12/10/08: Caleb's home

Caleb's home now! How sweet it is (and amazingly chaotic)! Life can go on now for us. Hopefully the public school phase is over for us now for forever or at least a very long time. Jared's only remark was, "Oh good, now we can read Fablehaven during the day."

Mom School
Pray and Pledge
Theology: Preach My Gospel, Chapter 5, part 3: The Bible testifies of the Book of Mormon
Bible History: Baby Jesus is born
American History Literature: 10 chapters (and finished) Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Literature: 2 chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Read-a-loud: 2 chapters from Fablehaven #3 by Brandon Mull
Memorization: All the Presidents of the USA, Books of the New and Old Testament, Books of the Book of Mormon and the Latter-day Prophets
Family History: Biography of James Barton Hancock by Leonard Hancock
Music: Lots of Christmas music on Records-they can't listen, sing and dance to these enough. They are definitely learning all the oldie but goodie Christmas songs.
Science: Jupiter's Moons, Saturn and Saturn's moon Titus AND 1 Magic School Bus video
PE: 40 min walk
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
Art: Painted a wooden mirror from the craft store
Math: Lesson 66
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Mad Libs: Parts of Speech
Life Skills: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Creative Expression: Olivia, Luke and Caleb made up and practiced (a lot) actions and dancing that go with the song "The 12 Days of Christmas." In fact on the 10 lords a leaping for some reason they thought it was 10 vipers viping (?) and so they practiced "viping" each other by pretending they were biting each other. It was pretty hysterical.
Social: Friends for 2 hours

Jared
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Science: Watched one extra Magic School Bus science video
Math: Lesson 63
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: 45 min of The Book of Mormon Reader
Creative Expression: He's made up and practiced (a lot) actions and dancing that go with the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." The other 3 helped him with one part of his song.
Social:Scouts

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson
Science: Listened to The Magic School Bus: Wet All Over
Art: Followed the directions in a how-to drawing book
Math: Two Saxon 2 Math lessons
Games/Math Drill: Played an additional game with Caleb and I
Spelling: 1 drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages in Explode the Code
Handwriting: Wrote out the "orders" for everyone for dinner. This was quite a descriptive list and he worked on it for quite a while.
Creative Writing/Typing: Working on another story on the computer
Free Reading: 1 hour-finished The Robinson Cruosoe Reader and started The Magic Tree House #2: The Knights at Dawn
Social: 2 hours
Creative Expression: Olivia, Luke and Caleb made up and practiced (a lot) actions and dancing that go with the song "12 Days of Christmas"

Caleb
Math: I read 2 math picture books to him (see goodreads)
Math Game: Played an addition game with Luke and I
Logic: Did several 25 piece puzzles and helped me with the 1,000 piece Christmas puzzle also played with foam pattern blocks and made the pre-designed shapes
Reading: I read to him for 45 min (besides the 3 hours of mom school)
Phonics/Handwriting: 2 1/2 pages from Explode the Code
Handwriting: Wrote in his note books various things throughout the day.
Science: I read a Magic School Bus Science book to him and another book about sponges
Social: 2 hours
Creative Expression: Olivia, Luke and Caleb made up and practiced (a lot) actions and dancing that go with the song "12 Days of Christmas"

Family (in the evening):
Luke 3
Jared "performed his song"
Olivia and Caleb "performed their song," Luke opted out at the last minute
Watched the movie Miracle on 34th Street we have never seen it.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: 1 spell drill, Goodreads reviews, helped as the "unofficial" asst. den mother and attended Young Women's
Alex: Took his college final, went to work, 2 hours of a Louis L'Amour book