Snapshot Summary October 19-23, 2009 {week 7}

19
Monday
Pre-Halloween Party
A Trip to the Pumpkin Patch
Carving pumpkins, roasting seeds
Jack 'O Lanterns
Bobbing for Apples
Doughnuts on a String
Eating all the yummy treats we made yesterday.
"Mom. there are legs sticking out of my popcorn ball."

"That's alright, they are just the spider's."
Costume Dress Rehersal
Pretending to "Trick or Treat"

Watching "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
A Particularly Wonderful Day.
Happy Pre-Halloween

20
Tuesday
Quentin playing dress up.

21
Wednesday
Quentin  wrote some upper and lower case "G's", figured out a few of the problems in the book How High Can a Dinosaur Count? and Other Math Stories, and with his brothers, played with Cathedral and Lord of the Rings Monopoly, hide and seek and on the trampoline...
James sorted spelling words, read some, and solved some math word problems, built things with Legos, and played games with his brothers...
Alex started a new unit in his Language Arts program, Personal Description Stories. He was able to complete a Venn diagram, without help, for the first time. We began work on math word problems...
Sam worked on his timeline, adding some from Ancient Egypt, looked at very large numbers like octillions and googols,
discussed ancient and Egyptian art and the Earth
and played with his brothers...
and Katie helped Quentin learn H-is-for-Hand or Handprint.

22
Thursday
We started out the morning making fossil mold models out of Plaster of Paris -trace fossil models and mold and cast fossil models. We left them to harden while we went on to other things.  They colored in maps and learned about what a "delta"is. They made up names for their mummies and converted the names to hieroglyphs. When we were done this, the fossils were hard. The boys went to the park with Steven to play with friends. Back home they built things with Legos, played with Mighty Mind puzzles, and Quentin made candy hat treats for everyone.

23
Friday
Making Fossil Footprints in Sandstone
Quentin made H-is-for House, Horse and Haystacks drawings.