01/30/09: Olivia is sick!

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Chapter 5 Gospel Principles
Bible History: The Betrayal
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Great moments in American History: Crossing the Delaware George Washington and the Battle of Trenton by Arlan Dean.
Literature: Casey At the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Fables: Pegasus by Marianna Mayer
Memorization: First 18 states of the USA.
Family History: Elizabeth Matthews Campbell biography by her granddaughter
World History: Pyramids and Mummies by Seymour Simon
Science: Biomes and Habitats from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia and Destination: Space by Seymour Simon
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.
Science video: Watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about Pressure (in the afternoon).

Olivia
Olivia was sick today. She participated in Mom School then promptly took a 3 hour nap. She aroused to do some Math. Then she snuggled in bed for a couple of Little House on the Prairie episodes. She's feeling a little better now though.

Religion: 1 chapter of The Book of Mormon
Math: Lesson 92
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day-FAWN
Writing: She wrote a blog post.
Art: Made a digital scrapbook page.
Free Reading: Read Jane Eyre for 1 hour.

Jared
Religion: One chapter from the Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 82
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive lesson assignment
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters of Eragon.
Creative Play: Lot's of Star Wars play.
Book on Tape: Listened to the Radio broadcast of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
PE: Shoveled snow

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Math lesson from Saxon 2
Reading: Read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for 1 hour.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing/Typing: He's back to a story again. This time it's called "Civil War of 1820." Creative Play: Lot's of Lego's and Star Wars play.
PE: Shoveled Snow

Caleb
Math: 1 math workbook page
Spelling: Caleb decided to do over 10 spell drills today.
Handwriting: Several mazes.
Reading: Read 2 readers to me.
Creative Writing: He was "working" on a story today also while Luke was.
PE: Jump roping

As a family in the Evening:
We played Jared's game he made at scouts. It's actually pretty fun!!

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Word of the day, read The Illiad for 45 min. and I spent over 6 hours ordering curriculum through IDEA. When the state is giving you a couple thousand dollars for curriculum you just suck up the very slow online ordering system they have!
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, listened to three hours of The Iliad by Homer, went to Boise to work and won't be home until tomorrow night. (Tomorrow he is attending the Idaho State Republican Convention).

01/29/09: Dentist

Today was major survival day. The kids and I had to go to 'town,' this time for the dentist. We were there for 3 hours-that was just cleanings and check-ups. Then we had pack meeting tonight which I have to help with so we were there early and stayed late with set up and clean up.

Mom School
Health: Dentist Appointments for Everyone! They were given the low down about dental care, tarter, flossing, etc....
4-H: We talked to the 4-H extension office for a while about the different classes and projects that are being offered this year. Looks like we'll be doing a clover bud project, a horse project, a government project, some Lego projects and a science project.

Olivia
Religion: 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Music: Played the piano.
Math: Lesson 91
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
Writing: Calligraphy
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- INSOLVENT
Free Reading: 30 min of Jane Eyre
Life Skills: Worked at Alex's office for 2 hours doing various secretary items.
Business: She sold a horse and bought a new one with her dad.

Jared
Religion: 1 chapter from The Old Testament Reader.
Math: Lesson 81 redo
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive writing lesson.
Free Reading: Over 1 hour of Eragon.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 Lesson
Spelling: 1 spelling drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode of Code
Free Reading: Over 1 hour of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
PE: 30 min of Wii sports.

Caleb
Math: 1 math page
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 1 Explode the Code page
Reading: Read 15 min in The McGuffy Reader to me.
PE: 30 min of Wii Sports

Family (in the evening):
Pack meeting for scouts. Luke earned his Bobcat and a Skit segment. Jared earned several segments and some sports pins and belt loops.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, word of the day, completed Individual Learning Plans for each child for the state. my visiting teacher came over and read for two hours.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, and listened to something coming and going?

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01/28/09: Testing

Mom School
Pray, National Anthem and Song
Theology: Gospel Principles Chapter 4
Bible History: Gethsemane
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 2 chapters and finished The Alexander Hamilton You Never Knew by James Lincoln Collier, The Magic School Bus Builds the Statue of Liberty, The Liberty Bell Symbols of Freedom by Tristan Binns
Memorization: First 18 states of the USA
World History: Journey Through History: The Greek and Roman Eras by Carme Peris
Geography: Major Oceans, Greece and Rome
Science: Earth's Oceans by Bobbie Kalman, Volcanoes by Seymour Simon (Smithsonian series), and Gentle Giant Octopus by Karen Wallace
Life Skills: Test Taking! They went and took their state tests.
We went to 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.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Math: Lesson 90
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- INCHOATE
Free Reading: 30 min of Jane Eyre

Jared
Religion: Several chapters in his Old Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 81
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: 1 hour of Eragon.
Creative: Made several paper airplanes.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read for one hour in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis.
Creative Play: 1 hour of Lego building.

Caleb
Math: 2 math workbook pages
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 1 Explode the Code page.

In the Evening:
Rode horses with Alex.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, piano, spell drill, word of the day, had a meeting with the state for the kid's state testing, and went to mutual for my calling.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, and attended a Chamber of Commerce meeting.

01/27/09: Go Tigers!

Mom School
Pray, National Anthem and Song
Theology: Chapter 3 Gospel Principles
Bible History: The Last Supper
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 2 chapters from The Alexander Hamilton you Never Knew by James Lincoln Collier
Memorization: First 18 states of the USA and the books of the Old Testament
Family History: Joseph Hyrum Campbell
World History: The Great Wall: The story of thousands of miles of earth and stone that turned a nation into a fortress by Elisabeth Mann
Geography: Dominican Republic (from the Friend Article)
Science: Scary Creatures Jellyfish by Gerard Cheshire, Faraway Worlds: Planets Beyond our Solar System by Paul Halpern and Photosynthesis from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia.
PE: Played outside in the snow for 1 hour.
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
Religion: 1 chapter from The Book of Mormon.
Music: Her voice lesson was cancelled.
Government: Read 3 pages in a high school government book.
Math: Lesson 89
Geography Game: Played Snapshots Across America with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: More prepositions
Art: Practiced Caligraphy for 15 min
Creative Writing: Created a crossword puzzle.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- DOLEFUL
Mentoring: Helped Caleb with phonics and reading and played the geography game with him.

Jared
Religion: Read 1 chapter in The Old Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 80
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon.
Creative Play: Lego's for an hour.
PE: 30 min of Wii boxing.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math lesson
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read for an hour and finished Knights of the Round Table adapted by Gwen Gross.
Creative Play: Lego's for 2 hours.
PE: Played Wii sports for 30 min.

Caleb
Math: 1 workbook page
Geography Game: Played Snapshots Across America with Olivia.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Mazes
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages of Explode the Code
Phonics: Played a phonics games with Olivia.
Reading: Read an early reader to Olivia.
PE: Played 30 min of Wii sports.

Family (in the evening):
We went and watched a boys high school basketball game. Go Tigers!

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, spell drill, word of the day, read and finished Prelude to Glory for 3 hours, and read 3/4 of a chapter of The Richest Man Who Ever Lived with Alex.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple for his ordinance worker shift (he's a mentor now), went to work, and listened to The Illiad.

01/26/09: Lego's

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Gospel Principals chapter 2
Bible History: Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 1 chapter from The Alexander Hamilton You Never Knew by James Lincoln Collier and The Bald Eagle Symbols of Freedom by Tristan Binns
Fables: The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac by Dawn Casey
Memorization: First 15 states of the United States
World History: Knights and Castles by Fiona MacDonald
Geography: Greater and Lesser Antilles
Science: The Universe (Smithsonian) by Seymour Simon
Science Experiment: Rubber Eggs
PE: Made snow forts for one hour and they each played Wii Sports for 30 min.
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
Religion: Read one chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Science: Read through a science experiment book for an hour.
Math: Lesson 88
Geography Game: Played Snapshots Across America with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositional phrases
Writing: Wrote in her journal
Creative Writing: Wrote her comments from The Day on the Hill to be turned in.
Research Life Skills: Read in various cookbooks for over 30 min.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- DILATE.
Typing: She's typing a biography up of her great grandma.
Mentoring: She decided she was going to mentor Caleb through various school items today.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The Old Testament Reader
Music: Had a piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 79
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive words, lesson from his Reason for Writing books.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon.
Creative Play: LOTS of Lego's today. He made his own Star War's ship from scratch. He didn't even look at the paper blueprints.
Science: Watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video: Earth's Crust
Biography: Listened to several Power Tale biographies including Francis Scott Key.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
World History: Listened to Story of the World for 30 min.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for over 30 min in a chapter book.
Creative Play: LOTS of Lego's today.

Caleb
Geography Game: Played Snapshots across America with Olivia.
Math: 1 1/2 workbook pages
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 2 Explode the Code pages
Creative Play: Played Rescue Hero's today and he got out the tool box and opened up a bunch of them. (?-Apparently it had to be done).

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Extended Family Relationships.
We visited a couple of families and gave cookies to another.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, Ensign article, spell drill, word of the day, Goodreads reviews, finished our online adoption profile, read 1/2 chapter of The Richest Man in the World with Alex, read for a little while in Prelude to Glory and did a chapter and assignment for my BYU Geography class.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, read a chapter in Leadership 101 by Maxwell, went to work and listened to The Iliad by Homer.

Vocabulary Building

My friend Celeste had this on her blog: Peterson's Word of the Day. If you subscribe you will get a new vocabulary word each day in your email box. They include the pronunciation, the definition, the word in a sentence and synonyms of the word. My husband, daughter and I subscribed to it. Even if we don't look at every word every day over time I think we will be able to improve our vocabulary with out a lot of extra effort. Thanks Celeste!

01/24/09: Saturday Fun!

Here's some of the things we did today:

• Alex worked for 5 hours.
• I read and did the assignments for one chapter in my BYU Geography 120 class.
• I practiced the organ.
• Some of us played Phase 10.
• Some of us played Snapshots Across America.
• Learned all about Rugby by watching You Tube videos. Our cousin is on the BYU Women's Rugby team. Go Danielle!
• Olivia and I went to a game party.
• We cleaned the church as a family.
• A couple of kids did 30 min/per child of Wii Sports.
• Luke worked on and finished his Bobcat requirements for scouts with Alex.
• Alex plowed snow and the kids played in the snow. (We have new snow again).
• Lots of Lego's and Creative Play.
• Alex and I read a chapter in Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Secrets of Solomon.

01/23/09: Day on the Hill

Today the older three were able to go to the capital and learn more about our government. They loved it! They each presented a bill they had written and then tried to get it to pass. They learned about parliamentary procedure and the way laws are passed. They were able to meet a Idaho Supreme Court Justice and tour the court room and his chambers. They can't wait to go next year.

While Alex took the kids to that Caleb and I swam and than went to my sisters and hung out with her and her children.

Everyone had a fun day!

01/22/09: Shark Attack!

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Chapter 1 in Gospel Principles
Bible History: Christ enters Jerusalem
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read Nathan Hale: Patriot Spy by Shannon Zemlicka
Fairy Tales: Puss in Boots
Fables: Christopher The Holy Giant by Tomie dePaola (story of the Catholic patron saint Christopher)
Math: 1 chapter from The Number Devel: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Family History: Biography of Olive Ward by her sister Edna Hopkins
World History: 2 hours listening to The Story of the World vol. 2.
Science: Sharks by Seymour Simon from the Smithsonian series. We really like these Smithsonian series. This is the first one we've read but we've looked at the pictures from a lot of them that we've checked out from the library. Caleb said, "They are so scary!" It was a book about sharks!
Life Skills: Folding laundry together.
PE: Went swimming twice.
Family Life: Played with our cousins and went out to dinner.
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.
Service: Made food for a funeral.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Reading: Read for one hour in Jane Eyre.
Life Skills: Homemade macaroni and cheese again.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in his Old Testament Reader.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Free Reading: Read for an hour in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis.

Caleb
Math: Did one math page from his workbook.
PE: Played Wii Sports for 30 min.

Family (in the evening):
Swimming and cousins

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, goodreads reviews, read 3 hours in Slave Dance and Prelude to Glory.
Alex: Scriptures, provided tech support for a funeral, listened to Radio Broadcasts that changed the world (JFK speeches), went to work and played with us!

01:21/09: Can I start this day over?

Today was one of those days that I wish I could have started over and tried again. It seemed the the forces of not doing mom school were after me today! Our morning routine was total messed with for a number of reason and this afternoon we had various things going on. One thing was accomplished though: my suburban is out of the shop as of 5pm, thanks to my dad. So now I can actually drive somewhere and I don't have to schedule rides...sigh...

No Mom School Today! Alex was home this morning.
Idaho History: We filled out our packets for our "Day on the Hill" this Friday.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Family History: Read another biography of Olive Ward.
Math: Lesson 87
Language Arts: Prepositions
Typing: Typing an old biography of Olive Ward (her ggrandma and namesake for her grandma)
Government: Read in a Government book about how governments run.
Life Skills: She prepared several recipes today out of a Boxcar Children Cookbook. She made pancakes, corn bread, chocolate pudding and macaroni and cheese.
Had Activity Days.

Jared
Religion: Read one chapter in his Old Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced the piano.
Math: Lesson 78
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Did a cursive writing lesson.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters of Eragon.
PE: 30 min of Wii boxing.
Science: Watched a science video about dinosaurs.
He had scouts.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Science: Watched a science video about dinosaurs.
Math: Did one Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read for over an hour in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
PE: 30 min of Wii sports.
He had scouts.

Caleb
Math: Did one math work book page.
Spelling: 1 spell drill.
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 7 pages of Explode the Code.
Science: Watched a science video about dinasaurs.
PE: 30 min of Wii sports.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, went to a book club, help at Cub Scouts, laundry, packed, read A Tale of Two Cities for an hour in the evening, and overall resisted loosing my mind since my day was NOT in my control. (My dad was even teasing me about it when he drove me the 20 miles to get my vehicle).
Alex: Scriptures, read a chapter in the book Leadership 101 by Maxwell, scheduled a trip in March, went to work conference in Pocatello, listened to old recordings from the national radio archives.

01/20/09: Hello Mr. President

I didn't realize until this afternoon that we had missed the changing of power. So we just talked about. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that we never have the T.V. on so we aren't in the know.

Today, Caleb snuck off during Mom School and took a picture of us in action. The picture is crooked, but you can see what it's like. The kids drag in toys, Lego's and whatever else they want for our marathon reading sessions. The mess drives me nuts, but after mom school we put all the toys away-back in their rooms anyway-and everything gets put back together.

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapters 9 and 10. We've finished what we are going to do in this book for now. We are going to start reading the lessons in the book Gospel Principles.
Bible History: Raising of Lazarus
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read two chapters and finished John Adams by Ann Gaines
Literature: Read 12 poems and finished A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

World History Literature: In the book Wizards: Stories of Mischief, Magic and Mayhem we read the section that had a translation of Beowulf. The translation was by Seamus Heaney.
World History: We read the book The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff. This is the story of the Independence of the country of Switzerland in 1291.

Memorization: Books of the Old and New Testament and Books of the Book of Mormon, Latter-day Prophets, First 11 states of the USA and the Presidents of the USA.
Geography: Switzerland
Science: Fungi and lichens from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Game: Apples to Apples, Jr. and Phase 10
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
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon
Family History: Read another biography of Olive Ward
Music: Had her voice lesson.
Math: Lesson 86
Language Arts: Prepositional Phrases
Free Reading: Read Jane Eyre for 15 min
Government Reading: Read a chapter from a high school government book about the beginnings of government.
Life Skills: Babysat a one year old for a half and hour while I gave a piano lesson. I was in the same room with her.

Jared
Religion: Read his Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 77
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Did a lesson in his cursive writing book.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon.
PE: Ran/walked 1 mile on the treadmill and 30 min of Wii sports.

Science: Watched a dinosaur science video.

Creative Play: Played with Lego's for an hour.
Biography: Listened to Power Tales biographies of Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison.

Luke
Science: Watched a dinosaur science video.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Play: Played with Lego's for 3 hours. He put together a really nice Star Wars ship.

Biography: Listened to Power Tales biographies of Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison.

Caleb
Science: Watched a dinosaur science video.
Math: 2 math workbook pages
Phonics/Handwriting: 1 page from Explode the Code
PE: 30 min of Wii sports
Biography: Listened to Power Tales biographies of Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, piano, read A Tale of Two Cities for two hours, wrote some book reviews on Goodreads, taught a piano lesson and read a chapter with Alex from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived. I also finished our adoption website page for the LDS church for their new It's About Love website being launched on the 27th.
Alex: Scriptures, did his temple ordinance worker shift-he was called to be a trainer today, went to work, and listened to the Iliad.

Story of the World

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My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
My children love these books. Well, they love listening to them over and over on CD. These books provide a solid historical outline of major historical events. Because my children listen to the Cd's over and over they practically have these books memorized. Once this solid outline is in place it is easy for me to pull a classic book off the self and read it to them and they can understand where in history this fits in. The CD's themselves (narrated by great voices) are on my top 5 homeschooling resources. Teaching World History could not be easier...

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01/19/09: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since we took the day off on Friday we studied today...

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 6: Obedience and True to the Faith: Obedience
Bible History: 10 Lepers
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 2 chapters from John Adams by Ann Gaines and we read ...If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern
Biography: We talked about Martin Luther King, Jr. and read some stuff online about him since I didn't get my ducks in a row and order something from the library.

Literature: 6 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales: Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Glen Rounds
Memorization: Books of the Book of Mormon and Books of the Old and New Testament and the First 10 states in the Union.
Family History: Hyum Campbell biography
Geography: Alaska, Russia, and Iceland
Science: Single cell life forms from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia and we read Exploring our Solar System: Mars, The Distant Red Planet by David Jefferis
Math: 2 chapters from The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Game: Apples to Apples, Jr.
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
Religion: Read one chapter in The Book of Mormon
Family History: Read a biography of Olive Almedia Ward
Computers/Art: Did a digital scrapbook page for her cousin.
Math: Lesson 85
Game: Played Phase 10 with me.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Wrote a letter to her grandpa.
Language Arts: Prepositional Phrases

Music: Downloaded and listened to multiple songs including music from A Brand New Year and Mary Poppins.
Writing: Wrote in her journal.
Life Skills: Olivia has learned to braid in several different ways. (She messes with my hair every morning while we do mom school).

Mentoring: She held a handwriting class for Jared today.

Research: Prepared a Family Home Evening Lesson.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from his Old Testament Reader
Music: Did a lesson on Music Ace
Science: Did two science experiments regarding solid/solid and liquid/liquid comparisons.
Math: Lesson 76
Logic: Put a 3-D dinosaur puzzle together twice.
Game: He played Cashflow for Kids with me. (This is a money/life skills game).
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: He spelled out his name several times in handwriting. He attended Olivia's handwriting class.
Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon
PE: 30 min of Wii Sports

Creative Play: 2 hours of Lego's

Biography: Listened to Power Tales Biographies of Thomas Edison and Theodare Roosevelt.

Luke
Religion: Read his Book of Mormon Reader and he read his scripture reading assignment for his primary class.
Music: Had piano lessons.
Math: 2 lesson from Saxon Math 2
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
PE: 30 min of Wii sports
Creative Play: 3+ hours of Lego's

Biography: Listened to Power Tales Biographies of Thomas Edison and Theodare Roosevelt.

Caleb
Science: Watched Jared do his science experiments.
Art: Coloring
Math: 2 math work book pages
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 2 pages in Explode the Code

Phonics: We played a Happy Phonics game.

PE: 30 min of Wii Sports.
Biography: Listened to Power Tales Biographies of Thomas Edison and Theodare Roosevelt.

Family (in the evening):

Family Home Evening: Manners by Olivia
Science Activity: You Build it Voice Changer (Smart Lab). This is a science kit we received over Christmas but it required Alex's help so we did it for our activity for Family Home Evening. The kids played on it for a long time afterwards. They loved it!

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, goal Setting, read 1 chapter of A Tale of Two Cities, spell drill and piano. I did my piano solo yesterday for church! Whew! Alex and I read 1 chapter from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon's Secrets.
Alex: Scriptures, Conference Talks, Leadership 101 book by Maxwell, went to work and listened to The Iliad by Homer.

01/16/09: It's about life.

Today went skipped "school." We had cabin fever so we went to "town." (almost an hour away) Here's what we did...

• Went to the eye doctor. Uncle Matt's the best!
• We went to Barnes and Nobles.
• We went to Target.
• We went SWIMMING!

• We went to the library.
• We went grocery shopping.
• We left at 10:30 AM and we were home at 9 PM. I'm tired.
• Olivia held her "handwriting class" on the way to town today.
• Olivia read Jane Eyre for 30 min.
• Jared read books to Caleb for 30 min.
• Luke read a chapter book for 30 min.
• We listened to Story of the World vol. 2 for two plus hours.
• I read the Iliad for 2 hours.

01/15/09: Sleep over party

We had another great day today. The kids love learning and reading. I couldn't have a better "job" than doing what I do. I am a mom! Today the kids put up their play-tents that they received from Christmas from one of their grandmas. They've been playing with them since Christmas but today they decided they were going to sleep in them. They are all lined out each in a tent and are listening to some Power Tales as we speak. Happy kids.

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, chapter 6: Diligence and True to the Faith: Knowledge
Bible History: The Prodigal Son
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read Literature: The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Norman Richards (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Literature: 10 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales: The Seven Wonderful Cats
Fables: Read the Three Gold Pieces by Aliki
Memorization: Books of the Old and New Testament, Books of the Book of Mormon and First 7 states.
Family History: Autobiography of Emma H. Green
Science Biography: Read 3 chapters and finished Thomas Edison For Kids: His Life and Ideas by Laurie Carlson
World History Biography: William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki
Geography: Turkey (From Three Gold Pieces)
Science: Classification of living things from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Math: Read How do Octopi Eat Pizza Pie? Pizza Math by Time Life for Children Series and read a chapter from The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon
Music: Played the violin and the recorder. She also played on Music Ace for 30 min.
Art: Practiced Calligraphy for over 30 minutes.
Math: Lesson 84
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-up's: 5's and 9's.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositional phrases
Free Reading: 1 hour of Jane Eyre
PE: 30 min of Wii sports
Mentor: Olivia ran a handwriting class today. She had Caleb and Jared sitting down writing for almost an hour!
Creative Play: Tent playing, "school" and some of Lego's.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 74
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Participated in Olivia handwriting class and wrote for almost an hour! He also practiced cursive Z's.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon
PE: 30 min of Wii sports
Creative Play: Tent playing, "school" and lots of Lego's.

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter from his Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for 30 min from Knights of the Round Table by Gwen Gross
PE: 30 min of Wii sports.
Creative Play: Lots of Lego Star Wars ship building.

Caleb
Music: Played the violin again for fun.
Math: Two math work book pages.
Math Drill: Addition Wrap-up: 1's.
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages of Explode the Code
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Attended Olivia's "grueling" 1 hour handwriting class.
PE: 30 min of Wii sports.
Creative Play: Tent playing, "school" and Lego's.

Family (in the evening):
Movie: Watched The Empire Strikes Back (I know, I know they need to not watch movies after dinner. They have really wanted to watch the original series again. They watched them out of order, but they should be good for a while now. In our house the original Star Wars series are classics).
Scriptures: Read Luke 11
Character Biographies: Power Tales: George Washington, Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (1 lesson), piano (I'm usually on it for an hour everyday-broken up into 2 or so segments), violin (I tried the simplified hymns today. I really need to have a lesson from someone before my technique-which I'm sure is off-becomes a habit), recorder for about 20 min with Olivia, Goodreads reviews, read 2 chapters from The Iliad by Homer, did a lesson for my BYU college Geography class, and read A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens for 1 1/2 hours.
Alex:Left at 5 AM this morning for Utah to set up one of his tax offices. He'll be home late...I don't know what he listened to day or what's he's read....

01/14/09: Keep Reading!

Today the kids wanted to keep reading for Mom School and they didn't want to do anything else. So instead of Mom School getting done and 10:30 or 11:00 we didn't get done until 12:30. They just kept throwing books in my lap. Long books too! They were disappointed when we stopped but I was hungry and my throat was done!

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 6: Humility and True to the Faith: Humility
Bible History: The Good Samaritan
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 6 chapters and finished The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales/Fables: The Cock, The Mouse and The Little Red Hen
Memorization: Books of the Old and New Testament and Books of the Book of Mormon
Family History: Biography of William Green
World History: Wonders of the World by DK
World History Biography: Saladin:Noble Prince of Islam by Diane Stanley (3rd Crusade)
Science Biography: 2 chapters from Thomas Edison For Kids: His Life and Ideas by Laurie Carlson
Math: 2 chapters from The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Mangnus Enzenberger
Science: Glaciers: The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
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
Religion: Read the Book of Mormon
Life Skills: Carrot Cake
Social: Played for 1 1/2 hours with a friend.
She sewed again for a couple of hours.

Jared
Religion: 1 chapter from the Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Social: Scouts today!
Creative Play: Lots and lots of Lego play again.
Reading: Read lots of picture books to Caleb.

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter from his Book of Mormon Reader
Social: Scouts today!
Creative Play: Lots and lots of Lego's again.

Caleb
Music: Played around on the violin.
Creative Play: Lots of Lego's.
Social: Played with a friend for an hour and half.
Reading: Jared read him lots of picture books.

Family (in the evening):
Luke 10
Alex played Wii games with the kids while I was gone.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, piano, violin (I've learned all the "notes." I'm squeaking out songs from in the Children's songbook right now. The kids recognized the songs so that's good!), helped at scouts, made dinner for a "sick and afflicted" family, went to a stake Young Women's meeting, and attended Stake Standards Night.
Alex: Scriptures, went to work and listened to the Illiad by Homer.

01/13/09: Sewing and Star Wars

Today Olivia decided sewing was a good activity and spent the afternoon creating. The boys decided that Star Wars was the game of choice for the WHOLE afternoon. Lots of lightsabers, lego ship building, etc. Caleb didn't feel that good and spend half of the day on my lap.

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Plan of Salvation from Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith
Bible History: Jesus blesses the children
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 4 chapters from The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales: Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar
Myths: Monster Myths of Ancient Greece by William Wise
Memorization: Books of the Old Testament and New Testament, First 7 States of the Union alphabetically, all the presidents of the USA. Jared can fly through them!
Math: One chapter on The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. This chapter was on the "number" zero.
Math/Science/Geography/World History/Biography: The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky
Science: The Sun (again-another book though)
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
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon
Music: We cancelled her voice lesson because she doesn't feel that great.
Sewing/Art: Worked on the top of her quilt. She only has one more short session and then she's done with the top. She also made a doll pillow by hand and embroidered on it. She also did some other little things. She was at this from about 1 to 5.
Math: Lesson 83
Language Arts: Prepositional phrases
Free Reading: 15 min of Jane Eyre

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 73
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive Y's
Music/Computers: Did 4 lessons on Music Ace
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters of Eragon
Lots of Lego's/Star Wars and Creative Play!

Luke
Religion: Read one chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read 15 min in Fellowship of the Rings

Caleb
Music: Played the saxophone for 10 min and drove Luke NUTS! He also played the violin for about 20 minutes.
Handwriting: Did some mazes.
Literature Reading: I read him over 100 pages and finished in Kidnapped an abridged version by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Music/Computers: Did a lesson on Music Ace.

Family (in the evening):
Watched Star Wars: A New Hope. (of course)
Luke 9

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, piano, over an hour on the violin (my back is sore!), spell drill, took deep breaths and chilled out while I supervised 4 hours of Olivia's sewing (Can you feel my pain people? The things we do for our children!!!), read Gideon's Gift by Karen Kingsbury, and read A Tale of Two Cities for one hour.
Alex: Scriptures, 101 Maxwell Leadership book, How to Win a Local Election, went to Boise (LONG day), finished Plague Ship by Clive Cussler and started The Illiad both via CD.

01/12/09: Dickens

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 6: Patience
Bible History: Peter walks on the water
Biography/American History: 2 chapters from The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales/Fables: Pied Piper of Hamlien
Family History: The biography of Wilmer Cadmus Green and Emma Hollingworth Green my gggradparents.
Music: Ah, Music! by Aliki
Science: Earthquakes by Franklyn M. Branley and Rocks and Minerals from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Math: 1 chapter from The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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.
Service:

Olivia
Religion: 1 chapter from the Book of Mormon
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Creative Writing: Wrote a poem about music.
Art: Wrote her poem in fancy writing and made it into a pretty page.
Math: Lesson 82
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
Free Reading: 1 hour of Jane Eyre
Life Skills: Homemade bread

Jared
Religion Reading: 1 chapter from The Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 74
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive X's
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters from Eragon
Creative Play: Lego's for 2 hours

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter from the Book of Mormon Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Computer/Music: Worked on Lesson 4 on Music Ace
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson
Math Game: Played Money, Money! with me. A money game.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for 30 min in Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Creative Play: Played with Lego's for about 2 hours.

Caleb
Math: 1 math page from a workbook
Math Game: Played the Money, Money! game with Luke and I.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages from Explode the Code
Phonics: Played a phonics game out of Happy Phonics with me.
Free Reading: Read 2 phonics readers and a couple pages from Fox in Socks
Reading: Read to him for an hour from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (the illustrated classic one)
Creative Play: Played with Lego's for about an hour.

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament by Elder Oaks
Game: Stars Wars Trivial Prusuit
We visited two families. One couple are shut-in's and the other couple is facing several struggles.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talks, piano (I have a piano solo on Sunday), spell drill, read and finished The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood, read 6 chapters in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (it's long overdue that I read a Dickens book) and read Richest Man in Babylon out loud with Alex.
Alex: Scriptures, read a lesson in Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, read some out of a Maxwell leadership book, read out of a book he's working on How to Win a Local Election, went to work, and listened to Plague Ship by Clive Cussler.

1/09/09: Working with dad

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Bible History: Jesus calls the fisherman
Friend Article
Fairy Tales/Fables: Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Wallace Wadsworth, Goldie and the Three Bears by Diane Stanley and The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney.
Memorization: Books of the Book of Mormon and Latter-day Prophets
World History: Story of the World vol. 2 : Vikings
Science: Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians by Aliki
Phonics Game: Silent E Phonics Game

Math Game: Sum Swamp (adding and subtracting)

Movie: Swiss Family Robinson
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
Religion Reading: Read the Book of Mormon
Math: Lesson 81
Language Arts: Preposistions
Free Reading: 1 chapter of Jane Eyre
American History Reading: Mount Vernon: Cornerstones of Freedom by Mary Collins
Life Skills: Went to work with dad
Computers/Typing: Goodreads and Blogging

Jared
Free Reading: 3 chapters from Eragon
Life Skills: Went to work with dad all day

Luke
Music: Had a piano lesson. 30 min of Music Ace.
Science: Finished his dinsour.
Free Reading: Over 1 hour of The Fellowship of the Rings

Caleb
Music: 2 hours of the Music Ace.
Phonics Games: We played two Happy Phonics games.
Handwriting/Phonics: 4 pages of Explode the Code

Family (in the evening):
We played Apples to Apples, Jr and the Wii

Wrestling

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, Journal, Piano, 2 hours and finished Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler and started the Iliad.
Alex: Scriptures, Ensign Articles, Conference Talk, Went to work and listened to Plague Ship by Clive Cussler.

Book by Aliki

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My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I am finding that I really like the books by Aliki. I've been checking out all the books by her that I can from the library. Her books are old so the pictures are all in three or so basic colors and older drawings. However, we are still finding her books engaging and that we like the information.

In this book not only do you learn about corn from a science prospective but there is also a lot of history included.

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1/08/09: Beowulf

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 6: Knowledge
Bible History: Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 6 chapters and finished Martha Washington by Joan Marsh
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales/Fables: The Goose Girl retold Wallace Wadsworth and The Giant and the Beanstalk by Diane Stanley
Memorization: First 8 States in the Union, Books of the Old and New Testament and Books of the Book of Mormon
World History Literature: Read The Hero Beowulf by Eric A Kimmel we also watch Beowulf by Schlessinger Media
Science: Ocean Floor and Tectonic Plates from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
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
Religion: Scriptures (In the Book of Mormon)
New Era Article
Music: Had her voice lesson and 20 min on Music Ace-She did the pitch section.
World History: Read Chapter 19 from Story of the World vol. 2 to Luke
Art: Drew a picture and colored it
Writing: Created some games and prizes for the kids which required lots of writing.
Math: Lesson 80
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
Computers/Typing: Digital Scrapbooking
Reading: 15 min from Jane Eyre

Jared
Religion Reading: Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 70
Logic: Played a chess game
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive W's
Free Reading: 2 hours+ of Eragon

Luke
Religion Reading: Book of Mormon Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson. 20 minutes of the Music Ace
World History: Olivia read him Chapter 19 from Story of the World vol. 2.
Science: Assembled his cast for his dinasour skeleton and then made the mold for it's skin. It's being refrigerated over night. Tomorrow we will take it out of the cast and display it.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Free Reading: 1 1/2 chapters from Eragon

Caleb
Music/Computers: Over two hours on The Music Ace. He loved this. I think he learned a lot about music. He was doing the instructional lessons.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting/Phonics: 4 pages from Explode the Code
Small Motor Skills: Mazes and cuting and pasting

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, Journal, Piano, blog post on another blog I write for, 3 hours from a Clive Cussler book, spell drill and Good Reads.
Alex: Scriptures, Went to work (Boise day), listened to Plague Ship by Clive Cussler for 6 hours while driving and driving, and went to a Priesthood meeting. We are also reading Richest Man in Babylon together.

Beowulf

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My review rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a nice book to expose my children to the epic poem "Beowulf." They liked the pictures and came away understanding one of Beowulf's adventures. We followed the book up with a 30 min video from the library entitled "Beowulf" by Schlessinger Media. The video recounts all three of Beowulf's adventures.

1/07/09: Scouts

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 6: Virtue
Bible History: Jesus stills the storm
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 3 chapters from Martha Washington by Joan Marsh
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Tales/Fables: The Three Little Pigs (the LONG version)
Math/Lifetime Skills: First 1/3 of Rich Dad's Escape from the Rat Race by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Memorization: First 7 states of the union, Books of the Old and New Testaments
Science: Deeper Waters section and finished Kingfisher Voyages: Oceans by Stephen Savage and Oceans from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia

Government: Finished and sent in our bills for the "Day on the Hill"
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
Religion: 1 Chapter in the Book of Mormon
New Era Article
Art: Played with the Moon Sand
Math: Lesson 79
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
Free Reading: 1 chapter in Jane Eyre
Computers: Digital photo enhancement
Computers/Typing/Writing: Blog posts

Life Skills: Sorting Laundry
Had Activity Days! Learned about goal setting and played capture the flag.

Jared
Religion Reading: Read in The Old Testament Reader
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
World History: 1 hour of Story of the World. vol. 1
Science: Assembled his "Climate Cubes" by Slinky that he received for Christmas. He monitored them all day as the wind blew and the rain fell.
Math: Lesson 70
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive V's

Creative Play: Over 2 hours of Lego's

Had Scouts! Watched a safety video and made a game board for a game for FHE.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
World History: Over 1 hour of Story of the World vol. 2
Science: Assembled his Tyrannosaurs Rex model he received for Christmas. Hopefully tomorrow we'll make the "skin" for it.
Math: 1 Saxon 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code

Creative Play: Played with Lego's for over two hours.
Had his first Scout Meeting! Learned about honesty (I think?)

Caleb
Math: 1 workbook page

Fine motor skills: Cutting and pasting

Spelling: 1 spell drill

Reading: Read a phonics reader

Art: Played with HIS moon sand.

Computers: Created on the Art program and somehow figured out how to change all the pictures for every one's users as well as the "passwords." He thought he was pretty sneaky.

Creative Play: Played with Lego's for over two hours.

Family (in the evening):

Went to a fellow homeschooling family's house and played for two hours.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scripture, Journal, Piano, BYU class for two hours finished Chapter assignments, laundry, helped out at scouts, attended the opening book colloquium for The Iliad by Homer. (No mutual tonight).
Alex: Scriptures, Read in a John Maxwell book, Went to work, listening to Plague Ship by Clive Cussler, changed the spark plugs wires (?) in the suburban, attended the colloquium with me.

1/6/09:John Hancock and Little House on the Prarie

Mom School
Pray and Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 6: Charity and Love
Bible History: Jesus heals the blind
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 4 chapters and finished John Hancock: President of the Continental Congress by Ann Graham Gaines
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Memorization: First 7 States of the USA
Family History: Catherine Norman Ward's parents biography
Music: Performed in the Community Music Class Grand Finale Performance. It had been postponed because of the weather before Christmas.
Science: Finished the Sunlit Waters sections from Kingfisher Voyages: Oceans by Steven Savage and learned about atmosphere from The Kinfisher Science Encyclopedia
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: Voice lesson rescheduled at the last minute
Math: Lesson 78
Government/Writing: Worked some more on her bill for the "Day on the Hill" event in a couple of weeks in Boise
Language Arts: Prepositions
Typing/Life Skills: Typed out her goals for 2009
Religion Reading: Read the Book of Mormon
Free Reading: Read 1 chapter of Jane Eyre
Character: She watched several episodes of Little House of the Prairie. We don't have TV beyond a couple of fuzzy stations accessible with rabbit ears. So for Christmas we bought season 1 of Little House on the Prairie, my favorite show ever! All little girls need to be thoroughly versed in all the Little House series for a proper education right? Besides there are some great character lessons.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 69
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive T's
Government/Writing: Worked some more on his bill for "The Day on the Hill" in a couple of weeks.
Creative Play: Played with Lego's for over two hours.
Worked on some Scouting Requirements.
Reading: Read in the Old Testament Reader
Social: Went to a friends house for an hour and a half.
Core Phase Behavior: We spent a lot of time working and talking about his behavior. What is good/bad behavior. He did much better today.
Life Skills/Handwriting: Wrote out his goals for 2009 and talked them over with Alex.

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
World History Reading: Read a couple of pages in the book 100 things you should know about Ancient Rome by Fiona Macdonald
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Government/Writing: Worked some more on his bill for "The Day on the Hill" in a couple of weeks.
Life Skills: Scrambled egg sandwich
Starting working on his Bobcat for scouts.
Creative Play: Played with Lego's for over an hour.
Some Little House on the Prairie

Caleb
Math: 1 math page
Fine Motor Skills: 5+ pages of cutting and pasting
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Creative Play: Played with the Moon Sand for an hour
Handwriting: Mazes
Handwriting/Phonics: 3 pages from Explode the Code
Some Little House on the Prairie

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, Journal, Good Reads reviews, played the piano for the community music concert, practiced the piano, spell drill, read for 3 hours and finished His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, and read my textbook for my Georgraphy-BYU class for two hours.
Alex: Scriptures, Read for 30 min from a John Maxwell book, attended his professional organization meeting where he serves on the board as the past president, went to work, attending a county Republican Party meeting where he serves as District Vice-Chair and listened to Plague Ship by Clive Cussler in the car during his travels, changed the spark plugs in the suburban, went to the library again for me-his Tuesday job-to collect the 38 books I had on hold. The temple is closed this week and next.

1/5/09: Coral Reefs to Zeus

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 5: Hope
Bible History: Christ raises Jarius' daughter
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 2 chapters from John Hancock: President of the Continental Congress by Ann G. Gaines
Literature: 5 poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Memorization: Books of the Old Testament, Presidents of the USA and we started the states in Alphabetical order: A's
Family History: Biography of Catherine Norman Ward my ggrandmother
Science: Earth's Structure from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia and Underwater Forests and Coral Reefs from Kingfisher Voyages: Oceans by Ron and Valerie Taylor
Art: Played and made shapes with Moon Sand for 1 hour
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
Religion: Read Alma 24
Music: Practiced the piano and practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 78
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
American History: 1 hour of old Radio Broadcasts about Thomas Edison and the Titanic
Writing: Wrote a paper on Zeus and the Olympians (because she wanted to)
Computer/Research: Zeus, Hera and the Olympians
Free Reading: 1 hour Jane Eyre
Life Skills: Banana Bread and Strawberry smoothies
Computers/Art: Worked on photos on her new Adobe Photo Shop Elements
PE: Shoveled snow

Jared
Music: Practiced the piano and had his piano lesson
World History: 1 hour of Story of World Vol. 1 CD's
Math: Lesson 68
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 1 page of Explode the Code
PE: 30 min Cardio
Creative Play: Lots of Legos 3 hours?

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Science Reading: Read 30 min and finished his book Dinosaur Days
Math: 1 page from Saxon 2
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages from Explode the Code
Creative Writing/Typing: Worked for over and hour and finished his story on the computer! It's very good. It's 4 typed single pages. We are going to edit it a little bit before he "publishes" it.
Creative Play: Played with Legos for over two hours.
PE: 3o min of cardio

Caleb
Math: 2 pages from a workbook
Fine motor skills/logic: Cutting and pasting
Spelling: 3 spell drills
Art: Played for another hour in the Moon Sand creating
Reading: Read 1 phonics book to Olivia
Caleb likes to follow Olivia around and do things (like cooking) with Olivia.

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Goal Setting
Game: Star Wars Trivial Prusuit
Government: Wrote mock bills for a "Day on the Hill" government all day field trip they are going to in Boise in three weeks.
Boys played pool with Alex

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today... (I realized I should put scripture/journal and stuff)
Deanna: Scriptures, Journal, Piano (I have a piano solo in two weeks I just found out about), Read 30min of my George Washington bio, registered them for the "Day on the Hill," laundry, put on scout patches for two shirts,
Alex: Scriptures, Ensign, Went to Work, Listening to Plague Ship by Clive Cussler

01/01/09: Happy New Year

Happy New Year! We spent the day sledding "up north" with our cousins and friends.