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.