Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mom School
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Bible: "King David" from The Old Testament Reader.
Family Scripture Study: James 1
Weekly Family Scripture Memorization: 2 Nephi 25:26
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Idaho History:Started a section on missionaries from A Rendezvous with Idaho History.
World History: We read about life in Greece for the everyday person from Usborne's Greek History book.
World History Literature: Read one chapter in Gilgamesh by Geraldine McCaughrean
Myths: Read about Pericles out of the book Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean.
Literature: Read one chapter in The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis.
Science: We read about birds from The Natural World Illustrated Science Encyclopedia by Usborne. We also read a chapter from Science: A Closer Look by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.
Scriptures quizzing: I quizzed them for an hour on scriptures/church history facts.
Game: We played Monopoly and Jungle Journey.
Chores: House chores and animal care
PE: Danced to Christmas music for over an hour. Okay and lots of pillow fighting and wrestling in all of that.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Bible.
Math: Did a Saxon 7/6 lesson.
Language Arts: Did a Daily Grams lesson
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Research/History/Writing: Finished writing her paper about George Washington for her Friday Scholar class.
Science: Did a science lesson from her science textbook.
Music: Practiced her piano lesson.
Book on Tape:
Listened to a Nancy Drew book on tape.
PE: Went on a walk.
Logic/Math Game: Played Battleship.

Jared
Religion: Read in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced piano lesson.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 6/5 test and a subtraction drill sheet.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code

Creative Writing: Did a Let's Write lesson.
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Spelling: Did a spell drill.
Book on Tape: Listened to a Nancy Drew book on tape.
PE: Went on a walk.
Logic/Math Game: Played Battleship with Olivia and Alex.

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: Worked on a story for almost two hours.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Scouts: Worked on some scouting requirements.

Caleb
Religion: Read some verses to me in the Book of Mormon.
Reading: Read a story to me. Read with his teacher on the phone.
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

Music: I gave him a piano lesson and sang some songs with me.
Game: Played a couple of games with me.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, word of the day, various reading, practicing the piano, went through a lot of things (tomorrow our big dumpster leaves and we've made good of of it) and threw away a lot!
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, listening to some church CD's, went to work, working on the tile-about 60% done, and did some home teaching.

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