Fun new game!

While out the other day I went in to a store that I don't usually visit, just killing a few minutes before our next activity. We found the game isle and I was surprised to see a whole row of games, many I hadn't heard of before, for really great prices! While looking through them I ran across the game "Rumis" After reading about it I was really excited as it fits perfectly with what we are learning about this year! We opened it up for family game night and all really enjoyed it!


Inspired by the architecture of the Inca, Rumis (meaning "stones") sharpens spatial awareness and critical thinking skills as players strategize to outwit their opponents while reconstructing historical Inca monuments of a pyramid, tower, stairs, lodging, corner, and wall.

Each player receives 11 Rumis stones of one color. Players begin constructing the building one stone at a time, strategically placing their stones to prevent opponents from having the most visible colored stones. The player with the most stones visible from above wins!

Weekly Report # 10

This week while doing math worksheets, DS asked me "Can we please listen to Vivaldi?"
Although I knew they didn't hate it, I guess I didn't realize how much they were enjoying our new adventures in classical music! He even requested "The Four Seasons" Then later in the week, we had satelite radio on and a Mozart composure came on- DS asked "Do you have any history on Mozart, what was he like? When did he live?" I was blown away..


MATH-
DD- Saxon Math 2- Lesson 62-65
DS- Saxon Math 5/4- Lesson 42-45
DS- Struggling with Associative properties- did extra practice this week
Played the game "Rumis" numerous times throughout the week

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTS-
Reviewed parts of language throughout the week
DD- Workbook #2 Page 78-87(Thinking Skills, Reading Skills, Language Skills)
DD- Workbook Page 65- 73 (Revising, Main Ideas, Titles, Story Parts, Settings)
DS- Spelling Workbook- Lesson 2
DD- Spelling Workbook Page 16-23
DS- Workbook Page 54-63 (Reading Comprehinsion- Practice Test 1,2)
DD- Master Reader Lesson 16-17
DS- Master Reader Lesson 37
DS-Spelling Test- Lessons 1+2
DD- Spelling Test
DS- Spelling words sentences and practice (For missed spelling words)

HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY-
Watched 2 episodes of "The Amazing Race"
United States Puzzle
Created Floor plans of room in our house



SCIENCE-
Watched an episode of Oregon Field Guide
Continued our animal study- Learning about "Lemmings"

READING-
I continued to read aloud from "Katy" Chapter 12-18
Started our new read aloud "Frindle" Chapters 1-13
Silent reading 1 hr daily
Read aloud 15 mins daily

MUSIC/ART-
Listened to Vivaldi throughout the week.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE-
DS- Rosetta Stone- Lesson 1.1 Reading, Lesson 1.1 Writing, Worksheet 1.1.2
DD- Rosetta Stone- Lesson 1.1 Vocabulary, 1.1 Grammar, 1.1 Reading
DD/DS- Listened to Audio Companion for Lesson 1
DD- Spanish worksheet- Numbers

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-

DS/DD-Playdate at our house with PS friends
DS- Football Game
DD- Tumbling Practice
DD- Cheer Practice 2x
DD- Cheer Private Lesson
DS- Football Practice 3x
DS/DD- Book club at the library-(discussion on book "Frindle" and craft activities)
DD- PJ/Build a Bear- Party with Cheer team

Little Girl Recieves H1N1 Shot without parents permission-

Brooklyn girl winds up in hospital after being injected with H1N1 swine flu vaccine without parental permission
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Key concepts: Swine flu, Hospital and Swine flu vaccine
View on NaturalPedia: Swine flu, Hospital and Swine flu vaccine
(NaturalNews)
A six-year-old Brooklyn girl, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, was hospitalized recently after being injected with the swine flu vaccine. The vaccination was conducted entirely without her parents' permission in an incident school nurses are calling "a mistake."

Mother Naomi Troy told the NY Daily News, "I was outraged." After receiving the swine flu injection, her daughter complained she was itching and her stomach was hurting. That's when school officials called an ambulance that rushed Nikiyah to the hospital.

Nikiyah is epileptic and takes prescription medication to treat the condition. Her mother was concerned about the possible side effects of combining a swine flu vaccine shot with epilepsy drugs and was waiting to hear back from her doctor before giving the school permission to vaccinate her daughter. That permission was apparently irrelevant, as some schools simply vaccinate any and all children without concern for parental permission.

After injecting her daughter without permission, the school nurse then called Naomi Troy and tried to persuade her to sign a consent form after the fact. "I was insulted. I was really angry," said Naomi.

So far, 1,800 NY students have been vaccinated against swine flu. Hundreds of thousands more are in line to be vaccinated when a sufficient supply of vaccines is made available.



Protect your children from state officials

What this incident demonstrates is the important need for parents to protect your children from the vaccination agenda being pushed by the State. Even without your permission, your children can be called to the nurse's office and forcibly injected with a substance that could harm or kill them.

You, the parent, might be called after the fact -- after your child winds up in the hospital, suffering from bizarre side effects even though doctors swore the vaccine was "perfectly safe."

Every day that you send your child to a public school, you run the risk that the next time you see your child, it may be in the hospital... or the morgue. Many state Dept. of Health employees who serve as school nurses don't pay any attention to parental permission. They just inject every child they can get their hands on.

And even if your child faints, or collapses into a coma, or even dies from the side effects of the vaccine, they'll claim such things are "pure coincidence" and couldn't be caused by the vaccine itself. How do they know that? Because they've been told "the vaccine is safe." And they believe it.

If you have a child in the public school system -- and you don't want them to be vaccinated with the H1N1 vaccines -- you need to take special precautions by writing a strongly-worded note informing your school principal (and nursing staff) that if your child is vaccinated without your permission, you will sue for damages.

As a public service to NaturalNews readers, I've written and posted precisely such a letter that you can freely use for this purpose. You'll find it here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027394_s...

Use this letter to stand up for your rights as a parent! Don't let the schools inject your child with a potentially harmful chemical substance. Take action now to protect the rights of you and your children.

Sources for this story include:

NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...

A reminder to myself...

I love this following verse. It reminds me that I NEED to ask for help once in a while. I have always found it really hard to do. Thanks to those of you (You know who you are) who are always just a phone call away (Or a mouse click) keeping me going on those days where I am not sure than I can.


Proverbs 11:14
Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Weekly Report # 9

BIBLE-
Continued to study Genesis

MATH-

DD- Saxon 2 Lesson 56-61
DS- Saxon 5/4 Lesson 37-41
DD- Practice addition, number order with laptop games

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
DS- Spelling Workbook Pgs 6-9
DD-Spelling Workbook Pgs 6-15
DD- 2 Spelling Tests 100%
DD- Workbook Pg 61-64 (Publishing, Final Drafts)
DD-Workbook 2- Page 72-77 (Thinking skills, Reading skills, Language Skills)
DS- Workbook #2- Pgs 48-53(Summarizing,Fact vs. Fiction)
DS- Workbook Pgs 102-103 (Endings ER and EST)
DS- Master Reader Lesson 35-36
DD- Master Reader Lesson 14-15
DD- and I read plays together throughout the week
DD- Played Spelling games on her laptop
DD- Worked on "ME" book- Added "My favorite things" page
I read aloud "The Prince who knew his fate" translated by Lise Manniche

HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY-
Continued to talk about floor plans
Floor plan "Car Show" and "Sports Arena" worksheets

SCIENCE-
Continued to read from "Pyramid Builders"
Continued working on our animal study- Learning about "Ermine"
Watched an episode of Oregon Field Guide
Continued to read from Dinosaurs of Eden
DS- Worked with Electronics set
Science Experiment from "Genesis for Kids"- "Bending Light"

READING-
Continued to read from our read aloud "Katy" Chapters 2-11
I read aloud "Cheerleading" by Lynn Singer
I read aloud "Where the Wild Things are" by Maurice Sendak
DS/DD- Silent reading 1 hour daily
DS- Read aloud to DD throughout the week

MUSIC/ART-
Listened to Vivaldi throughout the week
Listened to Vivaldi's Life Story on CD
Entered coloring contest at local grocery store- DD won 1st place!

FORIEGN LANGUAGE-
Listened to Children's songs- Spanish throughout the week
Spanish Worksheets- Numbers 1-10
DD- Rosetta Stone - Core Lesson #1 (Finally passed it- she was SO proud of herself, as was I!)
DS- Rosetta Stone- Lesson #1- Reading, Writing (He really enjoyed his lessons this week and even though he completed them with %100 he wanted to do them over again!- I think this program may finally be clicking for them- wooohoooo!)


SPORTS-EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DS- Football Game
DS- Football Practice 3x
DS- Playdate at our house with PS friend
DS- Playdate at friends house 2x
DS- Sleepover at our house with PS friend
DS/DD- Halloween Party with PS friends (DD won costume contest :)
DD- Tumbling Practice
DD- Cheer Practice 2x
DD- Gymnastics Private Lesson
DD- Cheer Private Lesson 2x
DD- Halloween Party with Cheer friends (She won 1st place in the costume contest!)

Weekly Report # 8

BIBLE-
DD- Read aloud from Bible stories for Bed Time

MATH-

DD- Saxon 2 Lesson 49-55
DS- Saxon 5/4 Lesson 40-44
Listened to Multiplication Tunes that Teach throughout the week
DS/DD- Played games at www.Multiplication.com throughout the week

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS
Continued to talk about the writing process- Focused on Revising
Vacab card- Tele (English from the roots up)
DS-Workbook page 96-101 (OI,OY,OU,OW, Endings ER-EST)
DS- Workbook 2- Page 38-45 (Identifying cause and effect, Classifying,Drawing conclusions)
DD- Workbook Page 56-60 (Revising,Proofreading)
DD- Workbook 2 Page 64-71 (Thinking Skills, Reading Skills)
DS- Master Reader Lesson 34
DD- Master Reader Lesson 13
DD- Cursive Handwriting Practice (A,B,C,D)


GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY-
Reviewed the 7 continents- memorizing them in order of size
Map work- Floor Plans
Watched documentary "September 11th- Through Children's Eyes"
Watched an episode of "The Amazing Race"- The kids are excited to learn more about Dubai after seeing it on this episode!
Discussed the original 13 states
Map Test- United States-
Worked on United States puzzle
Continued to read from "Dinosaurs of Eden- (The theory of evolution)"


SCIENCE-
Started Study on Animals- (Per kids request) Animals of the Arctic Region and Antarctica- Caribou
Continued to read from "Pyramids"
Began reading "Pyramid Builders"

READING-
I continued to read aloud from "Eleven" Chapter 15-24
Started our new read aloud "Katy"- Chapters 1-2
Silent Reading 1 hr 6x
DD/DS- Read aloud 45 mins each

MUSIC/ART-
Listened to Vivaldi throughout the week
Symmetrical poster paintings
"Spring" Painting- Inspired by Vivaldi's 4 Seasons- Spring

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
DS-Rosetta Stone- Lesson 1
DD-Rosetta Stone Lesson 1

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-

Church
DS-Football Game
DS-Football Practice 3x
DS-Sleepover at friends house
DD-Cheer practice 2x
DD- Tumbling practice 1x
DD- Private Cheer Lesson 1x
DD/DS- Playdate at friends house

Wordless Wednesday-