Foiled!

Today I woke up with a smile on my face. There was not one single thing that we had to leave the house for and nothing going on that I had to do! We were going to get a lot of reading and studying in. Yeah!

The morning started out well. The kids were slow in doing their chores for some reason. It took a while to get them herded into reality. No stress though, we had the whole day. At 11:30 I got a call and my friend said, "I'm just checking, you are coming to scholar school today right?" Huh? I guess they'd changed it from Thursdays to Tuesdays. They had been talking about it and I'd said that Tuesday's would be fine if they changed. So I guess they did. We were free though so we left 45 minutes later, our afternoon blown. Then at the last minute I got a call that I needed to watch my 10 year cousin for the rest of the night-no problem! He's great and I am happy to help.

The kids did have a fun day though. Jared was a little stressed initially because he was only able to get about half of the things done on his list. But that is what real life is like so he was okay. Here's the low down. (Of what I can remember of course).

Family Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 17 (half the chapter)
Weekly Scripture Memorization: 1 Timothy 4:12
Chores/Animal Care
Pray/Pledge/Motto
Music: We sang The Lord Need Valiant Servants, The Valiant Song, Holding Hands Around the World, and My Savior Loves Me (or whatever that new song is called.
Fantasy Read-a-loud: We started and read two chapters in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. They love it! I'm doing a lot of editing. I really do not like the way teenagers talk to each other in books like this. I think my kids are to young to sort it out just yet. But the story line will be fun. I'm glad I've previewed this already.
Social/Logic: While Olivia was at scholar school the boys played at some homeschooling house. They played Risk and Stratego and ran around in the mud outside for a long time. They had great fun and didn't want to leave.

Caleb: Read his scriptures, read to his public school teacher over the phone, played Yahtzee, played Rush Hour, Jr., and worked on some core phase problems.

Luke: Luke got to start a blog today! He was very excited. He has already written two blog posts. One of the posts is a journal entry about what he did for today. It's fun to see what he remembers and what he sees as important.

Here's it is cut from his blog: I did lots of things today. Here are some of the things I did. First of all I said my prayers and read my scriptures. Second, I sketched in my sketch book with all these mythical creatures. For example, The Flon Lizard that has the power to turn itself invisible and attack their enemies from behind. The bat rat that can fly into space and still live and they have huge bat like wings. They can grow up to be as large as today's elephants! Third, I played the piano in twenty minutes. Next, I made lunch because I'm "Lunch Specialist," so then I made lunch. Then my family went to Dietrich and played with the Harris family and played Stratego and Risk, a game of armies that was cool. Then we came home and were just playing around with Tanner who had come over when his mom and dad were gone.

He also learned about two and triple digit adding and subtracting. He also learned how to carry to the next column. He thought this was very cool. He practiced a bunch of problems on the wipe board. He also got to apply his skills when he played Yahtzee. He also played Rush Hour, Jr. He getting really good at it.

Jared: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, wrote and typed a blog, learned how to log into blogger and some other computer skills, read in Peter and the Starcatchers and the Shadow Thieves, he played Quarter Mile Math and was quizzed on subtracting fractions, he played lots of extra Risk and Stratego-these are great logic geography games, played Rush Hour, Jr., he worked on the multiplication table and pretty well has it down, and he also is working on doing the division table. He handled the change in his day well. He was discouraged about the other things he didn't get down, but there is always tomorrow.

Olivia: Read her scriptures, made breakfast, practiced the piano, worked on her loom, making a knitted scarf and ironed on some decals that went with it, Rush Hour, Jr., Stratego, Risk, attended scholar class, studied more about horse pedigrees, and read in The Screwtape Letters.

Deanna: Read my scriptures, wrote in my journal, read a conference talk, word of the day, practiced the piano, spent the time with some home schooling mommies, and read The Landing of the Pilgrims.

Alex: Read his scriptures, read in the handbook, word of the day, went to Boise for a long day of appointments, and he listened to a book with short stories from famous American authors. It was a long day for him. He's down to only two of these a month now though.