Mom School
Pray, Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 35: Obedience from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: The Zoramites and the Rameampton
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1 1/2 chapters and finished Sacagawea from the Childhood of Famous American series.
Fairy Tales/Fables: Read Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog Princess, and the Elves and Shoemaker by Usborne
Memorization: The books of the Old and New Testament, the books of the Book of Mormon, the Latter-day prophets and the modern 12 apostles.
Family 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.
Music: Rhythm Poem (and the memorization songs are on sung with the piano)
Geography: Sudan, Nile River, Oman, Pakistan, India and the Taj Mahal (grandpa's trip to China for WW II in a B-25 bomber). Finished the Usborne's Children's Picture Atlas book. (map reading, mountains, glaciers, rivers, deserts...)
Science: Light from a book technology book by Capella
Chores
Went to the library. (local town library)
Movie: Matilda
Olivia
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon.
Music: Practiced her voice lesson.
Math: Lesson 123 from Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Language Arts: Verbs from Easy Grammar
Writing: Editing lesson from Editor in Chief
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Tenacious
Vocabulary/Language Usage: Classical roots lesson
Free Reading: Read for several hours in The Land of Elyon #3.
Writing/Computers: Wrote a blog post on Tjed youth.
Mentor Reading: Read several books to Caleb. They were puzzle books by Usborne. You read a story and then answer the questions/puzzles/riddles at the end of the story.
Life Skills: Blender Whole-wheat pancakes
Jared
Religion: Read a chapter in The New Testament Reader.
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Literature: Read several fairy tales by Usborne including The Emperor's New Clothes and Beauty and the Beast. He also read a chapter from The Silver Chair by CS Lewis (a Narnia book)
World History/Art: Read The Dragon Painter (about China) by Usborne
Math: Did a Singapore 3B lesson.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Creative Play/PE: Played outside for several hours digging out under the deck. Lots of bow and arrow shooting also.
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter from The Book of Mormon Reader.
Math: Did a math lesson from Saxon 2
Math Drill: Played War with Caleb.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code.
Creative Writing: Worked on his story on the computer for a while.
Reading: Read for over and hour and finished Magic Tree House: Knights of Dawn.
Creative Play/PE: Played outside for several hours digging out under the deck. Lots of bow and arrow shooting also.
Caleb
Math: Skip counting by 2's, 5's, 10's, addition equations, and even and odd numbers-Right Start Math lesson.
Math Drill: Played War with Luke. And played Sum Swamp.
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: Did 4 pages of Explode the Code.
Reading: Read a phonics reader and 2 McGuffy Primer lessons to me. Olivia also read several books to him.
Creative Play/PE: Played outside for several hours digging out under the deck. Lots of bow and arrow shooting also.
Family (in the evening):
Read scriptures as a family-John 7
Alex had a Bishopric meeting and then an appointment after that.
Watched Three Musketeers.
The kids always go to sleep listening to Story of the World vol 1 or 2 on CD.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, journal, spell drill, word of the day, worked on my lesson for Sunday, studied for two hours for my BYU Geography final, read The Specials by Scott Westerfeld.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, went to work, listened to Brisingr, and went to a Bishopric Meeting.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
April 8, 2009 (Wednesday): Walden's done!
Today Alex ended up being home this morning, so we didn't have mom school. It was nice to see our daddy! I'm noticing that I regularly forget to put down several things the kids did each day. At least you can get an idea of their day. I think I forgot several things from today. The main thing with today was that it seemed like we were all over the place.
Olivia: Wrote and finished (lots of rough drafts) her paper for Walden. She's finished with Walden! (They are reading The Red Badge of Courage next). She also prepared her quote. She attended her scholar class about Walden. She also played tennis at the park with a home school friend. She started a brain candy book, The Land of Elyon #3. She also read her scriptures.
Jared: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, did a math lesson, 5 pages of phonics, read in The Silver Chair (Narnia) by CS Lewis, and went to scouts.
Luke: Did a math lesson, did a spell drill, read several chapters of a Magic Tree House book, geography lesson and went to scouts.
Caleb: Did several pages of phonics, read several phonics readers, did a spell drill, and played with his cousins.
Deanna: Scriptures, attended Olivia's class on Walden, was a den leader at scouts, practiced my Greek alphabet, went to Young Women's, and read and finished The Pretties after Young Women.
Alex: Scriptures, went to a conference in the afternoon for work, listed to Brisingr, read several chapters from Rule #1 and had a late appointment today after I had mutual.
Evening: Read scriptures together. While I was a mutual the kids and Alex played Phase 10 and the Wii together.
Olivia: Wrote and finished (lots of rough drafts) her paper for Walden. She's finished with Walden! (They are reading The Red Badge of Courage next). She also prepared her quote. She attended her scholar class about Walden. She also played tennis at the park with a home school friend. She started a brain candy book, The Land of Elyon #3. She also read her scriptures.
Jared: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, did a math lesson, 5 pages of phonics, read in The Silver Chair (Narnia) by CS Lewis, and went to scouts.
Luke: Did a math lesson, did a spell drill, read several chapters of a Magic Tree House book, geography lesson and went to scouts.
Caleb: Did several pages of phonics, read several phonics readers, did a spell drill, and played with his cousins.
Deanna: Scriptures, attended Olivia's class on Walden, was a den leader at scouts, practiced my Greek alphabet, went to Young Women's, and read and finished The Pretties after Young Women.
Alex: Scriptures, went to a conference in the afternoon for work, listed to Brisingr, read several chapters from Rule #1 and had a late appointment today after I had mutual.
Evening: Read scriptures together. While I was a mutual the kids and Alex played Phase 10 and the Wii together.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
April 7, 2009 (Tuesday): It's 75 degrees!
Mom School
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 34: Developing Your Talents from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Kohrior the Anti-Christ
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1/2 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Character: Had an intense discussion about choices and attitudes.
Fairy Tales: Read Sleeping Beauty and The Emperor and the Nightingale by Usborne Fairy Tales.
Memorization: 12 apostles and the latter-day prophets of the LDS church and Books of the New 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: Brazil, Ascension, Ivory Coast and Nigeria (from grandpa's flight to China). Read several pages from Children's Picture Atlas by Usborne.
World History: Read a chapter from Usborne's Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War.
Health: Sugar/Sugary Drinks from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Science: Elements and Compounds from Capella's Technology Book
PE: Rode horses and played outside with our cousins on the farm for several hours. Lots and lots of horses, dirt, 4-Wheelers, dogs and lots of fun!! It was 75 degrees and some of us have sunburns.
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.
Music: Practiced the piano and voice.
Math: Did lesson 122 in Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Debauched
Vocabulary/Language Arts: She spent time reviewing vocabulary words from science, language arts and social studies for her ISAT test in a couple of weeks.
Literature: Finished Walden and brainstormed for her final paper on it.
Geography/Social Studies: Memorizing the states and capitals. Knows the first 22.
Game: Yahtzee
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
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Art: Spent a lot of time drawing and coloring again! Thank you Usborne art books!
Computers: Played several learning games on the computer. (math/language arts...)
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader
Math: Saxon Math 2 - two lessons
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: He can't find his book. The story of his life.
Testing: Took a practice test for the state testing requirements. (My kids really do choose to do these things).
Creative Writing: Worked on his story some more. Yesterday there was a disaster and his 4 page single-spaced paper was deleted some how. Talk about a sad little boy. So he started it over.
Art: Drew and colored pictures.
Geography: 1 workbook lesson/Hawaii
Creative Play: Lots more hammering and sawing again outside.
Caleb
Caleb takes twice as long to do half the things that the other kids do. I'm not sure why he's so slow. It takes him an hour to do his phonics everyday. He just sits there and does one page after another. I keep telling him he can stop, but he has in his mind that he's going to do X-many pages on a certain day. Any of the other kids have their phonics done in minutes. Usually the other three kids eat lunch around noon. Caleb rarely gets to lunch until 1 P.M. He's always very happy. Says he's not done and that he doesn't want to break for lunch. He eats really slow too. ???? I guess he's just methodical. Why rush? He's the opposite of me. How many things can I get done in a minute? How many things can I be doing at the same time?
Math: Right Start Math game.
Phonics/Handwriting: 11 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me
Game: Yahtzee
Family (in the evening):
Alex worked late.I had a Stake Young Women's Camp meeting. So the kids were able to have their favorite babysitter over.
Later we all watched American Idol.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, conference talks, journal, working on a lesson for church on Sunday, spell drill, word of the day, studied for my Geography final, Greek alphabet, went to a meeting for my church job, wrote a blog post for TJED Trenches and hung out with my best friend for several hours.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, attended his professional organization meeting (how do you say that?), went to work, fixed my laptop (it's so slow) and listened to Brisingr.
Pray/Pledge
Song: My Eternal Family
Theology: Chapter 34: Developing Your Talents from Gospel Principles
Book of Mormon Stories: Kohrior the Anti-Christ
Friend Article
Biography/American History: Read 1/2 chapter in Sacajawea: American Pathfinder by Flora Warren Seymour from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Character: Had an intense discussion about choices and attitudes.
Fairy Tales: Read Sleeping Beauty and The Emperor and the Nightingale by Usborne Fairy Tales.
Memorization: 12 apostles and the latter-day prophets of the LDS church and Books of the New 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: Brazil, Ascension, Ivory Coast and Nigeria (from grandpa's flight to China). Read several pages from Children's Picture Atlas by Usborne.
World History: Read a chapter from Usborne's Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War.
Health: Sugar/Sugary Drinks from Eat Well and Keep Moving by Lillian Cheung
Science: Elements and Compounds from Capella's Technology Book
PE: Rode horses and played outside with our cousins on the farm for several hours. Lots and lots of horses, dirt, 4-Wheelers, dogs and lots of fun!! It was 75 degrees and some of us have sunburns.
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.
Music: Practiced the piano and voice.
Math: Did lesson 122 in Saxon 6/5
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Vocabulary: Peterson's Word of the Day- Debauched
Vocabulary/Language Arts: She spent time reviewing vocabulary words from science, language arts and social studies for her ISAT test in a couple of weeks.
Literature: Finished Walden and brainstormed for her final paper on it.
Geography/Social Studies: Memorizing the states and capitals. Knows the first 22.
Game: Yahtzee
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
Music: Practiced his piano lesson.
Art: Spent a lot of time drawing and coloring again! Thank you Usborne art books!
Computers: Played several learning games on the computer. (math/language arts...)
Luke
Religion: Read a chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader
Math: Saxon Math 2 - two lessons
Spelling: 1 spell drill
Phonics/Handwriting: 5 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: He can't find his book. The story of his life.
Testing: Took a practice test for the state testing requirements. (My kids really do choose to do these things).
Creative Writing: Worked on his story some more. Yesterday there was a disaster and his 4 page single-spaced paper was deleted some how. Talk about a sad little boy. So he started it over.
Art: Drew and colored pictures.
Geography: 1 workbook lesson/Hawaii
Creative Play: Lots more hammering and sawing again outside.
Caleb
Caleb takes twice as long to do half the things that the other kids do. I'm not sure why he's so slow. It takes him an hour to do his phonics everyday. He just sits there and does one page after another. I keep telling him he can stop, but he has in his mind that he's going to do X-many pages on a certain day. Any of the other kids have their phonics done in minutes. Usually the other three kids eat lunch around noon. Caleb rarely gets to lunch until 1 P.M. He's always very happy. Says he's not done and that he doesn't want to break for lunch. He eats really slow too. ???? I guess he's just methodical. Why rush? He's the opposite of me. How many things can I get done in a minute? How many things can I be doing at the same time?
Math: Right Start Math game.
Phonics/Handwriting: 11 pages of Explode the Code
Reading: Read a phonics reader to me
Game: Yahtzee
Family (in the evening):
Alex worked late.I had a Stake Young Women's Camp meeting. So the kids were able to have their favorite babysitter over.
Later we all watched American Idol.
To Show Parent Core/Love of Learner/Scholar here are some things we modeled to the children today...
Deanna: Scriptures, conference talks, journal, working on a lesson for church on Sunday, spell drill, word of the day, studied for my Geography final, Greek alphabet, went to a meeting for my church job, wrote a blog post for TJED Trenches and hung out with my best friend for several hours.
Alex: Scriptures, word of the day, worked in the temple, attended his professional organization meeting (how do you say that?), went to work, fixed my laptop (it's so slow) and listened to Brisingr.
Monday, April 6, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, April 3, 2009
April 3, 2009 (Friday): Showtime!
Play practice started at 9 AM! We practiced lots, preformed two live shows and collapsed in bed at 8 PM. It was a very long time, but we had a blast! The kids did so well! The play was "The Little Mermaid" in case I didn't mention that in a previous post. It's not like the Disney version at all. Luke and Caleb were dancing "cowboy" seahorses, Jared was a seasider and Olivia was a scout (they did all kinds of funny things). We're so proud of them, they did great!
At the beginning of the week the kids weren't to sure if they wanted to participate, but they agreed. They remembered that they had had a lot of fun last year doing it. Today they were very happy they did it. I'm so glad I played the piano for it. They had asked me to last year, but I was in charge of the Scholastic Book Fair at the School all that week and so I couldn't. Soooo, this year I wanted to make up for it. I'm always telling the kids to "do hard things." And my number one motto in parenting is, "I won't ask the kids to do anything I'm not willing to do myself." Needless to say I'm involved a lot. But, I believe that's powerful parenting. That's why I do everything I do. I also always tell them with 1. passion and 2. practice you can accomplish anything. So I try to live my parenting tips....
We had a two hour break this afternoon between shows and came home and ate homemade dinner made just for me by my dear sister who new we had been running all week. Sisters are great! We also read four more chapters of Fablehaven.
We finished the night off with some taped American Idol. What a great week!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
April 2, 2009 (Thur): Practice makes perfect!
Today we spent the day having a wonderful core phase day. The kids read their scriptures. In the morning the kids read lots of books. The boys worked on science projects and had great fun. Caleb worked on some Explode the Code.
Luke continued to write a way on his story. I wonder how many 8 year old boys wake up early because they are so excited to get to the computer to work on their latest story? I have to kick him off at the end of the day too. He's learning to use a dictionary and knows the word processor program down solid.
In the midst of some very happy kids I practiced the piano the entire day (for the play). We had another killer round of 4 1/2 hours of play practice. At the end of the day we read scriptures and read four more chapters of Fablehaven. So good! We need to find some more high action, fun books the kids like. This 525 page book is going to end to soon!
Luke continued to write a way on his story. I wonder how many 8 year old boys wake up early because they are so excited to get to the computer to work on their latest story? I have to kick him off at the end of the day too. He's learning to use a dictionary and knows the word processor program down solid.
In the midst of some very happy kids I practiced the piano the entire day (for the play). We had another killer round of 4 1/2 hours of play practice. At the end of the day we read scriptures and read four more chapters of Fablehaven. So good! We need to find some more high action, fun books the kids like. This 525 page book is going to end to soon!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
April 1, 2009 (Wed) Practice makes perfect!
Today I needed to practiced the piano for the 'big show' on Friday. I practiced for over 5 hours today. Sooooo, the kids had free reading this morning while I played and played. Luke worked on his story for quiet a while also. He did finish King Arthur. He loved it! The kids enjoyed reading all our Usborne books. Jared read a lot out of the Greek Myths book.
Right after an early lunch we headed to a neighboring town for Olivia's scholar class for Walden. I was able to stay and participate with the class this time. The mentor likes the mom's to stay when they can. Olivia was well prepared. She had her quote and presented it. She stated why she picked it. She had all her questions answered. Olivia also presented her oral report about simplicity. I thought she did great. I'm so proud of her. I can't believe a 10 year can read and understand Walden. I guess it just goes to show that kids can understand more than we think.
After that we hurried home for 4 1/2 hours of play practice. (Read into that more piano practicing). After that I hurried to Young Women's. Alex played games with the kids and read scriptures. Alex is such a good dad. The kids were so bumbed we didn't get to Fablehaven. It was too late by the time I got home though...
Right after an early lunch we headed to a neighboring town for Olivia's scholar class for Walden. I was able to stay and participate with the class this time. The mentor likes the mom's to stay when they can. Olivia was well prepared. She had her quote and presented it. She stated why she picked it. She had all her questions answered. Olivia also presented her oral report about simplicity. I thought she did great. I'm so proud of her. I can't believe a 10 year can read and understand Walden. I guess it just goes to show that kids can understand more than we think.
After that we hurried home for 4 1/2 hours of play practice. (Read into that more piano practicing). After that I hurried to Young Women's. Alex played games with the kids and read scriptures. Alex is such a good dad. The kids were so bumbed we didn't get to Fablehaven. It was too late by the time I got home though...
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