Tuesday October 7, 2014

Yesterday was a game marathon. The kids played Carcasonne, Mental Blox, Candy Land, puzzles. At Family Home Evening we played Bang.

Today.

Choosing Day: Amy

Opening Prayer: Amy

Move Your Body Class: One At Bat Each

Water Class.

Stand and Share: I shared my testimony of Joseph Smith.

Memorize Class: John 6:69. We also watched a Bible Video of it.

Pledge of Allegiance.

Then we did our morning routines which we hadn't done yet. I decided today to get an earlier start on school since Matt wasn't home (at the temple) to have breakfast with and knowing we'd have interruptions taking Eliza and Noel to Joy School. It turned out great. When I got back from dropping them off, Amy and I were ready for class.

Class: State Page. Amy didn't want to do it, even to choose. I had guessed she'd choose Idaho because she said the other day she wanted to choose states in the order they come in in the song she knows. She thought that was fine. She watched the state song video and put together a puzzle of the US right beside me while I made the page. I thought that was a great way to participate without doing what she didn't feel like doing.

Activity: Bang. We started right before I left to pick up the girls. Our little game of it took nearly an hour and a half! That's long. I almost won, and then Amy came back. If she hadn't blown herself up with dynamite, who knows how long we would have gone on.

Reading Time: Horton Hears a Who and Homer Price.

Family Work: Clean up dandelions in yard, and throw away some of the boxes in the garage. Get can to street in anticipation of trash day tomorrow.

Lunch.

Reading/ Writing/ Drawing Class: The girls painted each other's faces. Amy played with Mental Blox. Noel is reading Eliza The Monster at the End of this Book. Now they are each reading a Fancy Nancy book - Noel out loud. It's awesome. Amy is writing in her notebook with me. I read half a chapter (long chapter) in Teach the Children. I added more to my Jesus the Christ vocabulary list. I have recently been reading Wuthering Heights and have found plenty of vocabulary words in there too.

Closing Prayer: Mom