Monday, December 14, 2009

Timeline

Today was a good day. Doing TJEd is hard work! The mom can't sit back and do nothing or option #2 just boss and assign workbook pages.

I'm sure I'll forget something but here is what I remember from the day.


Family Scripture Study: Finished the testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith in the intro to the Book of Mormon.
Weekly Scripture Memorization: Article of Faith #13
History: We made a big time line that fills 3/4 of our library room wall. It starts at 4,000 B.C. and comes through to present day. Each 100 years is 5 inches. The kids had a lot of fun making it. We put on the major events and then some things we have just recently studied. We added several things as the day progressed. The kids already seem to be able to place things in history better. It was a fun project. (Caleb in a red Power Ranger costume).
Piano: The kids all had piano lessons. They are practicing for their Christmas recital next week. They all practiced the piano. Olivia is really enjoying the piano and spends an hour to two hours everyday studying the piano.
Chores and Animal Care

Olivia
Religion: Olivia read a chapter in the Bible.
Art: She sewed for a while, cross stitched flowers with out a pattern-pretty cool, made snowflakes, and drew multiple pages of characters from Inkheart.
Writing/American History: She wrote a rough draft for a paper for her scholar class.
Life Skills: Made pumpkin spice cake-a family favorite.
Math: She did a Saxon 7/6 math lesson about solving circumference from pie. Played Money, Money with Caleb.
Lesson Preparation: Prepared and gave a lesson for Family Home Evening based on an article about the three wise men from the New Era.
Music: She listened to music on playlist.com selecting music for her blog. She listened to lots of classical music.
Reading: She read the Work and the Glory #9 for an hour.

Jared
World History: Listened to Story of the World vol. 1 for over 2 hours.
Language Arts: Did a Mad Libs page and we talked about plural nouns and adjectives.
Reading: Read Tom Trueheart out loud to me for an hour.
PE: Went on a walk with me.
American History: Re-memorized the presidents of the United States. He memorized them last year and wanted to review them. He has them 80% recalled now.
Reading: He read various free reading to himself for 30 minutes.
Logic: He rearranged his room again for the umpteenth time figuring out where everything could go.
Art: Colored and drew multiple pictures.
Stewardship: Cleaned his room.
Life Skills: Helped me with the laundry.

Luke
Scriptures: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Reading: Read Tom Trueheart for an hour.
PE: Went on a walk with Jared and I.
Math Game: Played Money, Money! with Olivia.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story for almost two hours.
Stewardship/Core: Worked on cleaning his room.

Caleb
Scriptures: Read several versus to me in the Book of Mormon. His reading is getting better and better.
Music: Learned a new primary song with me and sang it several times.
Art: Made homemade play dough with me and played with it.
Stewardship/Core: Worked on cleaning his room.
Math: Played Money, Money! with Olivia. (Caleb in a blue Power Ranger suit now).

Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, started Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, went on a walk with the boys and practiced the piano.
Alex: Scriptures, went to work, played Wii sports, and listening to the Last Dickens.

Family Home Evening:
Songs: Do As I'm Doing and We'll Bring the World His Truth
Talent: Luke played a Christmas song on the piano.
Testimonies: Alex, Deanna, Caleb and Luke
Strength of Youth: "Tithes and Offerings"
Proclamation to the World: Read 1/2 paragraph (it was the long one).
Scripture Memorization: Article of Faith 13
Article of Faith: 11th
Character: Read the section when rudeness is okay from Uncommon Courtesy.
Lesson: Olivia gave a great lesson on the three wise man referenced from the New Era.
Activity: Who Wants to Be a Celestial Heir?
Treats: Pumpkin Spice Cake

1 comment:

April Mitchell said...

Looks like you guys had a very productive day. Love the pic of the timeline down the hallway. We love timelines!