Where is your treasure?

Wow this blog is a hit...74 comments on the last class update..AMAZ-ING!

This week we a pretty sweet class if I do say so myself. By sweet I mean lots of sugar filled treats :) We started off with our morning exercises of pledge and prayer. (*NOTE: Matthew & Gabe have this assignment next week). We spent more time then planned on the timeline cards.

 Everyone is doing amazing work on their studies. Good job! We tried to see how fast we could progress in 5 minutes.

No one completed it but quite a few got close. The final cards were given today so STUDY STUDY STUDY!

We continued with a discussion on the GOLD RUSH..We didn't have time to watch a documentry so here is a brief overview to watch at home.

We discussed the scripture "For Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:21)

For our activity this week we had a Treasure hunt.  What were they searching for? They werent quite sure either but it was our version of Gold.

They got excited. We gave them a map with a clue on where they could find the treasure and off they went.

They were on the search and boy did they get treasure fever as they searched frantocally in some moments.

 Some found quite a large loot and didn't share and others shared with friends. It made for an interesting conversation on what probably happened during the gold fever era. Some didn't want to share with others. We discussed the American Dream..How was it altered by the gold rush? Where do you think their allegiance was? Do people still have gold fever? Well that was answered with the activity today. Is it evil to seek for riches?

We had a presentation by Kensington on President John Adams. She did an awesome job. Her power point was very creative. The best part were her fun facts.

Everyone listened and asked questions when they had them. The kisses at the end were a nice pay off. :0)

We ended our class with a great discussion on the Trap of Gold by Louis L'Amour. Take a moment parents and ask your scholar what they enjoyed or learned from that story.

Homework this week:

1. Watch gold rush documentary.
2. Study time line cards
3. Work on inventor presentation

Class Plans:
Parents we are looking into having a movie afternoon or night. possibly this Tuesday or next Sat. WE will watch the mask of Zorro.
We also are in the works of our end of semester activity. We would like to do lunch and a trip to the Mormon Battalion. We are hoping to complete it on Friday 12/14. Please let us know if that wont work for you or your family. We hope all will work hard in order to attend as a group and have a fun afternoon together. More info to come...

U.S President PRESENTATIONS:

•  11/15 Andrew Jackson - AMMON
  11/29 James Buchanan - NADYA
  12/6   Millard Fillmore - NICOLAS
  12/13 Martin Van Buren - LAMONI

Inventor PRESENTATIONS: 
11/29

• Kensi
• Meridian
• Nicholas
• Matthew
• Lamoni

12/6

• Nadya
• PReston
• Gabe
• Ammon
• Kaden

All Timeline cards have been assigned. Please reference your class folder for the full list.