November

November! What happened to that month?

It seems like it just flew by. We were busy with schooling the kids and preparing for winter and lots of geocaching.

This first photo is of Brian working with a NH Fish & Game Biologist during Salmon Sunday. On this day the lake-locked Salmon which have been rounded up are "stripped". The process is very interesting.

Andrew was learning about density in science during November and this is one of his experiments of solution stacking. He was able to stack 4 solutions in the straw by their density. He also floated eggs and watched videos and there have been too many "dense" jokes going on!

Benjamin and Andrew got their awards at the end of soccer season. It's Ben's first trophy. We had a nice pot-luck with all the teams and said goodbye to soccer season in a bittersweet way!

Other November happenings in our homeschool involved the book club book "The Scarlet Pimpernel". We really enjoyed the classic and it sparked a whole study of the French Revolution. So much for my earlier history plans! 'Cest la vie.

We had a great group activity of making mouse trap cars, theater class has been going well, music lessons too and lots of excellent writing projects. Ben is finally turning a corner with learning to read and it has been a really neat experience for me as teacher to see him get excited about learning. We're sort of unschoolish so we have waited for Ben to be ready to learn. When he decided to learn or matured enough or whatever it was...this time is when he got *ready* to go and wow! the progress is astounding! He also lost his first baby tooth and learned to power slide his ATV. Important things in the life of a 6 year old!

I think that's a good recap of the month of November!

~Rachel