Week in Review: 1st Week of March

Scripture Study: Family: 2 Nephi 19-25. Each individual read their scriptures everyday.
Weekly Scripture Memorization: D & C 4:4
Theology: Several chapters in Gospel Principles.
Discussion Question: Was it fair for God to give to opposing laws in the Garden of Eden? What is Zion? What should we give back to the Lord? What are the benefits of exercise?
Family Read: We finished Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse, an abridged version of Wizard of Oz, and started The Bronze Bow.
Music: Daily piano practice. (Piano lessons canceled this week).
History/Biography: Lorenzo Snow, Archimedes, and Hitler.
FHE: Service and visiting the elderly.
Club: Had Cub Scouts and Girls Activity Day.
Math: Geometric solids and their properties, money management skills, and basic math drills.
Games: Cashflow for Kids, Apples to Apples, Jr, Stratego, Yahtzee and Scrabble.
Goals: Weekly Goal Planning Session Held.
Projects: Dejunked the closets, bedrooms and library room. (6 month purge) We are also still the proud parents of 8 strong healthy puppies. It's been an interesting experience!

Caleb: Focused on reading and doing chores. Caleb read numerous Step in to Reading books to me this week. (I don't' like 90% of these books. I need to find better books!). He responded well to each of us taking turns reading a line. He wants to be reading a lot more now so that's good!

Luke: Finished reading Ranger's Apprentice. He has such a hard time finishing book (true love of learning attribute) so he was excited to have finished this. He loved this book. He's been reading numerous other things since then trying to find just the right book to read.

Jared:He officially graduated from Core Phase! He has improved his behavior tremendously. We are so proud of him. His official stewardship is to mentor Caleb in reading everyday. He has taken this responsibility seriously and has read to Caleb for several hours. Aren't we sneaky? Guess who's fluency is gaining speed? Jared also read a Jr. Jedi Chapter book. Not my first choice but he's been glued to it. He's already half way through a second one. He also enjoyed some sessions of "Structure Time Not Content" and really enjoyed them! He reported back about all kinds of things he'd learned.

Olivia: She is still working on 1776 and The Scarlet Letter. She also read several Jr. Biographies of Revolutionary War women, two Little House on the Prairie books, and she also started and read 1/2 of Little Britches again. She only attended one of her scholar classes because one was cancelled. She also attended a dance class at the Commonwealth school. She also is consitantly writing in her journal everyday.

Deanna: Read Emily of New Moon, A Swiftly Turning Planet, A Circle of Quiet, finished Approaching Zion and started The Home Ranch. It seems like I'm missing one. I'm still writing in my journal everyday and reading at least one conference talk a day. We went to the temple this week. I also wrote an essay. Had my first camp meeting-I'm also the Ward Girls Camp Director this year.

Alex: Alex worked, read lots of conferences addresses, listening to an Alex Rider book, reading in several random books, spend some time on his campaign (meeting lots of people), studied up on our current legislator's voting record, participated in another military honor guard at a funeral (he does numerous through out the year) and taking a college level course for further education in his insurance field. That's a good list for this week.