April 6, 2009 (Monday): Lots of Read a loud time.

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 33: Missionary Work from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Anti-Lehi-Nephi's bury their weapons
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 2 chapters in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Fairy Tales: Read several stories and finished Usborne's Myths and Legends.
Fantasy: Read 8 chapters and finished Fablehaven #4.
Read-a-loud: Read 2 chapters and finished Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Memorization: 12 apostles of the LDS church and Books of the Old Testament
Music: Rhythm Poem, lots of clapping. I'm not sure we're making progress with the boys yet.
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.
Geography: Florida, Hispaniola and Trinidad/Tobago (from grandpa's flight to China)
Health:Healthy Fats from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Science: Matter from Capella's Technology Book
PE: Played/ran around in the desert for an hour. It's so nice to get outside again! The desert is our favorite place to go. We run around on the dirt hills and play in the river. The kids also played outside a lot this 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.
Chores

Olivia
Religion: Read 1 chapter in The Book of Mormon
Math: Did lesson 121 in Saxon 6/5
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Rebuke
Vocabulary/Language Arts: She spent a lot of time reviewing vocabulary words from science, language arts and social studies for her ISAT test in a couple of weeks. She used the dictionary to look up multiple words she didn't know.
Geography/Social Studies: Memorizing the states and capitals. Knows the first 20.
Life Skills: No-bake cookies
Science: Collected things in the desert and she's doing stuff with them outside. Soaking, chopping, identifying... ???
Testing: Took an ISAT practice test on the computer.

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
Reading: 30 min of The Silver Chair by CS Lewis.
Music: Practiced the piano and had piano lessons.
Creative Play: Two hours of Lego's.

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader
Math: Saxon Math 2 - one lesson
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read Prince Caspian for 30 min.
Geography: 1 workbook lesson
Creative Play: 2 hours of Lego's. He also hammered and sawed until he finished his crossbow outside.

Caleb
Math: Played War with Olivia.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 4 pages of Explode the Code and finished book 2.
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me and read 2 stories from The McGuffy Primer.
Creative Play: Played with Lego's for two hours.

Family Home Evening:
I decided I needed to include everything we really do for family home evening. We've had this schedule below for years and years. Family Home begins at dinner and doesn't end until bedtime in our house. We believe family home evening lasts the EVENING not for just the lesson.
Prayer: Jared
Song: Give Said the Little Stream
Talent: Luke
Testimonies: Dad, Mom, Olivia and Caleb tonight (it's whoever wants to)
Character: Uncommon Courtesy lesson.
Articles of Faith: #3
For the Strength of Youth: Service to Others
Service: Visited 2 families.
Lesson: By Olivia. Based on the conference talk "Return to Virtue" by Sister Dalton.
Game: Yahtzee
Prayer: Alex

Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, conference talks, word of the day, lots of laundry, walked for 45 min, several Goodreads reviews, and worked on saying the Greek alphabet super fast.
Alex: Scriptures, read a chapter from Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week by Phil Town, read a chapter from The Law by Bastiat, word of the day, went to work, and listened to Brisingr.