harvest time
Harvest Time NEW EDITION coming soon!
Although the weather is launching a full scale, sizzling protest this week, refusing to yield to cooler temperatures… autumn is just around the corner. In fact, around here, the trees have been hinting at their fall foliage for a couple weeks. A little yellow here, a touch of orange there. Soon, very soon, it will …
Harvest Time Week Eleven – Thanksgiving
So, here we are at the end of our Harvest Time Curriculum. We’ve enjoyed our Thanksgiving focus this week and have spent a lot of time talking about everything for which we are thankful. My children love the Pilgrim Children Books (Samuel Eaton and Sarah Morton). They are fascinated with the chores children their age …
Harvest Time Week Twelve – In November
We jumped ahead a week to read In November, leaving the Thanksgiving theme for next week. One of the activities I had the girls help me with this week was rounding up all of our mittens and we gave them a good hand-washing in preparation of the winter weather that could be upon us at …
Beeswax Candle Directions :: Harvest Time Week 10
Learn how to make your own rolled beeswax candles by following our Beeswax Candle Directions. Beeswax sheets or beeswax candle making kits can be purchased at many natural crafting shops or online. Our Harvest Time Week 10 activity to go along with The Ox Cart Man was making Rolled Beeswax Candles. The last time we completed …
Harvest Time Week Six: Johnny Appleseed
This time of year, of course brings us to the cider mill… or I should say mills. I believe Johnny Appleseed would be pleased to find the acres of orchards in our community. We’ve already visited 3 different cider mills in our area, drank gallons of cider, eaten dozens of warm donuts, and picked bags …
Harvest Unit Week Three – Rusty, Trusty Tractor
Harvest Time Week Three – The Rusty, Trusty Tractor I don’t have any notes from our week yet. We had our big Alpaca field trip on Monday then we all got sick. We all have a nasty cold around here and just doing the bare minimum to get by. Poor Pixie sounds terrible… …
Harvest Unit Week Two – Beatrice’s Goat
Butter Battle 2010 The Boy is 2 and 0 going up against the Kitchen Aid in the Butter Battle. For Week Two of the Harvest Unit our weekly activity was making fresh, homemade butter. We like to turn it into a contest… boy verses machine. Well the girls actually started the butter battle but just …
Harvest Time Week One – Tops and Bottoms
Our Week with Tops and Bottoms Here are some highlights from our week with Tops and Bottoms. It has been hot and hardly fall-like this past week but everyone was excited to get started. Pixie was thrilled to have her own school work and the older kiddos were very enthusiastic about the books and projects …
Harvest Quilt
Last year while completing our Harvest Activities we made 10″ square batik quilt blocks each month with the intent to make a quilt showcasing the kids artwork. This project got buried in the craft cabinet during the holidays and never resurfaced. Recently, I’ve been working on another quilt project and all of the kids have …
A Trip to the Bakery
We went on a wonderful field trip this morning. Our local bakery does a terrific tour for the kiddos. They read a story, Little Red Hen of course. Then they got to see how the bakery grinds their own flour, the huge mixing bowls used for kneading the dough, the large rotating oven and the …
Apple Prints
We spent the morning at Gammy’s yesterday and took advantage of her seemingly endless supply of art materials (this time rummaging through her entire box of stamp pads). We made our apple prints to go along with our Harvest Time Week Four, Johnny Appleseed theme. This was a very easy craft! All we did was …