September 16, 2009 (Wednesday): Testing

Family Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 14

Mom School
Pray
Song: Rhythm poem
Bible: Enoch from The Old Testament Reader
Weekly Scripture Memorization: 3 Nephi 11:29
Friend Article
Idaho History: Learned about Idaho's State Fossil, State Gem, State Song and State Dance.
Read-a-loud: We read two chapters from Leven Thumps and The Gateway to Foo.
Biography: We read a biography about Albert Einstein.
Science: Played our spin the bottle science game with vocabulary words. We looked up pictures of several sea urchins, sea stars, coral, jelly fish and other colorful ocean life.
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 30 min.
Science: Did a science lesson her science textbook.
Spelling: Did a spell drill
Music: Practiced the piano
Life Skills: Went to work with Alex and did several office projects and answered the phone with his other employees.

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 3 hours.

Luke
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did 2 Saxon 3 lessons.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Spelling: Did a spell drill.
Creative Writing: He did his 30 min writing assignment for his Scholar Writing class. He typing his final draft just in time for his class tomorrow.
Testing: Took the IRI state test today.

Caleb
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor.
Math: Did two Saxon Math 2 lessons.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read in The Cat and the Hat Comes Back to me. Practiced his sight words by using a highlighter and finding them in The Friend.
Computer/Reading: Played Starfall reading games.
Testing: Took the IRI state test today.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, practiced the piano, wrote and typed a paper for my Eng 314 class, and practiced my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work and went to Young Men's and taught a scout merit badge.