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Happy Halloween!

10/31/2018

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Pumpkin Carving Party

10/31/2018

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HaPPY bIRTHDAY, aUDREY!                                             Our Family Birthday traditions

10/24/2018

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We celebrated Audrey's 11th birthday this Monday.  We have a few birthday traditions in our family that helped to make this day extra special for our birthday girl.

Our birthday traditions actually start the night before the birthday.  I say this birthday verse as I tuck the birthday girl into bed:

"When I have said my evening prayer,
and my clothes are folded on the chair,
When mother turns out the light,
I will still be ten years old tonight.

But before the very break of day,
Before the children rise and play,
Before the darkness turns to gold,
Tomorrow I will be eleven years old.
Eleven kisses when I wake.  Eleven candles on my cake."
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The birthday girl receives her beautiful felted birthday crown to wear on her special day. We present the crown early in the morning along with the birthday angel that only makes an appearance on birthdays.
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We eat birthday pancakes for breakfast. 11 pancakes stacked up high with 11 candles because she is 11 today!
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We decorate our birthday ring with 11 candles and I tell Audrey's birthday story as we light one by one.
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Audrey chose a chocolate birthday cake this year. We decorated it with beautiful flowers.
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We sing "Happy Birthday" and Audrey blows out her candles. And of course, she is given some very special birthday gifts.
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Our Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

10/20/2018

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Every year we visit the pumpkin patch to pick out the most perfect pumpkins.  We like to pick out big pumpkins for carving and smaller pumpkins for painting.  It takes a little while to find just the right pumpkins, but we always do!
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Celebrating Pumpkins

10/12/2018

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We had fun with pumpkins during our pumpkin week.  We read Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White and created finger paint and glitter jack-o-lanterns.  We read Pumpkin Moonshine by Tasha Tudor and make pumpkin play dough.  We also read Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell and wet-felted a pumpkin house for a pumpkin mouse!
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This is Audrey's wet-felted pumpkin house for a pumpkin mouse!
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Celebrating Pumpkins with Watercolor Jack-o-Lanterns

10/10/2018

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Today, for our pumpkin celebration, we read Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall.  Then we used yellow oil pastels to draw jack-o-lantern faces on our pumpkins.  We washed over the pumpkins with orange watercolor paint so the jack-o-lantern faces shined through and seemed to light up.

One of our favorite poems to recite is:
"Pumpkin, pumpkin, round and fat,
Turn into a jack o lantern, just... like... that!"

One of the songs we love to sing is from Sing a Song of Seasons by Mary Thienes Schunemann:
"Jack o lantern, jack o lantern, how your light it does shine.
Sitting up upon the window, how your light it does shine.
You were once an orange pumpkin sitting on a pumpkin vine.
Now you are my jack o lantern, and your light it is mine."

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Celebrating pumpkins with baking Day

10/9/2018

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October is pumpkin time at our house.  That is why our baking days usually include some sort of pumpkin treat.  So far this month, we have made pumpkin bread and pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. 

We have baking day on Mondays.  I gather all the ingredients ahead of time.  Then everyone gathers around in the kitchen and helps to measure, pour, mix, and stir.

Everyone's favorite part...enjoying our work!
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Celebrating Michaelmas!

10/4/2018

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Every year, we celebrate Michaelmas on September 29th.  On this day, we celebrate bravery, courage, and doing what is right.  It is our tradition to make dragon bread and dragon soup (vegetable and orzo soup) for dinner.  We have apple pie for dessert.  We hold a pretend knighting ceremony, complete with crown, cape, and sword.  At dinner, our new knights slay the dragon (bread).  We also enjoy Michaelmas themed arts and crafts and songs and poems in preparation for the day.

"Brave and true, I will be,
Each good deed sets me free,
Each kind word makes me strong,
I will fight for the right,
I will conquer the wrong."
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Making our Dragon Bread
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Our Dragon Bread
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Painting Wooden Dragons
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During Our Knighting Ceremony
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Ava Helps Slay the Dragon
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And Always Apple Pie for Dessert
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A Trip to the Apple Orchard

10/4/2018

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This was the perfect way to end September and our celebration of apples...a trip to the apple orchard!
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Celebrating Apples

10/4/2018

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Our September was filled with apples...baking with apples, books about apples, art and crafts with apples, apple songs, and apple poems.  Here is a look at some of the fun we had.
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Apple Bread on Baking Day
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Apple Crisp and a story, The Apple Pie That Papa Baked
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Apple Crostata and the story, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
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On a lovely rainy day we made homemade applesauce and read Rain Makes Applesauce.
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Apple stamping is one of our favorite projects this time of year. Add a little glitter and it makes it that much better!
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Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Apple Painting and the story The Apple Pie Tree
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