02/09/09: Babysitting

Mom School
Pray, Pledge and Song
Theology: Chapter 10 of Gospel Principles
Bible History: The Resurrected Christ Appears to Mary
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 1 chapter of John Quincy Adams: Our Sixth President by Gerry and Janet Souter
Literature:
Memorization: First 26 states of the USA.
Family History: Read a autobiography of Anna Christensen Fullmer, my great, great grandmother.
Geography: Denmark (Where Anna Fullmer was from).
Science: Fish from The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Health: Read and discussed the first chapter of Eat Well and Keep Moving by Cheung. (food pyramid and healthy living)
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.
Service: Babysat today.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Played Music Ace 2 for a while.
Science: Read first 1/2 of a chapter from her new science book. Worked on science vocabulary.
Math: Lesson 97
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Prepositional phrases.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- VIVACIOUS
Free Reading: Read Young Puzzle Adventures by Usborne and read Jane Eyre for 10 min.
Life Skills: Babysitting and Key-lime Pie
Computers: We have a new computer and Olivia as loaded all our old programs onto the new one. She is definitely my tech support when Alex is gone.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The Old Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and had a piano lesson.
Math: Lesson 87
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read 3 chapters of Eragon.
Creative Play: Lego's

Luke
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: 1 Saxon Math 2 lesson. He used an abacus for the first time and that was great!
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing/Typing: Worked on another story for an hour.
Creative Play: Lot's of Lego's
Writing: Prepared the lesson for FHE.

Caleb
Music: Played Music Ace.
Math: 1 workbook page, used the abacus for the first time. This worked great! We ordered Right Start Math for him. Wow there's a lot of stuff! I still haven't figured it out. Hopefully I can figure out how to teach him his first grade math soon with this new program. It's supposedly the top of the line. This program should help Right Brained Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Play: Played with his 5 year old cousin between his school choices.

Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Pre-mortal existence/veil
We played Uno Spin.

To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, word of the day, chased a 2 year old all day, did laundry, read 30 min in biography of Helen Keller and worked on my Usborne order. Today was one of those days that I don't feel like I accomplished anything, but I never sat down. Sigh... Yesterday I did give a talk and play the piano for a musical number...
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work and listened to Dracula.