October plans...

Here's a quick run-down of what we will study in October, as much for my own reference as anything else!

Language Arts
Elf: Finish The Mouse & the Motorcycle, summarizing the story in a few sentences per chapter, with pictures. Start Henry Huggins OR The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Do lessons 3 and 4 in Writing Tales (lessons cover 2 weeks each). Start working on G.U.M. or Daily Edit programs. Work on D'Nealian handwriting in preparation for cursive.

Fairy: Work through the letters C-M in Oak Meadow 1 (3 letters a week), and related print-outs/workbook pages. Work in HWOT. She loves being read to, so in addition to the Oak Meadow fairy tales, I am putting a lot of these books on hold at the local library. They're just lovely.

Math
Elf: lessons 16-31 in Saxon Math 3 (we only do math 4 days a week)
Fairy: lessons 36-51 in Saxon Math 1

History
Chapters 22-25 in SOTW, with narrations/summaries. Project-wise, we need to finish our Greek vases and then I haven't chosen yet.
Finish The One-Eyed Giant and move into the 2nd book in Tales from the Odyssey

Elf has done a map of our county with notable geographical features labeled on it and now we'll move on to Native Americans of the area. There is a great hiking trail about an hour or so from our house that has points of interest labeled along the way, and in reading the signs, you get a great sense of the day-to-day life of the Miwok Indian.

Science
We're using One Small Square Woods as a jumping off point for nature studies in October. Also, the kids decided today that they really, really want to do this funny, very informative, and really cool (not to mention free) life science program. So, nature studies once-a-week-ish, and life science twice a week, more or less. We'll see. They may decide after a week or two that one science is enough, so I am putting together a list of supplemental books for the One Small Square stuff. Or, maybe we'll do life science once a week (just the reading and worksheets) and do nature studies twice a week... hmmm.... methinks I like that idea!

Other
We are busy, busy, busy! The kids' dance teacher asked today if I would like to bump the Fairy up to the next level of ballet and tap classes after the winter break. She won't be technically old enough even then, but apparently she dances well enough! We are continuing with roller skating and drop-in gymnastics, Park Day, our homeschool 4H (all kinds of crafts and stuff), field trips... we have two in October: one to a pumpkin patch and the other to a fantastic aquarium. Plus, they love their charter school classes - art and gardening. Phew!