Our Nature Pumpkins (carved pumpkins)

Inspired by our Nature study on Trees, last night we decide to carved some of our pie pumpkins with a nature theme to display outside our home this weekend. The boys helped me scoop out the pulp from our pumpkins.We used a picture from the book "Autumn Trees" by Ken Robbins as a guideline for our Leaf carving. I drew in pencil an outline of a leaf and used a small flat head screw driver from an

What my children are reading October 25 to 30

This week was a week of discovery and fun as we did a unit study on one of the boys favorite subjects: Pumpkins. We went to a pumpkin patch this month and picked a a good number of pumpkins.We read a few favorites from last year and found some new books we had not seen before. it was a good week and the boys are doing well. We are picking up more emergent readers that the boys like. Next week we

Picking Pumpkins

Last week we had an opportunity to go and pick pumpkins and gourds. Each year, we revisit a local church which acquires pumpkins from an Indian reservation in Arizona. The proceeds go to a good cause so for us it is worth the expense.The boys and I were excited to see a variety of pumpkins in different colors ranging from white, grayish black and the standard orange. This was the first time we

Fall Craft: Soft Sculpture Pumpkin

This month we are doing a unit study on Fall and Pumpkins and each year we love to make recycled crafts as decorations for the Fall and this year is no exception. Decades ago when I was in my 20s, it was popular to wear hosiery. Believe it or not I still had some stored away. Why? I guess I thought either the style would come back or I could use it for something crafty. Fortunately for my boys

Harvest Pumpkins (Harvest craft)

This week we are learning about Harvest time. We are reading about the fruits and vegetables that are harvested in the Fall. Here in the U.S. there are several crops that are harvested in the fall. Pumpkins, squash, apples, corn, peas and beans are just some of them.To include the kids in a Harvest of their own, we are making Harvest crafts to be "Harvested" and used at our Thanksgiving table. My

Week in review for November 1-7 (Birthday and Pumpkins)

WEEK 11 in reviewWe had a week of no schooling. We decided that after 10 weeks of homeschooling it would be fun to take a semi week off from from the many resources we use...besides it was the prefect week for it.We celebrated our youngest son's 4th birthday, made some more pumpkin crafts (I am not tired of pumpkins yet), we did a homeschool co-op with extended family who stayed with us during

Week in Review for October 26 - 31 (Pumpkins)

WEEK 10 in reviewThis week was a challenging week because we had many appointments and we were planning our youngest son's 4th birthday around everything. His birthday is this weekend so among lesson planning, homeschooling and taking family members to appointments.. Mommy had to order the cake and make plans for a Toy Story birthday party theme. I'll post about the birthday next week and share

What my child is reading: October 26 - 31

We are participating with Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns weekly meme "What my child is reading." We also have our book posts to Fantastic Find's Bookworm Beginnings, a monthly sharing our favorite children's books. We are enjoying reading what other families are reading! We have added new books to our reading list for the year, after reading some families recommendations.This week we are reading

Open Ended Art: Pumpkins

This week's Open Ended Art theme at Mommies Wise Little Bookworms is Pumpkins. The boys received assorted sizes of pumpkin cutouts made of orange construction paper and a sheet of face parts (eyes, mouth. nose, eyebrows, etc.) I found the printables for it by the blogger who made them HERE. For open ended art, I did not tell them what to do or how to make their paper pumpkins. Here are the

Pumpkin Patch Fun

We went to a pumpkin patch earlier this past week. The weather was perfect for it! Everyone had fun looking for their perfect pumpkin!My youngest "Turtle" did not waste anytime showing us his perfect pumpkins! He loves picking mini pumpkins! He could have stayed all afternoon at the pumpkin patch if we had let him. He kept loading the wheel barrow and filling it with pumpkins not realizing that

Kids Explore Nature (Tree Hugging Tots): Pumpkins

This week's Kids Explore Nature (Tree Hugging Tots) is on Pumpkins. That works for us since we are doing a unit study on pumpkins this week! Here are the books we are reading for our Pumpkin theme this week. What fun!We went to a pumpkin patch sometime ago when the weather was perfect. We found there a large wonderful assortment of pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, and squash.Group Preparation: