May 7, 2009 (Thursday)

I'm forgetting some things but I don't remember what!

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: Beautiful Savior and Grandmother
Theology: Read part of chapter from Our Heritage
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Started and read a chapter from Little House in The Big Woods.
Literature: Finished a chapter in A Wind in the Door.
Memorization: 12 apostles
Music: Rhythm Poem
Science/Health: The Skeletal System from Usborne's Book of Knowledge
Chores

Olivia
Religion: Read a page in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practice her voice lesson and then some.
Geography: Did a geography lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Did an Easy Grammar lesson-nouns.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Emphatic
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Test
Free Reading: Over 2 hours of Leven Thumps
PE: Helped at baseball practice.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the Doctrine and Covenants Reader.
Music: Practiced the piano.
Math: Did a Saxon math lesson.
Math Drill: Multiplication drill work
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Writing: Cursive Handwriting lesson from A Reason For Writing.
Reading: Read a lesson in his McGuffy Third Reader and read a chapter in the Book of Mormon to me.
Book on Tape: Finished Peter and the Starcatchers.
Creative Play: Lego's
PE: Went to baseball practice.

Luke
Geography: Did a geography lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read 3 McGuffy Second Reader lessons.
Creative Play: Lego's
PE: Went to baseball practice

Caleb
Religion: Read a verse in the Book of Mormon to me.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 2 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read a phonics reader and a lesson in the McGuffy Primer to me.
Computers/Typing: Played Jumped Start First Grade for a long time.
Creative Play: Lego's
PE: Went to baseball practice.

Family (in the evening):
The kids went to baseball practice.
Family Scripture Study: John 18
Watched the movie The Ultimate Gift together.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, word of the day and finished Freckles by Gene Statton-Porter.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, lots more church manual study, went to Boise for his long day, and he was able to listen to a lot of Freakonomics on CD.