembering correctly, she sounded okay with the clarinet or the sax, and she just preferred the sax and chose it.  Since then, our band teacher has held a few instrument fittings, that we were allowed to attend. She has really enjoyed trying out other instruments and continues to want to branch out.

"Before"  This is "Hummer" or "Hummingbird" the lighter colored of the two Bantam chickens.

"After"  Can you believe how much she has grown!

Our Academics this week:

Bible:

Some difficulties this week with our book...ahem, there wouldn't have been trouble IF I hadn't lost our book!!!  I misplaced our book half way through the week and it took me two days to find it!  

Walking With Frodo by Sarah Arthur 

pg's 87-122

Bible Verse Copied in Cursive

God Is In Control (for Dd's Sunday School)

Math:

MUS Geometry

13 A-E

Science:

Apologia Exploring Creation in Physical Science

Module 4

Complete, but I'm struggling that we didn't get the experiments done.

I've started giving the ducks long swimming sessions in my bathtub until the weather is warmer and we can get them outside in a kiddy pool.

Poetry:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Lost Youth

Snow-Flakes

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

History:

(RA) BiblioPlan Companion: Early Modern History

Ch. 10: More English Colonies: The Restoration of the Monarchy

(RA) SOTW: Story of the World: Early Modern History

Ch. 27: A Changing World Steam and Coal

Ch. 28: China and the rest of the World

Ch. 29: The Rise of Bonaparte

MOH: (AUDIO)Mystery of History Vol 3: Renaissance, Reformation, and Growth of Nations

Lesson 22: Suleiman and the Ottoman Turks- 1522

Lesson 23: Ulrich Zwingli Leads the Swiss Reformation

Lesson 24: The Anabaptist Movement and Menno Simons - 1525

Lesson 25: Babur Akbar, and the Mughal Dynasty of India - 1526

Lesson 26: Henry VIII and His Many Wives - 1529

Read Aloud:

The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Goodreads Review: Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries and ghosts. Soon Peggy becomes involved with the spirits of her own Colonial ancestors and witnesses the unfolding of a centuries-old romance against a backdrop of spies and intrigue and of battles plotted and foiled.

Reader 1:
George Washington's World by Foster

pg's 215-231

Reader 2:

The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Ann Cameron (I've added back into this core, SL had taken it out, but I thought it would be a good add-in.)

Amazon review: Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage. In searing scenes, Equiano describes the savagery of his capture, the appalling conditions on the slave ship, the auction, and the forced labor. . . . Kids will read this young man's story on their own; it will also enrich curriculum units on history and on writing.

Sonlight Timeline and Mapping assignments:

Weeks 8-11

Language Arts:

IEW SWI-B Continuation:

Lesson 2: COMPLETED

Word Roots

pg. 71-73

Physical Exercise:

Dd has been working at night, prep for Marching Band

10-15 minutes each evening

Art:

Drawing and Watercolors: 5 hours this week

Fun Reading:

Corsets and Conspiracies, The Finishing School, Book 2 by Gail Carriger: COMPLETED

Waistcoats and Weaponry, The Finishing School, Book 3 by Gail Carriger: In Process

Music:

Violin: 1:00 hour lesson

Beginning Band: Tenor Sax 1:30 hour class

Intermediate Band: Alto Sax 1:30 hour class

Piano lesson with Mrs. March: 30 minute lesson

Strings Group: at church: 1:15 hours (Ukelele)
Violin lesson: 45 minutes

Home Practicing:

Piano: 2:00 hour

Alto 2:30 hours

Tenor 1:00 hours

Violin: 2:50 hours

Ukelele: 2:05 hours

Flute: 0
Clarinet: 10 minutes at friends house

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