April 27, 2009 (Monday): Horatio

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: Beautiful Savior
Theology: Chapter 44: The Millennium from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Mormon dies
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read a chapter from A Child's Story of America about Texas and the Alamo. (Davy Crockett, General Travis, Sam Houston and Santa Anna)
World History/Literature: Read 2 chapters and finished The Ulysses and the Trojan War by Usborne. They loved this book!
Memorization: 12 apostles, books of the Old and New Testament and books of the Book of Mormon.
Family History/WW II: We read several more chapters in my grandfather's book "Memories of a Flying Tiger," about his WWII experiences in China.
Music/Character: Rythm poem about making good choices.
Science: Read a chapter in Our Father's World about animals. New words: hibernate, forage, and migrate.
Movie/Literature: Watched an episode of Horatio Hornblower. The kids have loved this series and watched a couple over the weekend. This is based on the old classics of the same name.
PE: Lots of trampoline jumping.
Chores.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Family History: Prepared a power point on the importance of doing family history.
Social Studies: Memorizing the states and capitals-up to 35.
Music: Practiced the piano.
Science: Reviewed a multitude of science vocabulary words for her state testing tomorrow and Wednesday.
Testing/Computers: Did some practice tests on the computer for the state testing tomorrow.
Math: Lesson 132 from Saxon 6/5
Writing/Research: Started writing a talk for church. (Our family is speaking on Mother's Day for Sacrament Meeting).
Research: Learned about Thoreau.
Writing/Oral Presentation: Wrote a report on Thoreau she will give orally for her scholar class on Wednesday.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Rudimentary
Literature: Read Emerson's essay: Self-Reliance and answered 35 questions from the text.
World History: Listened to Story of World vol. 2 on audio.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from the Doctrine and Covenants Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and had a piano lesson.
Computer/Testing: Did several practice tests on the computer for his state testing this week.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 5/4 lesson.
Logic: Did a Sudoku puzzle.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Literature: Listened to Journey to the Center of the Earth on audio.

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor 2.
Math: Did two Saxon Math 2 lessons.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Working on his story for a while.
Literature: Listened to Journey to the Center of the Earth on audio.

Caleb
Math: Right Start math lesson (telling time)
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader, read a McGuffy Primer lesson to me and I drilled him on his sight words.
Literature: Listened to Journey to the Center of the Earth on audio.

Family Home Evening:
Song: Give Said the Little Stream
Testimonies: Alex, Deanna, Olivia, Luke and Caleb
Article of Faith: 3rd
Character: Saying thank you, excuse me, I'm sorry and I forgive you
Proclamation: Read and discussed the 2nd paragraph.
Lesson: We went over a conference talk and we talked about sustaining our leaders. (We are getting a new Bishop on Sunday). "Respect and Reverence" by Sister Liffereth (Caleb)
Activity: (Alex ended up having to help a family move at the last minute so our activity and visiting the elderly was axed tonight).
Treats: Cookies (Jared)

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 a conference talk, read a lesson from the Joseph Smith manual, practiced the piano, studied for a lesson on Sunday I'm giving, and read Elantris for 1 hour.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, studied for his seminary lessons he's teaching at the end of the week, went to work, and finished Journey to the Center of the Earth.