Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Family Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 13 (finished)
Weekly Family Scripture Memorization: 1 Timothy 2:1-2
Math: We played Fractions Supreme by Discovery Toys. We had a long discussion about fractions, ordinal numbers and decimal numbers. Caleb really enjoyed playing with the pieces.
Geography/Science: We talked about Haiti, earthquakes, poverty, Caribbean and the history of the region.
Fantasy: We read 10 chapters from Tom Trueheart and the Land of Dark Stories.
Character: Watched Adventures in Honesty (George Washington and the Cherry Tree).
Chores/Animal Care

Caleb: Read his scriptures, played a Happy Phonics game w/ me, played multiple games of Sum Swamp with me, read The Sword in the Stone by Grace Maccarone (level 2 reader), read a book about reptiles, read a book about eels, played Raz-kids.com, sorting and folding socks, and listened to Brisingr.

Luke: Read his scriptures, practiced his piano lessons, practiced his multiplication tables with me, listened to Brisingr, watched a documentary about George Washington (with Olivia) and read The Ranger's Apprentice #1: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

Jared: Read his scriptures, played with Lego's, worked on a science experiment of his creation, listened to Brisingr, and having to do with bubbles for two hours.

Olivia: Read her scriptures, practiced the piano, practiced her voice and picked out the song she is going to sing for Governor Otter (she sang for him and our congressman and senator last year, as was invited to sing again this year for them), worked on memorizing the Declaration of Independence, read The Red Scarf Girl (about Mao's Communism China) for two hours, worked on her investments on Lending Club.com, worked on some math problems, watched a documentary by the History Channel about George Washington.

Deanna: Read my scriptures, wrote in my journal, studied this month's visiting teaching message, read in The Histories by Herodotus, started Othello by Shakespeare, played ping-pong, read the last half and finished The Ranger's Apprentice #2, and took a Saxon math placement test

Alex: Read his scriptures, read in the church handbooks, he is listening to Stormbreaker, went to work, played ping-pong, led a scout training and went to mutual.

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