Friday, January 15, 2010

Today it seemed all they wanted to do was dress up in characters from the last couple of books we read and act them how. They had great fun! They also spent several hours being incapacitated because they were so excited for their cousin to come and so they couldn't think to do anything. We did spend several hours on reading Treasure Island. This is a day I know I'm forgetting several things. The brain is gone for the day.

Family Scripture Reading:
1 Nephi 15
Weekly Scripture Reading: 1 Timothy 1:1-2

Prayer/Pledge/Motto
Music: We sang The Valiant Song, How Firm a Foundation, We'll Bring the World His Truth and The Books of the Old Testament. They each pick a song and we sing all the versus.
Math: I drilled the boys on times tables. I should Caleb how to read the multiplication chart. We played several games of Rack-O for number sequencing.
Science: We did several experiments having to do with sound, frequency and resonance from the book 501 Science Experiments.
Literature: We read and finished the last 1/2 of Usborne's Treasure Island (abridged).
Social: We have a cousin (age 10) spending the weekend with us.
Chores/Animal Care

Caleb: Read his scriptures, played Sum Swamp (addition/subtraction), played with homemade bubbles, played chess, played checkers, and lots of creative play.

Luke: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, played chess, played ping pong, and read for an hour in The Ranger's Apprentice #1 by John Flanagan.

Jared: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, played chess, played ping pong, and did a math assignment.

Olivia: Read her scriptures, went to scholar school, delivered her memorized Declaration of Independence to her scholar class, worked with Alex for two hours (her scholar class ride drops her off at the office), read the The Red Scarf Girl (about communism with Mao) for an hour, practiced her vocal solo, practiced the piano, wrote some blog posts, and did some research on horse pedigrees.

Deanna: Read my scriptures, wrote in my journal, practiced the piano (a lot!), had to take care of a Relief Society welfare/compassionate service situation that took a lot of time, played ping pong and read in The History by Herodotus.

Alex: Read his scriptures, read in the church handbooks, went to work, finished Stormbreaker, played ping pong, and started a book called 10 Great American Short Stories.

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