October Catch-up

This post is an attempt to catch up on the last month or so.  We have had a wonderful fall, full of fun and memorable activities.  When we decided to call home our new school, I worried about all the fun events my girls would miss.  They very rarely complain about missing out on events at the public school and every time I ask if they want to go back they both yell with an emphatic "NO!"  That is comforting since I never planned, nor thought we would be walking down this road of homeschool.

October we went on some fun field trips.  This was the second year we visited Black Island farms with some other homeschool friends.  We road on a tractor, picked our own pumpkins, played in a pit of corn and slid down huge slides. 

 

This has become a fun tradition that my girls now look forward to every fall.  I have tried to make sure that we have fun memorable activities that contribute to what we are learning in school.

 

One of the things that I remember when I was a child in school, was the Halloween parade.  When Avery and Taylor were in kindergarten and 1st grade, I loved going to the school to watch them as they walked in the parade.  This year, in an effort to fill that void, we decided to have a homeschool Halloween party with some of our fellow homeschool friends as well as our cousins who were off track from their year-round school.  We had such a great time. 

 

 

 We decorated caramel apples, bobbed for apples, made paper bats and played a game that ended with our face in a tin of whipped cream.  The kids had such a fun time and memories were made.  I have realized that I can't worry about the experiences my girls will miss from public school.  It is true, they will miss out on things because we aren't there, but I hope that the experiences we share here at home, at The School of Mom, will forever stay with them.  Halloween...homeschool style was a lot of fun this year!