September 21, 2009 (Monday)

Mom School
Pray
Song: How Firm a Foundation and Pioneer Children Sang as They Walked
Bible: Enoch from The Old Testament Reader
Family Scripture Study: 2 Corinthians 6
Weekly Scripture Memorization: 2 Nephi 31.:20
Friend Article
Idaho History: Learned about Idaho's State Fish, Insect and Veg table.
Read-a-loud: We read two chapters from Leven Thumps and The Gateway to Foo.
Literature: We read a Shakespeare play.
Science: Read a chapter in Science: A Closer Look by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.
Greek: We started learning the Greek alphabet and I read them the first 5 versus of John to them in Greek.
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.
Reading: Read in Pride and Prejudice for 30 minutes.
Spelling: Did a spell drill
Creative Writing: She also did her 30 min writing assignment from her scholar class. She wrote a poem.
Science: Did a science lesson her science textbook.
Music: Practiced the piano and went to piano lessons.

Jared
Religion: Read in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and 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.
Book on Tape: Listened to Star Wars.

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.
Book on Tape: Listened to Star Wars.


Caleb
Religion: Read a couple of versus in the Book of Mormon to me.
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor.
Math: Did one Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 2 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.

Family Home Evening:
We had an elderly couple over to participate with us.
Song:How Firm a Foundation
Prayer: Jared
Testimonies: Alex, Deanna, Olivia, Luke, Brother and Sister King
Talent: Deanna, played a piano piece
Scripture of the week practice: 2 Nephi 31:20
For the Strength of Youth: Music and Dancing
Article of Faith: 8th
Uncommon Courtesy: 8 Ways to Respect Adults
Proclamation to the World: Last paragraph
Lesson: Caleb gave a lesson on scriptures-They acted out: Nephi and the Broken Bow, Nephi tied up to the Ship, Ammon and the Kings Sheep and Samuel the Lamanite.
Activity: Apples to Apples, Jr
Refreshments: Snicker doodles (Jared)
Song: Love at Home
Prayer: Luke

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, spell drill, piano, read and finished Hunger Games #2, practiced my Greek and ordered my own copy of our next Greek tragedy that we are reading.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, listening to Tears in Darfor, and went to work.