September 15, 2009 (Tuesday)

Family Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 12

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: The Valiant Song, The Books of the Old Testament, How Firm A Foundation and a Rhythm poem.
Bible: Cain and Abel
Weekly Scripture Memorization: 3 Nephi 11:29
Friend Article
Social Studies: Read a chapter in Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: States and Regions.
Fairy Tales/Fables: We read the stories of Rumpelstiltskin and Rapunzel for What Every 1st Grader Needs to Know by ED Hirsch, Jr for the Core Knowledge series.
Read-a-loud: Read two chapters in Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo.
Science: Read a chapter in Science: A Closer Look by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. The kids also watched several Brain Pop, Jr. videos on line about a variety of science topics.
PE/Science: We worked on our 80+ acres for several hours "clearing land." I feel like the Steeds sometimes. I've never moved so much brush, trees and limbs in my life as in the last couple of weeks. Today, since we were moving old fence posts, we saw over 20 very big man-eating Hobo spiders. We also saw lots of mice and lots of other creepy crawlies. It was very exciting for the kids and the dogs. (When we came home we looked up a lot of different spiders to try and identify some of the ones we saw). Caleb's highlight was that he was stung by two bees/wasps. He has a pobia about bee stings to begin with, so this was not a good moment for him.
Chores
Lots of Lego's

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in Genesis.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 7/6 lesson.
Math Drill: Did a multiplication fact drill.
Language Arts: Did a Daily Grams lesson and 1 lesson from Root Words.
Creative Writing: She also did her 30 min writing assignment from her scholar class. (She typed it up so she did typing also).
Reading: Read Pride and Prejudice for 15 min.
Science: Did a science lesson her science textbook.
Music: Practiced the piano, because she starts piano lessons next week!

Jared
Religion: Read in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
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 over 2 hours.
PE: Played Wii Sports.

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 his 30 min writing assignment for his Scholar Writing class. He started typing up his final draft for this assignment.

Caleb
Religion: Read three verses 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: 4 pages of Explode the Code
Logic: Played with pattern blocks.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, practiced the piano, worked on my BYU English class, and played Wii Fit.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work and did some Bishopric things. His highlight was that his CD/tape player in his car is officially broken and so he can't listen to anymore books on CD/tape until we get a new one.