02/03/08: Just another day...

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Theology: Chapter 7 Gospel Principles
Bible History: The Crucifixion
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Played Presidential and First Lady JINGO.
Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty by Mercer Mayer
Family History: Eliza Matthews
Geography: Peru
Science: Worms from The Kingfisher Encyclopedia and Oceans (Smithsonian) by Seymour Simon.
Science Experiment: Finished our egg experiment with vinegar. Talked about the importance of calcium...
Social: Played outside with their cousins for 2 hours.
Reading: Our Usborne kit arrived and we looked at all our books! There are some fun, neat books.
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: Read one chapter from The Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced her voice lesson and had her voice lesson.
Math: Lesson 94
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: 2 Prepositional Phrase lessons.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- MEAGER
Writing/Typing: Good Reads reviews.
Life Skills: Delivered some Usborne invitations.
Sewing: Did some cross stitching that she designed.

Jared
Religion: 1 chapter in The Old Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 84
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Reading: Sight Words
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: 3 chapters in Eragon.
PE: 30 min of Wii sports

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read a chapter in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
Reading: Read the McGuffy reader to me for 15 min.
PE: 30 min of Wii Sports.

Caleb
Math: 1 workbook page
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 7 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: 15 min of independent reading.
Reading: Read the McGuffy Reader to me for 10 min.
PE: 30 min of Wii sports
Creative Play: Lego's

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, wrote a blog post for TJED Trenches, hung out with my best friend (besides my husband), gave IV meds to my cousin (brings back the olden days) looked through all the Usborne information, and read and finished the Hunger Games.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work and listened to old radio broadcasts.