Fall Fun

The sun has returned this week! The return of the sun and 70 degrees weather also marked the return of the ladybugs! They were out by the thousands on Monday! We have a short week of only three days because we leave for Omaha on Thursday for a family get-together. It is also an extra calendar week for October, so we are going to take a break from letters and do some fun Autumn activities. On Monday, I taught Grant a new Halloween tongue twister: "If two witches watch two watches, which witch watches which watch." He gets better at jumping rope everyday and soon he will be doing all kinds of tricks! I told the kids the story of The Hedgehog's Harvest using this pumpkin and hedgehog family I needle felted last year. After the story we drew pumpkins. I used the three primary colors to make my drawing, but I was nice and let Grant use the orange block crayon for his pumpkin. Johanna was more interested in eating crackers than drawing her pumpkin, but she still managed to come up with something.

Aaahh! Ladybugs! Imagine this all over the house!

Needle Felted Hedgehog Family

Mom's Pumpkin

Grant's Pumpkin

Johanna's Pumpkin

On Tuesday, I read a fun Fall book from the library about a busy squirrel. After the story, Grant did some copy work and copied the Autumn verse that was on the chalkboard. While he was doing that, Johanna helped me pick out the Fall cookie cutters (from our 101 piece set) that the kids would use with the pumpkin spice play dough I made earlier that morning. The smell of pumpkin pie was in the air!

Autumn Chalkboard Verse

I am finishing this post after we have returned from our trip to Omaha, (which was a lot of fun and I will post about that soon), and I will admit that I cannot, for the life of me, remember what we did on Wednesday! Once I remember what we did, I will write about it. I know we did something!