scripture mastery game of the day

This morning we played a scripture mastery game the boys loved. I put a blanket on my head like a shawl and said I was a princess maiden come to ask the wise and brave knights to come and save my people from the terrible monsters. They took turns playing the game. Then I put my black skirt over my head and we got the swords and the first boy fought the "monster". After defeating the monster, he had to recite a scripture mastery to pass through the portal to the next level. The portal was a blanket I held up for them to go through. After defeating the 3 monsters, they had to recite the newest scripture mastery to go through the last portal to restore the kingdom and go back to the people. When they went through the last portal, the people cheered and tickled the wise and brave knight:).

-Today we read about snow and rain and made paper snowflakes for their weather books and for window decorations.

scripture mastery game today and other stuff

-This morning for our scripture masteries game, I printed out all of the scripture masteries we've learned, and cut them in half-- first part and second part. I had the boys go upstairs and I hid the papers all over the room. I told them that a hurricane had come (we learned about hurricanes yesterday) and had scattered the scripture masteries all over. They had to fly in their hurricane tracking planes, find the papers and put them back together. They loved it, and found all the matches. For doing such a great job, they both earned a "10 min. break" certificate to use whenever they wanted during school.

-Because we are learning about weather, I got an abridged, illustrated version of "The Wizard of Oz" for our read aloud book that they really love. I've noticed that Nathan has gotten SO much better at listening to the read aloud books. I think it's because he's older, but mostly because we always do it. I love reading to them and listening to books on CD with them.

-I haven't done art with the boys at all this year. I have a great plan and everything! Maybe I can start that next week and spend the weekend planning it and gathering supplies.

spelling give away

Angela is the winner of the spellQuizzer!

Thanks to everyone who played!

Lots of good fun stuff going on!

-I decided our scripture mastery study needed to "step up a notch" (or two or three). So I spent all day on Monday looking up scripture mastery games we can play to learn them. Yesterday we played "Brain Surge", a tv game show on Nickelodeon the kids love to watch. I was the game show host and we tried to make everything like the show, but I asked them scripture mastery questions for the questions. For the end part where they go on the tile path, they say the scripture mastery they are learning. The better they recite it from memory without prompts, the more time they get for the path. We do the path on the tile floor, and if they pass the first path, they get a small candy, the second path gets half of a candy bar, and the last path gets a whole candy bar. I told them they can't get a candy bar every day, but yesterday and today we did the Brain Surge game. Yesterday they got a half of a candy bar and today they both earned a whole candy bar. They REALLY loved the game, it made them motivated to learn their scripture masteries, and we spent a lot more time learning, reviewing and talking about them than before. On the LDS site if you click on "memorize", it has tools to help you memorize the scripture masteries. I have it bookmarked so the boys can go on it to practice so they can do better at the game. Yesterday they were both on it! I got my scripture mastery games from a site called Latter-Day Village. You can sign up for a free 7 day trial there to go to "resources" and "seminary" and "filing cabinet"; then "scripture mastery".

-We are making our weather books and Nathan said, "I like the discovery part, reading about it and learning about it, but the writing part is torture!" I think they'll like the end result when they can look at the books they've made.

-Today instead of doing a grammar workbook page, we wrote our contractions on the table in shaving cream.