October Bookshelf

Once a month, I’ll highlight some of the titles we read during the month.  More often than not, these will be choices borrowed from the library…it would be an impossible feat to list every book my kids read from our own library!

Books

Bats, Adrienne Mason
Pumpkin Shivaree, Rick Agran
Barn Dance, Pat Hutchins
Barn Dance, Bill Martin Jr
Ghosts in the House, Kazuno Kohara
Shiver Me Timbers: Pirate Poems and Paintings, Douglas Florian
Crazy Concoctions: A Mad Scientists Guide to Messy Mixtures, Jordan, Brown
Best Friends in Fairyland, Daisy Meadows
The Fairies Birthday Surprise, Daisy Meadows
Joe and Sparky Superstars, Jamie Michalak
Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels, Jamie Michalak
Elephants, Laura Marsh
Christmas in Camelot (Magic Tree House), MAry Pope Osborne
We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt, Steve Metzger
A Little Peace, Barbara Kerley
Mad At Mommy, Komako Sakai
Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk out of China, Deborah Noyes
You’re Aboard Spaceship Earth, Patricia Lauber
Time of Wonder, Robert McCloskey
Picnic, Emily Arnold McCully
National Geographic Kids Everything Egypt, Crispin Boyer
The Halloween Parade, Rosemary Wells
The Scarebird, Sid Fleischman
Pumpkin Moon, Tim Preston
Dorrie and the Haunted Schoolhouse, Patricia Coombs
Moonlight on the Magic Flute, Mary Pope Osborne
Tonight on the Titanic, Mary Pope Osborne
Thanksgiving on Thursday, Mary Pope Osborne
Twister on Tuesday, Mary Pope Osborne
The Magic School Bus: Inside a Hurricane, Joanna Cole
Look Back and See, Margaret Read MacDonald

Audio
Magic Tree House books 25-29
Magic Tree House books 30-32
Junie B Jones books 21-24

Video
Life Undergrowth (2)
Mongolian Pingpong
Pixar Shorts

October

plants vs zombies videogame

library

mask book- made paper masks

Halloween sing-along storytime

audio books- Magic Tree House (Da Vinci, Darwin)

books about Ancient Egypt and this one

Halloween sticker stories

made crowns

book about Gorillas

Life

Memory

stencils

created potions

money- earning, counting, making “solo” purchase

leaf raking and spreading on garden- discussed compost/ breaking down

Halloween sing-along/dance- treasure hunt/riddle solving

community supper

animals/trains/dollhouse storytelling

workbooks

storm preparation- discussed electricity, hurricanes

made storytelling cubes, played (from here)

continent puzzles

PlayDoh

library

computer literacy game

beads- pattern making

puzzles- Ocean Life

paper dolls

baking- measuring/mixing

Earth book

Hurricane book

made paper black cats

talked about silk, China

Halloween

October

Montshire Science Museum

library

playground

National Geographic Elephant Migration book

made cone girls, diorama environment for them, storytelling

legos

painting

swords/warrior role playing

corn maze- corn facts

fed cows

made parachutes for dolls out of trashbags

read to brother

Life in the Undergrowth (Bees)

Magic School Bus book- Bees

apple picking

nature hike

made applesauce

created brews outside- mud/kale/etc

observed snake- talked about hibernation

collected leaves- observed color change

orienteering during hike on unmarked trails

milkweed pods

photography

sequencing/ordering (1st, 2nd, 3rd…)

modern foam art

audio books- Magic Tree House (Gorillas, Shakespeare, Pilgrims)

homeschool soccer co-op

Cheshire Children’s Museum

learned about parakeets at the pet store

October

Cheshire Children’s Museum

milkweed pods

nature walk

stamps- storytelling

shrinky dinks

dictionary game

pumpkin picking, carving, seed roasting

face painting

researched history face/body painting

made up computer “work station”

dentist visit- counted teeth, xrays

began work on storytelling (dice) game

homeschool soccer

October

hike

hawk watch

watercolors outdoors

leaf rubbing

lichen exploration

Snap (card game)

Montshire Science Museum–

(gears, air, photosynthesis, plant identification, nests, ants, bees)

drawing, labeling, writing

letter worksheets

Medieval Festival

new kittens

story map project

handmade pillows- designed own iron-ons

Harvest Festival

Life in the Undergrowth video (spiders)

Magic Tree House audio books

legos

homeschool soccer

September

math worksheet

rhyming worksheet

built and decorated cardboard castle

Turkish Puppet Show

handmade book

nature observation/sketching

leaf rubbing/pressing

rhyming games

pretend/made up recipes

created stop motion short movie

stickers

dramatic play

Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival-

(spinning, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, rabbits)

science movie- Life in the Undergrowth

Fimo clay

September

number writing

paper airplanes

worked on handmade calendar

Ed Emberley Halloween Drawing book

math worksheet

rope play- pulleys, etc

stamps/card making

baking

colors- mixing, color wheel, primary/tertiary colors

poem riddles

Halloween knock knock jokes

animal homes activity book

dot to dots

September

playground

book making

library

apple picking

corn husk dolls

dream catchers- Native Americans

discussed weather station with farmer

walk with dog

jewelweed

measuring- height, length, area/volume

spirograph

stamps

fungi

puzzles

painting

Montshire Science Museum (Homeschool Day)

calculator

cuisenaire rods

September

mad libs

kites

began weaving wall project

discussed friction

math worksheets, addition

homeschool playdate

walk in the woods

handmade calendar-

(months, days of week, counting, writing, drawing, seasons)

bake cookies

tinker toys

homemade sandbox

Cheshire Children’s Museum–

(banking, $ history, archeology, Egypt)

playground/park-

(pond, cattails, water bugs)

math game- number identification

September

hike

jewelweed

rock painting

rock colecting

created story telling game

abacus

Victorian paper dolls

chipmunk observation

talked about echoes

owl pattern work sheet (sequencing)

word match game

word search

Spirit (movie)– discussed wild animals vs domesticated, Native Americans

Anansi Spider- African folktale

Bug ABC book- facts about bugs

created fall word book- word recognition, reading, writing, drawing