Friday, December 5, 2008

12/05/08:Regular Day

Mom School
Pray and Pledge
Theology:
Elder Worthlin's Conference Talk
Bible History: Zacharias and Elizabeth
Friend Article
American History Literature: 5 chapters of Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Literature: 1 chapter from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Read-a-loud: 1 chapter from Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Memorization: All the Presidents of the USA (Luke is on the first 10), Books of the Old Testament (just starting this), Books of the New Testament and Books of the Book of Mormon
Family History: Tribute to Harris Hancock (my g uncle) by my grandparents
Music: Learning the Books of the Old Testament to music
Science Biography: Chapter 3 in Thomas Edison His Life and Ideas
World History: Chapter 9 from Story of the World vol. 2 by Susan Wise Bauer
Science: Mars
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
Family History: Read for a while out of a "Sutter Family" generically generated book.
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Science: Read Chapter 2 in a High School Biology book. To bad she doesn't want to do science everyday. (haha)
Math: Lesson 63
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Parts of speech: 1 Mad Libs
Free Reading: 2 hours Work and the Glory #3
Computers/Typing: American Girls Felicity on line games
PE: Ran 1 mile on the treadmill

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 59
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive P's
Reading: Read 1 hour in the Book of Mormon Reader
Life Skills: Macaroni and Cheese
PE: 30 min of cardio

Luke
Music: Had piano lessons and practiced the piano
Math: 1 Saxon 2 lesson
Spelling: 3 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 7 pages in Explode the Code
Reading: Reading to me in the McGuffy Second Grade Reader and The Book of Mormon Reader

Caleb
Went to public school

Family (in the evening):
Pet Care:
Babysitting Foxy Roxy again and doing chores out at our cousins for the weekend

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: 1 spell drill, Read 2 hours in The Naked Communist and Lord of the Rings, and wrote a Book Review on Goodreads
Alex: Went to work, studied for his college final and finished Sackett Land by Louis L'Amour

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