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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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  (I’m thinking of tying this into a nature study day??)

~Coordinate Graph Jack-o-lantern

Go have [...]

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 [...]