On Fridays, Work is the Last Thing on My Mind

Even though on Fridays we do less work, we still have to do some.
SCRIPTURES - Read Luke Chapter 11 as a family.
MUSIC - Practiced piano. Since today was the first day of piano practice, we started a new incentive for practicing. I put colored fuzzies in a jar and when each child finishes practicing, they get to put a fuzzy of their color (each of my kids has a color assigned to them for everything from the bins they keep their school stuff in, to their towels, to their dishes) in the treat jar. When the jar is full they will get to choose a treat.
READALOUD - Another chapter from Trumpet of the Swan.
WRITING - While reading the chapter today we learned that Louie the swan had to write a really big word (catastrophe - vocab for the day, check) so when we were done reading, I had the kids copy some "big words." They copied the verse from John 7:17, which actually only has a couple big words and isn't very long, but I knew I needed to start out simple with copy work and wasn't too surprised when Krystal complained about it the whole time. But...they all did it, well, the older three. I helped Amber with writing her name, she knows how, but still needs some refinement, she has a hard time trying to stay in the lines on the paper, oh well, that will come with time, important thing is she felt like she was doing her writing too.
SPELLING - I gave everyone their spelling tests. Clarissa got them all right!! Krystal only missed one - good job and Jared missed 3 out of 8, but to prove to Chris that they were really hard words, Jared gave Chris the same test when he came home from work and...Chris missed 2. Jared was especially proud of the word acquainted that he got right on his pretest and Chris missed. But in the end, we decided that yes, Dad is smarter than a 6th grader.
SCIENCE - I read two books from the library about swans and waterfowl while the kids colored pages or did puzzles that I found online about swans.
MATH - Amber did a matching game. Clarissa did a worksheet on adding with regrouping. Krystal did a dot to dot up to 20 about a nest of baby birds. I forgot math for Jared, oh well, there are always other days.
P.E. - We went to the park for the annual homeschool kick-off picnic, the kids played hard for 4 hours and I talked, does talking count as exercise? Also, I made a really yummy 3 bean salad, inspired by Jared's math on Tues.
COOKING - Krystal helped make pizza dough and everyone made their own calzones.
HISTORY - We watched a movie about Mother Teresa.