Parker Prep: Exploring Fall

We are nearing the end to the beautiful Fall days, so this week, we spent a lot of time outside, and did a few Fall activities to go along with.

Day 1

Confession - I had all the ideas written down, and no books! So...we went to the Library, and then we played at a part and gathered some leaves. When we got home, we added to our weather graph, reviewed numbers 11-13 and learned the next part of Psalm 23.

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures."

We also did Lesson 13 in our reading book.

The landscaping company in our neighborhood made a GIANT leaf pile. Like, 15 feet wide by 10 feet wide by 3 feet tall, so we played in that for a good chunk of time in the afternoon.

Day 2

After the usual review, we got out the leaves we collected yesterday and looked at them with a magnifying glass. We noticed different colors, shapes, and sizes.

Then we flipped them all over to see if the back was the same color as the front. Some were pretty close, others were very different.

Next, Parker ordered them from smallest to biggest. He found the biggest first, then the smallest, and then worked his way through the rest. The middle ones were more difficult, but we worked through the problem-solving process together.

ThenI helped him do some leaf rubbings, and he stamped the word "Leaves" on top.

We read

and did a reading lesson.

Then he chose three letters to do the pattern lock letters with.

Day 3

It's Halloween! We started with the weather graph, and you'll never guess what it was....SNOWY?!

I was really hoping we weren't going to have to use that one in October, but it made for a good graph! Parker is really good at answering graph questions. He can tell me which has the most and the least. Which type of weather and 0,1, 2, and 3 days, and we are working on figuring out how many more sunny days there are than cloudy days.

We started our pumpkin exploration by measuring how tall our pumpkin was.

He estimated five blocks. Pretty close!

Then I laid out three strings, short, medium, and long, and had him guess which one would fit perfectly around the pumpkin. Once he found the right one, he measured that in blocks, too, and guessed it would be longer than seven blocks. He was right!

Then we read,

What a beautiful book! I got a little misty-eyed.

I just love when the gospel comes to life in a new way.

Time to dig in to our pumpkin! We cut off the top and dug out the guts. Ahhh - the smell of the inside of a pumpkin is like heaven!

Then, just like last year, he hammered some nails into the pumpkin. He was in his own little imagination world when he was doing this. It was fun to listen to!