Weekly Wrap-Up/The Homeschool Mother's Journal

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This week was a fun-filled one! We celebrated Halloween with some different activities. You can view that post here.

It was a short week for school since we really only did seat work Mon & Tues.

Wed, the hubs was off & we usually take a day off with him if he's home since it's too distracting for the kids & it keeps me sane! We just hung around the house & then hubs went out & bought our pumpkins for us to carve Thurs. We had our baking lesson while making Halloween cookies that night & music/PE class while listening/dancing to some fun Halloween-y music!

Thurs was Halloween so our art lesson for the day was pumpkin carving! It was also our science lesson as they pulled out the guts of the pumpkins & a math lesson while seeing how many seeds each pumpkin had. We also had PE & music lessons again while listening/dancing to more Halloween-y music.

Fri was our Catch-up On Housework day. (Though today you wouldn't have ever guessed!)

How I feel.

How my kids feel!

The kids also got with all of their neighborhood friends later in the day & they all traded candies.

Sat., today, is a quiet/rainy day here. The hubs took the kids to his dads house for the day & I am once again playing catch-up on housework & planning out our Thanksgiving Unit Study for the month. I miss them but it's nice to have some quiet time to myself.

Here is a great list of special days in November if interested. My awesome friend, Betty Jo, put a lot of hard work into it & I know I will be using it for my planning.

Next week I think we will put our SotW lessons on hold while we start our Thanksgiving/Pilgrim Unit. Can't wait to actually sit down & see what the kids are thankful  for each day!

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Halloween Festivities

So, our Halloween festivities started last night when we made Jack-o'-lantern & ghost cookies & cranked up some Halloween music. J12 & I showed the others how to do the Time Warp & Hand Jive. It was so much fun!

Today, we carved our pumpkins. I know..late right?! We usually have them done days ago but this year the days just kind of got away from me. Anyway, each of the kids got their own pumpkins, as usual, & we had fun last night searching around for ideas. J12 originally wanted a T.A.R.D.I.S from Doctor Who but then found Heath Ledger's Joker face. L8 went with Oogie Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas & M6 went with a cat (she's the animal lover!). It's easier now that J12 is old enough to do her own, last year was her 1st year, because I usually have to do all 3! Not fun after a while! BUT, it's for the kids & they love having their own. :)

Tonight, we went trick-or-treating for a bit but that didn't last long. Hardly anyone passes out candy around here & our truck is broke down otherwise we would have gone somewhere else. The kids are fine though because we decided to buy candy & pass it out ourselves. This is a 1st for us. Right after getting home, their friends came over & asked if they could go with them & their parents. We said yes so they are super happy now! J12 dressed as her own version of Harley Quinn, L8 was something he threw together, & M6 was a ladybug.

I got so many compliments on the shirt I was wearing tonight while passing out the candy. And no I don't just wear this for Halloween. ;)

Hope everyone had a safe & fun Halloween!







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