June 1, 2009 (Monday)

Today we officially started summer vacation. Yeah! Last week we just took off, but now we are on our summer schedule. Some days we won't be doing Mom School though, because we have other activities. We look forward to playing and enjoying our friends and family all summer. But our family still needs some structure or we'll go NUTS so we've a modified schedule. Amazingly some of the kids still want to do a lot of "school" things. (My spacing is messed up in this post, I'm unsure why).

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: Beautiful Savior
Theology: Our Heritage: The church opens up Missouri for settlement.
Church History: The Book of Mormon is printed
Friend Articles
Biography/American History: 1 chapter and finished Little House in the Big Woods.
Science Experiment: Delta Science Kit: Energy & Motion Experiment #1
PE: Swimming!
Chores

Setting up for our science experiment.

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Ensign Article: Read a conference talk.
Research: Prepared a family home evening lesson. She was also assigned to be in charge of the Children's Class at our next Enrichment Meeting. She's been working on her schedule, handouts and lesson for that.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Mitigate
Literature: Read the last half and finished The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. She also answered the questions that went with it.

Life Skills: Pasta Salad and Brownies
PE: Horse riding lessons today. Played pool and golf.

Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in the Doctrine and Covenants Reader.
Music: Practiced extra long on his piano lesson. He's working hard on a recital piece.
World History/Religion/Read-a-loud: He spent over 3 hours listening to The Kingdom and the Crown #2.

PE: Wii sports

Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music/Computers: Played Music Ace.
Math: Did two math pages
Spelling: 1 spell drill

PE: Wii sports and golfing

Creative Writing: Several hours working on a story on the computer.
Life Skills: Pancakes
Creative Play: Lego's
PE: Golf

Caleb
Religion: Read a long verse in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Played Music Ace.
Reading: Read a phonics reader.
Creative Play: Everyday Caleb has a great core day! He's so happy.
PE: Golf and Pool

Family Home Evening:
Song: Beautiful Savior
Testimonies: Alex, Deanna, Luke and Caleb
Scripture Memorization: 2 Nephi 25:26
Character: Uncommon Courtesy lesson-table manners
Article of Faith: 5th
Proclamation: 4th paragraph
Strength of Youth: Gratitude
Lesson: (Olivia) based on this talk by President Monson.
Activity: Helped a family move.
Visiting: My sister and her family came over for a visit.

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, practiced the piano, read a chapter in my American History Class, read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, practiced my Greek pronunciation, did a May report for homeschooling and finished my portfolio for my big end of the year presentation for home school!
Alex: Scriptures, church manual reading, word of the day, golfing, went to work, practiced his Greek pronuciation, played Wii Fitness and he's listening to Ender's Shawdow.