11/7/08: Feeling Domestic

Today Luke had to stay home from school with a bad belly and a toilet close by. He felt well enough that he joined us "for school" and had a fun day.

Mom's School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Conference Talk by President Monson 10/08
Bible History: King Zedekiah
American History Literature: 1 chapter from Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Character: 1 story from A Story To Tell by Deseret Book
Read-a-loud/World History: 2 chapters from The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day by Scott O'Dell (William Tyndale)
Memorization: First 21 Presidents of the USA
Science: 4 chapters from The Magic School Bus #15: Voyage to the Volcano (Finished) and I Can Read About Earthquakes and Volcanoes by Deborah Merrians
Biography: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Michelangelo by Mike Venezia

Art: The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration, looked at the artwork and talked about it. We watched the Agony and the Ecstasy, see below in family section.

Geography: "Ring of Fire" countries from Volcano studies
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 47 and 48
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Diagramming Compound Sentences

Computers/Typing: Blogging and Good Reads
Life Skills: Olivia was feeling domestic today. She enjoyed creating all afternoon. She made Jelly Biscuits from an American Girl: Samantha cookbook. Recipe here. I didn't help her with any of it. I was off folding laundry. I only came through to take pictures. She also folded napkins in different shapes that she learned from the Samantha book. We also starting quilting-we cut out all of her quilt, we're reading to sew!

Rolling out her dough.

Putting the jelly in them.

The finished product. They were really good!!!

Her fancy napkins.

Cutting out her quilt. It's a horse print of course.

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Math: Lesson 47
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive K's

Typing: Typed his hamster's "feeding schedule" for the hamster's care takers while we are on a family get a way coming up.
Creative Play: Played he was Nate the Great for a couple of hours. See post on family blog here to learn about his adventures.

Jared as Nate the Great.

Luke

Math: Saxon 2 lesson

Logic: Played several games of Rush Hour, Jr

Spelling: 1 spell drill

Handwriting/Phonics: 5 pages Explode the Code

Art: Construction paper picture

Reading: 30min in his McGuffey first reader out loud to me. He finished it. Now on to the second reader.

Caleb

Spelling

He earned an award from school today. "Mr. Hustle Award." ???

Family (in the evening)

Mark 7

2 chapters of Fablehaven #3

Watched the Agony and the Ecstasy with Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison (about Michelangelo painting the Sistine chapel)

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

Housework

1 spell drill

Piano

Good Reads Reviews

Alex
Went to work

Gave a speech for his college class

Worked more on his college class in the evening