Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 32: Tithes and Offerings from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Ammon and Lamoni's Father & Aaron teaches the king
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
Fairy Tales: Read 3 stories from Usborne's Myths and Legends
Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church and Books of the Old Testament
World History: 1 chapter from Ulysses and the Trojan War
Music: Rhythm poem. Some of the boys are having a very hard time keeping a rhythm. We have been practicing this a lot. Lots of clapping.
Family History (WWII History): Read a couple of pages from Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII. Health:Exercise from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Drama: 3 1/2 hours of play practice
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.
Chores
Olivia
Religion: Read 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon
Math: Did lesson 120 in Saxon 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Wrote another blog post on TJED Youth.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Innocuous
Literature: Read in Walden for two hours.
Writing: Finished her assignment for Scholar School about Simplicity. It will be an oral report this week.
Geography/Social Studies: Memorizing the states and capitals. Knows the first 18.
Geography: Workbook lesson.
Classical Root Words: Test
Religion: Read a conference talk.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Art: Used some art books I have (from Usborne) and drew and colored several pictures. This was a big deal for Jared. Anything that involves a pencil is not a happy thing for him.
Reading: 1 hour of The Silver Chair by CS Lewis.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader
Math: Saxon Math 2 - two lessons
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Writing/typing another story on the computer.
Reading: 1 hour of King Arthur
Caleb
Math: Played with the abacus while I asked him math questions.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me.
Computer: Played various computer games involving math and phonics.
Family (in the evening):
John 3
Started Fablehaven #4 and read 4 chapters
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, word of the day, studied for 1 hour for my Geography final, practiced the piano for over 3 hours, wrote and turned in my reports for the distance academy, and worked on saying the Greek alphabet super fast.
Alex: Scriptures, worked in the temple, word of the day, went to work, practiced the Greek alphabet and listened to Brisingr.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
March 29, 2009 (Monday) Drama!
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 31: Honesty from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Ammon and Lamoni
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
Fairy Tales: "The Brennan Town Musicians" from Usborne's Myths and Legends
Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church and the first 11 states and the capitals and Books of the Old Testament
Family History (WWII History): Read a couple of pages from Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII. Health: Balance from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Drama: The kids tried out for and each earned apart in this weeks Missoulas Children Theater's production of the Little Mermaid. The kids have practiced everyday this week. They are super excited.
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.
Chores
Olivia
Religion: Read 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon
Math: Did lesson 119 in Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Started a new blog for TJED Youth and has written several blog posts. She's welcoming anyone that would like to be a contributor. So if you know of someone let her know. She's very excited about it. The address is: tjedyouth.blogspot.com .
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Hubris
Literature: Read in Walden for two hours.
Writing: Starting an assignment she has for Scholar School about Simplicity. It will be an oral report this week.
New Era Articles: Online Reading
Science Experiment: Boiling pine needles and adding ? perfume ingredients to make ? I'm not sure.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Creative Play: Building catapults and forts outside.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader
Math: Saxon Math 2 - two lessons
Math Game: Played the Right Start math game with Caleb and I.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Play: Built catapults and forts outside.
Creative Writing: Writing/typing another story on the computer.
Language Arts: Using the dictionary to find words.
Caleb
Math: Played a game teaching sums up to 10 from Right Start Math. This game as tremendously improved his math facts up to 10. Excellent!
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 8 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me.
Creative Play: Built catapults and forts outside.
Free Reading: Read for over 30 minutes at grade level reading.
Science: Read/looked at several science cards.
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Personal Testimonies-including this talk.
Played Wii together.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, lesson from Joseph Smith manual, word of the day, studied for 1 1/2 hours for my Geography final, practiced the piano (I'm playing the piano for the Missoula's Children Theater production this week) and worked on saying the Greek alphabet super fast.
Alex: Scriptures, reading The Law by Bastiat, word of the day, went to work, listened to Brisingr and practiced his Greek alphabet also.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 31: Honesty from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Ammon and Lamoni
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
Fairy Tales: "The Brennan Town Musicians" from Usborne's Myths and Legends
Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church and the first 11 states and the capitals and Books of the Old Testament
Family History (WWII History): Read a couple of pages from Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII. Health: Balance from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Drama: The kids tried out for and each earned apart in this weeks Missoulas Children Theater's production of the Little Mermaid. The kids have practiced everyday this week. They are super excited.
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.
Chores
Olivia
Religion: Read 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon
Math: Did lesson 119 in Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Started a new blog for TJED Youth and has written several blog posts. She's welcoming anyone that would like to be a contributor. So if you know of someone let her know. She's very excited about it. The address is: tjedyouth.blogspot.com .
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Hubris
Literature: Read in Walden for two hours.
Writing: Starting an assignment she has for Scholar School about Simplicity. It will be an oral report this week.
New Era Articles: Online Reading
Science Experiment: Boiling pine needles and adding ? perfume ingredients to make ? I'm not sure.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Creative Play: Building catapults and forts outside.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader
Math: Saxon Math 2 - two lessons
Math Game: Played the Right Start math game with Caleb and I.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Play: Built catapults and forts outside.
Creative Writing: Writing/typing another story on the computer.
Language Arts: Using the dictionary to find words.
Caleb
Math: Played a game teaching sums up to 10 from Right Start Math. This game as tremendously improved his math facts up to 10. Excellent!
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 8 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me.
Creative Play: Built catapults and forts outside.
Free Reading: Read for over 30 minutes at grade level reading.
Science: Read/looked at several science cards.
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Personal Testimonies-including this talk.
Played Wii together.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, lesson from Joseph Smith manual, word of the day, studied for 1 1/2 hours for my Geography final, practiced the piano (I'm playing the piano for the Missoula's Children Theater production this week) and worked on saying the Greek alphabet super fast.
Alex: Scriptures, reading The Law by Bastiat, word of the day, went to work, listened to Brisingr and practiced his Greek alphabet also.
Friday, March 27, 2009
March 27, 2009 (Friday): Social Fun
So we ended up taking another day off today to just relax. How sweet it is! I need to remember next year to take spring break the same week as our small town. Everyone wanted to do stuff with us this week because they didn't have anything going on.
This morning we went up to the church and played in the gym for several hours with their cousins and some friends. They jump roped, played baseball, played tag, duck-duck goose and a host of other fun games. They were very tired. Aunt Becky took them through a killer warm-up of running, stretching and foot drills. (She's a track/cross-country coach and she means business!) : )
In the afternoon they played here at home. The boys are enjoying writing stories and illustrating them, so they spent a lot of time doing that. They also watched some science videos. Olivia made cookies and cards for her primary presidency that was just released and we delivered them. She's such a good girl. How did I get so lucky? She and I also made dinner for a family that had a funeral tomorrow. A friend also came over for several hours to visit with me. Jared also finished his last CD of Brisingr. He loved it.
In the evening the kids went to their friends house while their parents, Alex and I went to our Greek class and our class on the Odyssey. We are learning so much! We are having great fun also. I'm so lucky to have a wonderful husband that likes learning things with me. We're fortunate also to have good friends that are just like us and like to talk about books, politics, economics, history, social trends, and classical languages. (think D & C 88:78-79)
It was good end to the week. We definitely look forward to next week when we can get in the groove again. We are ready for some structure again!
This morning we went up to the church and played in the gym for several hours with their cousins and some friends. They jump roped, played baseball, played tag, duck-duck goose and a host of other fun games. They were very tired. Aunt Becky took them through a killer warm-up of running, stretching and foot drills. (She's a track/cross-country coach and she means business!) : )
In the afternoon they played here at home. The boys are enjoying writing stories and illustrating them, so they spent a lot of time doing that. They also watched some science videos. Olivia made cookies and cards for her primary presidency that was just released and we delivered them. She's such a good girl. How did I get so lucky? She and I also made dinner for a family that had a funeral tomorrow. A friend also came over for several hours to visit with me. Jared also finished his last CD of Brisingr. He loved it.
In the evening the kids went to their friends house while their parents, Alex and I went to our Greek class and our class on the Odyssey. We are learning so much! We are having great fun also. I'm so lucky to have a wonderful husband that likes learning things with me. We're fortunate also to have good friends that are just like us and like to talk about books, politics, economics, history, social trends, and classical languages. (think D & C 88:78-79)
It was good end to the week. We definitely look forward to next week when we can get in the groove again. We are ready for some structure again!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
March 26, 2009 (Thursday): Were we suppose to have school today?
Well, we didn't. It has been totally great doing nothing! Haw! Our cousins did leave by mid-afternoon. So the kids played hard for most of the day. They completely enjoyed themselves. I think it was a good break for them. Jared did write/type a story and illustrate it though. That's a break through!
I read a book, "The Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld. It was brain candy and I'll leave it at that. It was nice to chill out. I have my monthly Young Women's interview with the Bishop tonight. We might just have to take tomorrow off-for fun. We'll see. I'm sure I'll be chomping at the bit.
I read a book, "The Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld. It was brain candy and I'll leave it at that. It was nice to chill out. I have my monthly Young Women's interview with the Bishop tonight. We might just have to take tomorrow off-for fun. We'll see. I'm sure I'll be chomping at the bit.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
03/25/09 (Wednesday): A House of Chaos
Today we have had our cousins over since early this morning and they are staying until tomorrow. Fun, chaos, fun, chaos.
This is the first time in a very long time that I haven't had a lot to do. (Besides chase the two year old down occasionally). Most of the time if we don't "do school" we are running off somewhere doing something "school" related. Today however, the kids just played and I had the whole day off. Very weird. I didn't have to clean, I always stay up on that so there wasn't anything to do there. The house will need some serious help tomorrow after they leave though. There are toys everywhere!
Olivia had her scholar class and she really liked it again. I'm glad she's chosen to participate. She's learning and understanding a lot. Who would of thought a ten year old would "get" Walden?
I worked on my Usborne order, hung out with a friend while we waited for Olivia to finish her class, read 9 chapters and finished the book and questions for the Odyssey, and worked on some Greek. I also was able to study my scriptures extra long today. Very nice. Can a day be any better?
This is the first time in a very long time that I haven't had a lot to do. (Besides chase the two year old down occasionally). Most of the time if we don't "do school" we are running off somewhere doing something "school" related. Today however, the kids just played and I had the whole day off. Very weird. I didn't have to clean, I always stay up on that so there wasn't anything to do there. The house will need some serious help tomorrow after they leave though. There are toys everywhere!
Olivia had her scholar class and she really liked it again. I'm glad she's chosen to participate. She's learning and understanding a lot. Who would of thought a ten year old would "get" Walden?
I worked on my Usborne order, hung out with a friend while we waited for Olivia to finish her class, read 9 chapters and finished the book and questions for the Odyssey, and worked on some Greek. I also was able to study my scriptures extra long today. Very nice. Can a day be any better?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
March 24, 2009 (Tuesday): Walden
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 30: Charity from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Alma's Conversion
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
World History Literature: Read 1 chapter from Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War by Usborne
Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church, the 50 states alphabetically, started working on the states and the capitals (A's and B's) and Books of the Old Testament.
Music: Learning a Rhythm Poem about making good choices. (I actually learned this in 5th grade and I've always remembered it. So I asked my old 5th grade teacher to give me a copy of it).
Family History (WWII History): Read a couple of pages from Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII.
Health: Moderation from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Game: Linkety
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 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced simplified hymns on the piano and had a voice lesson.
Art: Drawing
Math: Did lesson 118 in Saxon 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Did a Editor-in-Chief editing lesson.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Archaic
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a lesson from Classical Root Words
Literature: Read in Walden for two hours.
Writing: Wrote a paper from an assignment she had from Scholar School about Walden. She spent a lot of time on this.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader.
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 9 pages of Explode the Code and finished the book
Free Reading: Read for 30 min in Sherlock Holmes.
Book on Tape: 1 hour of Brisingr.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Did a geography lesson on map reader from Evan-Moor.
Math: Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read King Arthur for 1 hour.
Logic: Played Turtle Mania.
Caleb
Logic: Pattern Blocks
Math: Played a game teaching sums up to 10 from Right Start Math. This is an excellent game for him right now. He made tremendous progress from yesterday to today.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 8 pages of Explode the Code. He's big into his Explode the Code books right now. It takes him a long time to do it so he's burnt out to do other things, but of all things Explode the Code is the best thing for him to be choosing to do right now.
Game: Checkers
Family (in the evening):
Wrestling
Wii Sports with dad
Finished the Book of Luke in The Bible.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, spell drill, word of the day, piano, did my visiting teaching, taught a piano lesson, read 1 chapter of The Odyssey, and worked on my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work, listened to The Odyssey, read a chapter in Rule #1 by Phil Town and worked on his Greek.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 30: Charity from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Alma's Conversion
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
World History Literature: Read 1 chapter from Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War by Usborne
Read-a-loud: Read 1 chapter in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church, the 50 states alphabetically, started working on the states and the capitals (A's and B's) and Books of the Old Testament.
Music: Learning a Rhythm Poem about making good choices. (I actually learned this in 5th grade and I've always remembered it. So I asked my old 5th grade teacher to give me a copy of it).
Family History (WWII History): Read a couple of pages from Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII.
Health: Moderation from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Game: Linkety
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 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced simplified hymns on the piano and had a voice lesson.
Art: Drawing
Math: Did lesson 118 in Saxon 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Did a Editor-in-Chief editing lesson.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Archaic
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a lesson from Classical Root Words
Literature: Read in Walden for two hours.
Writing: Wrote a paper from an assignment she had from Scholar School about Walden. She spent a lot of time on this.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader.
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 9 pages of Explode the Code and finished the book
Free Reading: Read for 30 min in Sherlock Holmes.
Book on Tape: 1 hour of Brisingr.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Did a geography lesson on map reader from Evan-Moor.
Math: Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read King Arthur for 1 hour.
Logic: Played Turtle Mania.
Caleb
Logic: Pattern Blocks
Math: Played a game teaching sums up to 10 from Right Start Math. This is an excellent game for him right now. He made tremendous progress from yesterday to today.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 8 pages of Explode the Code. He's big into his Explode the Code books right now. It takes him a long time to do it so he's burnt out to do other things, but of all things Explode the Code is the best thing for him to be choosing to do right now.
Game: Checkers
Family (in the evening):
Wrestling
Wii Sports with dad
Finished the Book of Luke in The Bible.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, spell drill, word of the day, piano, did my visiting teaching, taught a piano lesson, read 1 chapter of The Odyssey, and worked on my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work, listened to The Odyssey, read a chapter in Rule #1 by Phil Town and worked on his Greek.
Monday, March 23, 2009
March 23, 2009 (Monday): Another book showing
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 29: The Lord's Law of Health from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Limhi and his people escape
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
World History Literature: Read 2 chapters from Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War by Usborne
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church, the 50 states alphabetically, started working on the states and the capitals (A's) and Books of the Old Testament.
Family History (WWII History): Started a family history book Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII. This is 125 page bound book so it will take us two weeks to read.
Geography: India, Himalayas, Tibet and China (from the family history story)
Health: Fitness Walking from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Business/Social: We had a Usborne book showing in the afternoon.
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 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon (she's in Heleman right now).
Music: Practiced simplified hymns on the piano.
Geography: Did a geography lesson from Evan-Moor.
Art: Drawing
Math: Did lesson 117 in Saxon 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: contractions from Easy Grammar
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Amenable
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Test from Classical Root Words
Literature: Read in Walden for one hour.
Business/Presentation: She was heavily involved in the entire book show. She helps people select books and helps them fill out their order forms.
Writing/Study: Prepared a lesson for next's week Family Home Evening.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader.
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for 30 min in Sherlock Holmes.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Did a geography lesson on map reader from Evan-Moor.
Math: Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read King Arthur for 1 hour.
Research: WWII aircraft-specifically B-17 bombers that his grandpa trained in. He has a gigantic book-very heavy-that has all the aircraft used in WWII. Very cool. I'm able to talk them a little about these things because in my "former life" (before kids) I was a pilot myself.
Caleb
Logic: Pattern Blocks
Math: Played a game teaching sums up to 10 from Right Start Math.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 8 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Sight words drilling and read a phonics reader.
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Lesson based on this talk by Elder Hamula. (The War against sin).
We tried to visit and elderly lady but she wasn't home.
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, 2 chapters in The Odyssey and a lesson in my Greek workbooks.
Alex: Scriptures, read a chapter in Rule #1 by Phil Town, word of the day, went to work, and listened to The Odyssey.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 29: The Lord's Law of Health from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Limhi and his people escape
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans
World History Literature: Read 2 chapters from Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War by Usborne
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church, the 50 states alphabetically, started working on the states and the capitals (A's) and Books of the Old Testament.
Family History (WWII History): Started a family history book Memories of a Flying Tiger by Leonard Hancock (my grandfather)-about his experiences in China as a gunner during WWII. This is 125 page bound book so it will take us two weeks to read.
Geography: India, Himalayas, Tibet and China (from the family history story)
Health: Fitness Walking from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Business/Social: We had a Usborne book showing in the afternoon.
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 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon (she's in Heleman right now).
Music: Practiced simplified hymns on the piano.
Geography: Did a geography lesson from Evan-Moor.
Art: Drawing
Math: Did lesson 117 in Saxon 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: contractions from Easy Grammar
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Amenable
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Test from Classical Root Words
Literature: Read in Walden for one hour.
Business/Presentation: She was heavily involved in the entire book show. She helps people select books and helps them fill out their order forms.
Writing/Study: Prepared a lesson for next's week Family Home Evening.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the New Testament Reader.
Math: Did a lesson from Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for 30 min in Sherlock Holmes.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Did a geography lesson on map reader from Evan-Moor.
Math: Saxon Math 2 lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read King Arthur for 1 hour.
Research: WWII aircraft-specifically B-17 bombers that his grandpa trained in. He has a gigantic book-very heavy-that has all the aircraft used in WWII. Very cool. I'm able to talk them a little about these things because in my "former life" (before kids) I was a pilot myself.
Caleb
Logic: Pattern Blocks
Math: Played a game teaching sums up to 10 from Right Start Math.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 8 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Sight words drilling and read a phonics reader.
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Lesson based on this talk by Elder Hamula. (The War against sin).
We tried to visit and elderly lady but she wasn't home.
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, 2 chapters in The Odyssey and a lesson in my Greek workbooks.
Alex: Scriptures, read a chapter in Rule #1 by Phil Town, word of the day, went to work, and listened to The Odyssey.
Friday, March 20, 2009
March 20, 2009 (Friday)
Mom School
Pray and the National Anthem
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 28: Service from Gospel Principles.
Book of Mormon Stories: Abinadi preaches to King Noah
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Started and read 1 chapter from Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour.
Greek Myths: Read 6 myths from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: Read 1 myths (Sister Lace) from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: The 50 states of the USA.
Family History: The biography of Naomi Russel and her parents: Henry Russel and Elizabeth Walton. We also read the patriarchal blessing of Naomi Russel. We read about an incident in the Life of Elizabeth Matthew Campbell. We finished our "giant" book of family history stories. We will move on to the numerous printed and bound volumes about specific people. We love family history! We find this an indispensable part of our learning.
Music: We are working on our rhythm poem about making good choices. It will take us a while to learn this.
Health: The Importance of Breakfast from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung.
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.
Movie: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, so I think these are some of the best movies EVER made in my humble opinion. Good vs. Evil....
Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced the piano-playing in the simplified hymn book.
Art: Drew some pictures.
Math: Lesson 116 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Did an editing lesson from Editor-in-Chief.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day-Quotidian
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a classical root words lesson.
Literature: Read for an hour in Walden by Thoreau.
Free Reading: Read On The Shores of Silver Lake for 45 min.
Family History/Computer: Indexed names from the 1920 census.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Geography: England and France
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read a Star Wars chapter book for two hours and finished it.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Map reading from a geography workbook lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for 2 hours from King Arthur.
Caleb
Science/Social Studies: Played Brain Pop, Jr on the computer.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 16 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me.
Family (in the evening):
Went to "town" and went grocery shopping, to the library and went out to dinner as a family.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, spell drill, word of the day, researched about the country of Bermuda and worked on my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, and listened to The Odyssey by Homer.
Pray and the National Anthem
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 28: Service from Gospel Principles.
Book of Mormon Stories: Abinadi preaches to King Noah
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Started and read 1 chapter from Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour.
Greek Myths: Read 6 myths from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: Read 1 myths (Sister Lace) from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: The 50 states of the USA.
Family History: The biography of Naomi Russel and her parents: Henry Russel and Elizabeth Walton. We also read the patriarchal blessing of Naomi Russel. We read about an incident in the Life of Elizabeth Matthew Campbell. We finished our "giant" book of family history stories. We will move on to the numerous printed and bound volumes about specific people. We love family history! We find this an indispensable part of our learning.
Music: We are working on our rhythm poem about making good choices. It will take us a while to learn this.
Health: The Importance of Breakfast from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung.
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.
Movie: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, so I think these are some of the best movies EVER made in my humble opinion. Good vs. Evil....
Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced the piano-playing in the simplified hymn book.
Art: Drew some pictures.
Math: Lesson 116 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Contractions from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Did an editing lesson from Editor-in-Chief.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day-Quotidian
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a classical root words lesson.
Literature: Read for an hour in Walden by Thoreau.
Free Reading: Read On The Shores of Silver Lake for 45 min.
Family History/Computer: Indexed names from the 1920 census.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Geography: England and France
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read a Star Wars chapter book for two hours and finished it.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Map reading from a geography workbook lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read for 2 hours from King Arthur.
Caleb
Science/Social Studies: Played Brain Pop, Jr on the computer.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 16 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me.
Family (in the evening):
Went to "town" and went grocery shopping, to the library and went out to dinner as a family.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, spell drill, word of the day, researched about the country of Bermuda and worked on my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, and listened to The Odyssey by Homer.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
March 19, 2009 (Thursday): New Carpet
This morning we waited (and waited) for the carpet installers. They ended up being very late. When they finally got here I took care of all of that business then we went to grandma's for the rest of the day. Grandma and grandpa were gone all day working at the temple. When they came home they feed us dinner -yummy- then we went home and put our house back together!
Mom School
Pray
Theology: Chapter 27: Work and Personal Responsibility from Gospel Principles.
Book of Mormon Stories: King Benjamin
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 3 1/2 chapters and finished Andrew Jackson from the Childhood of Early American series.
World History Literature: Read 2 chapters Usbornes's Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War.
Greek Myths: Read 5 myths from D'Aulaire Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: Read 2 myths from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Family History: The biography of Jospeh Lym and the Patriarchal Blessing of Emma Bronson.
Music: We started learning a rhythm poem about Choice and Responsibility.
PE: Played outside for a while.
Movie: Watched Lord of the Rings together at grandma's.
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.
Family (in the evening):
Put the house back together. We ended up getting it all done. The carpet looks fabulous!
We watched a taped copy of American Idol as a family.
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, did a Sudoku puzzle and practiced my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, and listened to The Odyssey by Homer.
Mom School
Pray
Theology: Chapter 27: Work and Personal Responsibility from Gospel Principles.
Book of Mormon Stories: King Benjamin
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 3 1/2 chapters and finished Andrew Jackson from the Childhood of Early American series.
World History Literature: Read 2 chapters Usbornes's Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War.
Greek Myths: Read 5 myths from D'Aulaire Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: Read 2 myths from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Family History: The biography of Jospeh Lym and the Patriarchal Blessing of Emma Bronson.
Music: We started learning a rhythm poem about Choice and Responsibility.
PE: Played outside for a while.
Movie: Watched Lord of the Rings together at grandma's.
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.
Family (in the evening):
Put the house back together. We ended up getting it all done. The carpet looks fabulous!
We watched a taped copy of American Idol as a family.
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, did a Sudoku puzzle and practiced my Greek.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, and listened to The Odyssey by Homer.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
March 18, 2009 (Wed): Run, Run, Run
- In the morning we tore the library room apart so we could get our new carpet.
- After an early lunch we raced off to a neighboring town and dropped Olivia off at her Scholar class regarding Walden.
- I came back for a book discussion of my own regarding The Goose Girl.
- We went back to the neighboring town to pick Olivia up.
- We went and picked up all our Greek books that had come in the mail.
- We dropped Olivia off at the church for Activity Days.
- We came home and I made the refreshments for New Beginnings.
- Then we picked Olivia up and came home and finished last minute things for the carpet and had dinner.
- I took off to decorate for New Beginnings.
- Alex and the kids went to my mom's birthday party with me.
- Then he tore out and hauled off the carpet.
- While he was slaving I was at New Beginnings. I was a speaker and I played the piano for a vocal solo.
- Then when I came home we cleaned all the dirt, etc off the floor. We went to bed late and tired.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
03/17/09 (Tue): St. Patrick's Day
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 26: Sacrifice from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: The Nephites reach the America's.
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 1 1/2 chapters of Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans.
World History Literature: 1 chapter from Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War by Anna Clayborne (Usborne)
Greek Myths: 4 stories from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
General Myths: 2 stories from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends
Read-a-loud: 2 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: The 50 states of the USA and The Books of the Old Testament
Family History: The biography of Sophia Walbum.
Health: Eating vegetables and fruits from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung
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: 1 chapter from The Book of Mormon
Family History: Indexed some more family history names.
Music: Practiced the piano (hymns from the simplified hymn book). Here's a good example of Inspire Not Require. Olivia hasn't had piano lessons because she doesn't want them. And yet she's able to play with two hands out of the simplified hymn book. Hmmm....
World History: Read for 30 min about World War I and II from Usborne's World War's book.
Math: Lesson 115
Math Drill: Played Money, Money! with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- RAZE
Literature: Read Walden by Thoreau for 1 hour and finished her Scholar School assignment for tomorrow.
Greek: Worked on her Greek alphabet letter recognition.
PE: Went on a scooter ride to get the mail.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Science: Played Brain Pop, Jr on line (watched science videos).
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Phonics/Computer: Played Explode the Code online
Free Reading: Read a Star Wars chapter book for 1 hour.
Book on Tape: Listened to Brisingr for at least 2 hours.
Luke
Religion: Read a couple of chapters from The Book of Mormon Reader. He also read for a while in the real Book of Mormon.
World History: Started the chapter book King Arthur read for over an hour in it.
Geography: Did a geography workbook lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Logic: Played Chess on the computer.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Did a creative writing lesson in a workbook.
Free Reading: Read for 2 hours and finished
Writing: Did a Good Reads review.
PE: Rode bikes and played outside this afternoon.
Caleb
Religion: Looked at and "read" in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Spanish: Looked at the 1000 Words in Spanish book by Usborne for a long time.
Math: Did a Right Start Math lesson about money.
Math Drill: Played Money, Money! with Olivia.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 4 pages in Explode the Code.
Phonics/Computer: Played Explode the Code on line.
PE: Rode bikes and played outside.
Family (in the evening):
Rode Horses with Alex.
Took all the furniture out of the living room for our carpet that's coming on Thursday.
Ran around in the big living room that was emptied out, playing for hours.
They also did exercises of all sorts in the open space too.
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, practiced the piano, practiced the organ, completed TWO BYU-Geography lessons, puts some finishing touches on my talk for New Beginnings in Young Women's tomorrow night, practiced for a vocal musical number, went to the Relief Society Birthday Dinner, performed our vocal musical number (lots of fun), practiced Greek in the New Testament, and read in The Odyssey by Homer.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work, listened to The Odyssey by Homer and played basketball at the school (they usually only do it on Saturdays).
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 26: Sacrifice from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: The Nephites reach the America's.
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 1 1/2 chapters of Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans.
World History Literature: 1 chapter from Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War by Anna Clayborne (Usborne)
Greek Myths: 4 stories from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
General Myths: 2 stories from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends
Read-a-loud: 2 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: The 50 states of the USA and The Books of the Old Testament
Family History: The biography of Sophia Walbum.
Health: Eating vegetables and fruits from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung
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: 1 chapter from The Book of Mormon
Family History: Indexed some more family history names.
Music: Practiced the piano (hymns from the simplified hymn book). Here's a good example of Inspire Not Require. Olivia hasn't had piano lessons because she doesn't want them. And yet she's able to play with two hands out of the simplified hymn book. Hmmm....
World History: Read for 30 min about World War I and II from Usborne's World War's book.
Math: Lesson 115
Math Drill: Played Money, Money! with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- RAZE
Literature: Read Walden by Thoreau for 1 hour and finished her Scholar School assignment for tomorrow.
Greek: Worked on her Greek alphabet letter recognition.
PE: Went on a scooter ride to get the mail.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Science: Played Brain Pop, Jr on line (watched science videos).
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Phonics/Computer: Played Explode the Code online
Free Reading: Read a Star Wars chapter book for 1 hour.
Book on Tape: Listened to Brisingr for at least 2 hours.
Luke
Religion: Read a couple of chapters from The Book of Mormon Reader. He also read for a while in the real Book of Mormon.
World History: Started the chapter book King Arthur read for over an hour in it.
Geography: Did a geography workbook lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Logic: Played Chess on the computer.
Spelling: 2 spell drills
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Did a creative writing lesson in a workbook.
Free Reading: Read for 2 hours and finished
Writing: Did a Good Reads review.
PE: Rode bikes and played outside this afternoon.
Caleb
Religion: Looked at and "read" in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Spanish: Looked at the 1000 Words in Spanish book by Usborne for a long time.
Math: Did a Right Start Math lesson about money.
Math Drill: Played Money, Money! with Olivia.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 4 pages in Explode the Code.
Phonics/Computer: Played Explode the Code on line.
PE: Rode bikes and played outside.
Family (in the evening):
Rode Horses with Alex.
Took all the furniture out of the living room for our carpet that's coming on Thursday.
Ran around in the big living room that was emptied out, playing for hours.
They also did exercises of all sorts in the open space too.
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, practiced the piano, practiced the organ, completed TWO BYU-Geography lessons, puts some finishing touches on my talk for New Beginnings in Young Women's tomorrow night, practiced for a vocal musical number, went to the Relief Society Birthday Dinner, performed our vocal musical number (lots of fun), practiced Greek in the New Testament, and read in The Odyssey by Homer.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work, listened to The Odyssey by Homer and played basketball at the school (they usually only do it on Saturdays).
Monday, March 16, 2009
03/16/09 (Mon): Andrew Jackson
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 25: Fasting from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Nephi builds a ship
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 2 chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley of the Childhood of Famous American series. The kids are really liking this book!
Literature: "Much Ado About Nothing" from Tales from Shakespeare by Tina Packer
Greek Myths: Read 6 stories from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: Read 2 stories from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 50 states of the USA
Family History: Read the biography of Mary Smithies Kimball.
Music: Sang several songs with the piano. Latter-day Prophets, Books of the New and Old Testament, and Families Can Be Together Forever (and My Eternal Family).
Geography: Brazil (From the Friend article).
Science: The constellation Orion (from Greek Myths).
Health: The importance of vitamins in our diet. From Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung.
PE: Bike Riding
Game: Checkers
Movie/Music: Watched Mary Poppins (Olivia has been singing a lot of Julie Andrews songs including some Mary Poppins songs. It was a suggestion from her voice teacher to watch this since Olivia hadn't seen the movie in a long time).
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 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Family History: Did 1 batch of indexing names.
Music: Practiced her voice lesson.
World History: Studied about World War I and II using the Usborne War books.
Science Experiment: Olivia's has plants growing all over the kitchen.
Math: Lesson 114
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Did an editing lesson from Editor-in-Chief.
Writing: Revieved a letter and wrote a letter to her penpal (snail mail).
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Prosaic
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a classical root words lesson.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Had his piano lesson.
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read his Star Wars chapter book for at least 1/2 hour.
Book on Tape: Listened to Brisingr for 2 hours.
PE: Did stretching and cardio with Alex.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Did a couple of lessons on Music Ace. (theory)
Geography: More map reading from an Evan-Moor Geography workbook.
Math: Did a Saxon 2 lesson.
Games/Logic: Played a couple of games of chess on the computer.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Writing strategies and list making out of a creative writing book that he likes working on.
Free Reading: Read Peter Pan for 1 1/2 hours.
Life Skills: Peanut Butter cookies
PE: Did some stretching and cardio with Alex.
Caleb
Math: Did a Right Start Math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Game/Logic: Played a couple of games of chess on the computer.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: We practiced his sight words and he read a beginning phonics reader to me.
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Spiritual Preparedness including this this talk: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-4,00.html by Elder Anderson, "You Know Enough."
Game: Apples to Apples, Jr.
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, practiced the piano, practiced the violin, practiced for a vocal musical number and worked on a BYU-Geography lesson (I'm learning about China right now), worked on my Greek and finished The Princess and The Goblin by George McDonald.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work - brokered a major business deal today ("SWEET MAMA" as Caleb would say), listened to the Odyssey and worked on his Greek has well.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 25: Fasting from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Nephi builds a ship
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 2 chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley of the Childhood of Famous American series. The kids are really liking this book!
Literature: "Much Ado About Nothing" from Tales from Shakespeare by Tina Packer
Greek Myths: Read 6 stories from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: Read 2 stories from The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 50 states of the USA
Family History: Read the biography of Mary Smithies Kimball.
Music: Sang several songs with the piano. Latter-day Prophets, Books of the New and Old Testament, and Families Can Be Together Forever (and My Eternal Family).
Geography: Brazil (From the Friend article).
Science: The constellation Orion (from Greek Myths).
Health: The importance of vitamins in our diet. From Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung.
PE: Bike Riding
Game: Checkers
Movie/Music: Watched Mary Poppins (Olivia has been singing a lot of Julie Andrews songs including some Mary Poppins songs. It was a suggestion from her voice teacher to watch this since Olivia hadn't seen the movie in a long time).
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 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Family History: Did 1 batch of indexing names.
Music: Practiced her voice lesson.
World History: Studied about World War I and II using the Usborne War books.
Science Experiment: Olivia's has plants growing all over the kitchen.
Math: Lesson 114
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Did an editing lesson from Editor-in-Chief.
Writing: Revieved a letter and wrote a letter to her penpal (snail mail).
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Prosaic
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a classical root words lesson.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Had his piano lesson.
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read his Star Wars chapter book for at least 1/2 hour.
Book on Tape: Listened to Brisingr for 2 hours.
PE: Did stretching and cardio with Alex.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Did a couple of lessons on Music Ace. (theory)
Geography: More map reading from an Evan-Moor Geography workbook.
Math: Did a Saxon 2 lesson.
Games/Logic: Played a couple of games of chess on the computer.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Writing strategies and list making out of a creative writing book that he likes working on.
Free Reading: Read Peter Pan for 1 1/2 hours.
Life Skills: Peanut Butter cookies
PE: Did some stretching and cardio with Alex.
Caleb
Math: Did a Right Start Math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Game/Logic: Played a couple of games of chess on the computer.
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: We practiced his sight words and he read a beginning phonics reader to me.
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Spiritual Preparedness including this this talk: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-4,00.html by Elder Anderson, "You Know Enough."
Game: Apples to Apples, Jr.
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, practiced the piano, practiced the violin, practiced for a vocal musical number and worked on a BYU-Geography lesson (I'm learning about China right now), worked on my Greek and finished The Princess and The Goblin by George McDonald.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work - brokered a major business deal today ("SWEET MAMA" as Caleb would say), listened to the Odyssey and worked on his Greek has well.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
03/13/09 (Fri): Read, Read, Read
Today, the kids asked if I would read to them all day instead of doing any of our other routines. We took a late lunch and then the kids played for a couple of hours outside-it was a nice day!-then we read for a couple more hours. The kids did do several individual things on their own between reading and writing but I'm not going to write it down.
Mom School
Pray/National Anthem
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: We read Chapter 24: The Sabbath Day from Gospel Principles
Scriptures: Luke 21
Book of Mormon Stories: Nephi breaks his bow and Nephi makes tools
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans. These chapters are super long.
Literature: Read "Merchant of Venice," "As You Like It," and "A Winter's Tale" from Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne. We finished the book. The kids loved the stories!!!
Greek Myths: We read the first 10 stories out of D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: We read the first 3 stories in The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 4 chapters in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: The books of the Old and New Testament, the books of The Book of Mormon and the 50 states of the USA.
Family History: Address to My Children by Heber C Kimball (a document written by him to his posterity shortly before he died)
Science: Read the entire book The Usborne Little Encyclopedia of Science.
Health: Importance of limiting TV/computer time from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung.
PE: Played outside for two hours.
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:
Family (in the evening):
Played at their friends house while we went to our classes.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, word of the day, finished Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis, studied the Greek alphabet, attended our first Greek class and we were suppose to start our first discussion on The Odyssey but we took to long talking about Greek that we didn't get to it. Fun Night!
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, studied Greek, listened to The Odyssey and attended class with me.
Mom School
Pray/National Anthem
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: We read Chapter 24: The Sabbath Day from Gospel Principles
Scriptures: Luke 21
Book of Mormon Stories: Nephi breaks his bow and Nephi makes tools
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans. These chapters are super long.
Literature: Read "Merchant of Venice," "As You Like It," and "A Winter's Tale" from Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne. We finished the book. The kids loved the stories!!!
Greek Myths: We read the first 10 stories out of D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.
General Myths: We read the first 3 stories in The Usborne Book of Myths and Legends.
Read-a-loud: Read 4 chapters in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: The books of the Old and New Testament, the books of The Book of Mormon and the 50 states of the USA.
Family History: Address to My Children by Heber C Kimball (a document written by him to his posterity shortly before he died)
Science: Read the entire book The Usborne Little Encyclopedia of Science.
Health: Importance of limiting TV/computer time from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung.
PE: Played outside for two hours.
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:
Family (in the evening):
Played at their friends house while we went to our classes.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, word of the day, finished Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis, studied the Greek alphabet, attended our first Greek class and we were suppose to start our first discussion on The Odyssey but we took to long talking about Greek that we didn't get to it. Fun Night!
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, studied Greek, listened to The Odyssey and attended class with me.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Quotes
Jared, "I love Greek Myths. Will you find more books to read to us?"
Jared, "I love Shakespeare. Can you read some to us today?"
Luke, "Mom. Do you see that cloud? That looks like Zeus throwing thunderbolts down to earth."
Jared, "I love Shakespeare. Can you read some to us today?"
Luke, "Mom. Do you see that cloud? That looks like Zeus throwing thunderbolts down to earth."
03/12/09 (Thur): Derby Days
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 23: The Sacrament from Gospel Principles
Scriptures: Luke 19
Book of Mormon Stories: The Liahona
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 1 chapter from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Literature: Read "Hamlet" from Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne.
Read-a-loud: 1 chapter from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: Books of the Old and New Testament and the Book of Mormon and the 50 states of the USA.
Family History: The biography of Heber C Kimball. We also read a prophecy of Heber C Kimball. He is our gggrandfather.
Geography: Denmark and Norway (from Hamlet)
Health: Healthy Snacks from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung
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.
Social: Their cousins came over in the late afternoon for a couple of hours to play.
Olivia
Religion: 1 chapter from The Book of Mormon
Geography: Reading Robinson Projection Maps from Evan-Moor
Science: Animal/Plant Reproduction
Math: Lesson 113 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Latin: Looked up the Latin Alphabet and transcribed everybody's names (including all our pets) into Latin.
Research: Looked up more information on Thoureu on Wikipedia.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Obviate
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Classical Root Words test
Literature/Scholar Reading: Read Walden for two hours.
Art/Computers: Made several digital scrap booking pages on Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read Star Wars for 1 1/2 hours.
PE: 30 min Wii Sports
Luke
Religion: Read several chapters from his Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Geography: More map reading from Evan-Moor Geography.
Math: Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Worked on his story some more on the computer.
Science Reading: Finished The Great Shark Escape-a Magic School Bus chapter book.
Typing/Writing: Typed a Good Reads post about the book he finished.
Literature Reading: Read an abridged Peter Pan for over two hours.
PE: 30 min of Wii Sports.
Caleb
Core Value: Stealing (don't ask)
Music: Did several lessons on Music Ace on the Computer.
Science: Looked at an animal book.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 15 pages of Explode the Code.
Phonics/Computer: Played Explode the Code online.
Family (in the evening):
Pinewood Derby-They also ran an Activity Girls tournament so we ran 3 cars tonight.
Scriptures: Luke 20
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, word of the day, did a BYU geography lesson and took a quiz, wrote a blog post for another blog that I'm a contributor for, and read Surprised by Joy for 1 hour by CS Lewis.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work and listened to The Odyssey by Homer.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 23: The Sacrament from Gospel Principles
Scriptures: Luke 19
Book of Mormon Stories: The Liahona
Friend Article
Biography/American History: 1 chapter from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Literature: Read "Hamlet" from Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne.
Read-a-loud: 1 chapter from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: Books of the Old and New Testament and the Book of Mormon and the 50 states of the USA.
Family History: The biography of Heber C Kimball. We also read a prophecy of Heber C Kimball. He is our gggrandfather.
Geography: Denmark and Norway (from Hamlet)
Health: Healthy Snacks from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung
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.
Social: Their cousins came over in the late afternoon for a couple of hours to play.
Olivia
Religion: 1 chapter from The Book of Mormon
Geography: Reading Robinson Projection Maps from Evan-Moor
Science: Animal/Plant Reproduction
Math: Lesson 113 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Latin: Looked up the Latin Alphabet and transcribed everybody's names (including all our pets) into Latin.
Research: Looked up more information on Thoureu on Wikipedia.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Obviate
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Classical Root Words test
Literature/Scholar Reading: Read Walden for two hours.
Art/Computers: Made several digital scrap booking pages on Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Free Reading: Read Star Wars for 1 1/2 hours.
PE: 30 min Wii Sports
Luke
Religion: Read several chapters from his Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Geography: More map reading from Evan-Moor Geography.
Math: Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Worked on his story some more on the computer.
Science Reading: Finished The Great Shark Escape-a Magic School Bus chapter book.
Typing/Writing: Typed a Good Reads post about the book he finished.
Literature Reading: Read an abridged Peter Pan for over two hours.
PE: 30 min of Wii Sports.
Caleb
Core Value: Stealing (don't ask)
Music: Did several lessons on Music Ace on the Computer.
Science: Looked at an animal book.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 15 pages of Explode the Code.
Phonics/Computer: Played Explode the Code online.
Family (in the evening):
Pinewood Derby-They also ran an Activity Girls tournament so we ran 3 cars tonight.
Scriptures: Luke 20
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, word of the day, did a BYU geography lesson and took a quiz, wrote a blog post for another blog that I'm a contributor for, and read Surprised by Joy for 1 hour by CS Lewis.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work and listened to The Odyssey by Homer.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Olivia's essay
Here's an essay Olivia wrote. I couldn't believe she wrote it about me. So this is for all your homeschooling moms that don't think you're making a difference even though you know you are doing the right thing...cheers to you!
The Person I admire
I chose to do this report on my mother because she has had the greatest influence on me and my life. She helps me so much and I am so thankful to her for home schooling me, I have learned so much from her. For instance, instead of learning that George Washington was the father of our country, instead I know every detail of his life. I would know nothing without her, or I would be in public school and wouldn't know hardly anything! She makes each day worth living and gives me hope. What would life be like without her?
I admire my mother. She is loving and kind. I love her so much. She is the type of mother anyone would want. I also have three brothers. How she keeps up with all of hooligans I don't know! But I know that she loves me and that she will always protect me.A person is supposed to be remembered by their characteristic and their life. Let me tell you that my mother has it all. Serving her children is important to her. I will always remember her as the best person that I EVER met.
She always tells me that I can do anything that I want to do. She tells me I can accomplish anything. I believe her, I can do anything that I want to. For instance, she says that I can make it to American Idol show! And she gives me hope.She gives me hope for a wonderful life yet to come.
When we come in from playing outside she always has a hot dinner on the table. When someone needs dinner she makes it without hesitation! For instance, a few weeks ago she felt like she needed to give her best friend dinner because she had just cracked her rib and couldn't cook.
Hard work never stops in our home. Hard work, love, perseverance and integrity are her standards, and are the standards that I will always remember her by.She always is ready to help anyone in need. For instance, if someone needs a ride some where she will give it.My Mother is so kind and gentle. If I am sick she always takes care of me. For instance if I have been throwing up then she goes to the store and buys sprite for me.She always makes sure that good music is playing quietly in the background. We love celtic,classical, patriotic and
religious music. I know that she expects so much from me and I will try my best to serve her, and give her back all of these years of hard work! I wish I could give her everything back in return. How can you? I will always remember my mother as a kind, loving person.
Thinking of my mother I realize how much she does for me, more then anyone I know. She makes every day worth living. She also helps me to be my best.
My mother is the person I admire. Our home is kept beautiful because of her hard work! She deserves so much more then what she gets.
Life is very complete! Mothers are the BEST!!!!! I am with the most loving person on earth dailey! How lucky am I?
Mother, I love you!!!
The Person I admire
I chose to do this report on my mother because she has had the greatest influence on me and my life. She helps me so much and I am so thankful to her for home schooling me, I have learned so much from her. For instance, instead of learning that George Washington was the father of our country, instead I know every detail of his life. I would know nothing without her, or I would be in public school and wouldn't know hardly anything! She makes each day worth living and gives me hope. What would life be like without her?
I admire my mother. She is loving and kind. I love her so much. She is the type of mother anyone would want. I also have three brothers. How she keeps up with all of hooligans I don't know! But I know that she loves me and that she will always protect me.A person is supposed to be remembered by their characteristic and their life. Let me tell you that my mother has it all. Serving her children is important to her. I will always remember her as the best person that I EVER met.
She always tells me that I can do anything that I want to do. She tells me I can accomplish anything. I believe her, I can do anything that I want to. For instance, she says that I can make it to American Idol show! And she gives me hope.She gives me hope for a wonderful life yet to come.
When we come in from playing outside she always has a hot dinner on the table. When someone needs dinner she makes it without hesitation! For instance, a few weeks ago she felt like she needed to give her best friend dinner because she had just cracked her rib and couldn't cook.
Hard work never stops in our home. Hard work, love, perseverance and integrity are her standards, and are the standards that I will always remember her by.She always is ready to help anyone in need. For instance, if someone needs a ride some where she will give it.My Mother is so kind and gentle. If I am sick she always takes care of me. For instance if I have been throwing up then she goes to the store and buys sprite for me.She always makes sure that good music is playing quietly in the background. We love celtic,classical, patriotic and
religious music. I know that she expects so much from me and I will try my best to serve her, and give her back all of these years of hard work! I wish I could give her everything back in return. How can you? I will always remember my mother as a kind, loving person.
Thinking of my mother I realize how much she does for me, more then anyone I know. She makes every day worth living. She also helps me to be my best.
My mother is the person I admire. Our home is kept beautiful because of her hard work! She deserves so much more then what she gets.
Life is very complete! Mothers are the BEST!!!!! I am with the most loving person on earth dailey! How lucky am I?
Mother, I love you!!!
03/11/09 (Wed): Scholar Class
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song : My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 22: The Gifts of the Spirit from Gospel Principles.
Scriptures: Luke 17
Book of Mormon Stories: Tree of Life
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Literature: "Midsummer Night's Dream" from Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne.
Memorization: Books of the Old Testament
Family History: Read a biography of William Newell Holway written by his grandson.
World History: We read The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War by Emilly Little.
Geography: Turkey
Science: Finished the book Questions and Answers Animal World: Explore the Living Planet by Capella.
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 a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Math: Lesson 112 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Edited and finished her essay about the person she would most like to meet.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- MERITORIOUS
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Root words lesson
Literature: Read Walden for over 2 hours.
Greeks: Practiced the Greek alphabet.
Computers/Typing: Typing her essays.
Scholar Class: Had her first class. She is discussing Walden. She really likes it. She will have weekly assignment too.
Research: Looked up information on Wikipedia about Thoreau. Did you know that his dad was a pencil maker? Who knew?
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from his New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Story problems lesson from Singapore 3B,
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Book on Tape: Life for Jared has now stopped. He listened to Brisingr all afternoon.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story.
Book on Tape: He listened to Brisingr for several hours but not as much as Jared.
Caleb
Math: Did a math workbook page with the abacus.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Play: He played with the K'Nex blocks a lot today.
Science: We "read" DK Pockets: Animals of the World. It had 491pages and he looked at every single one. It took him a while. It certainly kept him occupied during Olivia's scholar class.
PE: Had a golf rules/verbiage lesson while he watched Alex play Wii Golf.
Family (in the evening):
Horse Riding
Finished their Pinewood Derby cars.
Luke 18
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, word of the day, went to a singing practice for our musical number, practiced the organ, participated in the scholar class about Walden (I'm glad I read that book in January!), practiced the Greek alphabet, studied for my BYU Geography class and read 2 chapters in Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, scriptures, went to work, listened to The Odyssey by Homer, took the kids horseback riding, helped them finish their derby cars and played Wii fitness and Wii Golf while he waited for me to finish this post.
Pray/Pledge
Song : My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 22: The Gifts of the Spirit from Gospel Principles.
Scriptures: Luke 17
Book of Mormon Stories: Tree of Life
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 chapter from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Literature: "Midsummer Night's Dream" from Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne.
Memorization: Books of the Old Testament
Family History: Read a biography of William Newell Holway written by his grandson.
World History: We read The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War by Emilly Little.
Geography: Turkey
Science: Finished the book Questions and Answers Animal World: Explore the Living Planet by Capella.
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 a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Math: Lesson 112 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Edited and finished her essay about the person she would most like to meet.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- MERITORIOUS
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Root words lesson
Literature: Read Walden for over 2 hours.
Greeks: Practiced the Greek alphabet.
Computers/Typing: Typing her essays.
Scholar Class: Had her first class. She is discussing Walden. She really likes it. She will have weekly assignment too.
Research: Looked up information on Wikipedia about Thoreau. Did you know that his dad was a pencil maker? Who knew?
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter from his New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Story problems lesson from Singapore 3B,
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Book on Tape: Life for Jared has now stopped. He listened to Brisingr all afternoon.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story.
Book on Tape: He listened to Brisingr for several hours but not as much as Jared.
Caleb
Math: Did a math workbook page with the abacus.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Play: He played with the K'Nex blocks a lot today.
Science: We "read" DK Pockets: Animals of the World. It had 491pages and he looked at every single one. It took him a while. It certainly kept him occupied during Olivia's scholar class.
PE: Had a golf rules/verbiage lesson while he watched Alex play Wii Golf.
Family (in the evening):
Horse Riding
Finished their Pinewood Derby cars.
Luke 18
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talk, word of the day, went to a singing practice for our musical number, practiced the organ, participated in the scholar class about Walden (I'm glad I read that book in January!), practiced the Greek alphabet, studied for my BYU Geography class and read 2 chapters in Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, scriptures, went to work, listened to The Odyssey by Homer, took the kids horseback riding, helped them finish their derby cars and played Wii fitness and Wii Golf while he waited for me to finish this post.
Scholar Class
So Olivia decided she wanted to take a scholar class! She's super excited! We went to the first one today. They will be discussing Walden by Thoreau for the next month or two. She likes it so far. She has an oral assignment for next week. She spent a lot of time reading today and she was taking notes. Olivia also had a current dictionary out and she had the hefty 1828 dictionary out. She's such a good girl. I'm proud of her for making big kid choices, but it's kind of sad. My kids are growing up!
The class meets weekly. I really like the teacher. He teaches at the Commonwealth school also. She has 7 people in her class.
The class meets weekly. I really like the teacher. He teaches at the Commonwealth school also. She has 7 people in her class.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
03/10/09 (Tue): Ears
Today our big excitement was that "someone" trying to be helpful jabbed Caleb in the ear with a qutip during our voice lesson. They thought they were helping by getting the wax out of Caleb's ear because Caleb keeps saying he can't hear out of that ear (but he has a headcold). The poor child that did it cried the rest of the afternoon because they were so remorseful. Caleb's ear bleed a little bit and after some rest and motrin he was doing lots better. Meaning he was fighting with Luke like usual and telling me he was fine and didn't need to go to the doctor. But our voice lesson and piano lesson were quite long because of all the interruptions. Good thing our voice teacher is so patient with us. She never knows what the state of affairs will be here when she shows up!
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 21: "The Gifts of the Spirit" in Gospel Principles.
Scripture Stories: Ismael and his family join Lehi
Scripture Reading: Luke 15
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Two chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans Series.
Literature: "The Tempest" from Stories From Shakespeare by Usborne books. Jared told me today when I was getting to read a story, "Mom, I love Shakespeare stories."
Read-a-loud: Started and read 3 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: All the states of the USA alphabetically and The books in the Old Testament.
Family History: Read a biography of John Calvin Hancock written by my aunt.
Greek: Learned the first four letters of the Greek alphabet.
Science: Chemistry from Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Health: Proper hygiene-bathing and brushing your teeth
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 a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
New Era/Christianity: Played some games and quizzes on- line with The New Era.
Music: Had her voice lesson.
Geography: Did a geography lesson on reading grid maps.
Science Experiment: Tending to her flat of tomato and radish plants.
Math: Lesson 111 from Saxon Math 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Wrote an essay on "The person I would like to meet."
Research: Researched writing contests that she wants to enter online.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Inimical
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a Greek Root Words lesson.
Greek: Learned the first 13 Greek alphabet letters.
Life Skills: Made "boxed lasagna."
Pet Care: Cleaned Hank the dogs ear out because of his ear infection and gave him medicine.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Did a lesson in Singapore 3B.
Logic: Played Checkers with his brothers.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: He did 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read for one hour in a Star Wars chapter book.
Book on Tape: 1 hour of Brisingr. We finally got this from the library. We've been on the waiting list for many months. I won't be seeing much of Jared until he finishes this!
Creative Play: Lot's of Legos today.
Luke
Religion: Read in his Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Learned about reading map grids.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Logic: Played Checkers with his brothers. He also put together a wooden 3-D dinosaur.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Editing his story on the computer. He also learned about story organization in a workbook he's using. He loves it. It's called "Just Write."
Language Arts: He used the dictionary several times to look of words he didn't know how to spell. He uses the dictionary A Spelling Dictionary for Beginning Writers by Gregory Hurray. You can get it through http://www.ldfr.com/ My children have always enjoyed this early reader dictionary. He also looked up words he didn't know from his geography lesson in Macmillan's Dictionary for Children.
Art: Drew and colored a picture.
Book on Tape: 1 hour of Brisingr. We finally got this from the library. We've been on the waiting list for many months.
Creative Play: Lego's
PE: Ran/walked on the treadmill for 20 min.
Caleb
Logic: Played checkers with his brothers.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code.
Phonics/Computer: He also played Explode the Code online.
Writing: He is finishing a creative writing lesson writing down things about is neighborhood.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me and practiced his sight words.
Creative Play: Played with K'Nex and Lego's today.
Family (in the evening):
PE: The boys had wrestling practice.
Luke 16
Reading: Read 3 more chapters of Farmer Boy.
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, piano practicing, voice practicing with the voice teacher (she's so nice), taught a piano lesson, worked on the Greek alphabet and worked on a BYU-Geography lesson.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work, finished The Iliad by Homer and started The Odyssey by Homer.
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 21: "The Gifts of the Spirit" in Gospel Principles.
Scripture Stories: Ismael and his family join Lehi
Scripture Reading: Luke 15
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Two chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley from the Childhood of Famous Americans Series.
Literature: "The Tempest" from Stories From Shakespeare by Usborne books. Jared told me today when I was getting to read a story, "Mom, I love Shakespeare stories."
Read-a-loud: Started and read 3 chapters from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memorization: All the states of the USA alphabetically and The books in the Old Testament.
Family History: Read a biography of John Calvin Hancock written by my aunt.
Greek: Learned the first four letters of the Greek alphabet.
Science: Chemistry from Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Health: Proper hygiene-bathing and brushing your teeth
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 a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
New Era/Christianity: Played some games and quizzes on- line with The New Era.
Music: Had her voice lesson.
Geography: Did a geography lesson on reading grid maps.
Science Experiment: Tending to her flat of tomato and radish plants.
Math: Lesson 111 from Saxon Math 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Creative Writing: Wrote an essay on "The person I would like to meet."
Research: Researched writing contests that she wants to enter online.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Inimical
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a Greek Root Words lesson.
Greek: Learned the first 13 Greek alphabet letters.
Life Skills: Made "boxed lasagna."
Pet Care: Cleaned Hank the dogs ear out because of his ear infection and gave him medicine.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Math: Did a lesson in Singapore 3B.
Logic: Played Checkers with his brothers.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: He did 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Free Reading: Read for one hour in a Star Wars chapter book.
Book on Tape: 1 hour of Brisingr. We finally got this from the library. We've been on the waiting list for many months. I won't be seeing much of Jared until he finishes this!
Creative Play: Lot's of Legos today.
Luke
Religion: Read in his Book of Mormon Reader.
Geography: Learned about reading map grids.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Logic: Played Checkers with his brothers. He also put together a wooden 3-D dinosaur.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Editing his story on the computer. He also learned about story organization in a workbook he's using. He loves it. It's called "Just Write."
Language Arts: He used the dictionary several times to look of words he didn't know how to spell. He uses the dictionary A Spelling Dictionary for Beginning Writers by Gregory Hurray. You can get it through http://www.ldfr.com/ My children have always enjoyed this early reader dictionary. He also looked up words he didn't know from his geography lesson in Macmillan's Dictionary for Children.
Art: Drew and colored a picture.
Book on Tape: 1 hour of Brisingr. We finally got this from the library. We've been on the waiting list for many months.
Creative Play: Lego's
PE: Ran/walked on the treadmill for 20 min.
Caleb
Logic: Played checkers with his brothers.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code.
Phonics/Computer: He also played Explode the Code online.
Writing: He is finishing a creative writing lesson writing down things about is neighborhood.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me and practiced his sight words.
Creative Play: Played with K'Nex and Lego's today.
Family (in the evening):
PE: The boys had wrestling practice.
Luke 16
Reading: Read 3 more chapters of Farmer Boy.
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, piano practicing, voice practicing with the voice teacher (she's so nice), taught a piano lesson, worked on the Greek alphabet and worked on a BYU-Geography lesson.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, went to work, finished The Iliad by Homer and started The Odyssey by Homer.
Monday, March 9, 2009
02/09/09 (Mon): Social Day
Today, we took a break from the ordinary and had four boys over for the entire day. It was a lot of fun and I'm happy to say my friend is feeling better now that she had the whole day to sleep. The boys ages were 10, 5, 2 and 1. Olivia did a lot of mothering with the younger two. So no Mom School today, and I really let the kids do whatever they wanted. Oh! Our furnace is fixed now. Yeah. Warmth!
Olivia
Religion: Read one chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Singing practice
Science Experiment: She planted tomato seeds and radish seeds today.
Math: Lesson 110
Language Arts: Verb tenses
Writing: She did an editing lesson from Editor in Chief.
Creative Writing: Worked on an essay on My Access.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- EXTOL
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a lesson on Greek root words.
Business: Helped me upload our latest Usborne book order on line.
Reading: Read NUMEROUS little kid books to the little boys.
Life Skills: Babysitting. She did a really good job playing and watching the little boys.
Economics: Olivia has some online investments through http://www.lendingclub.com/ and today she was changing some of them around.
Chores ( I don't know what I haven't been putting this down).
Jared
Religion: Read in the New Testament Reader.
Music: Had a piano lesson.
Creative Writing: Jared is writing a story! It's a miracle!!!! You have no idea!!!! He's finished 1 whole typed page on the computer. He has never wanted to write and so I have never pushed him to. See TJED works! Now he is wanting to write a story. Who would of thought???
Free Reading: Read 1 chapter in a book. He's also decided he's a reader! He wanted to read more, but he said he wanted to play with his friend today. Good social choice!
Social/Creative Play: Lot's of lego's, Wii, light saber duels and over all great fun.
PE: Ran/walked on the treadmill for 30 min.
Chores.
Luke
Religion: Read multiple chapters in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story on the computer.
Social/Creative Play: Lot's of lego's, Wii, light saber duels and over all great fun.
Chores
Caleb
I don't think he felt that well today. He was really whinny and he took a nap.
Art: Made stencil pictures.
Social/Creative Play: Lot's of lego's, Wii, light saber duels and over all great fun.
General Learning: Played Dora the Explorer on the Computer.
Character: Watched a Veggie Tales Movie.
Chores
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Watched the Twin Falls Temple Cultural Celebration Video.
Visited an elderly couple.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: (I left church yesterday with 3 music assignments. 1. Play the piano for a musical number 2. Sing in a 6 person musical number for the R.S. B-day celebration and 3. Substitute on the organ for the first time in sacrament in two weeks). Scriptures, journal, word of the day, piano, singing, visiting 3 friends who were all sick and gave them some food-why are so many of my friends sick?, practiced the Greek alphabet, placed an Usborne order and read 3 chapters in the Odyssey by Homer.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, practiced the Greek alphabet, listened to The Iliad by Homer and fixed the garbage disposal. He's such a good and talented hubby.
Olivia
Religion: Read one chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Singing practice
Science Experiment: She planted tomato seeds and radish seeds today.
Math: Lesson 110
Language Arts: Verb tenses
Writing: She did an editing lesson from Editor in Chief.
Creative Writing: Worked on an essay on My Access.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- EXTOL
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Did a lesson on Greek root words.
Business: Helped me upload our latest Usborne book order on line.
Reading: Read NUMEROUS little kid books to the little boys.
Life Skills: Babysitting. She did a really good job playing and watching the little boys.
Economics: Olivia has some online investments through http://www.lendingclub.com/ and today she was changing some of them around.
Chores ( I don't know what I haven't been putting this down).
Jared
Religion: Read in the New Testament Reader.
Music: Had a piano lesson.
Creative Writing: Jared is writing a story! It's a miracle!!!! You have no idea!!!! He's finished 1 whole typed page on the computer. He has never wanted to write and so I have never pushed him to. See TJED works! Now he is wanting to write a story. Who would of thought???
Free Reading: Read 1 chapter in a book. He's also decided he's a reader! He wanted to read more, but he said he wanted to play with his friend today. Good social choice!
Social/Creative Play: Lot's of lego's, Wii, light saber duels and over all great fun.
PE: Ran/walked on the treadmill for 30 min.
Chores.
Luke
Religion: Read multiple chapters in The Book of Mormon Reader.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story on the computer.
Social/Creative Play: Lot's of lego's, Wii, light saber duels and over all great fun.
Chores
Caleb
I don't think he felt that well today. He was really whinny and he took a nap.
Art: Made stencil pictures.
Social/Creative Play: Lot's of lego's, Wii, light saber duels and over all great fun.
General Learning: Played Dora the Explorer on the Computer.
Character: Watched a Veggie Tales Movie.
Chores
Family (in the evening):
Family Home Evening: Watched the Twin Falls Temple Cultural Celebration Video.
Visited an elderly couple.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: (I left church yesterday with 3 music assignments. 1. Play the piano for a musical number 2. Sing in a 6 person musical number for the R.S. B-day celebration and 3. Substitute on the organ for the first time in sacrament in two weeks). Scriptures, journal, word of the day, piano, singing, visiting 3 friends who were all sick and gave them some food-why are so many of my friends sick?, practiced the Greek alphabet, placed an Usborne order and read 3 chapters in the Odyssey by Homer.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, practiced the Greek alphabet, listened to The Iliad by Homer and fixed the garbage disposal. He's such a good and talented hubby.
Friday, March 6, 2009
03/06/09 (Fri): Strong finish to the week.
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 20-Baptism, from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Nephi gets the plates from Laban
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley
Fairy Tales: "Bob White and The Farmer Man" from Once Upon a Time Tales Retold by Wallace Wadsworth
Greek Myths: Read the stories of "The Adventures of Perseus," "The Chariot of the Sun," "The Adventures of Odysseus," Theseus and the Minotaur," "Pygmalion and His Wife," and " Eros and Psyche." We finished Usborne's Greek Myths by Heather Amery.
Memorization: The 50 states of the union alphabetically.
Family History: We read a biography of Serena Barton Hancock.
Geography: South Carolina (where Andrew Jackson was born).
Science: We finished chapter 3 from Kingfisher's Science Encyclopedia.
Health: Read chapter 7: Sugar Drinks from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung.
Science Experiment: We did activity 1 from Animal Observatory of a Delta Science Kit.
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.
Movie: The kids and I watched the movie, "The Seeker," that we had borrowed from the library.
Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced singing for 30 min of various Broadway songs.
Geography: Did a geography lesson about longitude and latitudinal lines.
Math: Lesson 109 in Saxon Math 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Creative Writing/Typing: Started a story about an Indian in the early 1800's.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Capricious
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Took a Greek root words test.
Idaho History: Read Ida Visits the Capital by Lori Otter, the book she was awarded for her singing last weekend.
Life Skills: Organized a movie party for the family. We had tickets, treats and a check-in booth.
Business/Computers/Typing: Filled out pretend invoices again.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and did a music theory assignment.
Math: Did a lesson in Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code 5.
Free Reading: Read Stars Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for two hours.
Creative Play: Lego's
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in his Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano.
Geography: Map Reading & North, South, East and West
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code 4.
Creative Writing: Did a creative writing lesson-categorizing-from Let's Write 2.
Free Reading: Read a chapter in a Magic School Bus Science book about sharks.
Creative Play: Lego's
Caleb
Geography: Compass and Compass Rose
Math: Right Start Math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code 2.
Writing: Made a list of things in his neighborhood.
Reading: Sight words, read a phonics reader and read 4 lessons out of the McGuffy Primer to me.
Computers/Typing: Played the Dora the Explorer computer game for an hour.
Family (in the evening):
Music: Watched a taped episode of American Idol.
Woodworking: Worked on their pinewood derby cars. The activity girls are also doing cars this year. So three of the kids get to do them. They are excited.
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, researched the Greek books we need for our new Greek course we are starting next week (Alex and I) and worked on a lesson from my BYU Geography class.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, trained someone for 5 hours in the things he learned this past week, listened to The Iliad for 3 hours while driving.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 20-Baptism, from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Nephi gets the plates from Laban
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters from Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Edward Stanley
Fairy Tales: "Bob White and The Farmer Man" from Once Upon a Time Tales Retold by Wallace Wadsworth
Greek Myths: Read the stories of "The Adventures of Perseus," "The Chariot of the Sun," "The Adventures of Odysseus," Theseus and the Minotaur," "Pygmalion and His Wife," and " Eros and Psyche." We finished Usborne's Greek Myths by Heather Amery.
Memorization: The 50 states of the union alphabetically.
Family History: We read a biography of Serena Barton Hancock.
Geography: South Carolina (where Andrew Jackson was born).
Science: We finished chapter 3 from Kingfisher's Science Encyclopedia.
Health: Read chapter 7: Sugar Drinks from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lilian Cheung.
Science Experiment: We did activity 1 from Animal Observatory of a Delta Science Kit.
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.
Movie: The kids and I watched the movie, "The Seeker," that we had borrowed from the library.
Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in The Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced singing for 30 min of various Broadway songs.
Geography: Did a geography lesson about longitude and latitudinal lines.
Math: Lesson 109 in Saxon Math 6/5.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs
Creative Writing/Typing: Started a story about an Indian in the early 1800's.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Capricious
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Took a Greek root words test.
Idaho History: Read Ida Visits the Capital by Lori Otter, the book she was awarded for her singing last weekend.
Life Skills: Organized a movie party for the family. We had tickets, treats and a check-in booth.
Business/Computers/Typing: Filled out pretend invoices again.
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson and did a music theory assignment.
Math: Did a lesson in Singapore 3B.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code 5.
Free Reading: Read Stars Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for two hours.
Creative Play: Lego's
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in his Book of Mormon Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano.
Geography: Map Reading & North, South, East and West
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code 4.
Creative Writing: Did a creative writing lesson-categorizing-from Let's Write 2.
Free Reading: Read a chapter in a Magic School Bus Science book about sharks.
Creative Play: Lego's
Caleb
Geography: Compass and Compass Rose
Math: Right Start Math lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages from Explode the Code 2.
Writing: Made a list of things in his neighborhood.
Reading: Sight words, read a phonics reader and read 4 lessons out of the McGuffy Primer to me.
Computers/Typing: Played the Dora the Explorer computer game for an hour.
Family (in the evening):
Music: Watched a taped episode of American Idol.
Woodworking: Worked on their pinewood derby cars. The activity girls are also doing cars this year. So three of the kids get to do them. They are excited.
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, researched the Greek books we need for our new Greek course we are starting next week (Alex and I) and worked on a lesson from my BYU Geography class.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, trained someone for 5 hours in the things he learned this past week, listened to The Iliad for 3 hours while driving.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Our Readers
TJEd says they'll choose to read classics some day. We are just suppose to inspire them and give them the tools they need. I'm happy to say the process is working in our home!Olivia (age 10) just finished Jane Eyre-her first real classic. And that's not a little book people! It's over 500 pages in small print written in early 1800 English. Way to go Olivia!
Jared (age 9) just finished Eragon-his first non-twaddle book. Yeah! It took him 2 months but he persevered. That was 497 pages to be exact.
Luke (age 8) just finished The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe-his first non-twaddle book also.
So take heart moms it'll work!
Spring Break?
So I guess we're taking spring break this week? Or not. We've been to Vegas and back this week. The kids really loved "The Tournament of Kings." They were sick most of the time however and confined to the the room. They did watch a lot of PBS though.
We went to a funeral today. Our house is freezing, but the temp is starting to rise. It went from being unregistered to a blissful 52 degrees the last time I checked.
Tomorrow, if my fingers are dethawed we might have some school. If not we will continue to be wrapped up in blankets and counting our blessings, which are many!
(See the family blog for pictures).
We went to a funeral today. Our house is freezing, but the temp is starting to rise. It went from being unregistered to a blissful 52 degrees the last time I checked.
Tomorrow, if my fingers are dethawed we might have some school. If not we will continue to be wrapped up in blankets and counting our blessings, which are many!
(See the family blog for pictures).
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