11/3/08:Magic Ink

Mom's School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Lesson 5: Eternal Marriage
Bible History: Prophecies of Joel
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 3 chapters from Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Fairy Tales/Fables: 1 story from A Story to Tell by Deseret Book
Read-a-loud/(World History): 2 chapters of The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell (William Tyndale)
Memorization: First 16 presidents of the USA
Biography/Art: Da Vinci by Mike Venezia
Science: The Magic School Bus: Voyage to the Volcano #15, 1 chapter
Science Experiment: Magic Ink
Writing/Art??: They both were writing scriptures backwards like Leonardo DaVinci
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 44
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Compound sentences
Computers/Typing: Power Point slide show and blogging
Life Skills/PE: Cleaning stalls, feeding animals...

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and had his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 44
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Book on Tape: Kingdom and the Crown #3-2 hours (Historical Fiction from the Time of Christ)
Reading: Read his McGuffy 3rd grade reader for 30 min to me

Luke
Working on another story

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: We reviewed the talk and the challenges from our stake president from Stake Conference yesterday
Mark 4
2 chapters from Fablehaven #2

To Show Parent Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna
Read 2 hours
Good Read Reviews
Piano
1 spell drill
Mucked stalls
Babysat for 3 hours (this was our last time for a while!!!)
Babysitting Foxy Roxy

Alex
Went to work
Attended a District Republican Leadership Meeting (serves as vice-chair)
Worked on his Persuasive Speech for college for over 4 hours (on why parents do not need to be "certified" to teach their children at home)