September Review

We have had a very lively month.  We have spent time at Mystic Seaport, and the kids have taken a cool class there.  We have been to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, We have been to the Florence Griswold Musuem, and the kids took an art class there too.  We have studied geography, dinosaurs, oceans, multiplication, division, reading comprehension, have written reports and poems, done some fun playdates and great group get togethers with the Southeastern CT homeschoolers, and gone to great classes including sports classes, and lately CJ has been taking piano.  We are reading The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and doing a fun unit on it.  We have been learning about art and music, including murals, still lifes, Mozart, Bach, and impressionist landscapes.  We have learned life cycles of plants and certain animals.  We have been to the library often.  We have finished a great unit on insects, including a fun craft on the life cycle of a butterfly.  We have completed a unit on money.  We have done crafts, and playdough, and made moon dough and goo.  We have been playing chess, and had a great time at Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center doing a whole series of activities on birds.  The kids participated in a Bluff Point Shore Program through Project Oceanology, and attended a Kidsploration concert.  We have visited Clyde's Cider Mill, and been watching Liberty's Kids.  We have visited the planetarium several times and studied the solar system in our school room.  We went to the Big E and the kids learned all about agriculture and New England.  We have been baking and cooking together, and doing lots of chores together.  We have done weaving, attended fall festivals, and started ccd.  We have done some great computer and kindle activities too.  The kids have learned about fractions and made fossils, extracted honey and studied bees, worked in the garden and taken nature walks, preserved food for the winter, and worked in our Human Body science kit.  We also have learned all about Florence Nightingale and famous scientists.  We have had a lot of fun and completed a lot of work, and completed some assessments to keep in my bin of stuff that I keep.  Tomorrow if the kids aren't sick, as they are today, we will finish our paper making kit we began this past week.  We will continue to study oceans and dinosaurs, and learn about artists and composers.  We are going to keep practicing multiplication and we will read The Wind in the Willows next.  Looking forward to another great month.