Our Week in Pictures

During our Classical Conversations Class...We disected owl pellets. The girls absolutely LOVED it!

 

 Kate had a great check up at the dentist. No cavities and the discovery of two loose teeth! She's over the moon excited that she can start wiggling them.

 We had a nice Halloween morning at CBS, minus Emma who has been fighting a tummy ache off and on all week
 

 Imagine this: 10, 5 & 6 year olds, 10 tin whistles & 1 teacher trying to hold it all together :) At CC the girls are learning music theory. It's going to be a long "semester."

 One night the kids made their own dinner. They thought it was a blast and I actually felt like the pre- pregnancy me!

 We've been working on tying shoes! The girls are both just about masters of this new skill!

 We have been spending as much time outside as possible! It's sunny and 70 and beautiful with golden yellow leaves on most of the trees surrounding our house. Loving these fall days after a really, REALLY long summer.

 Leaf people were created

 & pumpkins were painted!

And we had a fabulous night trick-o-treating in a great neighborhood that was amazingly kid friendly. 

Outdoor Nature Challenge {pt. three}

Challenge #3 was about collecting things for our nature journals {my hoarders united!!} & also still practicing our listening skills. We found a new location to venture to this week. The beautiful Oxley Nature Center, a place that will provide us HOURS of exploring. We started collecting and then we would have to start our collections over again because we found ourselves getting distracted {say by the deer tracks or the bat houses}.
We also talked about the word nocturnal and animals that we might discover. We used our magnifying glasses to get up close and observe. Thanks to Sid the Science Kid we tend to use the words observation and discover a little to much. I was smart enough to bring the tape with me and we happened to find the perfect little bench under a great tree in the middle of a field! {how perfect for nature study}As is usually the case in Oklahoma, so I'm learning, it was windy but we worked together and got our collections secured into our nature journals. By far this has been their favorite week. Getting to pick things up and safely put them in their journals and then bring the items home was fabulous. {we did ask permission to take items}
I'm telling you my hoarders united!!

We still need to write in our journals. My goal is to get them at least copying what I write to label what they have discovered. We will start with the basic names: leaf, stick, pebble but some fine day when writing is easier and our knowledge is greater we will write the scientific name! Oh what plans I have for my little hoarders :)

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