Last Boat Ride of the Year

Last night we went on the last boat ride of the season with Tom and Sara.  The colors were just starting to show and it was a warm and beautiful night out on the water.  We stopped at the island where Eric and Tom used to camp growing up.  It has a cool winding path through it and we took a little walk, but it ended abruptly when we encountered the overpowering stink of a dead animal.  (Must've been a dead fish?)  Aside from the stink, it was a great way to spend a fall evening and it was so nice to spend a little time with Tom and Sara.
 

Homeschool - Unit One: Harvest

 

Nolan:

Plum Barbecue Sauce

Applesauce

Graphed favorite kinds of apples

Venn Diagram of flour vs sugar

Alphabetized 

Made onion rings

Made a Harvest Lap Book

Additionally:

Completed Pokemon addition facts

Worked on Proper Nouns, reading comprehension skills, and is building a character analysis resource for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Made art projects for Grandparents Day

Started piano lessons

ABC Mouse

Olivia:

How many Apples?

Learned applesauce song

Made Apple Man

Made Apple puppet

Finger painted Apple tree

Practiced short a sound

Worked on opposite words

Worked on rhyming words

Additionally:

Started Math Book 

Practicing letter sounds and games - Zingo, Sight Word Swat, and building sight words with tiles and letters

PlayDoh and coloring

ABC Mouse

Made Art Projects for Grandparents Day

Together:

Picked apples

Dug Potatoes

Made Applesauce

Grated, labeled and froze zucchini

Made Zucchini Bread

Harvest Meal

Tried many new fruits and vegetables: apricots, dates, beets, spinach, artichoke

Read books and poems about harvest

Talked about different ways of preserving: canning, freezing, drying

Dehydrated apples

Made Play Doh

Apple Stamping

Learned the parts of an apple

Learned new vocabulary: Tablespoon, teaspoon, knead, harvest

Got produce box from food pantry and distributed to neighbors and friends

Made a meal for the Frederick Place

Visited Hansen's Garden Center 

Fall Poems

Picked Grapes

Picked Pumpkins