SL Week 22 "A" April 7-12, 2014

SL Week 22 "A"
April 7-12, 2014

This was a different week, for sure!  We had invited our friends; the "L" family over to celebrate Dd's 12th b-day, and we had a lot of tidying up and shopping to do before they arrived.  I *planned* on getting some lessons done, as well as doing the party prep...but, that didn't do very well!  But, we had a great week--and Dd got the week off math; so she was also supremely happy!

We went to the library twice.  We went to three different grocery stores; one of those twice!  Dd had SWIM & GYM on Tuesday.  Thursday was the "L" party.  Friday was our field trip, with our "large homeschool" group (HBHE) to "SKYZONE" (indoor trampoline place).  Friday night Giz and Grampy came over to celebrate.  They took us out to eat too!  Saturday we had eye appointments! fun! fun! (Pictures on the blog, after this post.)

Busy Hands this week:

She made the 5 gifts for the "L" family--completed.  She made herself a ipod case, like the one she made "R".  And she has been working for a week on a green, cotton crochet hat.  

LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 7965

Put the Lego Millenium Falcon together.

Bible for this week:

Happily using Veritas Press's bible program: Judges through Joshua

Card 50: in process (lots of segments to read)

Davidic Kingdom 1 & II Samuel  & I Chronicles

2 Samuel 7 -12 (bible & bible commentary)

The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament: 
Lesson 107 & 108

Audio's: 
completed both!

The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, Book 4) by Rick Riordan (Oct 8, 2013) - Unabridged (completed)

 

The Mistmantle Chronicles, Book One: The Urchin of the Riding Stars by M.I. McAllister

(completed)

I really enjoyed this audio; but think I would have liked even more if I had read it myself.  Dd is auditory, and listening to books is fine for her as she catches every detail, but I would have done better with reading the book.  Regardless, this was just a high excitement, sitting on the edge of your chair, what is going to happen next--type of book!  So hard to stop at each break and wait for our next installment!!!!  The animal characters were terrific--the descriptions were amazing too!  We really enjoyed this greatly...if only the bad guy wasn't so bad!  He really was very despicable--VERY! and I was outraged at his ugly, evil behavior to the animals of Mistmantle.  So glad when he was finally outed for being the criminal that he was!  He had so many fooled for so long!  Anyway, my previous week's blog post has a better review of the book, if you are interested. 

 

 

Read Aloud:

Shadow Spinner (A Jean Karl Book) by Susan Fletcher and Dave Kramer

Shadow Spinner (in process)

Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor folktale library) by Joanna Cole

Best-Loved Folktales of the World
(in process)

Reader's:

Ali and the Golden Eagle by Wayne Grover

1)Ali and the Golden Eagle (completed)

Soul Surfer - Movie Tie-in: Study Guide by Outreach Publishing (Mar 15, 2011)

2)Soul Surfer ( in progress )

Rapunzel's Revenge by Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale (Aug 5, 2008)

3)Rapunzel's Revenge (completed)

The One-Eyed Giant (Odyssey) by Mary Pope Osborne

4)Tales from the Odyssey: Book One: The One-Eyed Giant by Mary Pope Osborne
(completed)

Our map work:

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Star Wars Lego Millennium Falcon

Star Wars Lego Millennium Falcon

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Skyzone field trip April 11, 2014

Skyzone field trip

April 11, 2014

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Birthday Party 2014

Birthday Party 2014

The party went really well!  I am glad!  What a relief!  Dd said "That was my best party ever!" or 'her favorite birthday party ever'---something along those lines!!!!  If that tells you anything!  We had Lasagna (Gluten Free) and Stuffed Shells, veggie platter, peanuts, cashews, Pirates Booty, Gluten Free chips & cheese, Crackers & Cheese, dried apricots & dried cherries, "punch", and Gluten Free chocolate cake.

We played Pin the Eye on the Cyclops, Hacky-Sack with blue balloons, had a cool painting craft--where we painted cardboard cut outs.  The day before, I'd cut out cardboard in the shape of bird houses, and then I'd gesso'd the cardboard (painted the cardboard with a white paint so their colored paint), then gave each child a palette of paints to paint 1 or 2 of the birdhouses, Capture the Greek God's Flag (Capture the Flag, but with flags that Dd made representing 13 different Gods & Goddess of Greek times), Archery (this was a repeat event), opening presents given to Dd, opening presents given to guests, a big Scavenger hunt where the items were either plus OR minus points (one child earned 32 points, while another got -15 points!!!), basketball in the driveway, play the piano & keyboard taking turns, and play with Lego's time...a great time was had by all!

Gifts the "L" family made for Dd:

"L" made this wonderful card!

"J" made the drawing, and framed it, and then also gave this cross-stitched sword!

"A" made a tin full of chocolate--it tasted like chocolate fudge.  The chocolate was cut into animal shapes---so YUMMY!

"R" made this--the inside has crochet needles inside-(see pix below)-way awesome!

"D" made the bracelet

Cake Time!

They drew on the paper by the end of the party--thanks Michelle for the idea!




Son of Poseidon's cake--a Percy Jackson cake!



The Craft project:


I got this idea from Pinterest - cut out cardboard in the shape of birdhouses, then have each child paint however they want to--

"A" made this one with a bird on top---- I just love it!



Pin the Eye on the Cyclops!




 
The gifts Dd made for the "L" family that came to the party, plus a little extra bag full of goodies that were not made by her.

Dd's crocheted these.

For "J", "L", and "D"

For "J", "L", and "D"

For "A"

For "R"

We gave out gift bags to our friends for coming---things that we thought they would especially like.

My friend gave me some tea!!!   
What a wonderful surprise!

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