What We Studied

Every single day, we switched the schedule and what we did per Arthur’s request. It made for an interesting week for homeschooling.

Literature and Poetry

We kept reading Winnie the Pooh and started reading The House at Pooh Corner. We didn’t get as far as I would have liked, but we’re plugging through the book next week also. Good thing too as our next book didn’t yet come off hold at the library. That’s okay. I think we are going to substitute with a different book the next week instead. We also grabbed a new poetry book featuring seasonal poems.

• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

• The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

• Pumpkin Butterfly: Poems from the other Side of Nature by Heidi Mordhorst

Math

This week was all about fractions! Arthur caught on pretty quickly, so we went further than I thought we would go. We even covered improper and equivalent fractions a bit. We’ll circle back in a few weeks.

• Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy

• Fraction Fun by David A. Adler

• Working with Fractions by David A. Adler

• Fractions, Decimals, and Percents by David A. Adler

• If You Were a Fraction by Trisha Speed Shaskan

Social Studies

We covered a few U.S. History lessons this week. On Monday, we learned about Indigenous Peoples’ Day and talked about why we don’t celebrate Columbus Day anymore. From there, we covered Jamestown, Roanoke, and the Pilgrims’ arrival. We also watched another episode of Native America. Only one more in the documentary series. So sad! It’s just so so good! Arthur actually requested history multiple times this week. It was a good week.

• The Lost Colony of Roanoke by Jean Fritz

• 1607: A New Look at Jamestown by Karen E. Lange

• The Jamestown Colony by Peter Benoit

• The Mayflower by Mark Greenwood

• Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage by Peter Arenstam

• Fact Tracker: Pilgrims by Mary Kate Osborne

• 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O’Neill Grace

• Pilgrim Cat by Carol Antoinette Peacock

Science

Science was all about nocturnal animals this week! It dovetailed nicely with our weekly unit theme of owls.

• When the Stars Come Out by Nicola Edwards

• Nocturnal Animals by Abbie Dunne

• While the World is Sleeping by Pamela Duncan Edwards

• Daylight Starlight Wildlife by Wendell Minor

• The Night is for Darkness by Jonathan Stutzman

• After Dark: Poems About Nocturnal Animals by David L. Harrison

• Night Animals by Gianna Marino

• Daytime Nighttime by Diane Lang

• Nighttime by Jill Esbaum

• The Night Box by Louise Greig

• Lucy’s Light by Margarita del Mazo

• Night Animals Need Sleep Too by Gianna Marino

Art

We didn’t end up with any formal art lessons this week.

Music

Our composer of the week was John Philip Sousa. Arthur enjoyed him a lot more than Puccini and opera from last week. We need to watch The Music Man this week to keep up our march theme.

• Biography by Mike Venezia

Nature Play Day

Our nature play was all about fall this week! We walked down to the forest to notice the seasonal changes and search for animal tracks. Because it was such a nice day, we spent some time at the playground before heading back to the house. After lunch, we made fun seasonal shapes stained glass and compared some leaves. Such a lovely day!

Unit Theme

Our weekly theme was owls! Lots and lots of owl books, some owl facts, and fun owl videos. We also covered the chapters in The Tarantula in My Purse that talked about a screech owl.

• Owls by Mary R. Dunn

• Berkeley’s Barn Owl Dance by Tera Johnson and Tania Howells

• Whobert, Whoever Owl Detective by Jason Gallagher

• Knight Owls by Eric Seltzer

• Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton

• Hooray for Today by Brian Won

• The Happy Owls by Celestino Piatti

• Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin and Rob Dunlavey

• Little Owl’s Night by Divya Srinivasan

• Good Luck Baby Owls by Giles and Alexandra Milton

• Little Owl’s Orange Scarf by Tatyana Feeney

• Owls are Good at Keeping Secrets by Sara O’Leary

• A Snowy Owl Story by Melissa Kim

• The Owl and Other Night Creatures

• Owls by Valerie Bodden

• Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

• Baby Owl’s Bakery by Ji-hyeon Kim

• Baby Owl’s Rescue by Jennifer Keats Curtis

• Whoo-ku Haiku by Maria Gianferrari

• Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry by Vern Kousky

Misc. - Random picture books read

• it’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond

• Monsters Don’t Eat Broccoli by Barbara Jean Hicks

• Little Tree by Loren Long

• Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist by Linda Skeers

• By the Light of the Moon by Fran Preston-Gannon

• The Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Denys Cazet

• Moon Rabbit by Natalie Russell

• Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

• How to Be on the Moon by Viviane Schwarz

• Hey, Hey, Hay! by Christy Mihaly

• Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant

• Tractor Mac: Autumn is Here by Billy Steers

• The Pumpkin Mystery by Carol Wallace

• The Magic School Bus Ride Again: Hide-and-Seek

• Charle the Ranch Dog: Rock Star by Ree Drummond

• The Ghosts Go Haunting by Helen Ketteman

• Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin by James Howe

• Little Muir’s Song by John Muir

• Pattan’s Pumpkin by Chitra Soundar

• WonderFall by Michael Hall

• Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell

Highs

• Arthur’s birthday was on Thursday! We had sundaes and a shortened school day.

• Loved the owl theme this week!

Lows

• We ran out of steam a few times this week…

Next Week

Our weekly theme is bats and spiders! Celebrating the spooky for the month. In history, we are going to cover ancient Babylon and Assyria, plus a continent study for Asia.

Next up on the TBR pile: