12/22/08: SNOW

Today we awoke to a lot of snow. The kids spent a lot of time outside today. They also went over to grandma's for a movie party with the cousins while Aunt Emily cut my hair.

Mom School
Pray and Pledge
Theology: "The Book of Mormon is the Word of God" by President Ezra Taft Benson, President of the Council of the Twelve, Ensign, May 1975, 63-65.
Bible History: Jesus heals lepers
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 8 Chapters from Guns for General Washington by Seymore Reit
Family History: Patriarchal blessing of Samuel Ward
Music: Our community music performance was cancelled due to 2 feet of blowing snow.
World History: Chapter 12 from Story of the World vol. 2
Geography: Spain and the Mediterranean Sea
Science: Asteroids, Meters, Meteoroids, Comets...
Life Skills: Shoveling 2 feet of snow while it's snowing and blowing.
PE: Played outside for several hours in the snow building forts.
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
Math: Lesson 75-she's a dire hard-every morning by 6:30 AM she's doing her math.
Writing/Computers/Typing: Wrote a Christmas letter and typed a Christmas program out. Showed me some digital scrap booking tips so I could make the yearbook pages I needed from 2008.
Reading: 30 min of Work and the Glory #3
Art: Made Christmas Cards with Caleb

Jared
Reading: Jared read his self-designated 3X a day. He finished The Book of Mormon Reader.
He was outside longer than anyone today.

Luke
Handwriting/Art: He spend a lot of time drawing and writing things in a notebook.

Caleb
Music: Sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer all day. : )
Art: Made Christmas cards with Olivia.

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Delivering Secret Santa stuff
We played Sorry!

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Practiced the piano, did 2 year book pages for grandma's yearly book, and I read for 1 hour.
Alex: Shoveled snow, went to work and listened to Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan