Monday, November 16, 2009

Family:
Prayers
Family Scripture Reading:
2 Peter 3
Family Scripture Memorization: 2 Nephi 31:16
Bible: We read several stories in The Old Testament Reader.
Friend Article
Science: Read about Whales and Dolphins from Usborne's Illustrated Encyclopedia.
Logic Game: Played Set several times. They really liked it. It was interesting to see which kids picked this up quickly.
Chores and Animal Care

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Bible.
Writing: Wrote in her journal.
Math: Did a Saxon 7/6 lesson and created a graph based on a poll she conducted.
Language Arts: Did a Daily Grams lesson
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American History: Memorized the first 1 1/2 paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.
Music: Practiced the piano and went to piano lessons
Reading: Read Enna Burning by Shannon Hale for an hour.
Scholar: She worked on several assignments for her scholar class.
Life Skills: Haircuts and pumpkin pie

Jared
Religion: Read in the Book of Mormon.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 6/5 lesson.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code

Creative Writing: Did a Let's Write lesson.
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Book on Tape: Listening to The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and went to piano lessons.
Science: Look at/read an article in National Geographic about outer space.
Spelling: Practiced his new spelling words.
Reading: Read several stories in his McGuffy Reader to me.
Life Skills: Cooked pudding.

Luke
Religion: Read in the Book of Mormon
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Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did two Saxon 3 lessons
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Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Grammar: Did a
Daily Grams lesson.
Spelling: Practiced his new spelling words for the week.
Book on Tape: Listening to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Creative Writing: Did a Let's Write lesson.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and went to piano lesson.
Reading: Free reading of various things for over an hour.
Writing: Wrote in his journal.
Reading: Read several stories in his McGuffy Reader to me.

Caleb
Reading: Read several stories in his McGuffy Reader to me. Read a story to me.
Religion: Read some verses to me in the Book of Mormon.
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor.
Math: Did one Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: Practiced his spelling words for the week.

Phonics/Handwriting: 2 pages of Explode the Code

Family Home Evening:
Songs: Stars Were Gleaming, As I Have Loved You, Smiles, Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, Love is Spoken Here, Jingle Bells, 12 Days of Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Deck the Halls, Frosty the Snowman and Up on the House Top.
Testimonies: Alex, Deanna, Olivia, Jared, Luke and Caleb
Character: Rules for the car and traveling from Uncommon Courtesy.
Scripture Memorization: 2 Nephi 31:16
Proclamation to the World and the Family paragraph: 5th
Articles of Faith: 10th
Lesson: Given by Caleb about being a good example in our family.
Activity: Set
Treats: Chocolate pudding by Jared
Extra Activity: by Olivia as a requirement for her Key of Liberty class. She led a discussion about the Pledge of Allegiance and the different word meanings within it.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, read some conference talks, word of the day, playing the piano and various reading for an hour.
Alex: Scriptures, read some conference talks, word of the day, went to work and he is listening to Becoming Spiritually Minded.

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