April 9, 2009 (Thur): Lazy Day of Reading

Mom School
Pray, Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 35: Obedience from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: The Zoramites and the Rameampton
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 1/2 chapters and finished Sacagawea from the Childhood of Famous American series.
Fairy Tales/Fables: Read Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog Princess, and the Elves and Shoemaker by Usborne
Memorization: The books of the Old and New Testament, the books of the Book of Mormon, the Latter-day prophets and the modern 12 apostles.
Family History: Read a couple of pages from Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII.
Music: Rhythm Poem (and the memorization songs are on sung with the piano)
Geography: Sudan, Nile River, Oman, Pakistan, India and the Taj Mahal (grandpa's trip to China for WW II in a B-25 bomber). Finished the Usborne's Children's Picture Atlas book. (map reading, mountains, glaciers, rivers, deserts...)
Science: Light from a book technology book by Capella
Chores
Went to the library. (local town library)
Movie: Matilda

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced her voice lesson.
Math: Lesson 123 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Writing: Editing lesson from Editor in Chief
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Tenacious
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Classical roots lesson
Free Reading: Read for several hours in The Land of Elyon #3.
Writing/Computers: Wrote a blog post on Tjed youth.
Mentor Reading: Read several books to Caleb. They were puzzle books by Usborne. You read a story and then answer the questions/puzzles/riddles at the end of the story.
Life Skills: Blender Whole-wheat pancakes

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Literature: Read several fairy tales by Usborne including The Emperor's New Clothes and Beauty and the Beast. He also read a chapter from The Silver Chair by CS Lewis (a Narnia book)
World History/Art: Read The Dragon Painter (about China) by Usborne
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Play/PE: Played outside for several hours digging out under the deck. Lots of bow and arrow shooting also.

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter from The Book of Mormon Reader.
Math: Did a math lesson from Saxon 2
Math Drill: Played War with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story on the computer for a while.
Reading: Read for over and hour and finished Magic Tree House: Knights of Dawn.
Creative Play/PE: Played outside for several hours digging out under the deck. Lots of bow and arrow shooting also.

Caleb
Math: Skip counting by 2's, 5's, 10's, addition equations, and even and odd numbers-Right Start Math lesson.
Math Drill: Played War with Luke. And played Sum Swamp.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 4 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader and 2 McGuffy Primer lessons to me. Olivia also read several books to him.
Creative Play/PE: Played outside for several hours digging out under the deck. Lots of bow and arrow shooting also.

Family (in the evening):
Read scriptures as a family-John 7
Alex had a Bishopric meeting and then an appointment after that.
Watched Three Musketeers.
The kids always go to sleep listening to Story of the World vol 1 or 2 on CD.

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, worked on my lesson for Sunday, studied for two hours for my BYU Geography final, read The Specials by Scott Westerfeld.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, listened to Brisingr, and went to a Bishopric Meeting.