Autumn is such a great season and I work it into our curriculum every year because it can be so cross-curricular and diverse - even if Lockdown Two interrupts it!
Here's what The Boy and Sunbaby have been up to. (Ballet Girl has had three exams this month and is now working towards her SAT exam. Monkey Girl and Panda Girl are diligently studying day in and day out. I'm very proud of their hard work.)
Last fire of the season before our house move.
Autumn interest, words, letters and activities for Sunbaby
Sycamore leaves
'h' is for hibernating hedgehog
The Boy made a fabulous lapbook about bats, learning about bat breeding, anatomy, British bat species, sonar, echolocation and habitats.
Reading a bat story to the hibernating hedgehog.
The Boy put apple nutrition statistics into a pie chart and a bar graph and Sunbaby made pom pom acorns.
Sycamore leaf lion
'l' is for leaf and lion
Pumpkin lifecycle
Bats
'a' is for apple
't' is for tree
'h' is for hedgehog
Sunbaby did some Autumn art and The Boy experimented with Autumn vocabulary, alliterations and similes, after which he collated his work and wrote a gorgeous Autumn potion poem.
Bubble and brew,
Dribble and stew,
An Autumn potion
Just for you.
Four red leaves,
All in line,
A dash of brown,
A hedgehog spine.
A splash of yellow,
A squirrel or two,
Finding nuts
In Autumn dew.
Hair of foxes,
Wings of bats,
Woolly scarves,
And pom-pom hats.
Tingle, crunch,
Sparkle, tree,
My Autumn potion
Is readyyyyy!
Tiny wooden, Autumn play
The Boy's acrostic poem
Making an Autumn cake for her family
Autumn discovery play
Sunbaby loves these workbooks I've been making for her. They take me HOURS to make and her minutes to complete which is demoralising and awesome in equal measure.
Autumn sensory jar
Making bat cupcakes
Autumn worksheets and activity print outs
Being a squirrel with monkey nuts.
Foraging for sweet chestnuts
Making butternut squash soup with Papa
An Autumn walk
I'm still a little blown away by this. Sunbaby drew this mushroom completely by herself. I drew one, step by step, on my paper and she copied each step - with this result. Clever sausage.
The Boy's fly agaric
Toadstool and mushroom identification fun
Apple crumble
Outside
Apple bobbing and float or sink experiments
Shape matching
Letters in salt
The Boy's asthma has been pretty bad this past fortnight so he has rested a fair amount, He thoroughly enjoyed watching Autumn Watch while he rested. He learnt about:
Seals on the Isle of May
Gannets and their neck anatomy
Trees communicating via underground fungal networks
New bird names
Pine martens in Wales
Badgers in the New Forest
Reintroduction of white tipped eagles to the Isle of Wight
Sightings of bearded eagles
Salmon
Bottle-nosed whales
Atlantic tuna
Red and grey squirrels
Foxes
Scientific studies and artificial intelligence
Dormice and house mice
Wetland reserves on an industrial wasteland
Spiders and their hydraulic legs!
Bitterns
He watched their spy cams and hide cams with great enthusiasm and often wandered around the garden with his binoculars
Making a hedgehog
This one has loved her walks recently. So much to see and look at, walk through, play with and pick up.
Silver birch art
Malteser acorns, because yum!
Mama and her baby squirrel.
I love my babies :)
