02/02/09: Cousins

This afternoon the kids went to grandma's house and played with their cousins while I went to 'town' for a doctor's appointment. Word to the wise: Ignoring a bladder infection because you are to busy to go to the doctor usually just leads to a kidney infection. Also today Luke was sick. He didn't do a whole lot.

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Chapter 6 Gospel Principles
Bible History: Peter's Denial
Friend Article
Biography/American History: ...If You lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Kay Moore and A is for America: An American Alphabet by Devin Scillian
Fairy Tales: Cactus Soup by Eric A. Kimmel
Fables: Saint George and the Dragon Retold by Margaret Hodges
Memorization: The books of the Old Testament and the books of the New Testament.
World History: Secrets of the Mummies by Harriet Griffey (Korling Kindersley Reader)
Science: Earthquakes (Smithsonian) by Seymour Simon and Mollusks from the The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia.
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
Religion Reading: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Lots of Mary Poppins music!
Art/Science: Painted a picture of crabs on the beach and painted a bunch of other pictures.
Math: Lesson 92
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositions
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- WINSOME
Free Reading: Read some in Jane Eyre
Computers/Typing: Goodreads
Government: Read 4 pages out of a high school government book.
Life Skills: Olivia made a list with me of all the people we need to invite to our Usborne book party on Friday and we we need to do between now and then. She'll also went and invited someone to it.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter out of his Old Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and had his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 83
Math Drill: Played Totally Tut (a math game) with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Handwriting: Did a cursive writing lesson.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters in Eragon.
Life Skills: He prepared the Family Home Evening Lesson on his own and presented it by himself. It was excellent. We drill our kids on the Plan of Salvation and the Law of the Gospel over and over...

Luke
Math: 1 math page from Saxon 2
Reading: Practiced his sight words. He knows all the sight words through 3rd grade. I haven't been able to find a list with more words yet. He just needs to work on speed. Which he wants to.

Caleb
Math: 1 math page and he played Totally Tut with Jared.
Math Drill: Played Chess on the computer.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 2 Explode the Code pages.
Reading: Practiced sight words.
PE: Played Wii Sports for 30 min.

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Plan of Salvation
Pay Day! The kids were payed and they took out tithing and saving.
PE: Olivia and I went to a late night rescheduled game at the school for basketball. It was at 8:00 P.M. It's the only game I've seen my Young Women girls play in. Alex goes to bed early on Monday nights (because of the temple) and Luke was sick anyway. So it worked out perfect!

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, spell drill, word of the day and 1 hour of the Hunger Games.
Alex: Scriptures, 1 chapter in Leadership 101 by Maxwell and 1 chapter in How to Win a Local Election, word of the day, went to work and old radio broadcasts of great war events from history.