12/02/08: Community Music Class

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 4: Recognizing the Holy Ghost, "A Word of Caution"
Bible History: Nehemiah rebuilds the temple walls
Friend Articles
American History Literature: 4 chapters from Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Literature: 1 chapter from Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Character: 1 story from A Story To Tell by Deseret Book
Read-a-loud: 3 chapters from The Hardy Boys #3
Memorization: All the Presidents of the USA
World History: Chapter 6 from The Story of the World vol. 2
Science: Mercury! And we read The Ocean Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
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: Had her voice lessons
Art: Spent 2 hours creating all sorts of things
Math: Lesson 59 and 60
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Parts of speech (Mad Libs)
Life Skills: Homemade butter
Computers/Typing: Online American Girls Felicity games

Jared
Music: Practiced the piano
Biography/Science: Thomas Edison For Kids: His Life and Ideas by Laurie Carlson
Biography/American History: 3o min Abraham Lincoln video
Science: Prisms and light
Math: Lesson 57
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Cursive N's
Logic: Legos for 1 hour

Luke
Math: 2 lessons
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics: 10 pages from Explode the Code
Biography/Science: Thomas Edison For Kids: His Life and Ideas by Laurie Carlson
Biography/American History: 3o min Abraham Lincoln video
Reading: 30 minutes from The Book of Mormon Reader

Caleb
Went to Public School
He read to me and I read to him

Family (in the evening):
Music: We all participated in the community music class (this was in the late afternoon though). They worked on singing and their recorders.
PE: Sparing and Karate with Alex
Science: National Geographic 3D Adventure Projector: Planets
Classical Music: I wanted to also say that Alex always has some classical music playing in the background when he's studying or working.

To Show Parent Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna
Piano
Spell drill
Several blog posts (writing)
Goodreads reviews (writing)
Read 1 hour
Taught a piano lesson
Played the piano for the community music class

Alex
Worked at the temple as a Temple Ordinance Worker
Went to Work
Attended his Professional Organization's monthly meeting
Working on Ender's Game
Studying for his final for his college class