Week 13 - Fall and Halloween

 

This has been the week of weather changes!  Monday was absolutely beautiful - high in the 70s.  PERFECT day to get outside and collect leaves.  We even went on a walk around the block barefoot and crunched as many leaves as we could.  The kids also collected leaves of all shapes, sizes, and colors.  Of course, Little E in true three-year-old style was very specific and would only add red leaves to her bag because red is her favorite color this week.  One of our neighbors has a gorgeous tree that is dropping big yellow leaves all over the ground.  We took a break from our walk to sit and play in the leaves. Baby W even got in on the action and took a little rest in the leaves. 

After collecting all those leaves, we had to do something with them!  We took the opportunity to do a math lesson on sorting.  We sorted the leaves by size, by color, and then put them in order from smallest to largest.  

By Friday, the weather had turned cold and rainy, but that didn't stop us from enjoying Halloween.  We cut open our pumpkins, scooped out all the guts, toasted pumpkin seeds, did some Halloween word puzzles,
and even had a pumpkin decorating contest.  We decided on boys vs girls this year and as trick or treaters came to our house, we had each person vote on their favorite pumpkin by placing a piece of candy corn into a jar.  Then the kids had to count all the votes and declare a winner.  This year the boy's Lego themed pumpkin won by only 10 votes.  Their reward was picking out a movie to watch after trick-or-treating and us girls cooked up some snacks and served the winners!

Happy Learning,
Momma C