12/01/08: Luke's home!

Luke's home for good now! We are all SOOO excited. He's wanted to come home for so long. He's never wanted to even go to school to begin with. The time was just finally right and the "yes" answer finally came. We were gone for 2 hours because we had to drive a friend to go and get her truck. We had a super fun day!

Mom School

Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, chapter 5: Following the Spirit
Bible History: Return of the Jews
Friend Articles
American History Literature: 1 chapter from Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Character: 1 story from A Story to Tell by Deseret Book
Read-a-loud: 4 chapters from The Hardy Boys #3
Memorization: All the presidents of the USA, Books of the Book of Mormon, and Books of the New Testament
Family History: The biography of James Lick Hancock (my GGrandfather) by Harris Hancock, my great uncle.
World History: Chapter 5 from Story of the World vol. 2: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer
Science: The Sun! We also read The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book about Kitchen Chemistry

Science Experiment: White Light and prisms
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.

Olivia
Music: She Practiced her voice lesson.
Art: Spent 1 hour on drawing, coloring and design.
Math: Lesson 58
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Past tense verbs
Life Skills: Lemon Squares and Homemade Lemonade

Jared
Music: Had piano lessons
Science: Put his mobile planet/star system together that he got for his birthday. He also watched a Magic School Bus Science video.
Math: Lesson 56
Math Drill: Sudoku puzzle-9 number
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
PE: Scooter Ride

Luke

Math: Did 4 lessons from Saxon 2

Spelling: 1 spell drill

Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code

Reading: Read to me for 30 minutes from The Book of Mormon Reader Retold by Jolynne Berrett Stapp

Writing: Worked on a story for 30 minutes

Caleb

Went to public school

Read to me

Family (in the evening):

Family Home Evening: Member Missionary Work

Star gazing

To Show Parent Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Piano, spell drill, read 1 hour, helped a friend

Alex: Went to work and worked on his college class