Daily Schedule 10/13/08

Happy Columbus Day! Today Alex stayed home for most of the day. For lunch we went to work with him while he ran a quick appointment and then we ate lunch out with him. The kids think that it is pretty cool to be home schooled and get perks like that.

Mom's School with Olivia and Jared
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 4: Baptism and Confirmation and True to the Faith: Baptism
Bible History: Solomon's Temple
Friend Article: 3 articles
Biography/American History: 2 chapters of James Monroe: Good Neighbor Boy by Mabel Cleland Widdemer of the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
Fairy Tales/Fables: 8 fables from Fables of Leonardo da Vinci translated by Bruno Nardini
Read-a-loud: Read 3 chapters in The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell. This is the story of a young man who help smuggle Bibles into England for William Tyndale.

Memorization: We are working on the first 8 president of the United States, the names of the books in the Book of Mormon and the books of the New Testament. The last two we are learning by music from the LDS Children's Primary Song Book.
Geography: "Finding Locations on Maps" from Young Students Learning Library, we also used Bible maps to practice this on
Science: A Beka 5 Science, finished section 8.1 about weather and winds pgs.292-298
Science Experiment: From page 298 in A Beka 5 "Creating a wind system," it was a good one

Life Skills: Spent a couple of hours helping Alex build the playhouse outside.
Reading: We take turns reading all of the above material everyday.
Science/Pet Care: Jared and Olivia each have a hamster that they are responsible for. They also take turns caring for our dog, cat and sea monkeys.

Olivia
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 33
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Types of Sentences
Free Reading: 30 min of Zia
Computers/Typing: Blogging and Good Reads

Jared
Music: Had his piano lesson
World History: Listened to Story of the World Vol 1 for 1 hour
Math: Lesson 33
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-up's: 9's
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive C's
Reading: 3o minutes read to me from his Third McGuffy Reader

Luke and Caleb

Practiced spelling words

Caleb read for 30 minutes

Luke read for 1 hour

Family (in the evening):
Tonight was FHE. Our lesson was from President Uchtdorf's Priesthood Talk from Oct 2008 http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-18,00.html Alex even had a lift up the couch as a family for part of the lesson.

Matthew 23

Read 2 chapters of The Princess Bride

To Show Parent Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna

Practiced the piano

Read Persuasion by Jane Austen for 1 hour

Did house work! : )

Alex

Ran an appointment

Work on his college course

Worked on the play house