Counting Candy Corn

Our girls had such a fun time working together on this counting candy corn activity.  This activity is a little too easy for O(6) and a little too difficult for E(3), which made it PERFECT for them to do together!


O showed E how to put our homemade sandpaper numbers in order, and then we all counted out the appropriate number of candy corn to put below each number.




Simple, fun, educational, and yummy!

Halloween Eyeball Work

Here is another one of our Halloween "works" that is on our Montessori school shelves.  E(3) puts an eyeball in each opening on the container.  She used chopsticks the first time, but they were not ideal for this activity.


I found the plastic eyeballs at the Dollar Tree and the container at our local thrift store.

Halloween Activities

We took our Halloween bin out of storage during the last week of September, but we've been gone from home so much that we haven't had time to do many of the activities.   However, I wanted to share the activities with everyone before Halloween was over.  I hope we'll be doing a lot of fun Halloween activities this week!

Here are the puppets that O sewed a last year.




The Halloween I Spy bottle

The Halloween Sensory bin...E(3) loves this and plays with it daily.

Mr. Pumpkin Head....E has also enjoyed this!

The pumpkin felt board is my favorite, but the girls haven't been very interested in it...yet!

Pumpkin Polishing

Pumpkin polishing is E(3)'s current favorite work on her Montessori school shelves.  She loves to "fray" (spray) the pumpkin with water and then wipe it with a cloth.

In this picture, she's wearing a Nicaraguan outfit that our friend just gave her...she LOVES it and wears it everyday while pretending to be a Nicaraguan Queen...love it!  (she's also wearing my reading Olympics medal from 3rd grade :)

E decided that one pumpkin to polish was not enough, so she asked to polish the fake pumpkin, too.  Fun times!

Another Reason to Homeschool...

is having the freedom to take off for a few days and let the world be our school.


Island exploring.


Learning about the marsh habitat.


Pulling in a crab pot.



Amazing up close encounters with wild dolphins.


Watching a horseshoe crab crawl to the water.


staring out at the wide, wide world.

One Perk of Homeschool...

is you can wear whatever you want!

E(3) is wearing a Cleopatra costume (from Walmart) and is pretending to be the Pharaoh Hatshepsut.  She has been either Hatshepsut, Pocahontas, Kaya, or Felicity for the past several months.  It is so much fun to  see her so caught up in her pretend play, and I have had fun playing the roles of "Tanak" or "Powhatan."


E and O(6) took turns wearing the Egyptian costume all day (since I was too cheap to buy 2 of them!).  They had fun working together to complete a community worker ABC puzzle.


One cold morning, the girls decided that it was time to get out their "ice skating" dresses.  They wore them all morning during school.


0(6) was working on her Writing with Ease lesson.  I have been surprised by how much she LOVES these lessons. She wasn't very happy in this picture, because I'd prompted her to answer the questions in complete sentences and this made her feel frustrated.  She got over it and answered in complete sentences the next day with no prompting and WITH JOY!

I frequently point out these fun benefits of homeschooling to O so that she will hopefully recognize that this is MUCH more fun than attending public school (she really wants to ride the bus to and from school...although, she hasn't mentioned riding the bus in a month or so, so maybe she is realizing that she has it made!).