As crazy as it sounds, our family likes to go camping in fall, after harvest is over. This year harvest lasted longer than usual and we went on our fall camping trip in mid-October! I packed the snowsuits, but thankfully we didn't need them, although it did get pretty cold!
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Today I am over at Hip Homeschool Moms, sharing about Autumn on the Farm. Make sure you check it out at http://www.hiphomeschoolmoms.com/2013/10/autumn-fun-on-the-farm/.
Thanks! Don't forget that I will be taking a break for a few days, but I will be back soon! Happy Thanksgiving from Canada! The weather was beautiful, so I decided to take the kids on an autumn nature walk around our farm yard.
We started at the apple trees. This tree is a September Ruby and the apples taste best after the first frost. (Can you find the bird nest in the branches?) It is also my children's favourite climbing tree :) Animals often play a big part in our dot-to-dot homeschool life! They provide some great hands-on, real-life learning! And lots of fun too!
Our cat had kittens this year and my children are thrilled! They spend many hours out in the barn playing with them. Often they will run into the house yelling, "Mom! There's a really cute picture in the barn! Can I borrow the camera?" It still makes me a little nervous to hand my camera over to my kids, but I have been showing Princess how to use it and how to take care of it properly and she has shown me that she can handle it. So, she has been borrowing the camera and has taken LOTS of pictures of the cats. She has taken some good pictures too. To encourage her, (and sneak some extra "school" in), I asked her if she would like to share her pictures with my readers and type something up about the kittens. She was very happy to do that. Here is her very first blog post :) Homeschooling is a lifestyle for us and we try to use everything we do as an opportunity to teach the children, even over the summer months when we don't have much of a school routine. Let me show you some of what we did in summer school this year!
We went on our first field trip of the new school year yesterday. We went to the lake. Yep, I consider that a field trip. We believe that every experience in life is an opportunity to learn something. So, what did we learn at the lake?
Today was the first day of school for the students at our local school. What did we do today, while everyone else was in school? We went to a “Not-Back-to-School” party with some other homeschoolers. We met at a playground, with a water park and a big soccer field. I think there were ten families there. We had a picnic lunch and the moms got to chat while the kids played together.
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