September 2, 2009 (Wednesday)

Family Scripture Study: Acts 26

Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Music: Do What is Right, The Books of the Old and New Testament, Beautiful Savior and a Rhythm poem.
Church History: Read 12 pages from Illustrated Stories from Church History vol. 1.
Weekly Scripture Memorization: Ether 12:27
New Era Article
Social Studies: Read a chapter from Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: States and Regions.
Read-a-loud: Read two chapters from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo.
Science: Read one chapter from Science: A Closer Look by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.
Art: The kids painted their sculptures from Monday. Some of them made watercolor pictures. We have some really neat art supplies this year.
PE: Pulled BIG weeds on the 82 acres for over two hours. We are tired!
Chores

Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in Genesis.
Music: Practiced her voice for the recital.
World History: Read out of the The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History and then looked up some of the on line links for it.
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor.
Science: Learned more about plant reproduction.
Math: Did a Saxon 7/6 lesson.
Math Drill: Did a addition fact sheet.
Art: Made some more cards.
Game: Played Cashflow for Kids with Jared and Caleb.
Spelling: Did a spell drill.
Language Arts: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Egregious
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Greek root words lesson.
Creative Writing: Did an Editor and Chief lesson.
Free Reading: Read Work and the Glory #4 for 30 min.
Life Skills: Helped with dinner.

Jared
Religion: Read in The Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced his recital piece.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 6/5 lesson.
Math Drill: Did an addition math fact drill.
Game: Played Cashflow for Kids with Olivia and Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Writing: Did a lesson in Let's Write about categorizing. (This is also good handwriting practice).
Reading: Read in Peter and the Starcatchers for 1 1/2 hours.
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.

Luke
Religion: Finished a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Geography: Did an Evan-Moor lesson.
Math: Did a Saxon 3 lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Grammar: Did a Daily Grams lesson.
Handwriting: Cursive lesson from A Reason for Writing.
Reading: Read in Eragon for 30 min.
PE: 30 min of Wii Sports

Caleb
Religion: Read a couple of versus in the Book of Mormon to me.
Geography: Did a lesson from Evan-Moor.
Math: Did a Saxon Math 2 lesson.
Game: Played Cashflow for Kids with Jared and Olivia.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 3 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Sight words drill
Art: Lots of picture drawing today.

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, worked on my Activity Days lesson, and did Family History research.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to the temple, went to work, had Bishopric responsibilities tonight.