Learning Highlights: October 2013

 The month of October was filled with learning about fire safety and pumpkins. October is fire safety awareness month and Seth claims he wants to be a firefighter when he grows up.  So he was a big fan of all of our fire safety learning. You could find him on many occasions "dressed" like a firefighter playing with a fire truck or fighting pretend fires around the house.

We also met with our co-op group and went to a couple of fire safety events around town. 

We went to the Firehouse Festival one evening.

 

  

We also went to a special fire safety story time at the library 

where the kids got to see inside of a fire truck.

We also learned about the science of fire using some birthday candles.

 

 Most mornings are just filled with lots of reading, some writing, and a few other simple activities. One resource we are loving is the Trace, Lace, Color, & Paste workbook. This gives Seth a bit of practice following directions coloring, cutting, and gluing.

 Scattered throughout the month, we did various pumpkin activities. 

We made a pumpkin life cycle craft.

 We also made a prediction about whether various sized pumpkins would sink or float.

 They will all float and this amazed Seth. 

Then we tested other items in the backyard to determine if they would sink or float.

 We read How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret Mcnamara and the Pumpkin Patch Parable by Liz Curtis Higgs. We cleaned out our own pumpkin and while we were carving it, we dried our seeds in the oven to be able to count them just like in the book.

 This month we've been counting beyond 30. We've been practicing counting to 100. The pumpkin seeds let us practice this several times. There were 427 seeds in our pumpkin! Yes, we counted them all. Then we added a bit of honey and pumpkin pie spice before we ate every one of them.

It was a fun-filled month!