Jan. 2010 - Week 3

OK - with the amount of snow we had this week a lot of our time was spent digging out the driveway and digging out the driveways of the elderly in our ward. One of Christian's responsibilities as the Deacon's Quorum president is to organize the shoveling of driveways for the elderly widows in our ward. So, with all that we did not get as much done on book work, but we did gain a lot in the service of our fellow man (woman).

:: Daily Lessons ::

• Devotional: "Preach My Gospel" - Finished Lesson 2 - a section a day.
  
• Read A-Loud Book: "The Long Winter" book #6 of Little House on the Prairie series.
• Math: Chris - Math-U-See: Delta - Marly - Math-U-See: Zeta - Celeste - Math-U-See: Algebra (review for mom...again!)
• Exercise - We are using the Wii Fit Plus while "the weather outside is frightful". It is harder than it looks!
  
• Writing - Chris - daily journal entries. Marly - writing her own book and Transformational Writing class assignments (see Marly's projects for more info.)
  
• Guitar Practice
• New Era and Ensign Reading, Scripture Reading, and Individual Reading - See each person below for their readings.
  

:: Weekly Lessons ::

• Monday: Government Lesson - We took Monday off from our regular schedule and just studied Martin Luther King, Jr. We watched the video of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at http://www.mlkonline.net.
• Tuesday: Grammar Lesson - Chris - "Winston Grammar" - Adverbs - Marly - "Transformational Writing" class and "Grammatically Correct"
• Wednesday: History Lesson - Chris: "Story of the World", Vol. 2, Chapter 9 - Marly: "Story of the World", Vol. 3, Chapter 2.
  
• Thursday: Not much school work was done.
  
• Friday: Not much school work was done.
  

:: Individual Readings ::

• Chris (Practice Scholar) - "Jubal Sackett", Scriptures, and New Era magazine.
  
• Marly (Project Scholar) - "The Fellowship of the Ring", Scriptures - "Book of Mormon", and New Era magazine.
  
• Celeste (Mentored Scholar - back to looking for a mentor) - "The Fourth Turning", Ensign and New Era magazines, Scriptures, and Primary Lesson.
  

:: Projects ::

• Chris - More Palm programming in C language, learning Java programming, book report (still choosing which book).
  
• Marly - Transformational Writing class at TJED Academy and Prep School and Seminary. Latin - Latina Christiana I - Lessons 3.
• Celeste - Tax preparations, purged items in my bedroom. Latin - Latina Christiana I - Lessons 3.
• Family - A ton of snow shoveling! This was our main focus this week, as well as preparing for the blizzard that brought over 3 feet of snow our way.