In our house the costume run down went like this: the older kids played a game of D&D tonight. Their entire party dressed like their characters. It was pretty epic. Camber was an elf and Landon was a dwarf. Story and River stayed home with mom and dad and went trick or treating around the area. Story was Red Riding Hood and River was a witch /goddess. David put together an awesome cowboy costume. Originally because he was dressing like S, who was going to be a cowgirl and then changed her mind last minute. I had a beautiful flowy pair of butterfly wings that I fluttered around in and didn't stay very warm but had a lot of fun.
These are soul cakes. Flatter than they should be and cracked because my vegan conversion using coconut oil made them crack pretty bad but they were oh-so-good. I started ,making them about 3 years ago as a All Saints Day Tradition. Soul cakes were originally made in Medieval Times on All Saints or All Souls Day for the souls of the dead and their friends and were given out to poor and children as they went door to door asking for food. This is thought to be the start of trick or treating. Plus they are delicious. I can usually only find the recipe in metric so it's fun figuring out conversions. These taste so good!!
We worked on Grammar and Punctuation today. We work out of daily Grammar Evan- Moore books. Today we learned that Specific Places, holidays and days of the week are Capitalized. I let the kids look at the worksheets, sometimes they want to do them in pencil but sometimes they just want to correct the sentences out loud. We did decide to refresh our punctuation by making the punctuation with our bodies ( there was some disagreement on style of question mark). After making the symbol they would pop up and say something that would use that end punctuation.
We have been playing a lot of money games and play store to get the girls to really know money and change and different ways to make different amounts. The game money bags is our favorite for that right now bu setting up our own stores is where it usually ends up.
Today we worked on tortilla fractions. A quick snack and refresher course.
Today was a bit of fun art too. We love using The Nature Connection by Clare Leslie Walker. It is a great book to get kids observing and interacting in different ways in the outdoors. We worked on drawing lessons today. We got to three of five.
The first lesson was blind contour drawing. We looked at the pumpkin or Christmas cactus and without taking our eyes off the objects we drew them, in one continuous line. They are kinda hard to see. Mine is in the book, River on the top, Story on the bottom.
Drawing Two was Modified Contour-This time we could look back and forth between the paper and object but the pencil still couldn't leave the paper.
Lesson Three was a quick sketch- with just using a few lines we would draw the object on a time limit. The girls really liked this one. We tried 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 and 20 seconds.
River ended up enjoying it so much she ended up quick sketching the sleeping dog next to her.
Last night we continued working on Egypt and we wrote our name in Hieroglyphs.
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