Homeschool - October

We studied tall tales and read the story of Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, and others.  We made a Johnny Appleseed craft and enjoyed caramel apples.

We continue to practice our handwriting.  Nolan is working hard on cursive and can now write his first and last name beautifully.  We practiced using window markers.

We read the book "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehret and made our own leaf people creations.

We found some awesome nature displays while playing in our yard.  I cannot remember a year when I've seen such an amazing variety of mushrooms growing.  Their camouflages is unreal in the fallen leaves!

Livi and Simon built a city out of a cardboard box, crayons, and some blocks.  They use their imagination and play pretend frequently.

We did a Halloween Hide and Seek and they had to find the different Halloween shapes hidden around the house.  It kept them busy for a long time and they had lots of fun with it!

We practiced sequencing and paragraph writing using Tatiana's birthday as the subject.  We were careful to include a topic sentence, concluding sentence, and good punctuation.  

Last year, Auntie Brigid made them a recording of the song Aiken Drum.  We listened to it and they drew the character.  They begged to listen to it again this year and have the chance to redraw him.  They had a blast and it was fun to see Auntie Brigid - even through a video screen.

The week before Halloween, we did a bunch of festive activities.  We did tons of Halloween worksheets, writing prompts, math games, and science experiments.  Nolan especially enjoyed the Halloween madlib.

We painted decorations for our upcoming Halloween party.

They took on the STEAM challenge of making a tall structure using toothpicks and candy pumpkins.  

We did a science experiment using candy pumpkins.  We put them in six different liquids and made hypotheses about what we thought would happen.  We were surprised when the water and the Hawaiian punch dissolved the pumpkins quicker than the rubbing alcohol.

They made these skeletons out of model magic clay and q-tips.  I think they are absolutely adorable.