Charlotte Mason Carnival – Autumn Beauty Edition

Posted by Cindy on November 3, 2009

What a glorious time of year!  In my part of the world, God’s creation is singing in brilliant colors and crisp notes.  In honor of His magnificent show, I thought I’d center the theme around bits and pieces of Autumn Beauty.  Enjoy the wonderful articles!

Nature Study

Julee from Abundant Harvest shares her family’s awesome nature study that came from an injured monarch in Nature Study – Butterfly.

Alicia from La Famille gives a great tutorial for making a dye from black walnut shells in Nuts About Dye!

Ritsumei from Baby Steps shares about her family’s recent trip to their local nature preserve in Critters and Moss.

Kris from At Home Science provides a nice list of living books and such for anyone planning to study rocks, soil or the earth in Geology Study Resources.

Barb at Handbook of Nature Study shares about one of her nature challenges in Outdoor Hour Challenge Autumn Series – Seasonal Weather.

Yours truly is sharing an article from Shining Dawn Books about Nature Study with a Toddler or Preschooler.

Art/Picture Study

Dana from Epi Kardia takes us on a how-to journey through picture study in Charlotte Mason Mondays – Picture Study.

I’d like to share a recent picture study resource review I wrote at The Curriculum Choice about Dover Art Cards as well as our latest artist study activities in The Thinker and Other Rodin Fun.

Living Literature

Keri from Sunny Scholars helps unmuddy the waters when it comes to finding good literature that’s also friendly to beginning readers in Readers.

Amber from The Mommy Earth shares how she and her children enjoyed a cozy reading time together in Book Review: Five Little Peppers.

Kris from Science of Relations provides a set of living literature for our reading enjoyment that focuses on history in Westward Expansion: Santa Fe Trail.

Jimmie from Jimmie’s Collage reminds us that even older children enjoy picture books, and she’s found several goodies in Picture Books for Middle School.

Science/History

Heather from Maple Hill Academy shares how she has implemented a family time line in Book of Years.

Barb from Harmony Art Mom shows us how she uses a traditional teaching text with CM flair in Apologia Physical Science with a CM Style.

Super Odds and Ends

Penny from Our Crazy Adventures in Autismland! gives us a glimpse into habit training in Bedtime Routine into Habit.

Richele from Under the Golden Apple Tree reminds us of the importance of leisure time in Masterly Inactivity.

Johnna from Living Charlotte Mason in California is the perfect ending to a cool weather carnival as she shares about her family’s adventure making Autumn Butternut Soup.

Thank you so much for visiting the Charlotte Mason Carnival today!  Richele from Under the Golden Apple Tree will be hosting next time on November 17th.  I hope you’ll consider submitting an article!  Until next time, I hope your autumn days are spent in thankfulness to our Creator for His bounty!

Fun Fall Afternoons

Posted by Cindy on October 23, 2009

Autumn afternoons are full of free time fun (and learning) for my children.  Below are just a few pictures from recent days.

Mahayla spends countless hours caring for her horses and pony.  She’s recently learned how to braid horse hair in various styles.

Another of Mahayla’s afternoon activities is photography.  Eli happens to be her subject most often (and he loves the attention.)

Even afternoon chores turn into fun – sometimes.

We took a fun trip to the UK Arboretum one afternoon this week to get an autumn look at the many native plants and gardens.  I couldn’t resist some fall-themed portraits.

Mahayla – 12

Caleb – 9

Eli – 2

The Pumpkin Patch

Posted by Cindy on October 20, 2009

A family in our church owns a pumpkin patch/ corn maze, and they generously host the families of our church each year for a cookout, hayride and free pumpkins for the kids.  It’s always GREAT fun – and this year was no exception!

The rule was each child could take home any pumpkin they wanted as long as they could carry it by themselves.  Do you see my little one walking near his daddy?  Yeah, that was Eli’s pumpkin that he needed “just a little help” carrying.

Autumn Living Math

Posted by Cindy on October 16, 2008

Remember Mathwire?  Boy, do they have some goodies for the fall season!  Below are some of the activities we’ve done so far.

Scarecrow Measurement Man

Candy Corn Triangular Number Pattern

Insect and Spider Problem Solving

And these are on our to-do list….

~Area and Perimeter of Leaves

~Coordinate Graph Jack-o-lantern

Go have some fun with math this month!

Pumpkin Patch

Posted by Cindy on October 24, 2007

Ms. Sandy is a wonderful lady in our church who has no children of her own yet, but loves all our children like her own.  Among so many other things she does for our children, she plans a yearly trip to the pumpkin patch.  Sunday, after church, we all changed clothes and headed to the patch to enjoy tons of fun and a beautiful day!

The kids were told they could choose any pumpkin as long as they could carry it to the wagon by themselves.  Is it any surprise that Caleb’s pumpkin was larger than anyone else’s??

Hotdogs, s’mores, face painting and apple bobbing….what more can a kid ask for?