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.