August 12-16th, 2013 Core E Week 34

August 12-16th,  2013 

Core E  (American History, Part Two)

Week 34 (Week 34 out of 36 weeks!! Almost done!)

No two weeks are alike, right?!  This week was exceptional b/c Dd was invited to a birthday party/ sleep-over on Friday night and she couldn't just buy presents like everyone else (although we did buy presents as well!)---NO!  She wanted to make as many gifts by hand to make them extra-special!  So, much of our lessons had to pushed to the side, so she could cut, sew, glue and make--while I read our lessons and she created her masterpieces of love and friendship that celebrated her friends birthday!  

Our lessons for this week went fine with the exception of the book: In Search of the Source.  When I went to find this book on my shelf, to start it on Monday---I was surprised to see I didn't have it!!! GASP!  So, I ordered it on Monday morning, and Sonlight processed the order late on Wednesday, and it is due to arrive Tuesday, August 20th!  Geesh!  that is a long time to wait for a book that you want to start reading immediately!  But, that is 'media mail' and slow processing!  But, I hear it is a great book.

Bible:

Judges -Chapters 6-18

Hebrews -Chapter 12: 1:13

Ephesians -Chapter 4

Men of the Bible: A One Year Devotional Study of Men in Scripture by Ann Spangler

Men of the Bible-Section on Samson 

We use a few different "Know Your Bible" books each day to review what the book we are reading is about, who wrote it, when it was written, is it in the Old Testament or New Testament, any major themes or points to remember from this book.... I don't usually post the book(s) we use as a reference to go along with our bible readings; but I try to do so occasionally in case that might help someone else in their bible study.  I'm thinking of switching to VP Bible next Core (F) to do a bit more of an in-depth, slower bible study with our Journey Through the Bible...Still thinking that over though...

History:

The Landmark History of the American People from Plymouth to the Moon by Daniel J. Boorstin and Ruth F. Boorstin

 Landmark History of the American People, Vol. 2

The Story of the U.S.A. (Modern America, Book 4) by Franklin Escher Jr.

 The Story of the USA, Book 4

Readers:

Dd Reader: COMPLETED

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Dd's FUN Reader: in process

What Katy Did (Puffin Classics) by Susan Coolidge

What Katy Did by Susan Coolridge

 

Language Arts:

Took a big hit b/c of the Arts & Crafts projects this week!!  

All About Spelling 5: 

Step 6: passed

Step 7: passed...but I will retest again on Monday (passed)

Roots of English by Paul O'Brien

Roots of English:

pg: 12, 13, 14, 15

Science:

Apologia: Zoology 1: Flying Creatures: 131-145 on Insects(!!! Yay!)  Notebooking on Insects

University of Nottingham: Periodic Table of Video's-

N--Nitrogen

O--Oxygen

H--Hydrogen

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon

27 A-F

Skip-Counting Family: 12's --3x each day

Composer of Monday & Tuesday

Scott Joplin

Meet the Great Composers

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison

Composer of Wednesday-Friday

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Meet the Great Composers

Marc Chagall (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Artist of the Week:

Chagall

Getting to Know the Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia

I Am Marc Chagall: Text Loosely Inspired by My Life by Marc Chagall (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers) by Bimba Landmann

Art:

Dd made all sorts of wonderful gifts--here are some of the pictures of her gifts:

A Purse~

This is another purse.

This is an IPOD stand/holder.

This is a "Duct Tape Purse" actually it is pretty large.

Dd turned this into a pillow at the end; and I didn't get a picture of it in it's final stage.

This is what it is...

Eagle Creek Reservoir Hike

Hikes & Walks--with the weather being so terrific this week; we went for walks on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings!  Our dog was happy to go along with us.  Then on Thursday, we went for a wonderful hike with our friends the L family.  We went to a park and walked a trail around a reservoir.  We saw deer TWICE, green herons, blue herons, white egrets--which are just called "egrets"...but since I was naming the colors on the other birds...!!!  Frogs, beetles, birds, ducks, and cormorants.  The bushes, flowers, trees, and flowers were all in full glory too!  We have had such a nice, cool, and fairly wet summer that everything is blooming so nicely!  Even the weeds are beautiful and blooming!  I guess the bloom even in the drought summers though!  

My favorite part was when the kids made boats out of drift wood and branches and leaves after we finished our picnic lunch!  That was really neat!!!

The two boats they made were the so great!!!

August 5-9th 2013 Core E Week 33

August 5-9th 2013

 Core E 

Week 33

We had a great week---Giz and Grampy came up to visit so we could take Grampy with us to the Indiana State Fair again with us.  Giz hasn't been doing so great with walking; so she can't go and will stay home and babysit our dog and her dog.  

Chelle--didn't you ask what an Elephant Ear was?   Elephant ears are white dough that is pulled in a oval, kind of a wobbly pizza shape, 5-6 inches perimeter, and then deep fried, and then topped with some sugar and cinnamon---and then you eat it!  Yummy!  Once a year though!  It must be 2,000 calories! I wish I would have taken a picture to show you!

The Giving Tree-food pantry
Thursday night, Dd asked one of her friends to work with us at our church's food pantry--The Giving Tree---we had such an amazing woman come.  She really needed help, and I was so glad we were there to help.  It was so great to be God's hands and offer help to someone at the right time and the right place and let her know how much God loves her---just when she really needed to hear it the most....I was so blessed to be of use.  I'm glad Dd was there to be apart of that.

Let's get to our lessons:

Bible:

Galatians chapters 1-6

Ephesians chapters 1-2

Believer's Bible Commentary

History:

Landmark History of the American People, Vol. Ch. 24

The Story of the USA, Book 4, Chap. 2 & 3

CIVIL RIGHTS:
This week's history was on the Civil Rights; we had A LOT to talk about this week!!!!  Much discussion!!  MLK vs Malcolm X and the Panthers, Jim Crow, so many aspects to consider.  -- I added in other books that I own to help our discussions along- here are a few I added in:
History person of the week: 
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler and Robert Casilla

Young Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" - First-Start Biography by Joan Mattern

Read Aloud:

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson---Completed

This was SUCH a FUNNY and GOOD book!!!!!  WOW!  I laughed out loud numerously!  I really liked this book a lot!  This book really has a great heart! 

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

Dd's Reader:

Plain Girl---Completed

Math:

Math U See: Epsilon: 26 A-F

Skip Counting Family--7 family 3 times

Composer of the week

Claude Debussy

****my favorite****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQTeCn5HBg

Claire de Lune!!!

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) by June Montgomery and Maurice Hison

Meet the Great Composers book & CD




Artist of the Week

Da Vinci (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Leonardo Da Vinci
So impossible to go over any artist in one week; but to breeze through Leonardo in one week was particularly difficult.  I brought out about 10 different books we own on him and looked at different things and discussed various aspects about him.  The point is just to plant some baby seeds at this stage of the game; but it was really hard to go into this week knowing we were just going to do a quick peek at such a Master.

Language Arts
All About Spelling 5: Step 5 completed
Grammar Ace - Lesson 14 & 15
Roots of English-pg 1-11 (I decided to restart this book again, but instead of doing it with flashcards we would do it as a workbook; so we will see if this works better.)

Science
Apologia: Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Earth: pg 121-129 Pterasaurs
Notebooking book: writing some notes up on the key points.

Activities:
We did 2 good walks around our neighborhood this week, the State Fair, The Giving Tree, The Library, built a new small LEGO kit....piano with Giz.....Made Granola from Scratch, baked apples....that's all I can think of right now!

August 3-11th 2013 Pictures

August 3-11th 2013  Pictures
I am sharing a little bit of INDIANA with you all with the pictures this week!  

Dd earned a new LOTR LEGO prize!

 INDIANA STATE FAIR


Dd and Dh at the Walt Disney Exhibit---very fun exhibit!  

 

Dd rode her first park ride ever---with me--the Ferris Wheel!

Our favorite part of the fair: The Pioneer Village
 

  

 Heather----is this who you did your Easter Egg's with this year???




We have to have some cow's and chicken's in our picture's ---we are in Indiana after all!

 



Our other favorite part of the fair is the HONEY place!  We get honey ice cream, and honey sticks.  This year we bought beeswax scented with lavender to put on our dry skin---heavenly!
 



I personally LOVE the 4H poster displays!  I always spend forever reading as many as I can!  My poor family had to wait for me!  I plan on doing some pressed flowers like this poster'er did.

We had 2 Black Swallowtail Butterflies hatch this week---which was great!  These are the pictures from the first part of the week.  We did go to the Indiana State Fair; but those pictures aren't ready yet.  I'll download those in a little bit--check back later!

I released this butterfly---and it flew away; and then flew back into our yard!  I've never-ever had that happen!!!  And then SHE flew over to this Black-Eyed Susan flower and I took her picture!  It was really neat to see her return!

This is the chrysalis she hatched from.  We had a fennel next to our pea plants in the spring.  The momma butterfly laid her eggs on the fennel, and I watched the caterpillars for weeks, and then we brought in the chrysalis that was on the pea stalk and put it in our aquarium.  It only took about 2-3 weeks until she hatched.

Dd and Dh were invited to join GG and her dad right on the 2nd row to watch the Indianapolis Indians baseball team play!  How cool is that!  They had a great time out all together!  It was a Dad's and Daughter's night out!

 

A few weeks ago Dd and Dh went to a see the woman's basketball team here in Indiana--the FEVER play---here are a few pictures from that game too:

Dd and Dh had a really nice time at the game--and ate well!  Free tickets from Dh's vendor contact through work.

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