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.