It was a very good school week and we got much accomplished...
Our Text of the Week:
Our school day usually begins the evening before as "the evening and the morning were the first day." We have family Bible reading time where we all gather in the family room and read a portion of Scripture (reading through the Bible - not skipping anything), discussing, and answer the correlating Balancing the Sword questions. Then we gather in a circle, holding hands to pray.
This week's reading was Leviticus 23-27.
Opening Time: Our day begins with prayer, pledges, sword drills, hymn sing, or missions study, depending on the day. This week's hymns: "Faith is the Victory" and "I Sing the Mighty Power of God."
Scriptorium: Since Bible Quizzing started, the girls now spend this time working on their Bible Quizzing verses in I & II Corinthians.
Wednesday Chapel Time: We watched from Dr. Hovind's Creation Seminar, Part 4A "Lies in the Textbooks". We just love his seminars.
Bedell Curriculum: We are continuing in Volume 4, Lessons 24-25 in the Bedell books based on Leviticus 21, 24-25. Here are some of the things we were learning/discussing this week...
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The High Standard of Holiness; Evil was to be strictly punished; justice & punishment; obeying your parents
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Representative democracy vs. dictatorship; the Miranda Rights; law enforcement as "ministers of God".
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Spankings vs. Dr. Spock; corporal punishment
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The Sabbath Year & the Year of Jubilee
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Farm land fertility; nitrogen & lighting
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Business cycles: boom or bust, bull or bear market
(Note: Since we use the Bible as our No. 1 textbook, sometimes we don't have a Bedell lesson to correlate with the day's Scripture).
Hands-on American History: More fun lapbook inserts with Homeschool In the Wood's Time Travelers "The American Revolution". This week we continued timelining & mapping several battles of the Revolution; focused on John Adams & Baron von Steuben; and made a diorama of Valley Forge. And we decided we would rather have George Washington as our current president :).
The girls' dioramas of Valley Forge. The photo doesn't do them justice, but they are done in 3D using the foam spacers for scrapbooking. They really turned out nice.
Music & Ministry: Thankfully this was a much quieter week than last week and we only had Awana on Wednesday night (as Cubbie leaders), otherwise it was a stay-home week.
Science: We made good progress in projects for our interactive notebook (like a lapbook only in notebook form). This week we reviewed the three types of rocks (only in greater detail/highschool level stuff). We get most of our material from "The Geology Book" by Dr. John D. Morris and also use the DK Rocks & Minerals book for additional beautiful photos as well as a nice rock collection purchased from Rainbow a few years ago. Once we research something, we make a nice lapbook-type booklet for our notebooks (currently I'm using some inserts from HS Treasure Trove's Rocks and Minerals lapbook ideas) to help us remember. We won't be doing everything from this lapbook, but will be adding our own material as well.
US Geography: The girls finished researching their states of Kentucky and Arkansas; served their state dishes; & gave their reports Friday evening. They love this so much, one day after they had been at it for quite some time -- researching, and I had to remind them that they could stop -- they didn't want too. :) They have now drawn their next states and will begin all over again next week.
Language Arts: They are both pretty much done with language arts except Anna is doing a little BJU Spelling that she didn't finish last year. She got 100 percent on this weeks spelling test - she always draws a blank when the she begins to take the test and thinks she is doing poorly, but she does just fine.
Equestrian: Our horsey time has really been suffering with all the cold and rainy weather we have been having of late. We were rained out on Tuesday from a lesson, but did get out to ride Thursday, even though our hands & ears froze - it was good to get back at it again. Now, waking up this (Sat) morning to 26 degrees and snow on the ground, it's had to say when the girls will be riding again.
Home Economics: Amber finished cutting out quilt pieces for a doll-size log cabin quilt for her Christian Light Home Ec. book (we got a rotary cutter now that works slick) and we should watch the dvd that came with my new sewing machine so Amber can get sewing; Anna continues enjoying book one and working on some kitchen math (coverting to oz. and figuring cups & quarts, etc.) and is making some cookies next week.
Our first snow of the season came early this morning, only about 1/4 to 1/2 an inch.
I guess that's it for this week's review. I still haven't bought a new camara since breaking our last one but Anna has graciously taught me how to upload her camara to photobucket. :)
Have a Good Weekend!
