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Our Week in Review

October 30, 2016 by Erin Vincent Leave a Comment

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Welcome to another week in review here at Nourishing My Scholar. This is the Halloween edition so it’s loaded with the children in costumes! Fun right? Of course they don’t need a reason like Halloween to dress up. They don the costumes all year round! Throw in a bit of poetry and some great books and you’ve got our week!

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Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our daughter dressed up as Elena of Avalor and our son dressed as the Dark Lord Sauron from The Lord of the Rings for Halloween. They had a grand time trick-or-treating with their friends.

Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review

After Trick-or-Treating our son busied himself with counting and cataloging each and every piece of candy he received!

Our Week in Review

We even had a Halloween Poetry Teatime Picnic! I dressed as the Disney Princess Snow White and we read Best Witches Poems for Halloween by Jane Yolen. It was a really perfect picnic and I believe it will be a standing Halloween tradition.

Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review

We carved pumpkins! I say we, but our daughter, Jade, deemed the the pumpkin innards revolting and refused to have anything to do with them. Our son, however, loved carving an owl and a sword. We made the pumpkin carvings a part of our Legend of Sleepy Hollow Unit Study!

Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

The day after Halloween we fed all of our carved pumpkins to the cows, with the exception of one. We decided to watch the decomposition of “Jack” over the next couple of months. So, we’ve placed him at the edge of the garden for observation just like the little boy did in the book Pumpkin Jack. What did you do with your jack-o-lanterns?

Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review

 

Our Week in Review

We read a load of great books this week. Survive! Inside the Human Body is a fantastic science book in comic book form. We read several books to introduce the election process to our kids: Grace For President, Around America to Win the Vote, Otto Runs for President, and My Teacher for President. We even read a sweet book about cause and effect by David Ezra Stein called Because Amelia Smiled.

Our Week in Review

 

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

We worked in some less than typical “Princess” books: Cinder Edna (which our son and I adored!), Princess Grace, The Princess Knight, and The Brave Little Seamstress. We also finished Roald Dahl’s Matilda and then we watched the movie. Gabriel finished How to Speak Dragonese, Moonlight on the Magic Flute, Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, Apple Pip Princess, and Star Wars: Clone Troopers in Action.

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

We made our weekly trip to the library with Gabriel dressed as “Link” from The Legend of Zelda and Jade in a lovely pink dress with a train that swept the floor as she walked.

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Gabriel worked on cursive J‘s and S‘s this week. He decided that cursive S‘s look like the fins of a shark!

Yes, that is a ball python draped over his neck as he writes…whatever he needs for motivation, right?

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

Our son took an online Geology class through Supercharged Science…yes, he’s dressed as Poe from the most recent Star Wars movie.

We also went to the state park for a ranger talk on fire safety and how to start a camp fire using flint!

Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review

Well, I’m getting older over here and thus had to get glasses! I feel smarter. Do I look smarter?

Our daughter dressed as a butterfly fairy to go get her hair cut. She dropped the wings in order to fit in the chair. Isn’t she adorable!

Our Week in Review

Our Week in Review

The rest of our week was spent outside in this lovely weather we’re having. The kids have been wearing their costumes and playing pretend non-stop. I love that they can exercise their imaginations in this way. Whether they be Rebel Fighters, or a Greek goddess…they can roll in the fallen leaves and climb trees to their hearts content.

How was your week?

Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review


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About Erin Vincent

Erin is a writer, blogger, and homeschooler to two intense kids. She loves nature, farm life, good books, knitting, new pens, and hot coffee. Erin is a contributing writer for Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Her work has also been featured on Simple Homeschool and Book Shark.

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Welcome! I'm Erin, a homeschooling mom to two very intense kids. Every day I try to find what works best for me and my family. My blog is filled with information to help you explore a child led education while making meaningful connections with your children. Discover favorite read alouds, seasonal books, games, art projects, hands-on activities, and learn to just breathe through the ups and downs of life. I hope these posts will encourage you on your homeschool adventure.

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