10/28/08: Paul Revere's Ride

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 5: Missionary Work and True to the Faith: Missionary Work
Bible History: Elisha dies
Friend Article
Biography/American History: George Washington by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Literature: Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fairy Tales/Fables: 1 story from A Story To Tell by Deseret Book
Read-a-loud/World History: The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell (about William Tyndale
Memorization: First 15 Presidents of the USA, Books of the New Testament and Latter Day Prophets
Geography/Culture: The Usborne Book of the Peoples of the World: Internet-Linked, read pgs. 1-9
Science: A Beka 5: Condensation pgs. 301-303
PE/Life Skills: Chores
Social: Friends over
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.
Movie: We watched part of National Treasure and the kids noticed all the names/places they now understood after reading so much American History.

Olivia
Music: Practiced voice lesson
Math: Lesson 42
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Compound sentences
Creative Writing: Wrote a poem (love of learning)
Free Reading: 3o min of Beyond the Valley of Thorns by Patrick Carmen
Writing/Computers/Typing: Blogging
Art: Power point designs
Family History: Indexed for 45 minutes

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 42
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Finished his story (love of learning)
Art: Illustrated his story
Computers/Typing: Finished typing his story
Science: Snap Circuits
Life Skills: Problem solving. He locked us out of the house (on purpose, but that's a different story) and so I made him figure out how we were going to get back in.

Family (in the evening):
Luke 1
2 chapters in Fablehaven #2

To Show Parent Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...

Deanna
Piano
Spell Drill
Indexed 50 names (It's that time of year again)
Read 1 hour
Babysat 3 kids for 2 hours
Ironed (I dislike ironing more than any other household chore so it doesn't happen very often)

Alex
Served as a temple ordinance worker
Went to work
Finished The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon by Louis L'Amour
Worked on the Playhouse for 2+ hours
Prepared a seminary lesson (his last as a substitute for now)