11/4/08: Election Day

Mom's School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel: Lesson 5 Family History and Temple Work. True to the Faith: Family History and Temple Work
Bible History: Kingdom of Israel falls
Friend Article
American History Literature: 3 chapters in Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Read-a-loud/World History: 3 chapters of The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day by Scott O'Dell
Fairy Tales/Fables: 1 story from A Story To Tell by Desert Book
Memorization: First 20 USA Presidents, Books of the New Testament and Books of the Book of Mormon
Geography/Culture: 4 pages from Usborne Book of Peoples of the World: North America and United States
Science: 2 chapters from The Magic School Bus Blows It's Top
Art: Painting
Government: Election Day!
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. We had a very exciting morning capturing a hamster that got out for over 6 hours. Hank and Roxy our fierce hunters were able to track him down for us.

Olivia
Music: Had her voice lesson
Math: Lesson 45
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Compound sentences
Free Reading: 1 hour
Computers/Typing: Fox News Internet, Good Reads and Blogging

Jared
Music: Practiced his voice lesson
Biography: Watched 30min Marco Polo video
Math: Lesson 45
Math Drill: Played rounding math game with me
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive J's
Book on Tape: 2 hours Fisher's of Men #3 (Historical Fiction from the times of Christ)

Luke
Writing his latest story

Family (in the evening):
Mark 5
5 chapters in Fablehaven #2, finished
I took them and had them watch me vote
Watched the drive by media report the voting results

To Show Parent Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna
VOTED!
Piano
Read 2 hours
1 spell drill
Good Reads Book Reviews
Cleaned the carpets
(Foxy Roxy went home)

Alex
Served as a Temple Ordinance Worker
Went to Work
Did some continuing education credits for work
Attended a Bishopric Meeting (usually they are on Sunday)
VOTED!