September 10, 2009 (Thursday)

Family Scripture Study: Acts 2-5

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Music: Search, Ponder and Pray, Love is Spoken Here and a Rhythm poem
Bible: Read a chapter in the Old Testament Reader.
Weekly Scripture Memorization: 3 Nephi 11:29
Friend Article
Biography/American History: We read a biography of George Washington Carver.
Read-a-loud: We read two chapters from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo.
Social Studies: Read a chapter in Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: States and Regions. This textbook is painfully boring unlike our science book which we LOVE!
Science: Read a chapter in Science: A Closer Look by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. It was about pollination.
Language Arts: Read a chapter in Simply Grammar by Karen Andreola.
Logic: Played with Lego's for an hour.
Social: Cub scouts and cousins over to play.
Chores

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in Genesis.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 7/6 lesson.
Math Drill: Did an addition fact drill.
Language Arts: Did a Daily Grams lesson
Creative Writing: Did an Editor-in-Chief lesson. She also did her 30 min writing assignment from her scholar class. (She typed it up so she did typing also).
History/Research: She looked up Internet links from Usbornes Book of Knowledge.
Reading: Read for over an hour.
Music: Practiced her vocal solo for the recital.

Jared
Religion: Read in the Doctrine and Covenants Reader.
Music: Practiced his recital piece.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 6/5 lesson.
Math Drill: Did an addition math fact drill.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Did a lesson in Let's Write.
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Reading: Read in Peter and the Star Catchers for at least 30 min.

Luke
Religion: Read in the Book of Mormon
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 3 lesson.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Spelling: Did a spell drill.
Creative Writing: Did a writing lesson from Let's Write and he did he's 30 min writing assignment for his Scholar Writing class.
Cursive Writing: Practiced his cursive letters.
Reading: Read various things for over 30 min including a chapter in Prince Caspian

Caleb
Religion: Read a verse in the Book of Mormon to me.
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 1 page of Explode the Code
Computer Phonics: Played Starfall for an hour on the computer.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, practiced the piano, did lots of family history and finished City of Bones.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to the temple, took a test for one of his licenses and went to work.