Weaver Unit 4 Chapter 4

Day 1 - Concept of Nation. Our nation is the U.S.A drew flags for our notebooks. For math we played chutes and ladders.

Day 2 - Inventions. Began a chart with who, what, when etc of 6 inventions of modern day items we do use, added to their notebooks. Flashcards, and Domino Math with both kids. J- HW, Saxon, I- Bob book, pace, Saxon.

Day 3 - Inventions. My invention is... each designed their own invention and wrote about it in their notebook. Flashcards and Domino Math with both kids. How things are Made video, Worked on Inventions chart (second day). J- HW. I- Bob book, Pace.

Day 4 - Electricity, cars, bikes. Flashcards with both kids. J- Saxon, Bob, I - Saxon, Pace.

Day 5 - Inventors - Thomas Edison, lightbulb. Flashcards, used them to make up sentences. J - Saxon, HW, Pace. I- Saxon, Pace.

Day 6 - George Washington Carver, Einstien video from Youtube, IAM song by, conducted ligth experiment. Flashcards and wrote ABC's turned into something else in their notebooks. Learned about congruent shapes. J- Saxon, HW. I- Pace.

Day 7 - skipped some of the Weaver and started an Election lapbook. Was Presidental Election Day. Read robot books and built robots. Watched the election Results. I filled in the map for them. Josiah watched the whole thing, even the concession speach by McCain with me.

Day 8 - George Washington Carver coloring book- printed from online. Flashcards and Saxon for both boys. J - Sam and the Bag, read to me and Isaac. Worked more on Election lapbook.

Day 9 - In the Beginning. Memorized Genesis 1:1 and illustrated and wrote in for their notebooks. Read about The Wright Brothers. Both did flashcards, added a bunch of new words today. Both boys did Josiah's math (making sets of 10 with coins).

Day 10 - Wrapped everything up. Also taught the boys about friction - used a toy car to illustrate. First ran it across a smooth surface then a rough one. Talked also about force. In talking about friction, made airplane like paper things, to drop and showed the kids about friction. Each picked an invention and inventor drew and wrote about them, copying sentances from the board. Flashcards for both boys. J- HW.

Books read that I own-
Ernie the Electrician by Ladybird
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver by David A. Adler
Great Experiments with Light by Fiarotta
What Magnets Can Do. by Allan Fowler
The Invention of Paper by Sesame Street
The Kingfisher Children's Encyclopedia
A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison by David A. Adler
How Things Work by Childcraft Encyclopedia
The Usborne Book of Scientists From Archimedes to Einstein by Struan Reid and Patricia Fara
Nutsy the Robot goes to bed by Mark Shulman
Great Men and Famous Deeds by Childcraft Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Discovery Science and History
The Thinking Book by Adelaide Holl
The Fantastic Cutaway Book of Flight by Jon Richards

From Library
books
The New Way things Work by Macaulay
So you want to be an inventor by Judith St. George (An audio recorded book with regular book also)
The Kid who invented the Popsicle by Don L. Wulffson


Not relating to unit
Max's Words by Kate Banks
I Don't like to read by Nancy Carlson
Big Fish Little Fish by Ed Heck (Isaac loved this book and read it aloud to dad)
Ted by Tony DiTerlizzi

video
Inventions for Students Fantastic Robots
The Big Aircraft Carrier by Little Mammoth Media
Human Body for Children All about the Human Life Cycle- Schlessinger Science Library
How do they do that - Sony Wonder


From Netflix-
Accidental Inventions
The Prince of Egypt

From Library watched relating to last unit Eyewitness Rainforest Jungle

Weaver Chapter 3

Day 1 - Shepherd - J- Pace, I finished 1001, wb
Day 2 - Mammals - J - drew a dog, hw, Saxon, MUS, I- drew pig for notebook, Saxon, MUS
Day 3- Psalms - J- Rod & Staff, Bob book, Pip and Pog, MUS, Flashcards, I - Rod & Staff, Dot & Mitt, MUS, Flashcards.
Day 4 - Aesop's Fables, Shepherd, Psalm, J- Saxon lesson 78, Bob book-Bow Wow!, copywork, MUS, flashcards, made lambs with cottonballs. I- Saxon, Dot & Mitt, MUS, Flashcards, made lamb with cottonballs.
Day 5 - Shepherd - work with animals, watched video on youtube about sookeeping. J&I - Saxon, Flashcards, watched Babe
Day 6 - Tinfoil sheep project, J- Flashcards, Bob Book 5, Saxon, MUS I-Flashcards, Dot & Mitt, Saxon.
Day 7 - skipped
Day 8 -Animal Homes - J- Beaver home for notebook, Sox the Fox Bob Book, Saxon Lesson 79, MUS, I- Dog cave home for notebook, Dot and the Dog bob book, Saxon, MUS
Day 9 Roles Animals Play - J- Flashcards, Bob book, Saxon test, Leaf rubbings, I- Saxon, Flashcards, Bob book, leaf rubbings, both watched Sukkot video on youtube.
Day 10 - Mom's Protection - Lions - J- Pace and Handwriting, I- Pace
Day 7 (MOVED) - Field trip to yarnstore for wool yarn, made necklaces with it, plan to weave with it. Went to park and library and shopping also and out to eat at Cannery Cafe with Grandpa and Brianna. Sam the puppy went with us to the park.



Day 11 - (kids got sick and Brian is coming) Midian Bible lesson, mammals in the Bible, Flashcards, Bob book, paces, drew a mammal for the notebook.
Day 12 (kids still sick Brian arrived) Desert, Read book about the Desert and then let the kids watch Ockavango swamp video.
Day 13 (kids sick Brian still here) Plant Life - Flashcards, J- HW, Flashcards and Bob book, I - Flashcards and Bob book. Read fun books from Library and Isaac fell asleep.
Day 14- (mom very sick and kids sick Brian still here) Rainforest - J- HW, Notebook/copywork I- Notebook/copywork
Day 15 - Made Rainforest terrerium, J- Saxon, flashcards, Sox the Fox, colored and pointed out parts of a bush HW, I- Flashcards, Saxon, colored and pointed out parts of a bush

Books -
From the Library -
Columbia River Basketry - Mary Dodds Schlick
The Khan's Daughter by Laurence Yep
The Aesop for Children - pictures by Milo Winter
Egypt by Frances Wilkins
The Shepherd Boy by Kim Lewis
Delicious Hullabaloo by Pat Mora


Books I own-
First Book of Nature
The Littlest Shepherd by Ron Mehl Jr
Jon & the lost lamb by Jane Latourette
Africa by James I. Clark
Piduli by Janell Cannon
Animal Habitats by Peter Sloan
Animal Talk by Etta Kaner
Coyote Goes Walking by Tom Pohrt
How to Draw Animals - Usborne
Atlas of World History
The Foundling Fox by Irina Korschunow
The Animals Easter and other stories by Avril Rowlands
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Bartholomew the Beaver
Goby Goat
Gorillas and Chimpanzees by David Chivers
The Best Book of Big Cats
A Shepherd Looks at Pslam 23 by Phillip Keller
The Kingfisher Children's Encyclopedia
Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Magazine-
Living the Country Life October 2008 Vol 7 No.5 - www.livingthecountrylife.com

Book I did not read-
Who Am I? by Nancy Christensen
I wonder why skunks are so smelly by Deborah DeFord
The World to 1500 by L.S. Stavrianos
Do Dolphins Really Smile? by Laura Driscoll
Willie's wonderful Pet by mel Cebulash
The Very Best of Friends
Sara Squirrel and the Last Acorns by Julie Sykes
Kittens are Like That by Jan Pfloog
Katie K. Whale by Suzanne Tate

Notes-
We were sick, I worked thru headaches and migraines this unit. So we only had one fieldtrip. To JoAnn Fabrics to find wool yarn.
We did also go to a Monster Truck show which was not part of the unit, just for fun. It started at 7:30 so even by the time it started the kids were tired. Isaac fell asleep on my lap and we left at intermission 10pm!

Newburg Update on Daylight Curfew

Victory in Newberg!

Thank you for your prayers about the proposed daytime curfew in Newberg-Dundee. The proposed daytime curfew failed. Below you will find reports from two who attended the meeting: Wes Butler from OCEANetwork and April McGowan from Newberg Enjoy Learning Together support group.

I also heard from several of you that other cities in Oregon have daytime curfews. Here’s the list we currently know about.

Beaverton
Eugene
Keizer
McMinnville
Ontario
Pendleton
Portland
Salem
Springfield
Willamina

If you know of others, please email me at karmans@oceanetwork.org.

Yours for freedom,
Dorothy Karman
OCEANetwork


From Wes Butler, OCEANetwork Board member

I attended Newberg City Council meeting tonight, having become aware that this afternoon there was a hearing and public testimony regarding a daytime curfew ordinance. By all indication, they intended to pass this into law with a "sunset clause." There had been a previous work session a few months ago. April McGowan and Susan Dawson from the local home school support group and 3 other ladies gave testimony against the ordinance, along with myself. HSLDA had sent a fairly lengthy memorandum against daytime curfews signed by T.J . Schmidt. I informed the council that HSLDA has 85,000-90,000 families closely associated with it and that OCEANetwork has never supported daytime curfews as a state organization.

The mayor and five councilors were present. Because of the questions the council asked, I would have guessed a sure passage, especially with the escape route (sunset clause), that it would help fight crime, and the notion that 'it really won't hurt anything.' The final vote: one abstention (he may have proposed the bill), and 5 denying the passage of the ordinance.

By God's grace there is no daytime curfew in Newberg. Maybe in our spare time we should begin overturning these slippery-slope bad laws.

Wes Butler
OCEANETWORK


From April McGowan, Newberg Enjoy Learning Together support group

Victory for Homeschooling Freedom in Newberg

The Newberg City Council met to decide upon a day light curfew, Ordinance No. 2008-2007 on October 20, 2008.

After hearing Chief of Police Casey speak in favor of the ordinance, and after much discussion, also in favor of the ordinance by the city council, the public was invited to speak. In attendance was a representative from OCEANetwork, and five homeschooling families.


Each spoke from their own personal experiences and concerns. The council was very respectful in their questions, but had some trouble empathizing w ith our concerns about the day light curfew. Once we were done speaking, the council deliberated. To be frank, it didn't sound as though we had made much of an impact with our speeches. As there was no turnout by the private school sector, only the homeschooling sector, one of the councilors deducted that they must be in favor of the ordinance. Two of the council members were undecided – on the fence – and a third wanted to have more research done, and perhaps hear more arguments at another time. Then Councilor Marc Shelton spoke. He had empathized with us, and more over, was completely against the ordinance. He took issue with the statement that the private school system must be in favor of the ordinance because they hadn't attended the meeting. He stated that if the ordinance passed, then they would most certainly be hearing from them and many more homeschooling families.

At that time, Councilor President Bob Larson agreed with Councilor Shelton, as did Mayor Bob Andrews. Then, being swayed by the other councilor's opinions, Councilors Mike Boyes and Bart Reirson withdrew their concerns and sided with Councilor Shelton. Councilor Roger Currier still felt he wanted more time and research to make the decision and abstained from the final vote—to deny Ordinance No. 2008-2707.

Having been there, seeing the odds and hearing the arguments in favor of the ordinance, I have no doubt that the Lord won the battle. I am still in awe that we won.

Thank you to everyone who wrote, called and contacted the city council. Thank you to OCEANetwork for your support (making the long drive into Newberg), and to the HSLDA who took the time to send legal documents to the city in opposition to the ordinance. It was an awe inspiring and amazing evening. I hope you will all continue to fight to preserve our homeschooling freedoms in Oregon.


Sincerely,
April McGowan

Newburg City Counsel - Daylight Curfew

Newberg City Council considering daytime curfew. You can help.

Newberg City Council is considering enacting a daytime curfew at their meeting tonight (7 p.m. Monday, October 20, 2008). Daytime curfews allow police officers to stop and question school-aged children who are in public places during school hours. This, of course, is problematic for homeschool students who might be walking to the library (or George Fox University in Newberg), on their way to a job or otherwise out in public without a parent during school hours.

Here’s how you can help:

1. Pray for the meeting tonight and the home educators who will be presenting testimony.

2. If you live in the Newberg-Dundee area or come into Newberg routinely during school hours, please attend the meeting Monday October 20th at 7 p.m. at the Newberg Public Safety Building, 401 E. Third Street, Newberg even if you don’t plan on giving testimony.

3. If you live in one of the cities in Oregon which currently have daytime curfews and if your family has been negatively impacted by the curfew, please e-mail April McGowan at april.mcgowan@gmail.com before 5 p.m. with a paragraph or two on what happened to your family.

Cities in Oregon which have daytime (school hours) curfews:

Beaverton
Eugene
Keizer
McMinnville
Pendleton
Portland
Salem
Springfield

If you know of other cities in Oregon which have daytime curfews, please let me know at karmans@oceanetwork.org.

Thank you for praying and for helping the homeschoolers in the Newberg-Dundee area.
Yours for freedom,
Dorothy Karman
OCEANetwork

Homeschooling Check-In

We are doing great.
We are using Weaver from Alpha Omega, which is a Christian Unit Study Method. I add and subtract from that for History, Science, Bible, and Social Studies and Language Arts.
We do Saxon Math, both boys are in Saxon 1 at different places, and we are doing MUS together.. we started 2 weeks ago.
For Phonics we have taken a break from Teach your Child to read as it was to the point the kids could sound out words, but they weren't remembering the word to be able to just read words in the sentance form. So I added in Flashcards with Dolche words, putting 5 stars on each one before it is "done". Meaning they have to say it 5 times without help before it is considered learned. This has helped a lot with sounds like ING and ow, and simple sight words like The. Then they each read a Bob Book, I have the set of 5, so we are working through those. They enjoy them and do not get nearly as frustrated, though they are using the same words.. there is only one sentence per page, instead of a paragraph or so.
Josiah has started a handwriting book, Italic C and he loves it, so he does a page a day usually.

On our off days, when I have a migraine etc the boys have Rod and Staff workbooks, that are for fun, and They have Word Building paces from ACE. I also have them use these if I am working with the other one reading, and there is no project or art scheduled for the day.

All in all I wish they were a little further along reading wise, but boys will only go so fast. Josiah is above the reading level of my neighbor boy who is a held back 1st grader, so I figure as long as they don't get too frustrated I am pushing just hard enough. It is a bit of an issue for me sometimes mentally as I learned to read when I was 4, and did high 1st grade reading in K, but I just have to keep reminding myself that they are not me, and have their own 'gifts'.

Weaver Volume 2 Unit 1 Chapter 1

I am using Alpha Omega's Weaver curriculum with my two sons, now 5 and 6. We did Volume 1 from Jan-Aug. And started Volume 2 Sept 16th.
I was going to start the 15th but we had unexpected company (my BIL), and so we postponed it a day.

Day 1- Kings and Queens - made crowns and talked about the power of kings, started coloring pages from weaver resource section. Also took school photos today, made it a fun easy first day of school. Did play pretending to be kings.


Day 2- Located Pithom and Ramses on a map of Egypt, wrote names on the map. Discussed the importance of food storage, bacteria. Watched Egypt video. flashcards, I- Saxon Lesson 8

Day 3- Talked about queens and kings ruling today, monarchy vs democracy, and put stars on all the monarchy ruled nations on the world map. I did a Google search for them to find out the current ones as the Weaver is a bit old. Some nations I didn't know existed and had a hard time finding on the map. Interestingly the only monarchies not ruled with a Constitution are in the Middle east area. Read Esther kids book. flashcards, I- Saxon Lesson 9. Painted two shields.

Day 4- Read Pyramid, and built a pyramid with the legos, I took a photo to add to our yearbook. flashcards, I- Saxon Lesson 10

Day 5- Reviewed where to find Egypt, flashcards, I- Saxon Lesson 11 Made spears.

Day 6-Worked with playdoh to build bricks for a pyramid. Measured them out and cut them. flashcards, I - Saxon Lesson 12

Day 7- Wrote pyramid poems. Omniscient. drew pictures of a castle for notebooks. flashcards, I- Saxon Lesson 13 Finished Shields

Day 8- Discussed Archeology, read... Josiah built an Egyptian house out of playdoh.
Read Bob Books, Flash cards, J- Math receipts (adding tens places and ones), started Italic handwriting I- Lesson 14


Day 9- Watched Camelot, field trip to Vancouver and Portland to the Oregon Historical Museum Society.
need to - Finish reading Castle books

Day 10 skipped

Books used From Home-
NIV Bible, Kings and Queens by Philippa Wingate, Pyramid by Macaulay, Castle by Macaulay, Small Living Things by Houghton Mifflin Publishing, The Peasant and the Fly by Osmond Molarsky, Discovering Archaeology by Iris Barry, Ancient Egypt by Haslam, Atlas of the World by Rand McNally, Atlas of the Bible by Reader's Digest, How Things Work by Childcraft, Draw and Write Through History by Gressman and Dick, Esther and the King by The Beginner's Bible, Kandoo Kangaroo Hops into Homeschool by Susan Ratner, The Story of Cinderella and other tales by the great fairy tale classics, Why I Cough, Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, and Yawn by Melvin Berger, No Measles, no mumps for me by Paul Showers, Germs make me sick! by Melvin Berger,

Books I have but didn't use
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Sleeping Beauty, The Prince the the Pauper by Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Disney, Cinderella by Disney, The Magic Carpet Ride by Disney, Remembering the Propets of Sacred Scripture by Marianna Mayer (use later), The Prince of Egypt by Dreamworks (use later), The Royal Diaries Elizabeth I by Scholastic, The frowning Prince by Crockett Johnson, The story of the Tin Soldier and other tales by great fairy tale classics.

From Library -
The New Way Things Work by Macaulay
Beauty and the Beast and other tales by Larkin (read every night to Josiah)


Videos watched -
netflix
Camelot
Robin Hood (Disney)
Quest for Camelot
Building the Great Pyramid
Egypt: Engineering an Empire

home
Esther (Veggie Tales)

Library
Ancient Egypt (Library)
Wish we had done - headbands with hair, more brick making with oven or airdry clay to make a pyramid.

In addition to Weaver curriculum using the following curriculum-
Saxon, Italic handwriting series by Getty and Dubay, ACE paces, Rod & Staff workbooks, flashcards, Bob Books, Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons,

Also read or watch or did not relating to Weaver -
Bravemole by
From Library-
video -Remembering September 11th, Arthur's Sleepover,

Field Trips -
Sept 14th - Oysterville, (visited an oyster farm and picked out oyster shells from a huge pile, larger than our car!).


Visited
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Sept 15th - Longbeach - went to the WSU Science cranberry bog, learned how cranberries grow, are harvested, their predators and products made from cranberries.

Sept 20th Seaside Octoberfest - ate some hot dogs and talked about the Germanic culture, listened to an accordion band and had some yummy strawberry shortcake.

Sept 27th -Oregon Historical Society Museum - Learned about puppetry, there was an exhibit of Puppets from Micheal Curry, a Scappoose resident. His puppets have been in Disneyland and Broadway shows, and even at the Olympics.

Learned about Oregon Basket weaving, this will come in handy for Unit 2 as we will be learning about basketry when studying Moses's early years.
Learned about the history of the USS Oregon, Oregon Artists, Mechanical School, and Oregon history in general (the general history of Oregon exhibit is part of their permanent collection). We went to this museum the 27th of September as it was part of the Smithsonian Free Museum Day. Grandpa and niece came with us after we went and looked at puppies that Grandpa was choosing. The cutest little golden retrievers EVER!

Decor and Homeschooling

Since we homeschooled through the summer we are taking 2 1/2 weeks off. We are in the second week right now. I have gone room to room, deep cleaning, clearing clutter, lots of trips to the thrift store with donations, fixing things that need to be, even buying lightbulbs etc.

So Yesterday I started in on our homeschooling room. I had painted a dresser for the boys a couple weeks ago with a blue and off white, and thought ok, I will use those, I also found some green. So out to the hanger I went and mixed a palette. I let it dry and then picked what I liked. I wanted one (at least one) dark wall, but I wasn't sure how dark. So I painted one. Keep in mind this one is facing the front door, as our entryway is the same room as the schoolroom. Tricky Tricky, especially when it isn't just me living in the house...

So I let it dry, and painted another wall, it is parallel to the one I painted, also facing the front door just closer. As I looked I really wanted the perpendicular wall dark. This ment I needed a different plan as I had used all the off white. So I thought, ok the lighter walls will need another coat anyway. So I will color this one full dark, keep that color and then add some of the remainer to the white.

So I color the perpendicular wall a dark turquoise, beautiful, but I didn't like the checkerboard effect. white, light, dark, light, white when walking into the front door.

I took a break and then thought, heck I will repaint the first wall dark also, it looked good darker than the white to begin with. So I painted it the full dark color, it looked really rich and dark. After letting it dry I loved the effect. I then took a bit and added it to white and painted the last parallel wall again, in the lighter color. This is the only wall seen from the rest of the house.

I still need some more of the dark paint so saved a sample to get a quart or so, well probably a gallon as I will use 1/2 a gallon to get it really rich. So one more coat at least.

Today I repainted one of the white walls, and I don't think the other two need a coat, but might anyway, but need some more white paint.

So off to the paint store tomorrow, and to get whiteboard from HomeDepot. I read that the board they make the whiteboards in the School Supply stores out of is available at HomeDepot for about $15 a piece 4x8! So I plant to get one tomorrow.

We plan to start school the 25th, and I plan to keep more of a blog about it online here, this year. To share with other Weaver Moms!

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