Link to Book List for Core H: Part 2/2 World History

Core H booklist link:
Here is the link to see the completed book list for Core H: 
click here: https://fleurdelisacademy.blogspot.com/search?q=core+h+book+list

Core H: 
It took us 60 weeks to complete Sonlight's 36-week course.  We took our time and went at our pace, and added in books to round it out.  

Start & Finish dates: 
Sept. 19, 2016 to Nov. 10, 2017

I thought I'd spice up this visually empty post with an old drawing that Dd did for my Valentine card a few years ago.  She knows how much I adore birds!

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Core H Book List: Completed after 60 weeks! Sept.19, 2016-Nov.10, 2017

Core H Book List:  

2015-2016: Core G, Part 1 of 2, of World History was stretched out to 7th & 8th grade as we added in a bunch of books because my Dd's loves to learn about the Greeks.  

2016-2017:  Core H, Part 2 of 2, of World History is for our 9th grade, and the first few months of 10th grade.  Sonlight has done a great job of picking really good "living books" in each of their cores (packages).  Each core is a combination of history, bible, literature, poetry, and geography.

Spine Books:

Story of the World by Bauer
Mystery of History
BiblioPlan (Medieval and Early Modern History)

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster

Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster

History Reader/Read Aloud’s: Some of these books were in SL's older versions of Core H, which were removed when they updated their current Core H.  Some of the books were not part of SL's core, but we decided they should be part of "OUR" Core H!  We can add-in books that we want to and use SL as our map of going through history reading.

Poetry:

Painless Poetry by Francis McPake (Dd didn't like, this was SL's poetry book for this core)
The Harp and Laurel Leaf
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

History Books (Readers and Read Alouds Combined):

A Murder For Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner

The King’s Fifth by Jonathan Davis

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P Kelly

God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew

Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer 

The Iron Peacock by Mary Stetson Clarke

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’ Dell

Madeline Takes Command by Ethel Claire Brill

Out of Many Waters by Jacqueline Greene

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

The Ghost of Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler

A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh

The Stowaway by Karen Hesse

Escape Across the Wide Sea Katherine Kirkpatrick

The Ravenmaster’s Secret by Elvira Woodruff

Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac

The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope

The Broken Blade by William Durbin

In Search of Honor by Donnalynn Hess

A Heart Strangely Warmed by Louise Vernor
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, The Blue Death-Deborah Hopkinson
Banner In the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Anna and the King (didn't finish) by Margaret Landon

Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Year of Impossible Goodbye's by Sook Nyul Choi
Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Escape From Warsaw by Ian Serraillier (aka: The Silver Sword)
Under The Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
It's A Jungle Out There by Ron Snell
I am David by Anne Holm
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan

Literature:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Betsy and the Emperor by Stanton Rabin

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Vol.1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
**(I have to note that Great Expectations, which had been in SL's previous line-up, but was dropped in the more current versions, was such a FANTASTIC book!  My Dd learned SO much by reading Dickens.  She commented how reading Dickens showed her how other books are shallow in their characters and settings.  Dickens really is so worth the time it takes to read, and I highly recommend taking the time to read.  We've read A Christmas Carol, a few times, but I have to say that Great Expectations makes A Christmas Carol look pale in comparison.)

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

Bible:

Our Bible

Believer’s Bible Commentary by William MacDonald

But Don’t All Religions Lead to God? By Michael Green

Journey Through the Bible by V.Gilbert Beers

Survey of the Bible: A Treasury of Bible Information by William Hendriksen

Courage & Conviction, Vol. 3 by Brandon Withrow

Made to Shine: A Girl’s-Only Devotional by Becca Leander Nicholson

Veritas Press: Gospels

What the Bible Is All About NIV: Bible Handbook by Dr. Henrietta C. Mears

The BBC Manual: Turning Your Bedroom Into a Bible College by Gregg Johnson

Praying For Your Future Husband by Robin Jones Gunn

How To Stay Christian In High School by Steven Gerali

That I May Know Him by Bob Jones

How the Bible Came To Us by Meryl Doney

Walking With Frodo by Sarah Arthur

Walking With Bilbo by Sarah Arthur

God Is In Control by Charles Stanle

Live Like A Jesus Freak by DC Talk
Mary Jones and Her Bible by Mary Ropes
Daring to Live Life on The Edge by Loren Cunningham

Add-In Books:

Study Skills, The Complete Idiot’s Guide by Randall S. Hansen

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Caroline Kennedy

The Harp and the Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist (poetry)

Driver’s Education manual
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poetry)

Fun Books:

The Martian by Andy Weir (and movie)

The Mermaids Mirror by L.K. Madigan

Ranger’s Apprentice-Siege of Macandaw by John Flannigan

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Jurassic World by Michael Crichton

Alex Rider, Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

Little Blog on the Prairie

Deception's Princess – Princess of Myth

Cleopatra in Space

Riptide Pride

The Swap by Megan Shull

Darcy’s Undoing by Abigal Reynolds

The Miraculous Tales of Edward Truelane by Kate Di Camillo

Guardians of Ga’Hoole, The Hatchling

My Life With the Walter Boys

Dune (not completed)

Spirits Princess

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine by Sally M. Walker

A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements

Gingersnap by Patricia Riley Giff

Stella Bane by Anita Shreve

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Elderest by Christopher Paolini

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan

Star Wars Vortex by Troy Denning

Fever Code, Maze Runner #5, by James Dashner

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by James Rollins

Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

Signing Their Lives Away by Denise Kiernan

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Corsets and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Waist Coats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger

The Scarlet Pimpernel (didn’t finish)

GI Brides by Duncan Barrett

The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton

Prudence by Gail Carriger

Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Life As We Know It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Trials of Apollo, the Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

I Like Him, He Likes me by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holms Rediscovered Railroad Mysteries

The Gender Game  by Bella Forrest

Imprudence by Gail Carriger

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnely

I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Life and Death by Marissa Meyer

Book List Year 2017-2018 Sophomore Year Tenth Grade

Book List Year 2017-2018 

Sophomore Year

Unlike every other school year, 2017-2018 was a mix-up of finishing up Core H and repeated attempts to engage in Core 100 (Sonlight) before she gave up due to her lack of interest.  I decided to pick some of the books that I read in high school that meant a lot to me to share with her as we re-plan her high school path to finish her school year.  Some of the books from the school year are from Sonlight (Core H and 100), some my add-in's, and some Dd's personal 'fun book' choices.  I will first list the educational books then a separate second list of her 'fun books.'  I'm not including any text books- driver's training, science, etc.

Bible

Daring to Live Life On the Edge - Loren Cunningham

Abraham Lincoln's World - Genevieve Foster

Angel On The Square - Gloria Whelen

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Read aloud and LOVED)

The Singing Tree - Kate Seredy

The Harp and Laurel Wreath - Laura Berquist

Year Of Impossible Goodbye's - Sook Nyul Choi

Number The Stars - Lois Lowry

Escape From Warsaw - Ian Serraillier

Snow Treasure - Marie McSwigan

Under the Egg - Laura Marx Fitzgerald (Read aloud and LOVED)

The War That Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

It's A Jungle Out There! - Ron Snell

God's Smuggler - Brother Andrew

I am David - Anne Holm

The Breadwinner - Deborah Ellis

Chu Ju's House - Gloria Whelan

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

A History of US, Bk 1

A History of US, Bk 2

A History of US, Bk 3

A History of US, Bk 4

A History of US, Bk 5

Before Columbus: The America's of 1491 - Charles C. Mann

100 Best-Loved Poems- Dover Thrift Edition

Why Pray? - John F. Devries

Bible Study Sampler - John & Sarita Holzmann

Peace Child - Don Richardson

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Stink Alley - Jamie Gilson

Guests - Michael Dorris

Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold - Jean Fritz

The Federalist Papers (uncompleted)

Amos Fortune - Elizabeth Yates

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

Shh! We're Writing The Constitution - Jean Fritz

Band Of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison - Lois Lenski

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet - Robert Cwiklik

The Great Little Madison - Jean Fritz

A Gathering of Days - Joan W. Blos

Sacajawea and the Journey to the Pacific - Gina Ingoglia

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Slopes of War - Norah Perez

Tess of the Road - Rachel Hartman

Elijah of Buxton - Christopher Paul Curtis

Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain

The Boys War - Jim Murphy

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Animal Farm - Orson Wells

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Fun Books:

Three - Ted Decker

My Life With the Walter Boys - Ali Novak

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer

New Moon - Stephanie Meyer

Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer

Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer

Cinder - Marissa Meyer

Life and Death - Stephanie Meyer

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13 B - Teresa Toten

Every Exquisite Thing - Matthew Quick

Carve the Mark - Veronica Roth

Scarlet - Marissa Meyer

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling (audio)

Turtles All The Way Down - John Green

Cress - Marissa Meyer

Ahsoka - E.K. Johnson

Winter - Marissa Meyer (uncompleted)

Wires and Nerve - Marissa Meyer

Fairest - Gail Carson Levine

Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare (uncompleted)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (uc)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling (uc)

War Storm - Victoria Aveyard

The Thousandth Floor - Katherine McGee

The Glass Castle - Janette Walls

The Happiness Animal - Will Jelbert (uc)

The Circle - Dave Eggers

Rogue Wave - Susan Casey

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SL Core H Week 24 "A" Aug.13-19, 2017

SL Core H Week 24 "A" 

Aug.13-19, 2017

Art Week!  Lots of drawing and painting

Hello Friends!

Our first week without Sophie was very hard; and quiet.  I'm sure you can relate to the daily reminders that pop up throughout the day that triggers your thoughts to your pet---the sound that you think is your dog scratching at the door to go in our out, the movement that catches your eye outside that you think might be your pet, the nightly 'last potty' before going to bed....so many countless things that we associate with our pets!  It was a hard week, I say it again because I felt it throughout each day.  How much love, affection, and smiles were absent from this week because Sophie wasn't with us.  I sure do miss her and appreciate how much love she added to our lives the past 8-9 years.  The most vocal mourner among us is Agnes, Dd's cat, who is very lonely without Sophie.  She is walking around meowing (loudly) day and night.  She has woken me up in the middle of the night with her sad calls for Sophie.

Lessons area moved to Basement:

Friday Dd and I moved our lessons stuff from the dining room down to the recently completed Rec Room in the basement.  Our piles of books, papers, art projects, and binders are all happily out of our main space! We worked hard and made a lot of progress into turning that space into a livable area.  We *finally* put up the drafting table that Dd has been wanting to use for making "her" art!  I won't tell her that I bought that for me, to make "my" art!!  I still don't have any time for me, so I'm happy she is wanting to make her own work!  Once the drafting table was up she was stuck to it like glue!  She spent hours and hours on Friday and Saturday making new paintings!  I hoped she would have worked with us outside, enjoying the lovely fall weather, but I'm sure making art is helping her deal with all her feelings.

Lessons:

Truthfully, I was not fully engaged in doing lessons this week.  Not only was I not fully interested, I didn't have the heart to push Dd when I know how much she is suffering too.  I decided to write up our goals for the week but not push Dd academically, but give her time and space to deal with her feelings.  We did end up making a few steps of progress and she did most of the work I scheduled without me. 

Chickens/Ducks:

All of our fowl lived through another week, though Zeus, our rooster, came mighty close to being expelled.  Tuesday when I went out in the morning to throw down chicken feed, Zeus attacked my leg and bit me...drew blood and everything.  Wed and Thur he tried the same thing, but I was prepared and blocked him from hurting me.  Friends, if he doesn't stop attacking me he will have to go.  He already attacks Dh and Dd and I was the only person he held in high regard--which meant I was the one to do all the chicken wrangling!  I just don't have it in my heart to be attacked in my own home.  I'm trying to work with him and get him back to being respectful, but from what I've heard about roosters they usually get more aggressive as each year goes by.  We will have to wait and see what happens next.

Garden:

Our garden is doing very well.  We had another massive attack from those tomato 'hook' caterpillars that just consume tomato plants in a few short days.  I probably found 10 huge caterpillars, or more, this week and fed them to my chickens.  BTW, chickens LOVE to eat them!  Good thing!  I'd been working hard to keep the Japanese Beetle numbers down, and this week was great, hardly any beetles around!  We also *finally* got some rain, which was so needed!

Clothes Poles and Line:

By the end of the project Dd had three lines up, in this picture only one line was up.

Dh and I finally got the new clothes poles and line up!  We only have one line up, as our local hardware store only had one 50 foot section available.  I'm SO happy to have another line to use as my primary one was placed where we built raised beds and it is hard-to-impossible to put clothes up due to our super tall tomato plants.  It will be even better when I have the other two lines installed!  Dh has been working on this project all summer, but other things kept getting in front of it.  

The Monarch Butterfly chrysalis, from the caterpillar we got with our friends, the "L" family!

Auto's:

I'm not sure if I mentioned Dh's car died--back when we were going to the little cabin near Traverse City about a month ago---well, it hasn't made it to the top of the 'to-do' list yet, so it is in the garage to be fixed.  Then this week Dh's truck made a seriously bad sound and it will need to be checked over again.  It had been out of commission most of the summer until Grampy came up and helped Dh fix something.  Well, that truck has been nothing but trouble ever since we bought it.  It has been broken more time than it has been running!  Truly.  I just hope it can get fixed before I run out of straw!

Les Miserables:

Since Dd has been on a summer fixation of Les Miserable and asked me to turn the book into our next Read Aloud, I decided to go with it.  We started it this week.  I always knew it was a movie that people told me not to watch because I cry at movies and this movie was so touching that I would be bawling!  But, I went ahead and watched it and did bawl, but was so touched at the Christian points interwoven in the storyline!  I'm glad that we are reading and discussing it together and that I can share in her interests.  It is fun how she always tries to do the music to the movies (scores) that she likes.  This summer she has been into the soundtrack of Les Miserables and La La Land and I can hear her playing that music.

Music:

Marching band is done for the year and we have another two weeks before band and orchestra classes start.  

Our lessons this week:

Bible:

We are using my new "Integrated Study Bible" to read the New Testament.  I'm doing the actual reading out of my normal bible and adding in some of Max Lucado's, "Life Lessons" with the reading.

The Return to Nazareth (Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus) last week we read Matt 2:19-23, this week we read:  Luke 2:39-40

The Boy Jesus at the Temple:

Luke 2:41-45 & Luke 2:46-52

John the Baptist Prepares the Way:
Matt 3:1-10 & Mark 1: 1-6 & Luke 3: 1-9 

John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah and Baptism of Jesus:

 John 1:19-23 & Matt 3:11-17 & Mark 1: 7-11

The Baptism and Testing of Jesus:

Luke 3: 10-18, 21-23

The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus and John Testifies About Jesus: 

John 1:24-34

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness:

Matt 4:1-11 & Mark 1:12-13

Jesus Disciples Follow Jesus, Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael, and Jesus Changes Water into Wine:
John 1:35-2:12

It is very interesting to compare specific gospel events portrayed in each book, each author has a unique way of sharing each story.

Science:

Apologia Physical Science: Module 9: An Into to the Physics of Motion

In Process, week 1 of 2 completed

Khan Academy SAT Prep program:

3x this week: 1:20 hours

Foreign Language:

DuoLingo: German

2x this week: 40 min

Math: MUS: Geometry: 

Lesson 16--really difficult lesson, questions were on the homework pages that hadn't been explained on our old version of the DVD.  Not sure how we are going to figure it out--trying Khan Academy and YouTube for help.

Dd also did KA for math practices as we try to figure out the lesson.

Sonlight Reader:

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell: COMPLETED

This book has since been removed from the current SL Core H line-up, but I've seen it on so many lists for students to read I went ahead and included it in "our" Core H.  She liked it and said it was a very easy and quick read.  She easily completed it in one week.

Non-SL Read Aloud: I'm just fitting it in!

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Ch's 1-6 completed

Dd read this a few months ago, then asked for us to read it together.

SL History:

Abraham Lincoln's World by G. Foster:

pg'a 252-278

This book (and George Washington's World) use to be in the older Core H lineup, they replaced these two books with Kingfisher Encyclopedia.  Dd is very tired of Kingfisher and prefers the written history to the picture history format.

Poetry:

Lois Bergy Poetry Book

(a poet from our church)

Latin:

Word Roots (Latin):

pg's 82-84

Grammar:

Easy Grammar Plus:

319-331

Physical Education:

Dd did a 2 mile DVD workout with me this week

Music:

viola and piano...maybe an hour this week

Fun Reading:

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley: Completed

I bought another hummingbird feeder, plus the two that Giz got me, and the hummingbirds are very active here now!  There is always three around.

Dd bought a mirror for her bedroom, painted the yucky white a new shiny black paint and made paper flowers to decorate the left side -- turned out great!

Art:

Painting and Drawing: BIG WEEK: 16 hours

I'm pretty happy with what she was able to complete during this hard week, hard emotionally that is.  I think we are all trying to adapt to life without our Sophie.

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Sonlight Core H Week 3C Nov. 28-Dec 4, 2016

Sonlight Core H 

Week 3C 

Nov. 28-Dec 4, 2016

Hello Friends!

We had a good academic week!  Band and piano classes were back and they are getting prepared for the Christmas band concerts that are coming up in a few weeks.  My biggest upset this week was that I hurt my back, which really put a huge damper on my activity level.  My back is doing better now, not 100%, but slowly improving.  Dh and Dd did my chore list together on Saturday.  They drained the water build-up (huge puddle) on top of our pool covers' cover!  They also pulled out all the dead marigold plants from our garden so we don't have a trillion baby marigolds in the spring!  I'm truly hoping to expand my veggies next year.

Dd's big deal this week was her focus on time-lapse drawings.  She used my phone, and drew while the camera took pictures throughout the process.  She did really well!  I hadn't known she was such a fan of cross-hatching!  She definitely focused more on her drawing than music this week.

Sunday night's Youth Group went Christmas Caroling.  I was thinking of going, until Dd reminded me this was the "Youth Group!"  They also had that funny "white elephant" game, where everyone brings a gift and they exchange all around and end up with a surprise.

After church and Sunday School, Dd and I stayed to practice our songs that we will be singing on the Christmas day program.  It isn't a solo, but we will be singing in a fairly large group, or else we wouldn't have agreed to join!  I'm hoping the experience of being up on stage might help show Dd that she can do this without me.  I'd love it for her to share her musical blessings with our church family.  So far she doesn't feel bold enough to take the stage.

Bible:

The Harmony of the Gospels

Who Jesus Is

Read with Bible and Believer's Bible Commentary:

Luke 1:1-4

John 1: 1-18

Matthew 1: 1-17

Luke 3: 23-38

Bible Verse in Cursive:

1 Sam 12:24:

But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart;consider what great things he has done for you.

Don't All Religions Lead to God?

Ch. 5 & 6 Completed

Sunday: Church, Sunday School, and singing practice: 3 hours

Saturday: Christmas program rehearsal - Dd will be in the Xmas program this year! (2 hours)

Math:

Math U See: Geometry

2 A, B, C, D, E

History Assignments:

Sonlight Read Aloud:

Out of Many Waters by Jacqueline Greene

Goodreads Review/Summary: Set in 1654, against the backdrop of the Portuguese Inquisition, this historical novel tells the story of 12-year-old Isobel. Escaping from the monastery where she and her sister have been held, she stows away on a ship in hopes of finding her parents again. Braving loneliness, storms and privateers, Isobel is befriended by a group of passengers and becomes one of the first Jewish immigrants to settle in New Amsterdam. 

Amazon Summary: Kidnapped from her parents during the Portuguese Inquisition, 12-year old Isobel BenLazar was sent to work as a slave at a remote Brazilian monastery. In 1654, Isobel escapes and stows away on a ship bound for Amsterdam, searching for her family. But harrowing adventures lead her to the first group of Jews to settle in America. "Weaves history, drama and narrative into an arresting story." -New York Times Book Review "An uplifting story built upon twin themes long common to Jewish thought-hope and deliverance." -Kirkus Reviews Sydney Taylor Honor Book New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia:

249, 259, 270-271, 272-273

BiblioPlan Medieval History Companion, Vol II:

Chapter 29: The Renaissance in Science: Completed

Chapter 30: The Reformation Beyond Germany: Completed

BiblioPlan Advanced Maps:

Week 28: The Renaissance in Art

Week 29: How Many Countries Can You Name?

Sonlight Reader:

Madeline Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill   : In Process

Madeleine Verchere's story is based on a true account of colonial French Canada of the 1690's. Harassed by Iroquois, the Verchere family's fort (seigneury) must keep a continual guard. 14-year-old Madeleine is left alone with two younger brothers and few others when the Indians attack. We follow the brave and determined stratagems of Madeleine and her small circle. Madeleine's youthful leadership, especially of her brothers, will win the reader's admiration. Age 10 and up.

Art:

Drawing and stop-motion video's of drawing: 11 hours

Language Arts:

Poetry:

Painless Poetry by Francis McPike

pg 56-59

IEW SWI B: Lesson 11

completed

Easy Grammer, Plus

pg 9,12,15

Sonlight LA Week 3 Activity Sheets for Core G & H: Completed

Busy Hands/Home Economics:

Chicken Care

Fish/Clam Chowder: AWESOME

Hamburgers--good!

Chores with Pappa on Saturday (cut up a tree and brought wood to pile...)

Dish / Kitchen Chores

Fun Book:
Eragon by Christopher Paolini: In Process

Music:

Classes:
Beginning Band: Tenor Sax: 1:30 hours
Intermediate Band: Alto Sax: 1:30 hours
Piano Lesson (Mrs. March): :30 minutes

Practice:
Alto Sax:1:15 hours
Tenor Sax: 1:30 hours
Piano: 2:45 hours
Flute: :20 minutes
violin: zero

Singing/Church Christmas Program:
3:00 hours
Christmas Caroling: 1:00

Volunteering: 
Olympians Church program:
1:30 hours

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Sept. 19-25, 2016 Home Economics Week

Sept. 19-25, 2016 

Home Economics Week

We went to Lake Michigan this week!

Hello Friends!  

We finished "Core G" last week, and so deserved a free week off to celebrate...and get some chores done.  We will start "Core H" next week.  Core G" is the 'spine' of our homeschooling curriculum, that covers the history from Creation to the 1600's.  Next is "Core H" which covers the history from 1600 to Present Day.  We also use BiblioPlan as our history curriculum too.  If you don't know Sonlight: http://www.sonlight.com/

If you don't know BiblioPlan:http://www.biblioplan.net/p/welcome-to-biblioplan.html

Generally speaking we use good books (living books), Charlotte Mason type of a homeschooling style.  We believe in reading, making things, real life, being outside, and finding a balance between lessons and living--always putting God first! We have used Sonlight since Kindergarten, and plan on using it all the way through each grade until my Dd is in college.  



Free week:
Finally the weather was perfect for painting!  Not too cold or too hot for paint to dry fast.  It is hard to believe we have lived in our new home for 15 months and are still pulling down wall paper, spackling, painting, and still trying to get into (use) all of the rooms.  Any warm days that come our way are going to be painting days.  Michigan's fall seems to get cold so much faster than Indiana, and I was hoping for more 70 degree days to use for home projects.  I'm thinking I should have taken more days off from our lessons during the summer and painted then...living and learning!

The upcoming Rec Room in basement...(new patio doors are next on the 'to-do' list.

We still have a LONG ways until we can live in the basement living room.  I painted the floors & stairs "stone" color and then covered them in layers of polyurethane.  Dd used her spectacular blue color she had specifically chosen and we had mixed at Lowe's.

Painting:

This week Dd and I listened to audio's and painted for hours!    I painted the stair well up to her room and brought out a tall aluminium ladder for her to get up and down; placed in the sun-room, so she could keep painting up there.  She had always wanted to bring a ladder in so she could get up and down that way...instead of the boring stairs!  

Basement hall way is finally painted!!!  Two coats of oil base and so far, two coats of polyurethane...more to come, but I used up the whole can and need to go buy more!

Four sections of stairs--two to go up, and two going down!

Kirk Park- Lake Michigan:

On Monday, weather working with us, we went to Kirk Park!  I posted some pictures of our day already on the post before this one.  We had a really nice time; very relaxing.  I thought it would be chilly, and so dressed for the cold. 



 Dd wore her bather under her clothes, and got to swim and enjoy the lovely day; while I was in jeans, smart wool socks, and a long sleeve shirt!  I was disappointed I couldn't get in with her!

Music Lessons:

Wednesday we still had our normal routine---Beginning Band (Tenor Sax), Piano lesson with Mrs. March, and Intermediate Band (Bari Sax).  Dd and another teen girl at church have accepted to do the "Games" section of our church's Olympians program on Wednesday nights (with me there to help out).  This is really fantastic for her to do!  I'm so glad she so easily stepped up to volunteer into a leadership role with the kids at our church.

The pool I only got to swim in three times this summer, is put up for the winter...maybe next year will be better and the pump won't break!

 Closing the Pool:

Thursday night Dh came home; just in time to help us close the pool on Friday.  A church friend is a retired pool man, and he was willing to teach us how to close our own pool, so we don't have to pay other people to do it!  Friday, Dd helped us, as we all worked together in closing up our pool--draining the water, adding chemicals, putting the cover on, taking apart pipes, blowing air through the pipes, adding RV anti-freeze into the pipes... 

Here is the landing on Dd's stairwell-- you can see her bb gun and home-made Captain America shield.

Home Economics/Kitchen:

Dd made dinner twice this week:

Tuesday she made her mayonnaise/Parmesan Tilapia dinner: (time 1:30)

Thursday's dinner: (time 2:30)

Thursday's dinner was exceptional-she marinated chicken in a bunch of different flavors-soy sauce, garlic powder, chili powder, onion powder...then she cut it up into chunks and baked it.  She kept the marinate sauce in the pan.  She asked me to cook some Jasmine Rice to go with her dish, and I did.  Then she made a side dish of peas and tofu in another sauce.  The sauces were really great on top of the Jasmine rice.  We put the chicken, peas, and tofu on top of the rice and enjoyed her dinner for the next two days!   She does a good job of making a lot, so we can have lots of left-overs.

Dd's bedroom

I made her pancakes on Monday morning, to reconcile the fact that Pappa (DH) hadn't made her breakfast over the weekend like he normally does b/c he was in Italy.  He usually makes a special breakfast on the weekends.

Dd's bedroom

Dd's room:

Last year we only had time to paint her floors, so this summer she has been trying to paint her bedroom walls.  Her bedroom is really a long narrow loft above our sun-room, kitchen, and living room.  I don't think it was really planned for bedroom use, but the previous owner used it as one so we are too!  She has had a particularly difficult time painting her walls due to having all her furniture in the way!  She has had to move book cases and dressers, etc. to get back behind there!

Music Classes/Homework: (4:30 total)

Fundamentals of Piano Theory book: Lesson 9 completed (1:00)

Piano lesson with Mrs. March: 30 minutes

Beginning Band class: 1:30

Intermediate Band class: 1:30

Music Practice: (4:00)

Piano: 2:30

Sax: 1:30

combined music total: 8:30

Ginger, orange, rootbeer, and other soda bottles that Dd has collected since Rachel L.'s birthday party, years ago.

Audio Books: 20:09 hours total

1) The Mermaids Mirror by L.K. Madigan: In Process: 2:00 hours

2)Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling:Completed: 8:33 hours

3)The Siege of Macindaw, Ranger's Apprentice: by John Flanagan: Completed: 8:36 hours

4)Story of the World: Vol 3: Early Modern World: 1:00 hour

Readers: (13 hours)

1)Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton:Completed:  (10 hours)

2)Alex Rider:Skeleton Key: by Anthony Horowitz:In Process: (3:30 hours)

My audio:
*I'm listening to God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew, and really enjoying it very much!!!  I love stories that share how God, time after time, after time, provides exactly what Brother Andrew needed.  This story is wonderful for growing faith!

Church:

Volunteering for Olympians: 1:30 hours

Church and Sunday school: 1:30 hours

Sunday night service: 1:00 hours

Dd's chicken, peas, and tofu dish

Home Economics:

Cooking: 4:00 hours

Painting daily this week: 26:30 hours

Chicken Car: 3:30 hours

Laundry: 30 min

Cleaning bedroom: 4 hours

Physical Exercise:

Swimming in Lake Michigan: 1: hour

Games-Dodge ball: 1 hour

Educational DVD:

Liberty Kids DVD, Disc 3: 3 hours

Dd painted her light switches to look like the doors in Lord of the Rings.

This was a good week.  We managed to fit in some educational things along with doing the work/painting.  We missed Dh, but kept really busy!  Next week we will start Core H (1600's to Present Day).



Dd's bathroom decorations are coming along nicely; thanks mostly to Giz and Grampy getting her some lovely Lord of the Rings stickers for the walls.

Dd was super excited Dh brought her home some bags of "Fonzies" chips from Bologna, Italy.  In Rick Riordan's series, he mentions them and therefor our RR fan wanted to see what they were like!  She liked them!

Now to take off all the blue tape around the house!!!
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