Family Counsel

Since we are off the "conveyor belt" I can post on a nontraditional school day right? Tonight we had an extended family counsel.

• We reviewed with the kids what they learned and how they felt about the week. This included Alex and I reporting on our phase and what we did for our learning for the week. They hadn't realized I had done some Algebra, so that was a good time to talk about that.
• We reviewed the curriculum for core phase. (true/false, good/bad, and right and wrong).
  
• We let Olivia know that she will now be responsible to give Alex an oral report at the end of every day about what she did for her studies. When she's older and more entrenched in scholar phase we'll make this written.
• We each set a couple of goals of things specifically we wanted to accomplish for the week. Here's our goals:

Caleb: Advance another level on Raz-kids.
Luke: Read 50 pages in the The Ranger's Apprentice. Memorize his 3's and 4's times tables.
Jared: Read 30 pages in Peter and the Shadow Thieves. Get quicker on his times tables, especially the 12's.
Olivia: Read The Freedom Factor for her Key of Liberty class. Finish her compass. Write her bill for the homeschooling "Day on the Hill."
Deanna: Read 100 pages in "The Histories" by Herodotus, find and online placement test for math so I can find out which book I should be in, and read Othello by Shakespeare.
Alex: Read 30 pages in the Church Handbook (the Bishopric has a goal to reread all the handbooks over the course of the next month), order a CLU class (a professional class for his industry, long story) and write his compass.

• We also had a very long, emotional discussion about 4-H. We narrowed it down to just Archery for the three older kids. Horse for the two older kids. And Caleb will do a Clover bud Bunny. That's it. Two of them are officers in their clubs. That's plenty. We've scratched a couple of extra classes. I'm teaching the Clover bud program this year also.
• After the kids were asleep and I'm sitting her catching up on my blogging Olivia and Alex are here having an hour long discussion about conservatism, being involved in the political process and our local, state and national leaders. I'm glad Alex is so involved. He's a good example to the kids. Right now he's the VP for the District Republican party as well as an officer in our county. Very busy guy he is!