Monday, February 8, 2010

Homemade Ice Cream-Yummy!

Family Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 6
Weekly Family Scripture Memorization: John 3:16
Theology: The Creation from Gospel Principles
Family Council: Weekly family council to review last week's goals and set new ones for the week.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day: Supplementary
Math: We played Totally Tut together-a math game dealing with add/sub equations.
Read a loud: Read the last half of Alex Rider #1 and finished it.
PE: Went to the land and shot their archery bows.
Animal Care/Chores

Caleb: Read his scriptures, played several rounds of Sum Swamp with me (adding and subtracting), played Book of Mormon Who with me, played Connect Four with Luke numerous times, did a word search puzzle (he's pretty good), learned about turtles, wrote a blog post about turtles, learned how to upload pictures, did a craft project, and played Wii sports.

Luke: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, played Connect Four with Caleb, read in Ranger's Apprentice, read about Sinbad, did some structure time not content, worked on his fictional story set in ancient Egypt, read almost the entire Friend, played ping pong, and played Wii Sports.

Jared: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, played Chess with me, played a multiplication game with him, read in Peter and the Shadow Thieves, learned how to make bread and bread sticks, learned how to make spaghetti, did a craft project, and did push ups.

Olivia: Read her scriptures, wrote in her journal, read two abridged Shakespeare plays in Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, starting writing a song with music (I was practiced the piano and a new song just came into my head and I had to stop and write it all down), read in Pride and Prejudice (only 30 pages left), read a 1/3 of The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz, practiced the piano, practiced her vocal solo, prepared a family home evening lesson, made homemade ice cream with Alex, and worked on Adobe Photo Shop Elements.

She had a goal this week to do six hours of scholar study.

Deanna: Read my scriptures, wrote in my journal, read a conference talk, read Hippolytus (an ancient Greek play) by Euripides, played ping pong, and walked on the treadmill.

Alex: Read his scriptures, read in the church handbook, walked on the treadmill, went to work, listening to Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, had a meeting with his campaign treasurer, played ping pong, made home made ice cream and went to a County Republican Party meeting to meet all of them (he only knew a couple of them) and they said they fully support him in his campaign.

Family Home Evening:
Songs:I Will Be Valiant and We'll Bring the World His Truth
Testimonies: Alex, Deanna, Olivia, Jared, Luke, and Caleb
Strength of Youth:Gratitude
Article of Faith: 13th
Proclamation to the World Paragraph: 2nd
Lesson: Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy by Olivia
Activity: Watched Work and the Glory #1.
Refreshments: Homemade ice cream by Alex and Olivia

2 comments:

April Mitchell said...

Homemade Ice cream!?YUM!! We just had deviled eggs here after we used the hard-boiled eggs in an object lesson on repentance.

rneweyfamily said...

I sure wish I had stuck with my piano lessons when I was younger and more teachable. Go Olivia!