Daughter’s History map of the Triangular trade Route
Daughter’s coloring page of Queen Nzinga
Son’s History map of the Triangular trade Route
coloring page of Queen Nzinga
King James Ban on Smoking
King James was very against smoking
We are working on a collage for Non-Smoking
Working on our SMOKE or DIE Poster
Our Finished SMOKE or DIE anti smoking poster!
Three types of muscles: Smooth, Cardiac and Skeletal
Daughter coloring her muscle page
Daughter’s muscle page
daughter’s muscle word search. This was HARD!!!
Son’s muscle page
Son’s muscle word search. This was HARD!!!
How our muscles work and get tired
Let me apologize for not really writing anything the last couple of weeks. A very dear friend of mine was diagnosed with stage 4 Melanoma cancer back in February. She is a huge part of our home school group, our lives and a sister in Christ. Well these last two weeks were the ending of her life here on earth. As many of you know when you loose someone very dear to you you get into a slump. Well, school was a must do, but typing a blog was not on my must do list. But I managed to get the pictures up there. Anyway, to make this extremely short, Connie passed away on Oct 16th at age 47. It was a very dark couple of weeks while watching her waste away so very quickly over these months but even quicker over the last couple weeks. But I have this new found happiness for her knowing that she is in heaven with a perfect body and completely out of pain!
Along with all that is going on with loosing my friend, my mom is not doing too well. She is suppose to wear her oxygen 24/7 but she is so stubborn and sometimes takes it off. Well, this leads her into episodes where she just cannot breath. I hear her in the next room gasping for air and when I run in she is pale as a ghost and her lips are purple. This is stressful for me, the kids and my hubby. I finally told her she cannot do this to the us. It is one thing to die of natural causes, but it is another thing to suffocate yourself to death. Well, sorry to be a downer and airing my bad couple weeks. You get the idea. The last few weeks here have been VERY hard and stressful on me. I feel as if I have aged 10 years! So hopefully you understand why I have not written in a couple weeks!
Now on to school. This week we found ourselves in much better spirits with school and willing to do more and wanting to do school. YEA! My kids are starting to do much better in their typing. The free program I got off the computer, Good Typing, is working well for them. My daughter has finally able to go to the next level. I told them both they had to go a full week with no more then 8 mistakes before they could progress to the next levels. The last couple weeks they have both done poorly, but I suppose it is due to the stress in the house with my friend being so sick and my watching my Mom suffocate.
Let me take a quick minute and back up a little in science. If you look back to the last couple of posts where I just posted pictures, you will notice some bones in liquid. Just quickly they are cooked leg bones of a chicken. One in water the other in vinegar. The idea was to see what happens when we do not eat right and the calcium gets drained from out bones instead of feeding our body correctly. We saw that the vinegar bone got very soft and we were able to easily cut it with a pair of scissors. Where as the bone in just water we could barley get a knife through. We actually had to score it and then snap it with our hands. This was a great experiment.
We have moved onto muscles. I always thought the strongest muscle was the tongue, but it is the jaw muscle. Makes sense when you think of what we have to do with our jaws. Also the muscle that never stops is the heart and eyes. Hmmm. And there are three types of muscles. The smooth muscle such as your tummy, the cardiac muscle such as your heart and the skeletal muscles such as your bicep. The kids worked on naming the main muscles in the body ( I doubt they will remember most of them, but they got a few memorized) and then also a word search which was really HARD! I actually had to help them with it.
History is coming along nicely. This week was all about the spreading of slavery. Did you know the first slave owner here in America was a black man. I had no idea! Well anyway, it all really started with the tobacco industry. The colonist were growing tobacco which made England Happy, they were heavy smokers there, because they no longer had to buy from Spain. But since this was such labor intensive work they needed helpers. First there were the indentured servants (work for 6 years then gain freedom), but when that was not enough we got on board with the triangular slave trade coming off of Africa. King James was really ultimately AGAINST this smoking. he thought it was bad for you and stunk! Maybe if he would have gotten his way there would not have been such huge demand and there fore would not have had the slave in America! Side note, take a look at the poster the kids made regarding the no smoking. Great work kiddos!
The Portuguese were at the heart of this trade. They thought that Africa was their very own machine of pumping out slaves. Sad! Anyway, they tried over and over again to take over parts of Africa just to make more slaves, but the leaders there, especially Queen Nzinga wanted nothing to do with it. So they kept fighting. But you know how well that went. And here in America we were trying to get the slaves to “mate” so we could have more slaves for free. I use the word “mate” because Africans were thought of through the triangular trade as nothing more then animals and they were treated as such! Such a sad mark in world history. Americans get the blame for this tragedy to the Africans, but it all started with the European Triangular Trade and the Portuguese!
Using the Spelling City in conjunction with All About Spelling is working great! I am loving it. I have the lesson for spelling on Monday and then the rest of the week they work on games to help them with their spelling words and on Friday they take the online test. Easy Cheesy and they ask to play the spelling games. YEA!
Choir is coming along nicely. As most of you know I teach three choirs now. One at my church and two for Orange Coast Musical Arts. The two younger choirs are doing quite nice and the older one is coming along slowly. I think a couple of the songs that were chosen might be a little too big for these 11-13 year old kids. These are songs you would hear in a high-school (20 people) or adult choir. But they are trying and that says a ton! They are a great group of kids and I am proud of them really going for it!
Piano for my son is going great. I think it was the best thing to have him away from his sister during class. He seems to be doing very well when I hear him practice at home. The only thing is he needs to relax a bit more. He seems to be very uptight about it! Hopefully as he gets better and it gets easier he will relax more. My daughter is doing well at home with it. My son tells us what lesson we are working on and I sit with her and help her through the lesson each week. We are doing the online app for the note reading flash cards daily. And this was a great idea! I am so glad. My daughter no longer needs the cheat sheet. Which is helping her when she sits down to practice her piece for the week. YEA!!!!
We started art back up a couple weeks ago, but I forgot to take pictures the last two weeks. This week we did not have art at all. The home that hosts it was SICK! Stay away for a while. We are almost done with the water coloring. We will be starting in on a free art class I found on the internet. I will keep you updated when we start that and tell you how we like it. It may be something you want to consider too!
Our Bible verse for this week is:
Psalm 9
9 I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart; I will tell of all Your [b]wonders. 2 I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You. 4 For You have maintained [c]my just cause; You have sat on the throne [d]judging righteously. 5 You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever. 6 [e]The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord[f]abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment, 8 And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity. 9 [g]The Lord also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble; 10 And [h]those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion; Declare among the peoples His deeds. 12 For He who [i]requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted. 13 Be gracious to me, O Lord; See my affliction from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, 14 That I may tell of all Your praises, That in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in Your [j]salvation. 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught. 16 The Lord has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. [k]Higgaion [l]Selah.
17 The wicked will [m]return to [n]Sheol, Even all the nations who forget God. 18 For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever. 19 Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged before You. 20 Put them in fear, O Lord; Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.
OK, I think that’s about it for this week. I am writing this on Sunday right before I have to go sing for Praise Symphony Orchestra so I gotta run and get ready. I hope you all have a great week and I will catch you on the flip side!
For science we are constructing a ME page. Each chapter we add another layer to ourselves. This is my daughter’s ME page.
This is my daughter’s ME page.
This is my daughter’s ME page.
We had fun cutting out and assembling a skeleton for science? or maybe Halloween?
My daughter’s skeleton
Son’s Bone Book
Son’s Bone Book
Son’s Bone Book
Son’s Bone Book
Son’s Bone Book
Son’s Bone Book
This is my son’s ME page.
This is my son’s ME page.
For science we are constructing a ME page. Each chapter we add another layer to ourselves. This is my son’s ME page.
We had fun cutting out and assembling a skeleton for science? or maybe Halloween?
My son’s skeleton
Daughter’s Composition
What a week. Lots of learning going on. We had most fun with science this week. So i think I’ll start there.
Bones. Yes this is what makes us stand and not be a big old jellyfish! The anatomy of a bone is very interesting. We have three layers of bones. the spongy bone, compact bone, and the periostrium. When we look at bones in a museum, for an example, the periosteum is gone. I never new that. I think the more important thing we learned about the bones is about the inside of the bone and how it is the building block to our blood as well as mastering the idea that calcium is a necessity to our bone structure. As a matter of fact next week we will be starting a experiment on that very thing.
We are committing to memory the major bones in our body. Well 24 of of the 206 bones. Everyday we are going through the bones on our skeleton (Bob) and reviewing the names of these bones. Hehehehe, even my hubby didn’t know all of them. Shhh! I forgot a few too!
As you can see by the pictures in honor of our bone learning we have out together a bone book. I think as we go along the body I will try to put muscle and veins etc to go with our books. But we also made a skeleton too. My daughter ended up dressing hers in a skirt and top and my son made a bow tie and top hat. LOL! Too cute, but at least they are learning and having some fun!
As we lucubrate our brains with history this week we are touching on the New World. The King of France was desiring the find a passage to Asia so he sent Samuel Champlain to find it. He ended up building a colony in Kebec, Canada. Then came along Henry Hudson who had a similar quest as Champlain. He had two failed attempts. One through North Pole and the other that went around Russia. He ended up once again in Canada and there after some long journey, he ended up having a bay named after him. As you ca see form our history mapping we were able to trace the routes that these two explorers made.
This week we trying to improve our knowledge of the states. This weeks state was Washington! Some fun facts you may not know…..
Microsoft Corporation is located in Redmond.
Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.
Washington state has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined.
Three ships of the United States Navy, including two battleships, have been named USS Washington in honor of the state.
Psalm 4Answer me when I call, O Godof my righteousness!You have relieved me in my distress; Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. 2 O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah. 3 But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself; The Lord hears when I call to Him. 4 Tremble, and do not sin; Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And trust in the Lord. 6 Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?” Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord! 7 You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine abound. 8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety. Psalm 5Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my groaning. 2 Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God, For to You I pray. 3 In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice; In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch. 4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil dwells with You. 5 The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity. 6 You destroy those who speak falsehood; The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit. 7 But as for me, by Your abundant loving kindness I will enter Your house, At Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You. 8 O Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my foes; Make Your way straight before me. 9 There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue. 10 Hold them guilty, O God; By their own devices let them fall! In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, For they are rebellious against You. 11 But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. 12 For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O Lord, You surround him with favor as with a shield.
I know this is a shorten version of my normal posts, but it is a BUSY weekend and well, my brain is exhausted already. So I am going to stop there for this week. I’ll pick up next week on my regular posts.
Have a great week and I will catch you on the flip side! God bless!
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This week we finally were able to learn about one of most beloved Presidents, Abraham Lincoln. I happen to have a few books at home specifically about him so I had my son read these out loud to us. He was really a very incredible President and Man!
OK, I know you all are asking why I got this post out so late! I just got real lazy this weekend and did not feel like typing or anything. Truth is, as most of my longtime readers know, I have migraines and this week was just a real bad week for them. I had
Well, it was nice to have a break for Easter. I hemmed and Hawed over taking a break since we just had a week off due to illness. But I decided "I" needed the break. Anyway, this week was a great week learning about several different people
Our first journey was geography. Hey this activity
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Please be prepared to take action against AB 2203. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >>
From: Roy Hanson—Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith—HSLDA
Bill: AB 2203 (as introduced 2/23/12)—5-Year-Old Compulsory Education
I just saw the greatest video. You know our dogs love us unconditionally. They are patient with us, forgive us when we are unkind, wait for us to come home and most of all can make us happy when we are down. Hmmmm, sounds like God!
Well, I have to say this week was not the most fun week. I guess because I was coming off of being very sick last week and having to push our Easter break back a couple weeks. And to top it all off, I did not prepare for this week. You see I usually on
As graduation ceremonies were under way, there was a stern warning that this class would NOT pray during the commencements, not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it however…
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Boy this week went fast. It seemed like I woke up and it was Friday. This week seemed that it was an easier week for school. Hmmm, well, easier may not be the right word. More like a simple than normal week. Our week started with learning more information about John Audubon. Most of
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This program ridicules Christians, Christianity, the Bible, and Christian symbols in ways that would be unthinkable if aimed
OK, you all know what my first words are going to be. This was a great week as usual. We started off learning about our 7th President, Andrew Jackson. So one of the things I did was to do flash cards for the first 5 Presidents. I happen to have had these for some years
This week was cut a bit short. Yesterday afternoon both my kids and the entire household came down with fevers. So needless to say we only completed 4 days of the 5 days for week 20. That is OK, we will just do Friday on Monday and then combine unit
OK, OK, here are those famous words once again. We had a great week. Actually it was short. I actually combined Friday's material to Thursday so I could have Friday off. You see my son's is turning 10 tomorrow (2-25) and I wanted to have Friday to get everything ready for his little party at
I want to make very sure that it is well known that not all of these sites I have posted are Christian, so please visit them first to make sure you approve of them before you send your children there. I have not seen anything myself that was completely wrong or offensive or even
So I say it every week, another good week. I think it is about time to come up with a new opening line to my HOD updates. But it really is true. This week was not only good in school, but my voice is back so I was able to sing while I was teaching
So I realized there are many homeschoolers who have not heard of Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Just in my small Park Day group only a couple of us have ever heard of this web site. So I figured I have thousands of readers and there has to be many of you who have not heard of it
This post is really only for those living in the Virginia area or who really want to travel to Virginia. It is also for those who have or are approaching High School time. HSLDA (which you should all be a member of) is having a live seminar for those approaching the high school days of
I love using maps in my homeschooling. I know I am using Heart of Dakota and they pretty much have everything outlined for me in geography, but I still like to add in map skills whenever I can. I found a couple of sites that has some really great black-line maps for FREE and they print
