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Little Red Hen and Harvesting

by Summer Minor

I’m a planner by nature, but loose enough not to want a strict schedule. My plans are usually more like themes that I can build on as I go. I write down the general idea, any important parts I want to focus on, and a few ideas that are already brewing. The rest I create as I go. Doing things this way keeps our days free to enjoy what may come up. Though we do stick with somewhat of a schedule it is still fairly free. For instance Mondays we read a new story based on the week’s theme, Tuesday is fun project day, Wednesday we paint, and so on.

little_red_hen.jpgThis week we are going to read Little Red Hen and bake some homemade bread of our own. I’ve also got an idea for a lapbook I want to make, but it seems my printer has died. I am hoping that when we take recycling in we can run by the library and print off the couple pages I have put together for it. Since we also are learning ASL our words this week will be “bread“, “help“, “friend” and “cook“. We may also add in some animal names as we already have “red” and “eat” in our vocabulary.

Of course with this week having Halloween we’ll also be doing lots of fun Halloween stuff. Ghosts and pumpkins will fill our house for certain. But I wanted to focus on the autumn harvest aspects a bit more, like harvesting wheat to make into bread.

Does anyone else have any fun plans for this week?

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7 Responses to “Little Red Hen and Harvesting”

  1. Fairly Odd Mother Says:

    I’ve decided to take this week ‘off’ from our usual ’school’ stuff. I’d like to have a few things planned, but it looks like Halloween will be the focus for the first half of the week. I think we may buy a pet fish this week, since we read a lot about fish a couple of weeks ago!

  2. Activities Coordinator Says:

    We’re taking the week off and are eating everything that isn’t nailed down.
    That pretty much sums it up.

  3. Carol Says:

    My girls are gonna be in heaven this week! We’ll be learning some of the basics in chemistry… which, of course, means lots of fun experiments.

  4. mrs darling Says:

    I saw a commnet you left on someones blog about your interest in lapbooking. I am welcoming you to take a look at my blog for this weekends post. I have pics up of the lapbook we did for Thanksgiving. Feel free to take a peek.

  5. Parenting and Religion » Blog Archive » Parenting Blogs Says:

    [...] of my favorite blogs is Mom is Teaching, by Summer Minor. Of course it would be a favorite of mine since it is about homeschooling. Summer [...]

  6. Dana Says:

    We are beginning to make our own weather station. : )

  7. Jenny in Ca Says:

    what a fun activity! We have a few hens, so I am always attracted to hen books…I never would have thought of baking bread along with the story, great idea!

    glad to have found you, I stopped by for the givaway, but I already have some of those books, so I thought I would look around and say hi!

    always nice to meet homeschoolers!

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