Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Music:
We sang 5 primary songs
Bible:
"Shadrach, Meschach and Abendigo" from The Old Testament Reader.
Family Scripture Study:
1 John 5

Weekly Family Scripture Memorization:
Moses 1:39

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Idaho History:
Reading more about the Chinese in Idaho from A Rendezvous with Idaho History.
Science:
We read about pigs, warthogs, and sheep from The Natural World Illustrated Science Encyclopedia by Usborne. We reviewed science vocabulary words.
Literature:
We read 1 chapter in Mrs. Frisby.
PE:
Family walk, sledding with mom and playing in the snow.
Chores:
House chores and animal care

Olivia
Religion:
Bible Reading (Matthew), studying in Preach My Gospel, Old Testament time line
Math:
Saxon Math Lesson: Introduction to statistics and more practicing of adding fractions with different denominators.
Writing: Journal writing
Language arts:
Pronouns
American History:
Memorizing the Declaration
Computer: Played on the Apangea Internet program.
Reading
: Read Work and the Glory #9 for 2 hours.
Music:
Practiced the piano for a long time. Practiced the violin.
Life Skills:
Sourdough pancakes, Christmas shopping lists

Jared
Religion:
Book of Mormon Reading
Writing:
Journal writing
Math: Saxon Math Lesson: More long division
Music: Practiced the piano and practiced the saxophone.
Language Arts:
Easy Grammar
Geography:
Did a lesson from Evan-Moor Geography.
Book on Tape: Listened to Inkspell for an hour.

Luke
Religion:
Read in the Book of Mormon. (2 Nephi)
Writing:
Journal
Math:
Did two Saxon 3 lessons.

Grammar:
Contractions
Bo
ok on Tape: Listening to Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Creative Writing:
Worked on his story.
Spelling:
Practiced his spelling words-taken from his creative writing misspells.
Learned the /k/ rule in spelling.
Reading:
Free reading of various things for over an hour.
Music:
Practiced the piano and practiced the violin.

Caleb
Reading:
Read several stories in his McGuffy Reader. Read a story to me.
Read a story to his "public school" teacher.
Religion:
Read some verses to me in the Book of Mormon.
Math:
Did one Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling:
Practiced his spelling words for the week.

Phonics/Handwriting
: 2 pages of Explode the Code

Grammar:
Nouns
Music:
Learning Mary Had a Little Lamb on the recorder.
Math Game: Battleship
Reading/Computer:
He read online books at Raz-kids.com for over an hour.

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, practiced the piano, practiced the violin, had a primary presidency meeting, and worked on my BYU class.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to Boise for work, and listening to Becoming Spiritually Minded.

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