May 14, 2009 (Thursday)

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: How Firm a Foundation
Theology: "Missionary Work" from Our Heritage
Church History: Translating the Book of Mormon
Weekly Scripture Memorization: 1 Nephi 3:&
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters in Little House in the Big Woods.
Science Literature: Read a chapter from The Wind in the Door.
Memorization: Planets of the universe
Music: Rhythm poem
Geography: Lines of Longitude from Young Students Learning Library: World Atlas
Science: The Respiratory System from Usborne's Book of Knowledge.
PE: Baseball cancelled again because of weather. So they jumped a lot on the trampoline between rain showers.
Chores

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced the piano.
Math: Lesson 140 and FINISHED HER SAXON 6/5 book. Happy day, dance a jig.
Writing: Journal entry on her blog.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Placate
Free Reading: Read for over three hours in Leven Thumps: The Gateway to Foo.
Life Skills: Did her laundry. I'm not sure why since I was more than happy to do it since I was doing everyone else's but she wanted to do it. It really didn't hurt my feelings!
PE: Went on a walk with Caleb.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon. Read a chapter in The Doctrine and Covenants Reader.
Music: Practiced his recital piece.
Jared had a rough day. But he's doing better now....

Luke
Religion: Read a couple of chapters in the Book of Mormon.
Math: Did a couple of Saxon Math 2 lessons.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Writing: Did a work book page from Let's Write.
Creative Writing: Finished his book! It ended up being 8 typed pages.
Free Reading: Started reading Tigers at Twilight at Magic Tree House book.
Reading: Read 3 lessons in the McGuffy Second Reader.

Caleb
Religion: Read a couple of verses in The Book of Mormon.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 3 pages in Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a McGuffy Primer lesson to me and read a phonics reader to me.
PE: Went on a walk with Olivia.

Family (in the evening):
Prayer/Song: I Lived in Heaven
Family Scriptures: John 20 & 21

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, word of the day, helped at a funeral, practiced my recital piece and practiced some other things, finished reading the chapter and answered the questions for my BYU Hist 220 class, and read (started, read, finished) The Choice by Nicolas Sparks.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to a conference all day (left early and came home late), and he's listening to Master and Commander.