We have also been enjoying the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. The kids loved the temporary exhibit on bison, and they learned so much.
Then there was a wonderful trip to see the Steampunk Alice in Wonderland Wee Faerie Village and several other amazing exhibits at Florence Griswold.
There were some great nature hikes, with Eliza keeping notes on everything in her nature journal.
And we all enjoyed the Rennaissance Faire.
We also took several cool trips with Southeastern Connecticut Homeschoolers, including Pumpkintown.
And the Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, AMAZING!
And The Dinosaur Place at Nature's Art.
And a Walktober sponsored Project Oceanology Boat trip in Norwich Harbor. The kids loved doing experiments, asking questions, and learning a ton.
Yale Peabody Museum, also an amazing spot we will visit again.
Southeastern CT Homeschool Halloween party.
Halloween trick or treating at Mystic Seaport.
Eric Carle Museum, meeting Mo Willems. It was great, and we saw some good friends while there. It was a great day.
We went to Magic Wings while in Massachusetts, and Yankee Candle. Magic Wings was so calm and zen after the insanity that was the Eric Carle Museum. 700 people, little museum, lots of noise.
Time on the T while on the way to the Boston Museum of Science. Thank you to my great friend Diana for bringing us, it was fantastic.
The kids just having a great time walking to CCD class.
Trip to the Clay Room, a clay studio, with Southeastern CT Homeschoolers.
And who doesn't love playing with squishy internal organs, with our new Squishy Human Body toy.
Trip to the Frozen Ice Palace at Westfarms mall, not worth the wait.
New exhibit at the CT Science Center after Westfarms, Grossology, this is the kids, playing in a giant digestive system.
We have been learning so much the past month. We are studying basic anatomy, and learning about Alexander Graham Bell, Andy Warhol, Duke Ellington, inventors and inventions, Benjamin Franklin, and reading tons of great books together. We have been working on multiplication and division, and learning about basic geometry, lines, line segments, rays, etc. We are studying rocks and minerals, and continuing with insects and dinosaurs. We have been watching educational tv, and learning about Van Gogh. We did a mini unit on Medieval times in conjunction with the Ren faire. We learned about George Washington, topography, economics, graphing, orchestras, opera, equations, and expanded form in math. We have done several cooking and baking lessons. And CJ is learning piano. We have studied geography and world landmarks. Done crafts and art lessons. We have done phys ed lessons, and tangrams, and play dough. Throughout the past two months we have spent a lot of time talking, researching topics that the kids are interested in, and writing about what we learn. We listened to some cool audio books, and lots of music. We have been just trying to enjoy our school time together. I am looking forward to the next couple of months being slower as far as trips and heavier on lessons. We are going to study more inventors, artists, and composers. We are working on Wind in the Willows, and will move on to another book soon. Next we will spend some time with our snap circuits to study electricity. Looking forward to another month of fantastic learning, and tons of questions. And snow :)
