Outdoor Hour Challenge ~ Seasonal Weather Study ~ Autumn

First a little update on our pumpkin study:

the pumpkin we selected was only 8 1/2 inches tall, with a circumference of 26 1/2 inches. It weighed 6 lbs and we counted 21 lines on the outside of it. There were 397 seeds in that little pumpkin!
We dried the seeds and will be roasting them along with the ones that will come out of the pumpkins we will be carving very soon.

Now, on to the Seasonal Weather Study:




It was very warm yesterday afternoon, but our night was cold. This morning we woke up to a blanket of fog. I thought it would be fun to go for a walk in the fog. My oldest daughter has a cold, so she stayed back along with Celeste. Andre, Orion and I went around the block. He was the photographer most of the time and had a great time!

The fog was so thick at first, but by the time we headed back home, it was already lifting. We found some beautiful dew and couldn't help taking more photos!



Andre also took a little video of the fog, about half way through our walk:




Here is our journal page completed for the seasonal weather study (it was so hard to do the fog, lol).



You can participate in the Outdoor Hour Challenge by visiting the wonderful Handbook of Nature Study blog hosted by Barb.

Wordless Wednesday ~ I have spectators..

taken by Adrienne

Outdoor Hour Challenge ~ Autumn Series ~ Pumpkins

For our study on pumpkins, we went to the pumpkin patch. We brought home a couple of pumpkins and a few gourds. The kids and I would like to try growing gourds in our garden next year, and maybe a pumpkin too! We're going to save a few pumpkin seeds for that purpose.

Once we had the pumpkins at home, we decided to guess a few things..
how tall was our pumpkin
how heavy it was
its circumference
how many lines it had on the outside
how many seeds were inside

We all guessed and recorded our findings on a pumpkin data sheet (part of the teacher's guide from author Gail Gibbons site), then we measured and also cut open our pumpkin to take all the seeds out for counting.

Book Sharing Monday

A special Halloween Book Sharing Monday! We have read a few books related to Halloween and most are listed below the main blog title. I am sharing one of Celeste's favourite. It's a counting book and she "reads" that one to herself several times every day!

"10 Trick-or-Treaters: A Halloween Counting Book" written by Janet Schulman and illustrated by Linda Davick. The trick-or-treaters are scared away one by one. Celeste really enjoys counting down and also counting all the candies at the last page.

"3 trick-or-treaters - why are there so few? A vampire crooned, "Good evening"...

and then tere were 2."

For us homeschool moms...14 days of homeschool