May 5, 2009 (Tuesday): Baseball Starts

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: Beautiful Savior
Theology: Finished chapter 1 of Our Heritage-Restoration of the Priesthood & Establishing the Church.
Church History: First Vision
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Jim Bridger and other Mountain Men
Literature: Read 1 chapter from A Wind in The Door
Memorization: 12 apostles, books of the Book of Mormon, books of the Old and New Testament
Music: Rhythm Poem
World History: Read 6 chapters and finished Captain Cook by Usborne.
Geography: Longitude and Latitude Lines
Science: Animals and Plants from Usborne's Book of Knowledge
Creative Play: Played with Lego's a ton today!
Chores

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Her music teacher no-showed.
Geography: Did a geography lesson.
Research/Biography: Research about Daniel Defoe
Math: Did a Saxon Math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Nouns from Easy Grammar
Writing: Blogging
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Congenial
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Language test
Social Studies: Memorizing the US States and Capitals.
Literature: Read several chapters in Robinson Crusoe.
Life Skills: Peanut Butter cups, sorting & organizing and couponing
PE: Jumping on the trampoline

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the Doctrine and Covenants Reader.
Math: Did a Saxon math lesson.
Math Drill: Multiplication practice (0-5's)
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive writing practice
Social Studies: Re-memorizing the presidents of the USA.
PE: Trampoline and baseball
Book on Tape: Listened to Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites while they were playing with lego's.

Luke
Religion: Read a Book of Mormon Reader chapter.
Geography: Did a geography lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages in Explode the Code
Reading: Read 3 McGuffy lessons.
Creative Writing: Still more story writing on the computer.
PE: Trampoline and baseball
Book on Tape: Listened to Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites while they were playing with lego's.

Caleb
Math: Learning about money
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code
Language Arts: Sight words practicing
Reading: Read a phonics reader and a McGuffy lesson to me.
Life Skills: Shoe tying. He is finally getting this.
Computers/Typing: Jumpstart Reading and Jumpstart Math
Logic: River Crossing game
PE: Trampoline and baseball

Family (in the evening):
Baseball started! The boys are all playing. Olivia is a manager/3 year old chaser.
Family Scriptures: Read John 17

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 some couponing orders for this week with Olivia, read a couple of chapters in Freckles, and had our first baseball practice (I'm an asst. coach).
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to his professional meeting for his industry (serves a board position as past-president), reading more church materials, went to work and listened to Robinson Crusoe.