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.