SL Core 100 Week 10B March 25-31, 2018

SL Core 100 Week 10B 

March 25-31, 2018

Big cat and little basket!

Hello Friends!

This was a migraine week, yet again.  Dd never gets as much done when I am struggling with a migraine, and being in pain always wears down my immune system, which leads to me getting a new bug/illness---which happened too.  Dd was healthy until Thursday, then she also got the bug I fought this week.  Dd and I both had had a short two-day stomach bug last week, and then this week we picked up another illness.  We didn't have a lot of energy this week and didn't get a lot done.

Both of my older orchids are blooming again!  

Good Friday, Strings Group performance, and Migraines:

Our Strings Group performed at a sister church on Friday night (Good Friday service), but Dd was too sick to go so I went alone.  On Friday afternoon I started to feel better, but Dd was still in the thick of it.  My migraine stayed with me, off and on, throughout the whole week.  So tired of migraines.  I have really been in a migraine cluster for much of this month.  Our Strings Group is also scheduled to perform on Easter Sunday---hoping Dd will be well enough to do that.

If only we had videotaped Honeysuckle trying to fit into this small basket!!!  Oh my!

Dh back to work:

Last week Dh was in Italy; returning Saturday night.  He had to start back to work on Monday morning---still exhausted from the time change.  He has really been trying to keep better hours and keep his new perspective about work.  He finished reading Tony Dungy's book: Quiet Strength.  Tony was the football coach for the Colts for years and is a very prominent Christian.  Dh really appreciated reading how a fellow Christian balanced his work and family life.

Some of the things Dh brought back from Italy:

Cookies (that I can't eat!)

The Balsamic Vinegar on the left is from last year, and the new one is on the right.  So good on salads!



Dd asked for a plaid scarf



"Fonzi's" are a snack that are in Percy Jackson's series by Rick Riordan.  Dd loves that series so much and was tickled to get more of these infamous snacks.

We just love this brand of black licorice.

Knitting:

I'm finally doing a knitting project!  I'd been crocheting this year and missed the process of knitting.  Since I've not felt well this week I thought knitting sounded perfect.  We had to text Heather to remember the little saying about how to start the yarn:

 Signed Dd up for Iowa Testing in May:

Last year I missed signing Dd up for the Iowa Test, so this year I signed up early and am so glad!  One of the hard parts of homeschooling, for me, is that I often wonder how well I'm doing facilitating learning for Dd.  I know Dd spends much less time doing homework than the public school kids, so I really appreciate getting some feedback on how she is measuring up to her peers.  So far, each time we get the results back on the Iowa Test we have been pleased with how Dd scores and that assurance helps me to not feel like we are on the right track and should continue homeschooling.  I appreciate all the encouragement I can get!  I hope she does well again this year.

Chickens:

The chickens spent time outside every day this week.  It is great seeing them outside and getting fresh air, it must be so boring for them during winter to be shut up inside their coop.  I carried the chickens to their tractors a few times this week and also fed the ones who couldn't go out some weeds.  They are all doing really well!

A little dish I made up for the chickens 

Our academics accomplishments this week:

I've been trying, trying to spend more time on Science and Writing, but, this week we only made progress in Writing.  

Bible:

We went back to my Integrated Study Bible this week, we wanted a lot of Bible this Passion Week:

The Transfiguration, Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy, Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time, The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, The Temple Tax, Whoever Is Not Against Us Is for Us, Causing to Stumble, The Parable of the Wandering Sheep, The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant, The Cost of Following Jesus, Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles, Division Over Who Jesus Is, Samaritan Opposition.  The best, best, best part is that Dd read all our bible aloud this week!  Normally I do all the reading, but she has been really growing lately.

Dd went to Church, Sunday School, Youth Program, and volunteered to run Games at Olympians.

(I'm still loving my Ladies Sunday School class--we are doing Beth Moore's Entrusted Bible Study.  I've really been digging in and really learning a lot!)

Dd typing up her IEW paper while eating the Italian snacks (Fonzi's) that Dh brought her back.  These snacks, Fonzi's, were mentioned in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and therefore are a hot item for Dd.

Writing:

IEW: Continuation B: Lessons 11 & 12: Completed

Dd wrote the Introduction and Conclusion for her Clara Barton paper.  We rewatched lessons on the DVD and finished the remaining parts on Disc 4.  (So glad to be making real progress in writing again.)

Math: Grace Academy

Saxon Geometry: Although this was Grace Academy's "Spring Break" they had to complete a big test and mail it to her teacher on Tuesday.  She worked Monday and Tuesday to get it completed and we got it to the post office at 5:30.  Then she completed lesson 87 for homework.

Dd reading A Gathering of Days on 'new' sofa!

SL Literature:

A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos: In Process

*SL IG had They Loved to Laugh as her Literature book, but this one was on a previous version and I had already bought it, so I decided to go with the book we already owned.  We have a few different versions of Core 100 to chose from.

SL History:

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet by Robert Cwiklik: Completed

Fun Reading:

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon: In Process

DVD movie:

Everything Everything, 2015

Music Classes:

Intermediate Orchestra: 1:30 hours Violin

Intermediate Band: 1:30 hours Alto Sax

Strings Group: 1:30 Ukulele

Music Lessons:

Piano Lessons: 30 min

Violin Lessons: 30 min

Music Practice during the week, plus Thursday night's Strings Group practice.

No Grace classes this week- Spring Break-

Art:

This week Dd did two acrylic paintings:

"Unique" and "Flower Power"

She titled these paintings. 



 She worked on her painting three days this week.

Fun Movies:

The one fun part of being sick and miserable is watching movies from the library:

The Justice League

The Last Jedi, Star Wars

The Mummy (1999--awful, but we knew that it would be!)

Everything Everything



Cooking:



Dd made dinner on Wednesday: Herbed chicken, Tilapia, and zucchini (delicious!) 

We've been working on the soil in the garden beds

Next week we are supposed to go back to winter weather---temperatures in the teens or twenty's!  Snow and ugly wind.  Here is hoping spring will come back soon!  

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