Our Homeschool, Week 4: "Halloween"

We had a LOT of fun this week with our homeschool theme! There's no shortage of inspiration when it comes to fun Halloween activities.

We started the week with a field trip to the pumpkin patch! We picked up all sorts of different pumpkins and noted their attributes: shape, size, color (there were some crazy variations!) and weight.

 

I had my little box of materials (along with my handy folder of the month) on the kitchen counter all week so that we could always jump right into our tasks as soon as we'd get home every day from therapy. I do this so we can get things done before the opportunity to get distracted by the ipad or tv takes hold!

 

His favorite activity was the magnets on the ABC pumpkin. We got that printout HERE.  

 

As you can see, we did a lot of sensory activities this week (painting. crumpling paper for the "stuffed pumpkin" shown below, decorating the windows with gel clings). We also worked on a lot of fine motor activities like dot-a-dots and lacing cards. Our cognitive activities included our puzzles, counting pumpkins and letter recognition/sorting.

In the next month, our weekly themes will be Autumn, Bugs, Thanksgiving and Dinosaurs. I have attached links to each of the corresponding Pinterest boards for anyone interested in following along with us. We plan on taking the week of the Thanksgiving holiday "off", though we will likely still do certain simple tasks in order to keep the routine at the front of Bu's mind.

That's it for our first month of Pre-K-4! How's everyone else doing? We're having a lot of fun with this and as I hoped, it's been very easy to stick to with this level of pre-planning and organizing.