9.10.2009 My Personal Home Education Assault
All through this past weekend DH was on board with the fact that DS would be home educated again because of finances and the school practically lets the kids teach themselves.
twos-day came and I called the school to inform them and ask if since it is private and since he only came to summer session am I required to give an official withdrawal letter and the director there said that was not needed since we didn't officially enroll and they are not tied to the state's record reporting.
As soon as I got off the phone DH lays into me about how DS really did like going there and if he gets a better paying job he would pay for him to go. Then I went to my part time seasonal job at the Lawn care place and came home for 30 minutes and then went to Messianic Dance Team practice and then to my sister's since she asked me if I could come help with the twins and stayed there until 11 pm then came home to a grouch of a DH so I could sleep.
Yesterday I got up, walked an hour on the treadmill, took a shower and got ready for work. DS went with me since DH also had to work and while there I made DS do several pages in a grade level all-subjects- in- one workbook because we won't officially start AmbleSide back up until 9/21 for the new year and all.
DS also memorized 3 Bible verses for Awanas (T&T) and I took him to homeschool gymnastics at 3pm.
Then we came home, made dinner and then it was out to Awanas for him, Bible Study for me.
While I was out I saw DH's mom and she seemed friendly enough. Then I came home and DH way-lays into me that his mom called him and found out DS was not at the christian school and she really gave him a what for talk on how DS needed to be there and asking for my mom's phone number so they could pay for the school. And DH was telling me he read online that children should be reading when they are b/w the ages of 3-5 ((what tell that to Miss Mason and Miss Beechick and countless others)) and of course most people's big beef is the "interaction with other kids" aspect. Uh Hello the 4 kids he was at school with over the summer were the pastor and directors grandkids all brothers and sisters. DS could just hang with a family of siblings for the day or we could have some siblings for him if HE would bless and DH was in agreement....which he is only when I decide I'm ok with not having anymore but when I really want more then he tells me I'm a lousy mom and that's why I'm not blessed with more children.
So I tell DH that I ran into his mom and she didn't mention any of this to me and maybe she did call my mom and my mom informed her of the conversation I had with my mom where I told her that all summer it seemed like people were gloating about DS going to a school and basically saying I was a horrible failure of a homeschooling mom. They didn't say that but the giddiness over DS attending school says it just not with the exact words. Maybe my mom told her I felt people should apologize because the acceptance of me over the summer when before when I was trying to be a good housewife, stay-at-mom, home educator, etc it was like I was less than a person in their eyes, like I was "wasting" my life.
Why can't these people read on the benefits of home education, and no it's not so one's kids can be "better" than anyone else. Why can't they remember that just like all kids learn to walk, talk, use the potty, and ride a bicycle at different ages, that reading just clicks at not the same exact time either.
DS can read, he is still a "decoder" just not a "barely has to look at the word" to read fluently as all us adults are, let's remember back to when we were also "sounding out the words" and give the kid a break! Relax, know it will come in time.
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8.19.2009 Needing Confirmation
on 4/25/09 my son was bit by a german shepherd and his leg was torn open. That took a while to completely heal and close up after stitches.
I know many a mom who has said their son didn't take off in reading til 8.5-9 years or later....maybe it's a boy thing.
My mom -- who only had daughters both of whom wanted to and did learn to read and write in cursive at 4 years old -- babysat DS one day while I went to my 2 hours per day seasonal job at the lawn care place. When I came home she told me he needed a tutor or a school because he kept asking her to read the directions on a video game he was trying to play since all he could do was sit with his leg up. (and being still for a 7 year old boy is tough in itself!)
So i tried to contact a tutor in our area that tutors homeschoolers and only charges $20 an hour...she was all booked up...so we contacted sylvan and they of course start with a test....now we were just about done with "2nd" grade but all their tests said he was mid-late first grade level.
this past year DS has been more whiny/complainy about doing his learning and likes to play as if he has forgotten things and so we needed to review a lot.
Plus we adhere to Charlotte Mason's method which says kids his age should spend no more than 20 minutes max on a subject but the shorter lesson periods should be at the students best level of work.
This to DH looked as if we didn't school all day as he thinks homeschoolers should do so they can be better/smarter than other kids...to him that's the whole point of homeschooling....(yes you can roll your eyes, i just did after typing it out!)
Sylvan turned out to be way too much money so we contacted a christian school that has a summer session at only $50 a week. They use A.C.E. curricula and so it doesn't matter that as of today he is 8 years old, should be starting 3rd grade but only 3/4 the way thru first grade level word building and math ---they started him all over but said they can tell he knew most of it the way he breezes through with 95-100% test scores after each pace. This school does not emphasize grade level so no embarrassment factor for DS and they work independently -- no teacher lectures....
I have told my mom and DH we could use the same curricula at home and it would be sooooo much cheaper...as it stands and I know compared to other christian schools this is not too much...but it will be $348 a month plus enrollment and curricula fee...not to mention lunches and uniforms....and I noticed over the summer with him in the 12 week summer session that we spent a lot more on groceries than ever before simply with everyone needing a lunch (DH and I at work and DS at school)
I did the math and with DH getting laid off from the railroad and I only working a seasonal part time job and both of us applying and interviewing all summer for full time work but with 400 applicants per job someone is always more "qualified"....I told DH I just don't think we'll be able to afford rent and insurance and groceries and fuel and the tuition...yikes!
But DH says DS is happy at his school so we should sacrifice to make it happen and of course my mom already bought his uniforms....
it was/still is aggravating that everyone in the family is so happy to see DS in a school
as if homeschooling isn't good enough
Back in Oct of 06 I decided to quit my part time job at a chiropractor's office because I knew DS was getting older and him being my only I didn't want to fritter away the years in a job while struggling to arrange child care since we homeschooled. That very day I told my boss my intentions DH rear ended someone ---so that was a repair bill and higher car insurance premium and then the next month he had to have $600 worth of dental work because of a piece of candy.... and DH worked at walmart making maybe $12/hr at this time and that places health insurance bites
I thought oh my maybe I shouldn't quit but kept at the plan and in Feb of 07 DH got hired on with Union Pacific Railroad....we had double the income as before....
then dec of 08 he got cut to 8 days per month and then 7-29-09 got perm laid off...no more 8 days of pay and medical insurance.
I just wonder what HE is trying to tell me.....if HE wants DS home educated then HE has to provide DH with as good as or better paying job as the railroad was and I'd like HIM to confirm this decision out of DH's and my moms lips. That DS should be homeschooled again...and maybe apologize for the way they've made me feel all summer would be nice as well.
ETA 8.20.09: Last night at church I also decided that having DS say he wants to be home educated again would also be lovely confirmation.
And I wanted to include what got me thinking about all this in the first place:
at this website there was a lesson I was reading/listening to and here's a small part that really stuck:
But let’s also recognize the important God-principle laid down in the life of Moses for we 21st century Believers: it is that sometimes God will show us directly and plainly His specific will on some matter in our lives…..but far more often and usual, after teaching us His ways, laws, and commands, He will allow us to exercise our own judgment. And if we have hearkened to Him we will choose wisely and correctly…..we will make our judgments in accordance with the Father’s will and therefore His will shall be carried out…… “on earth as it is in Heaven”.
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3.2.2009 Weeks 1 through 4 of Term 1 Year 2 Now Completed
Key:
*copywork is a sentence from a chapter in An/Our Island Story
*Pilgrims Progress was listened to for the author's apology and then continued with the one syllable version because the goal is to have DS take over reading from that.
*the "grammar" workbook is optional I let him choose or not choose to do a page
Wk: #1
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Gen 1 |
Gen 2:1-10; 15-25 |
Gen 3:1-24 |
Gen 4:1-16 |
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-- Torah Study and HavDalah 2/7--
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Botticelli's Fortitude |
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Florida |
Georgia |
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Britain |
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Go Get the Ax
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Bach's Magnificat in D |
| history |
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AIS ch 1 |
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AIS ch2 |
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TT ch1 |
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AB ch1 |
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10 problems
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10 problems
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10 problems
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word problems
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2 verona |
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WDLM |
WDLM |
WDLM |
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Night Bird |
Night Bird |
Night Bird |
Night Bird |
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basketball practice
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games/races at Awanas
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basketball at park
then 2/7 b-ball game played against some amazon tall boys
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Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day 5 |
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Gen 4:25-26; Gen 5:1-8 |
Gen 6:5-22 |
Gen 7:1-16 |
Gen 7:17-24; Gen 8:1-5 |
Gen 8:6-22 |
Memory Awanas
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John 1:1-4 |
c |
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| History, Tales and Geography |
| AIS |
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ch 3 |
ch 4 |
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| OLB |
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| Tree in the Trail |
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ch 2
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ch 3
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c Spend 10 minutes this week |
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| Mapping |
c Spend 10 minutes looking up placenames this week |
| Language Arts and Literature |
| Pilgrim's Progress |
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480 words |
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| Understood Betsy |
ch 1
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| Grammar |
p17 |
p18 |
p19 |
p20 |
p21 |
| Spelling |
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| Phonics |
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book3 p52 |
p53 |
p54 |
p55 |
| Free Reading |
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| Copywork |
yes |
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yes |
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Narration - all days
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| Poetry |
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yes |
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| Math |
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| Burgess Book |
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| Nature Journal |
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TS & HD on 2/14 |
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cFortitude |
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b-ball practice |
games/races at awanas |
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Gen 9:1-17 |
Gen 9:18-29 |
Gen 11:1-9 |
Gen 12:1-9 |
Gen 12:10-20 |
Memory Awanas
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| History, Tales and Geography |
| AIS |
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Ojibwa |
Ojibwa |
Ojibwa |
| Tree in the Trail |
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c Spend 10 minutes this week |
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| Mapping |
c Spend 10 minutes looking up placenames this week -- Great Lakes & Hadrian Wall & Vermont
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| Language Arts and Literature |
| Pilgrim's Progress |
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405 Words |
| Understood Betsy |
ch 2
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| Grammar |
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p22 |
p23 |
| Spelling |
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| Phonics |
book3 p56 |
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p58 |
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p59 |
| Free Reading |
George and the Dragon |
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| Copywork |
yes |
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| Narration - all days |
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| Poetry |
yes |
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| Math |
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| Burgess Book |
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ch6 |
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| Nature Journal |
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I decided to take a detour in our regularly scheduled homeschool plans. I was all set to do AmbleSide for the long haul. Then I saw Beyond by HOD and it looked so tantalizing I just had to go for it. Since it is geared more for 1st grade level work I also justified that decision knowing DS needed a bit more time to mature in math and reading. We're still plugging along in those areas and yet something is not right.
HOD used singapore math and I'm finding I loathe it. It's throwing concepts to quicly at DS that he's still about at the level he was before we started singapore level 1A....
We're almost done with Beyond and I'm debating a few things.
Rod and Staff seems so lovely in the LA department with the english and spelling just being started at 2nd grade level so maybe we could easily ease right in and not feel behind.
MUS Beta may be a math curricula to consider.
And yet the independence of CLE also is alluring.
And do I want to contine with AmbleSide's selection of books or do I want to go for WinterPromise or Sonlight or Beautiful Feet, etc...
I've got the diagnostic tests from CLE but I know DS has not seen most of the concepts in neither the LA nor Math level 100 tests.
I've also printed off the Alpha test from MUS to see if my guess of placing DS in Beta would fit perfectly.
With MUS I know it will be many days of the same type of problem and I am not sure if DS will like this or get angry at the repitition. Also will working the problems with blocks keep him from memorizing the math facts?
Yet CLE Math is spiral and we may have to start in level 100 in order to catch up ...
I'm not a huge fan of drilling with flashcards ....
oh decisions decisions
Then we come to reading and DS is still ok with cvc words but now adding cvce words and learning vowels don't always say the short sound is causing hesitation/confusion so I'm not sure if just R&S spelling will work out the kinks or if we should also add a phonics workbook and not sure how to figure out where is he grade level reading wise to know which grade of readers to place him in. I did find this page and this page
I know R&S is Bible Story readers and yet CLE's readers look like good character builing stories that I know DS would also benefit from.
again decisions decisions
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12.2.2008 Beyond by HOD update
Since the Fall Feasts ended, my son and I have been doubling up on weeks in Beyond so we can move on a little faster and get back to AmbleSide. ((that's if we still have internet connection, I find AmbleSide may be daunting with artist/composer and other etexts to do w/o access from home...my other considerations are Rod & Staff, Christian Light, or WP, SL, or BF to stay literature based ... and/or BJU or Abeka DVD's if I have to get a job))
Today we were reading the history section for Unit 26 Day 3 and I found it fascinating and such a G-D thing that it would mention President Washington going to St. Paul Chapel on Broadway because earlier this morning as I was walking my mile on the treadmill, I was listening to Pastor Mark out in Colorado and I only heard the first 6 minutes of the message ((which I'll continue thursday when I walk another mile as wednesdays are weight training days)) and he too said something about that event.
If you'd like to hear the message, right click and save as HERE
Anywho just wanted to share
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10.6.2008 Units 10-13 completed
Here's some highlights --- I'm not too camera happy or anything LOL
Francis Billington
Oiled Paper Window
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Betcha thought I forgot about posting...well I did in a way.
Not much to share. We finished A Lion to Guard Us and yes each week of new spelling words I still combined the 2 lists to make a personalized one for DS. We've started on Historical Fiction for storytime and since I have a copy of Little House in the Big Woods, that's what we'll use. DS really like The Big Balloon Race reader. Really enjoying the emerging reader book suggestions.
Here's a craft/science photo. It's a starfish....we used pearled barley and flaxseeds to give it texture
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This week we reviewed the memory verses we've learned so far and read a cool book about Dolphins. The neighbor boy who spends most of his weeks with us will be starting 7th grade on moon day so he'll be gone most of the day. Here's a couple of photos from this week. Sorry I'm not more chatty about this week.
 
Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom. |
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8.12.2008 Daytime Curfews?
There is a city not far from here that held a meeting yesterday to vote on a daytime curfew. If it passes, the proposal would set a daytime curfew for children ages 6 to 16. The curfew would be in effect from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
any other homeschoolers feathers get ruffled at that?
this city already has truancy laws but they say this will allow them to stop anyone who looks to be in that age range ... gee that means even I an adult will get stopped because I look young.
apparently another city, also near by, already has such a law ... good thing we don't go over there....funny thing is these two cities are on the small side...how come the small cities are more concerned about kids skipping school causing trouble than the large ones are?
Still praying for another child
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
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This week we started an adventure book. DS7 enjoyed the treasure hunt activity to introduce the genre. We chose A Lion to Guard Us to read. We also read the extra books as listed in the emerging readers section --- not the early Bible but like this week was Snowshoe Thompson and next week is Dolphins.
earlier today we went to an historic place not to far from us with the neighbor boy and my Intro to Jewish Roots class instructor, his wife, and 2 of their granddaughters.
photos for your enjoyment:
Here are the kids at sailboat cove, a stop over before our destination:
Here the boys are talking to Moses, that 9 year old ox:
Here's the mercantile - and yes they have Ray's arithmetic and other period textbooks for sale....and he really enjoyed my new fangled camera dilly said he heard there were a team of people in there and it didn't need flash powder:
the colonel's house --not a military official just the richest guy in town:
and inside the one room schoolhouse:
here's one of the history texts for sale at the mercantile:
Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom. |
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Some highlights from our week:
Smushed Spelling on moon day
twos day: the water drops on a coin project was a hit! the 13 year old neighbor got 27 drops and DS who was still 6 at this point got 21. They wanted to try again the next day and the neighbor boy got 39 drops.
windy day: the math sentence meadow scene, sure ya can tell which boy's paper is which
thirsty day: Birthday day!! and our last day with Benjamin West ((he was due back at the library so we had to read it in 19 days not 20)) we enjoyed learning about Friend West.
to day: what we treasure
Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom |
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This week was a good one as well. There was a story in the pilgrims book ((which I knew up front would not be a fave of mine and therefore held the right to edit as I read aloud)) and they used the words Sabbath and sunny-day interchangably, while I just stuck with Sabbath because Shabbat is the 7th day of the week, please see Geneses chapter 2 and not the westminster catechism....ok back to week 3
DS really enjoyed the game of the king's court or prison this week.
for your enjoyment we have photos of our wall at Scrooby Inn, our backyard scene for math when we counted fireflies, and our meshed spelling list 3, and a sample sentence from our grammar section.
And last week about 5ish on 7/18 DS lost his first tooth, which was his second loose tooth...and earlier this week on 7/21 about 9ish DS started to eat a snack and instead of being able to eat it ..well take a look
How does our young sir feel about losing some baby teeth?
oh and maybe Benjamin West has been an inspiration because here's a photo DS just had to take of the sky
Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom. |
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As previously stated for the next 34 weeks we will be using Beyond by Heart of Dakota.
this week we really enjoyed the activities and also really liking the biography we chose to read for storytime Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin ... such a sweet story .... although the Indians hollering Amen seemed out of character ...really reaching for that chrischun overtone .... but at least the Indians smoked, which would have been more true to character. And that was my fave chapter when the Indians showed him how to make red and yellow paint.
I'll post a picture later ... I need to save space on the camera for tonight as my good friend is giving her testimony at Shabbat Service and I'm going to record it on the digicam. So stay tuned for the geography activity from day 3 of this week.
ETA:
our geography activity DS's, the 13 year old neighbor boys, and mine
the cross represents where Sally stopped to pray.
next up my mixed together spelling list for DS this week
and DS also got his second loose tooth earlier this week, his first loose tooth has been loose for a while. I told him I thought the second loose tooth would fall out first and yesterday about 5ish as we were eating tacos/burritos for dinner we had to pause and here's the result ((the other one beside it on the middle bottom has been loose for 3-4 weeks))
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
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Let me just say upfront that I am still an all about Charlotte Mason and AmbleSide momma. My son however was showing how bored he was with just reading and narrating. I still find it to be the best way to remember things though and was able to find something we will use for 34 weeks as a way to bring in the activities for a wiggly boy and also extra time for him to work on his 3 R's.
We're using Beyond by Heart of Dakota. We will finish unit 1 day 5 today. DS6 really enjoyed the science times and math activities. Today we get to make a shield to remember who protects us, that'd be YHVH. We will use the above image for Psalm 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
ETA 7.15.08: When it came to the spelling lists I combined a few words from each. I did not require any other copywork other than the words and/or sentences with the words because I knew DS would balk at having to copy the poem and I didn't have him put the poem in order because his reading skills are not that good ...yet ... weekly chipping away at it though.
Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
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May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.
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6.27.2008 Week #12 of Term 3
Weekly Lesson Log
Week #12 of Term 3: 6/23-6/27/08
Artist and Print:
Composer and Piece: Berlioz Rakoczy March from the Damnation of Faust
Hymns: To God be the Glory / take me out to the ball game
KJV Memory Verses: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Galatians 5:22-23, II Timothy 1:12
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BNRS5:
p196-199
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p200-203
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p204-207
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p208-211
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p212-215
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dolch
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AP: #40
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#41
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Penmanship
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MM: p6 add1
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p8 add1
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OP: hurt no thing -- july selection
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evening
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woods way
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am/pm
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summer days -- july selection
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Hebrew 6/27 Shabbat service and 6/28 HavDalah service with others
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AF: fighting roosters & eagle
Proverbs 16:18
and yes Solomon is older than Aesop so no mystery where he got the idea for his fables
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MDGB: best pet
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AF: Fisherman
Proverbs 17:1
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MDGB: bye to grade 1
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50F: brave 300
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Lift a Lion
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Dig to other side
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Year at Maple Hill
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Bird Book Ch 30
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Moon Changes
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bike/swim
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karate/swim
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swim
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rock wall climbing
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swim
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Additional Comments: “first” grade over 6/30/08 …. Happy and sad all at the same time…my baby is growing up
Handprint then quote “this is to remind you when I am big and tall that not so long ago I was very small”
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6.20.2008 Week #11 of Term 3
Week #11 of Term 3: 6/16-6/20/08
Artist and Print:
Composer and Piece: Berlioz Rakoczy March from the Damnation of Faust
Hymn and Folk Song: The Solid Rock / my country ‘tis of thee
KJV Memory Verses: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Galatians 5:22-23, II Timothy 1:12
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6th Day
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BNRS5:
p180-182
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p183-185
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p186-188
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p189-192
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p193-195
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Phonics
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workbooks at bottom of page
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Dolch Words
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progressive Phonics SH/TH/CH book #6
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Dolch Words
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Penmanship
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CtGE:p11
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p12
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Rays lesson 37: problems 4-5
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problems 6-8
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probs 9-11
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probs 12-14
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Poetry
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OP: Who Has Seen the Wind?
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tide rises
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woodman
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owl
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Dusk In june
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Hebrew 6/20 home Shabbat service and 6/21 HavDalah service with others
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AF: donkey in lion’s skin
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain
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MDGB: exciting day
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AF: Mole & Mother
Proverbs 25:14 - Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
AF: Rat & Elephant
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The Bee Tree
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AF: bees, wasps & hornet
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50F: kingdoms
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EG: #14
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Energy
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Life of Birds DVD
Mastery of Flight segment
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How People Learned to Fly
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Bird Book
Ch 27
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
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6.13.2008 Week #10 of Term 3
Weekly Lesson Log
Week #10 of Term 3: 6/9-6/13/08
Composer and Piece: Berlioz Dance of the Sylphs
Hymn and Folk Song: I know whom I have believed / My country ‘tis of thee
KJV Memory Verses: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Galatians 5:22-23, II Timothy 1:12
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Shavuot 2
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4th Day
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6th Day
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Read Exodus 20 and watch film night time
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Read Acts chapter 2
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BNRS5: p167-171
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p172-175
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p7
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Rays #36:
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Rays #37: 1-3
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Poetry
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OP: City Mouse
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Trees
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for tat
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Pippa’s Song
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June Day
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Hebrew: 6/13 Shema, songs, blessing over the children @ Shabbat Service
& 6/14 HavDalah service with others
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AF: lions’ share
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MDGB: surprise
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ENS: 12th Knight
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AF: ant & dove
swallow & crow
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AF: north wind & sun
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6/7 – learn to identify poison ivy
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In the Forest – only male lightening bugs fly
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Bird Book
Ch 20
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom. |
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6.6.2008 Weekly Report for Week #9 of Term 3 Year 1
Weekly Lesson Log
Week #9 of Term 3: 6/2-6/6/08
Artist and Print:
Composer and Piece: Berlioz Dance of the Sylphs
Hymn and Folk Song: To God be the Glory / America the Beautiful
KJV Memory Verses: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Galatians 5:22-23, II Timothy 1:12
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45th Omer
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46th Omer
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BNRS5: p144-147
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p148-151
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p152-155
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p156-161
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p162-166
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Rays: #36
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Rays: #36
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Rays: #36
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Poetry
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OP: Baby Seed & Fountain
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old bridge
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maker of heaven and earth
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sea gypsy
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the fly
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Hebrew 6/06 group Shabbat service and 6/07 HavDalah service with others
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AF: hare & tortoise
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50F: Antonio canova
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NR1: The Owl
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Herriot – Smudge Lost Lamb
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Sunshine Makes the Seasons
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Bird Book
Ch 17
Crow & Blue Jay
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Science DVD – natural resources
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PE
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Additional Comments: gymnastics is out...DS wants karate now....but $81 a month OUCH
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6.1.2008 Weekly Report for Week #8 of Term 3 Year 1
Did You think I Forgot? Nah, just busy weekend
Weekly Lesson Log
Week #8 of Term 3: 5/26-5/30/08
Artist and Print:
Composer and Piece: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Hymn and Folk Song: I know whom I have believed / America the Beautiful
KJV Memory Verses: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Galatians 5:22-23, II Timothy 1:12
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BNRS5:
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Ascension Day
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Rays: subtraction quiz 72%??? He kept confusing +/-
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AF: dog & his reflection
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Additional Comments: DS has decided he may not be interested in gymnastics anymore. On one hand, I'm thrilled because gymnastics is such a greek thing and I don't want to be hellenized...but on the other hand, he needs an outside activity that will allow him a chance to meet others because as ya know I can't just say go play with your brother or something. so maybe martial arts? which style though? and it has to be in our town....no driving all over for stuff ya know.
PS: when we light the Shabbat candle we pray in light of the fact of Yeshua our Messiah
Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu, Melech Ha-Olam, asher kid’shanu u’va-dom Yeshua Ha-Mashiach,
v’tsivanu l’h’yot ore l’goyim v’natah lanu Yeshua, M’shichenu, Ha Or L’Olam.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who sanctified us by the blood of Yeshua the Messiah and commanded us to be light for (all) peoples and gave us Yeshua our Messiah, the Light of the world.
and we also recite Psalm 92 for HavDalah
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5.23.2008 Weekly Report for Week #7 of Term 3 Year 1
Weekly Lesson Log
Week #7 of Term 3: 5/19-5/23/08
Artist and Print:
Composer and Piece: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Hymn and Folk Song: Showers of Blessing / God bless America
KJV Memory Verses: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Galatians 5:22-23, II Timothy 1:12
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BNRS5: p119-122
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p123-125
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p126-130
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p131-134
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Galatians 5:22 KJV
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Rays: #35 9 problems
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oops forgot this link last week
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Sea Fever
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Daybreak
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Blue by Lang: The Forty Thieves
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AF: Fox Tails
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NR1: Coyote Trick
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Additional Comments: on 5/17 my son caught his first fish!!
Out of town guest and the “runs” round 2 thanks to in-laws of the in-laws … made for a crazy home education week
We signed up for the library summer reading program on 5/22 DS wants to get the Spiderman-3 'I can read' step 2 book
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May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
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5.16.2008 Weekly Report for Week #6 of Term 3 Year 1
Weekly Lesson Log
Week #6 of Term 3: 5/12-5/16/08
Artist and Print:
Composer and Piece: Saint-Saens Carnaval of Animals
Hymn and Patriotic Song: He Arose / Star spangled Banner
KJV Verses: II Timothy 1:12, Galatians 5:22-23, John 1:1, Genesis 1:1
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BNRS5: p96-100
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p101-102
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p108-110
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p111-114
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p115-118
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P&P: p26
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Ray’s: #34 (drill 10 from #)
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Ray’s: #34 (drill 10 from #)
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Hebrew: Shema, songs, blessing over the children @ Shabbat Service
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50F: Picciola
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NR1: the prairie
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Bird Book Ch 7 sounds in Bird Songs
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NR1: Prairie life
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About Me
Charlotte Mason style Home Education Journey with One Dear Son who is praying to be a big brother and soon!
"He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a
joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD."-Psalm 113:9
"And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." Isaiah 54:13
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk
in truth." --III John verse 4
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
---Proverbs 4:7
And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
--I Samuel 2:21
Praise be to YHVH who is weekly bringing those who hunger and thirst for the whole WORD,
not just what the church says is important....did you know the first century and then some
Believers knew that accepting the Messiah meant being grafted in to the Hebrew faith?
They didn't want to be called gentiles. Paul was always trying to show the physical and
non-physical Jews that they were all Jews spiritually. He many times said the law is not
void and I know those of you out there who say you are saved live by the 10 commandments and
of course the summary of Messiah's own words to love YHVH and then our neighbor....both just
ways of summing up all of Torah which really just expounds on the TEN. It wasn't until
those in authority started saying any caught Judaizing will be put to death that we stopped
observing the true Sabbath and stopped keeping the Feasts and started saying things like the
NLT says in Ephesians 2:15 that the Jewish law/system has been done away with...that's misleading.
The only thing done away with was the animal sacrifice needed to cover sins. Yeshua doesn't just
cover them, HE forgives them. What a truly AWESOME YHVH we serve!!! I pray everyone's ears and
eyes would be opened to desire to know and seek out the whole TRUTH and not just blindly follow
church leaders.
Praise Report:
thankful to have a DH and a DS. my guys!!
Back when I watched my cousins 4th child- Roger - I didn't think I was all that nice to him. But he's seen my and DS's picture at Nanna's and he says "that boy would not share his toys and his mommy told him that is not nice. I like his mommy she was very nice to me" :smile:
Prayer:
Unsaved loved ones to find/or to turn back to Yeshua. For Yeshua to reveal to them
the truth of Hebrew Roots so we can be in one accord. See I Corinthians 1:10
and if it's not too much to ask...I've had to endure hearing about several pregnancy announcements and birth announcements recently. I feel like I am dying inside. The pain is enormous. I really just want more children and HIS Word says they are the best type of physical blessing. I am not asking for riches or material things. I know all HE has to do is think/speak my body into being a "baby making machine" and it would be done. Praying for a miracle.
Names I have Dibs On
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Nathan James
Gracie Kathryn
Joseph Michael
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EDUCATORS:
�Frederick Terman (Stanford University President)
�William Samuel Johnson (Columbia University President)
�Frank Vandiver (Texas A&M University President)
�John Witherspoon (Princeton University President)
GENERALS:
�Stonewall Jackson
�Robert E. Lee
�Douglas MacArthur
�George Patton
INVENTORS:
�Alexander Graham Bell
�Thomas Edison
�Cyrus McCormick
�Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur Wright
PRESIDENTS:
�John Quincy Adams
�William Henry Harrison
�Thomas Jefferson
�Abraham Lincoln
�James Madison
�Franklin Delano Roosevelt
�Theodore Roosevelt
�John Tyler
�George Washington
�Woodrow Wilson
PREACHERS & RELIGIOUS LEADERS:
�Moses
�Joan of Arc
�John the Baptist
�William Cary
�Jonathan Edwards
�Phillip Melanchthon
�Dwight L. Moody
�John Newton
�John Owen
�Charles Wesley
�John Wesley
SCIENTISTS:
�George Washington Carver
�Pierre Curie
�Albert Einstein
�Blaise Pascal
�Booker T. Washington
�Wilson Bentley
STATESMEN:
�Konrad Adenauer
�Winston Churchill
�Benjamin Franklin
�Patrick Henry
�William Penn
�Henry Clay
U.S SUPPREME COURT JUDGES:
�John Jay
�John Marshall
�John Rutledge
WRITERS:
�Hans Christian Andersen
�Pearl S. Buck
�Agatha Christie
�Charles Dickens
�Bret Harte
�C.S. Lewis
�Sean O'Casey
�George Bernard Shaw
�Mark Twain
�Mercy Warren
�Daniel Webster
�Phillis Wheatley
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATES:
�Richard Basset (Governor of Delaware)
�William Blount (U.S. Senator)
�George Clymer (U.S. Representative)
�William Few (U.S. Senator)
�Benjamin Franklin (Inventor and Statesman)
�William Houston (Lawyer)
�William S. Johnson (President of Columbia C.)
�William Livingston (Governor of New Jersey)
�James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
�George Mason
�John Francis Mercer (U.S. Representative)
�Charles Pickney III (Governor of S. Carolina)
�John Rutledge (Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court)
�Richard D. Spaight (Governor of N. Carolina)
�George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.
�John Witherspoon (President of Princeton U.)
�George Wythe (Justice of Virginia High Court)
OTHERS:
�Abigail Adams (Wife of John Adams)
�Ansel Adams (Photographer)
�Clara Barton (Started the Red Cross)
�John Burroughs (Naturalist)
�Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist)
�Charles Chaplin (Actor)
�George Rogers Clark - Explorer
�Noel Coward (Playwright)
�John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)
�Sandra Day O'Connor
�Tamara McKinney (World Cup Skier)
�John Stuart Mill (Economist)
�Charles Louis Montesquieu (Philosopher)
�Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
�Sally Ride (Astronaut)
�Bill Ridell (Newspaperman)
�George Rogers Clark (Explorer)
�Will Rogers (Humorist)
�Jim Ryan (World Runner)
�Albert Schweitzer (Physician)
�Leo Tolstoy
�Martha Washington (Wife of George Washington)
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