Daily Schedule for 9/30/08

Note: Our Younger Boys, who are in the Public School System this year, had a half of a day off for Parent Teacher Conference. We did not take this half day off at home.

This is actually Luke's pattern block creation, but I thought I'd put his in anyway.

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 3: Key Definitions and we studied the "10 Commandments"
Bible History: David and Abigail
Friend Article: Read 3 stories
Biography/American History: 2 Chapters of The Young George Washington
Read-a-loud: Read 1 Chapter from Prince Caspian
Music: Practiced the song "The Books of the Book of Mormon"
Science: Read the book, Science Close-Up: Crystals, by Robert A. Bell
Logic: Played with Pattern Blocks for 1 hour
Life Skills: Learned about Goal Setting and they each set a goal
PE: Lots of trampoline jumping
Reading: We take turns reading all of the above material everyday.
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 26
Logic: Did a Sudoku puzzle
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Handwriting: Cursive O's
Typing/Computers: Updated all his books on Good Reads by himself (much to my slight panic attacks, since it was on MY computer)
Free Reading: 1 1/2 hours Read Magic Tree House #9
Reading: 30 Min in his McGuffy Reader w/ me
Life Skills: Sorting Laundry

Jared's Pattern Block creation.

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
American History: Read the book Welcome to Felicity's World 1774: Growing Up in Colonial America by American Girl
Math: Lesson 26
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: Nouns and Verbs
Typing: Typed Luke's book onto the computer
Free Reading: 2 hours
Life Skills: Rice a Roni

And Olivia's...

Daily Schedule for 9/29/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 3: Endure to the End
Bible History: Saul's jealousy
Friend Article: Read 7 articles
Biography/American History: 1 Chapter in The Young George Washington
Read-a-loud: Read 1 Chapter in Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
Music: Practiced and learned the song "Books of the Book of Mormon"
Life Skills: Food storage, we bought 500 pounds of wheat and 75 pounds of oats
Book on Tape: Listened to (and finished) A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle for 2 1/2 plus hours.

We visited the library!

Reading: We take turns reading all of the above material everyday.
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Our wheat...

Jared
Music: Had his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 25
Spelling: 1 spell drill

Olivia
Math: Lesson 25
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
PE: Went on a walk

Daily Schedule 9/26/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: "Salvation and Exaltation" by Elder Nelson http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-851-2,00.html
Bible History: David and Jonathan
Friend Article: Read 4 Articles
Biography/American History: 1 Chapter of George Washington: Our First Leader by Augusta Stevenson, from the Childhood of Famous Americans series
Read-a-loud: Read 60 pages and finished Dinotopia
Reading: Everyday when we read the above the kids and I take turn reading
Science: A Beka Science Series Observing God's World, The Green Machine: Searching for shapes pgs. 96-99
Life Skills: We picked, sorted, peeled and cored apples and grandma's house for 2 hours
PE: Apple picking!
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced piano lesson
Math: Lesson 24
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-ups: 9's and 10's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: 2o minutes of a Magic Tree House book
Logic: Legos and spent 30 minutes on some puzzles


Olivia
Math: Lesson 24
Math Drill: Division Wrap-ups: 2's and 3's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: Verbs and Nouns
Computers: Played a Vet game on the computer for 1 hour

Daily Schedule for 9/25/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 3: Holy Ghost
Bible History: Saul is jealous
Friend Article: Read 2 stories
Biography/American History: Read 4 1/2 chapters and finished The Young Tom Jefferson
Read-a-loud: Read 30 pages of Dinotopia
Geography: Learned how to use Bible maps and located Galatia, Phillipi, Ephesus, Thesselonica, and Corinth to name a few
Language Arts: Learned about poetry and read 8 poems in What Your 4th Grader Needs to Know, pgs. 42-47
Social/PE: Played at a homeschooling family's house for 2 hours outside
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 23
Math Drill: Addition Wrap ups: 7's and 8's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Handwriting: Cursive I's
Logic/Small Motor Skills: Played with Legos for 1 hour

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 23
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-up's: 5's and 6's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: Plural nouns
Typing: Typed a new life skills paper for Jared
Free Reading: Over 2 hours of The Work and the Glory #2

Olivia's Creative Writing Partial Story

This morning when I came out of my bedroom to start making breakfast Olivia was busy at her laptop. I asked her what she was doing and she told me she was writing a story. I asked her what it was about and she said it was just a silly story and she was making it up as she went along. She said she was just writing it for fun. She did let me read it. I thought it was pretty good for that early in the morning. I talked her into letting me post it. It's far from complete but I thought there were some good things going on it it. Such as big words, descriptive sentences, and some creativity. I haven't edited it at all. I'm proud of her and I hope she keeps writing. I thought it was a perfect love of learner example...


It all began the morning that Hallie was born. The howling, the sorrow, the pain. Hallie had died only a few hours after she was born. Mother had been miserable since that day.

Loraine thought these things over. And tried to think of a way to help mother. The only things that she could do that were on the farm were: feeding the chickens, making breakfast, and so on. But she felt intent to help her mother. She knew that even little things helped and that I was her duty to help. “Can you come, milk the cow for me?”
Asked. Nadine
“I suppose so” She replied indignantly

As she milked Missy the family milk cow. She decided that after breakfast she would walk into town, and try to find a job. She hoped that this would be a benefit for her family.

With breakfast over, Loraine told her mother of her plans. Her mother replied. “Thank you” tears coming to her eyes.

She bustled into town and right as she got into town there was an earthquake! Loraine braced herself against a stone wall. As she watched, many people fell to the ground. Dying. Many went unconscious others fainted. Every one got hurt except for Loraine. She knew that this was a once in a lifetime chance. She went from person to person helping them stay alive, helping them breath and bandaging there wounds. She knew that if she helped them she would get paid and would have money, lots of money. But after she helped, all she got was kindness!

Daily Schedule for 9/24/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 3: Baptism
Bible History: David and Goliath
Friend Article: Read 2 articles
Biography/American History: Read 1 1/2 chapters of The Young Tom Jefferson
Read-a-loud: Read 20 pages of Dinotopia
Family History: Finished the biography of Norma Joyce Kimball Hancock, my maternal grandmother
Science: Chapter 3 of Our Father's World, it was about the seasons of the earth
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 22
Math Drill: Division wrap ups: 2's and 10's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read to me for 30min in his McGuffy Reader
Logic & Small motor skills: Played with his legos for an hour
Book on tape: Listened to Geronimo Stillton for 1 hour (while playing with his legos)
PE: Bike Riding
Scouts: Had his scout meeting today

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 22
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap ups: 3's and 4's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Plural Nouns
Creative Writing: Wrote the first page of a creative story (See previous blog entry for her story).
Free Reading: 2 hours plus of The Work and the Glory #2
Life Skills: Multi layered jello
Activity Days: She had an Activity days today and learned more about finances
Government: We acquired a copy of a CNN interview of Sarah Palin. She watched and discussed this with Alex.

Daily Schedule for 9/23/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 3: Repentance
Bible History: David is annointed king
Friend Article: Read 2 articles
Biography/American History: 2 chapters of The Young Tom Jefferson
Read-a-loud: Read 48 pages in Dinotopia
Family History: Read 1/2 of the biography of Norma Joyce Kimball Hancock, my maternal grandmother
Geography: Young Student's Learning Library: Telling Directions on Map
PE: They both had Horse Riding lessons
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 21
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-up's 6's and 7's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Handwriting: Cursive E's
Life Skills: Passed off egg sandwiches and tuna sandwiches on his skills list
PE: Bike Riding

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 21
Math Drill: Divison Wrap-up's 2's and 5's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: Plural nouns
Computers: Blogging and Goodreads
Typing: See Computer time
Free Reading: 2 hours of The Work and the Glory #2

Dr. Aardsma's Spelling Drills

I've had numerous search hits to my site about Dr. Aardsma's Spell Drill in the short time I've had my homeschooling blog. So I thought I'd do a specific post on them.

I love them! For our family it's a great alternate medium to break up repetitious book work. They are a "computer game."

Here's how it works: You enter your name, grade and desired spelling list. (Abeka, Bob Jones, etc. It has about 7 lists). Once you've signed in it stores your name, "grade", spelling list and how you do each time. If you are in 4th grade you will receive 20 questions. The narrator gives you the word, then he repeats it in a sentence. You have two chances to spell it correctly. After that it will then show you the correct spelling and then you have to try to do it again until you get it correct. After several times of correctly spelling the same word from various spell drills that word is dropped. Each time you do a spell drill new words are added. But if you are a 4th grader you only ever get 20 words per session.

I enjoy it because the child is not endlessly quizzed on words they know and new words are given as they progress. Therefore, they can go through as quickly as they are able. They love the challenge to get a word they haven't been getting right. And like I mentioned early it just breaks the learning up into different mediums. A bonus for elementary children!

There is nothing flashy about this program. It rather boring appearance wise. It's simple and straight to the point. This is not an arcade game at all.

I hope this helps. Please ask questions in the comment box if you have them and I'll be happy to answer them!

Daily Schedule for 9/22/08

Today, among other things, we had a piano recital. Jared and I played a piano solo. Olivia was invited to sing since she's been having voice lessons. I played because my cardinal rule of mothering is I won't "make" my kids do anything I'm not willing to do myself. In TJEd terms that would be "Inspire Not Require." The kids did great!



Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel , Lesson 3: Faith in Jesus Christ
Bible History: Saul Becomes King
Biography/American History: 1 Chapter of The Young Tom Jefferson
Read-a-loud: 3 Chapters of The Horse and His Boy- We finished it!
Family History: The life sketch of Olive Ward, my grandmother and Olivia's namesake
Music: Piano Recital today!!!
Geography: Appalachian Mountains
Science: The fossil record, What your 4th Grader Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch, pgs 313-320
Math Game: Cashflow for kids by Rich Dad Poor DadScience/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 20
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-ups 3's and 4's
Logic: 1 Suduku puzzle
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 Pages from Explode the Code
Writing: Oral book report of A Horse and His Boy
Free Reading: 20 minutes of A Magic Tree House book
Reading: 45 minutes of his McGuffy Reader
Science/Scouts: He made a healthy habits chart for a requirement
PE: 1 hour of trampoline and outside running around crazy




Olivia
Music: Voice Lesson practice
Art: Working on a Power Point slide show
Math: Lesson 20
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: Proper Nouns
Writing: Typed a book report onto Good Reads for A Horse and His Boy
Computers: Blogging/Power Point/Good Reads
Typing: All the computer work
Free Reading: 30 minutes of The Work and The Glory #2
Life Skills: Dusting
PE: Walked to the school and back

Daily Schedule for 9/19/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Pres. Monson's last talk from General Conference Apr 2008
Bible History: Saul is anointed king
Friend Article: Read 5 stories
Biography/American History: 1 chapter of The Young Tom Jefferson
Read-a-loud:1 chapter A Horse and His Boy
Family History: Sophia Walbum (great, great, great, great grandmother)
Geography: Denmark and Sweden
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced piano lesson
Math: Lesson 19
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-ups 5's and 9's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive E's
Free Reading: 2 hours
Life Skills: Passed off can soup on his requirements


Olivia
Music: Practiced voice lesson
Math: Lesson 19
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Research/Free Reading: Read the Neanderthal article in the National Geographic from Oct 2008
Computers: Blogging
Typing: Blogging
Life Skills: Sugar Cookies

Daily Schedule for 9/18/08

Today I took a teacher in service day! I went to the temple. How much more inspired can I be then going there! Olivia and Jared went to Kristen's and had their first fall horse lessons. Olivia read some, but she always reads. She's like me. This afternoon after "school" we are having a play date for them with some kids. It was nice not doing anything. We go through so much material during the day with no breaks. It seems like we always end up with one day a week that we don't do much school. Maybe all the no recesses and lunch breaks add up to a day off! : )

Daily Schedule for 9/17/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 3: The Atonement
Bible History: Young Samuel
Friend Article: 5 stories from Sept 08
Biography/American History: The Young Tom Jefferson
Read-a-loud: The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis
Geography: Honduras (from a Friend article)
Science: Watched a 30 min Magic School Bus video about the human body
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Biography: Rachel Carson-for a scout requirement
Math: Lesson 18
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-up's 2's and 3's and 30min of Jumpstart Math
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Critical Thinking: 4 Pattern Animals and played Rush Hour, Jr.
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages in Explode the Code
Reading: Read with me in his McGuffy Reader
Life Skills: Passed off Totino's pizza from his skills sheet
Scouts today.

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 18
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Compound nouns
Research: The Louisiana Purchase
Computers: Blogging
Typing: Blogging
Free Reading: 1 hours plus in The Work and the Glory 2

Daily Schedule for 9/16/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: The Three Degrees of Glory
Bible History: Ruth
Highlight Articles: We read 7 stories out of the June 08 issue
Biography/American History: 1 chapter from Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States by Helen Albee Monsell (A Childhood of famous Americans book)
Read-a-loud: 1 chapter of A Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis
Geography: Virginia, James River, Philadelphia, North Carolina/Virgina state boundaries
Science: Invading the Finches' Nest an article about finches (Highlights June 08)
Library trip.
Book on Tape: Listened to an hour of A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time #2)
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 17
Math Drill: Division game
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive A's
Free Reading: 1 hour of a Magic Tree House book
Reading: 15 min in his McGuffy reader
Science: 30 min science video (watched during Olivia's voice lesson)
Life Skills: Totino's pizza

Olivia
Music: Voice lesson practice and actual voice lesson
Math: Lesson 17
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Nouns and Verbs
Writing: Typed a book report of her latest book read
Research: Did some research on the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
Typing: Typing in Good Reads
Free Reading: 1 hour of The Work and the Glory #2
Life Skills: Egg salad sandwiches and babysat a 9 month baby (we were in the same room while I gave a piano lesson to "pay" for the voice lesson)

Olivia's clay pot

Here's Olivia's latest clay pot that I forgot to show of from almost two weeks ago.

Daily Schedule for 9/15/08

Both
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: Resurrection and Judgement
Bible History: Samson and Delilah
Friend Article: 4 stories
Biography/American History: Finished Ben and Me, a children's bio of Benjamin Franklin
Read-a-loud: 1 chapter of A Horse and His Boy
Geography: Paris, France and the Palace of Versailles
Science: Watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video on the Human Body
PE: Walked to the school and back to get the boys
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Jared
Music: Piano lesson and piano practice
Science: Watched another Billy Nye video after "school" with the boys.
Math: Lesson 16
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-ups: 4's and 5's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Phonics: Played a phonics game
Creative Writing: Wrote a hamster report
Typing: Typed a hamster report
Free Reading: Read 30 minutes of his Second McGuffy Reader with me
Life Skills: Made macaroni and cheese all by himself, passed it off his skills list
Scouts: Worked for 30 minutes on his scouting requirements

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 16
Math Drill: Division wrap-ups: 3's and 5's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: More nouns and verbs
Creative Writing: Wrote a report on hamsters
Computers: Studied two Microsoft Office/Word books to help her on her computer. They were recommended to her by Debra her aunt. She looked at them for about 30 minutes and got some good ideas.
Typing: Typed her hamster report. She typed a recipe for the family recipe blog.
Free Reading: Finished The Dark Hills Divide #1 and started The Work and the Glory #2
Life Skills: Made Key Lime pie and Egg rolls
PE: Went on a bike ride early this AM while Alex walked the dog.

Olivia's hamster report

Samuel Peanut Sutter
A Report on my hamster.

My hamsters’ name is Sammy (he has two names, the other one is Peanut). It’s your choice of what you call him. Sammy is a male hamster. He does not like people except for me; he will eat, sleep, drink and run in front of me. He is only a few weeks old. He loves to run on his wheel and to sleep in his food bowl. It is very cute to watch. I love him. He is tan and white with a few stripes of dark gray. He LOVES to play in his tube and to sleep in it. Sammy also hides in his tube. He is a fun hamster to watch.

I love My Hamster.

TO BE CONTINUED...

He's hiding in the upper left corn tube.

He hides in the tube when ever some one comes into the room so you can't catch him. Or at least for all of us but Olivia.

Jared's Hamster Report

MY HAMSTER
by Jared

His name is Energy Dude. He is brown and white. My hamster is a runner, he runs fast. He keeps me up all night because he is always running on his wheel. Energy Dude loves his running ball. He does not like Hank, my dog, or my cat King Tut. I feed Energy Dude hamster food that I bought from Pet Smart. I also give him chopped up carrots. He sleeps behind his ramp all day long.

The End.


This is Jared hamster. While Jared was at piano lessons Hank decided to go check out Energy Dude. He tore his cage apart. The hamster got away fortunately and fortunately we found him. While we were cleaning his cage we took a quick picture of him. He'd been sleeping/hiding when we took the pix before with Jared. The picture is messed up, but it's the only we could get because Energy Dude doesn't like to hold still.


Jared beside his cage. The hampter is sleeping and hissed at us when we tried to get him. Such a fun pet! : )

Daily Schedule for 9/12/08

Today Jared took a sick day. He was miserable all night with the crud going around. So Olivia and I took the opportunity to have a "skills day." We are going to "town" (45 min)after school to stock up and run LOTS of errands. So our life skills revolved around that trip. With gas prices as high as they are I don't make as many trips to town as I use to. I was also in and out all day helping to judge over at the High School for homecoming week anyway. They aren't doing a whole lot over there at the school either so I don't feel so bad!

Olivia's life skills:

Learned how and paid all our bills today on line.
Balanced the check book.
Figured out our tithing and offerings.
Babysat two little kids for an hour.
Measured Hank's (the dog) neck to see what size of a collar he needs.
Called Pet Smart to find out their hours and some questions with the hamsters.
Decided what dinners we wanted for the next little while.
Made a grocery shopping list.
Made a list off all the other stops we needed to make and what we needed at each store.
Figured out the order of our stops to be the most gas and time effective.

That's what I remember anyway it was a good low key-high learning day for her. She was very happy and the best part was that she was doing Math and she didn't even mind! To quote, "The calculator is my friend."

So some of our stops today include the library, the music store and Pet Smart. Think of our family when we come home with rodents! At least the kids are paying for them.

Daily Schedule for 9/11/08

I've been running a fever the last couple of days and my head cold settled into my lungs. Since I have asthma that makes for a miserable teacher. My asthma medication makes me shaky and gives me headaches...so today we only did our basic things...

BOTH
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: The Spirit World
Bible History: Jepthath and His Vow
Biography/American History: 2 Chapters of Ben and Me
Read-a-loud: 1 Chapter of A Horse and His Boy

Jared
Math: Lesson 15
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-ups 1's and 5's, Played a multiplication game with me, played a rounding game with me, played Jumpstart Math and played Rush Hour, Jr (highly recommend the games)
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: A Reason for Writing, wrote out a Bible scripture
Life Skills: Checked off bean burritos off of his skills sheet

Olivia
Art: Digital Scrapbooking
Math: Lesson 15
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Predicate nouns
Creative Writing: Creating a slide show/PowerPoint for me for Young Women's, this will take a month or two
Typing: Computer work
Life Skills: Blond Brownies and Cinnamon Rolls

Daily Schedule for 9/10/08

BOTH
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: The Atonement
Bible History: Abimilech (The kids thought that this was hysterical).
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Ben and Me by Robert Lawson about "The Kite" and The Very First Thanksgiving by Rhonda Gowler Greene
Geography:4 pages in a Young Students Learning Library
Science: Read the first two chapter in Our Father's World and discussed it
Family History: Read an autobiographical sketch of Clifford Ward my Paternal Grandfather and looked at all the pictures of him growing up.
Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter in A Horse and His Boy

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 14
Math Drill: 20 minutes of Rush Hour, Jr and 3 Subtraction Wrap-up's: 5's, 6's and 10's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages of Explode the Code
McGuffy: Read out loud to me for 30 minutes from the 2nd Reader
Life Skills: Bean Burritos
PE: Trampoline, Kite Flying
Scouts: Jared had scouts today.

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Art: 2 hours of digital scrapbooking
Math: Lesson 14
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Nouns! (Yeah we're done with verbs for a while!)
Creative Writing: Working on a slide show
Typing: Working on the computer
Free Reading: Over 1 hour
Life Skills: babysitting
Activity Days: Olivia had activity days (2X month w/ 8-12yr old girls)

Daily Schedule for 9/09/08

BOTH

Pray/Pledge

Theology: Conference talk by Elder Christensen Apr. 2008 About the Book of Mormon http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-851-36,00.html

Bible History: Gideon

Biography/American History: 2 more chapters in Ben and Me. Played I Love America J-I-N-G-O, you had to guess the clue based on the questions. Watched a short movie about Benjamin Franklin

Language Arts: Alfie the Apostrophe by Moria Rose Donohus

Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter of a Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Life Skills: Cranky Me Highlights, Sept 2008

Creative Thought: Thinking Highlights, Sept 2008

Science: Walking Like a Dinosaur and Pocket Gopher Highlights, Sept 2008

Jared
Music: Practiced piano lesson
Math: Measured how tall all the kids are in the family and Math Lesson 13
Math Drill: Wrap-ups, Division 3's & 10's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: A Reason For Writing, wrote out a Bible verse
Free Reading: 30 minutes
PE: Kite Flying

Olivia:
Music: Voice Lesson practice and had her Voice Lesson
Art/Computers: Digital Scrapbooking about 2 hours, learned how to add music to her slide show
Math: Lesson 13
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Creative Writing: Good Reads Reviews
Research: 7 Ancient Wonders of the World on the Internet
Typing: All the scrapbooking and research
Free Reading: 30 minutes

Daily Schedule for 9/08/08

BOTH
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: Life on Earth
Bible History: Deborah and Barak, reviewed our Bible timeline
Friend Articles: Read 5 stories and 1 poem
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters of Ben and Me by Robert Lawson, A Childs Story of America: Benjamin Franklin (included Poor Richard's Almanac and his Unite or Die snake cartoon)
Geography: Maps/Globe work of original 13 colonies, Philadelphia, Albany and England
Read-a-loud: Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1 chapter in a Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis
Science Experiment: Worked on our sugar crystal experiment that will go on for a couple of more days
Pet Care: Went to the vet again...
Library: We went to the library
PE: They both jumped on the trampoline.

Jared
Music: Practiced piano lesson and went to piano lessons.
Science: Snap Circuits, Jr
Math: Math Lesson 12
Math Drill: Math Wrap-ups multiplication-3's, 4's and 10's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read 30 minutes

Olivia
Music: Practiced voice lesson
Math: Lesson 12
Handwriting: Wrote out a quote nicely in cursive
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Research: The 7 wonders of the ancient world. She's been assigned a research project about this.
Typing: Doing digital scrapbooking and research
Digital Scrapbooking: Had an 1 hour lesson about Word and using it for digital scrapbooking from Grandma Ward
Free Reading: Read over 1 hour
Life Skills: Carrot Cake and Earth Bread

Daily Schedule for 9/05/08

On Friday we tried an experiment. We had a "Love of Learning" Day. It didn't go as well as I'd hoped though. I am hoping that this will teach them to be self-learners. I think I'll do this occasionally. Olivia did really good, but Jared struggled with finding his own things to do. I did have some parameters to the day...no tv, movies, video games, etc.... This is what they did/chose...

Jared
Read a Magic Tree House book.
Flew his kite.
Jumped on the trampoline.
Did a math lesson.
Did some math wrap-ups.
Played some individual math games.
Did his Snap Circuits, Jr set.
Played with his Lego's and Rescue Hero's.

Olivia
Jumped on the trampoline.
Make zucchini bread.
Helped me freeze and prepare carrots and zucchini for the winter.
Read for several hours.
Did digital scrap booking.
Played with Jared's Snap Circuits, Jr set.
Did some blogging and book reviews on Good Reads.

Daily Schedule for 9/04/08

BOTH
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: The Creation and The Fall
Bible History: Israel and the Hivities
Friend Article: 3 stories
Biography/American History: Ben and Me by Robert Lawson, a chid's bio of Benjamin Franklin told through the eyes of his friend a mouse. We read 4 chapters including the invention of the Franklin stove
Read-a-loud: 2 chapters of The Horse and the Boy by C.S. Lewis (Narnia #3)
Science: A sugar crystal expieriment, it will last another several days

Jared
Music: Piano lesson practice
Math: Lesson 10
Math Drill: Wrap-up's, Multiplication 3's and 4's and Division 2's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: A Reason for Writing lesson, wrote out a scripture verse
Free Reading: Over 30 minutes, finished Mummies in the Morning, Magic Tree House #3
PE: Kite flying and jumping on the trampoline

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 11
Spelling: 1 Spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Free Reading: Over one hour The Dark Hills Divide
Life Skills: Made French Green Bean Casserole
PE: Jumped on the Trampoline

Daily Schedule for 9/03/08

BOTH
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 2: Our Premortal life and early Protestant reformers
Bible History: Walls of Jericho
Biography/American History: Squanto's Journey by Joseph Bruchac and The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds (French and Indian War)
Read-a-loud: 1 Chapter of The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 10
Math Drill: Wrap-up's: Multiplication 10's, Subtraction 10's, Division 1's and 2's
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Handwriting/Phonics: Explode the Code, 5 pages
Creative Writing: Told me orally and I typed a book report onto Good Reads from his latest book Free Reading: 30 min
PE: 30 min of jumping on the trampoline

Olivia
Music: Voice Lesson Practice
Art: 1 hour of drawing
Math: Lesson 10
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Free Reading: At least 2 hours
Life Skills: Helping to babysit a 2 and 4 year old all day
PE: 30 minutes of jumping on the trampoline
Government: Listen to Palin's speech on TV and discussed it with Alex

Daily Schedule for 9/02/08

BOTH
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Finished Lesson 1: The Book of Mormon and Pray to Know the Truth
Bible History: The Israelites prepare to enter Canaan, I gave each of the kids a Bible timeline that folds out. This will help them sort out what's going on in the Bible History especially when the Kingdom of Israel separates.
Friend Article: 1 Story, 1 quiz
Biography/American History: A Child's Story of America: The French and Indian War, 1 chapter of The Matchlock Gun
Read-a-loud: 1 chapter of The Horse and His Boy
Science: We dissected and talked about a Cow's Heart
Life Skills: Harvesting and Freezing Corn (We did this in the evening)
PE: Jumped on the Trampoline for 30 min

Jared
Music: Practiced his Piano Lesson
Math: Lesson 9
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Handwriting: A Reason for Writing, copied a Bible verse
Free Reading: 30 min of Magic Tree House: Revolutionary War on Wednesday
Life Skills: Macaroni and Cheese

Olivia
Music: Voice Lesson practice and Voice Lesson in the afternoon, Recorder practice
Art: Spent at least 2 hours painting her clay pot from last Thursday and painting on paper
Math: Lesson 9
Spelling: 1 Spell Drill
Language Arts: More Verbs...
Free Reading: At least 2 hours of Reading. Finished Work and the Glory and started The Spiderwick Chronicles

Daily Schedule for 9/01/08

Happy Labor Day! No School! We will be harvesting our garden today...

Daily Schedule for 8/29/08

We went on a Field Trip! We went to Salt Lake and did several different activities.

LIFE SKILLS: First we went to The Garden on Temple Square and practiced our manners and etiquette that we have been talking about and working on this past week.

At The Garden.

THEOLOGY: Then we went and saw the Joseph Smith movie at the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It's Jared's favorite movie and I think that was about the 10th time we saw it. Then we went and walked around Temple Square and saw all the displays including The Christis.


Olivia and Jared in front of The Christis.


Overlooking Temple Square.

SCIENCE/HISTORY: Then we went over to the University of Utah's Museum of Natural History. We learned about Native American Indians, Paleontology, DNA, Rocks and Minerals, Native American Animals, Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics.


Jared looking at a DNA display.


Olivia and Jared looking at a gems and minerals display.


In front of a Wholly Mammoth replica.

FAMILY HISTORY: We went to the grave of Heber C Kimball and his extended family.


At the Heber C Kimball cemetary

SOCIAL/FAMILY/PE: Then we went to Provo and saw my family and watched a BYU football game on Saturday. We also went on campus for a while and saw what college life was like and went to the books store. They saw all the textbooks and I bought one for my next BYU class.


At the football game.

FREE READING: On the way down they each read for two hours.

BOOK ON TAPE: They listened to the first half of Treasure Island.