11/17/08:Volcano

Moms School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 4: Light of Christ and True to the Faith: Light of Christ
Bible History: Daniel in Captivity
Friend Article
American History Literature: 4 chapters from Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Character: 1 story from A Story to Tell by Deseret Book
Read-a-loud: 2 chapters from The Hardy Boys #3
Memorization: First 25 presidents of the USA
Family History: Biography of Bryant Campbell my paternal ggrandfather
Math Biography: Omar Khayyam (solution of cubic equations through geometry) from Mathematicians are People, Too by Wilbert and Luetta Reimer
Science: Erupted our volcanoes and watched a Magic School Bus Science video (human body)
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
Writing/Religion: Prepared the FHE Lesson
Music: Practiced her voice lesson
Art: Spent about 2 hours scrap booking and using foam stickers making cards and papers
Math: Lesson 54
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Past Tense Verbs
Free Reading: 30 minutes
Life Skills: Spaghetti Sauce, Bread sticks and Cinnamon sticks

Jared

Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Science: Watched 2 more Magic School Bus Videos (color/light reflection and outer space)

Science Experiment: Did some experiments for 1 hour watching how light and color reflected off of things
Math: Lesson 52
Math Drill: Multiplication Wrap-ups: 6's and 7's and he played a Multiplication game
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Computers/Typing: Made a flyer offering his "detective services"
Life Skills?: Spent an hour making a sign that he put up in our driveway alerting "people that they had found the right house that offers detective services"

Luke

Spelling

Worked on his story

Card Making

Watched the volcanoes

Caleb

Spelling

Coloring

Card Making

Watched the volcanoes

Family (in the evening):

Family Home Evening: Elder Cook's Talk

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

Spell Drill

Worked on the Young Women lesson schedule for next year (model: fulfilling calling)

Read for 3 hours and finished The Lonesome Gods by Louis L'Amour

Good Reads book review

Alex

Went to Work

Spell Drill

He's been working on an Allan Greenspan audio book for the last 2 weeks

1 hour personal reading, various things