December 2014 - Unschooling Kindergarten

This entire month we also read "Unwrapping the Greatest Gift" together each evening for Advent. 
12/1/14 - Curious George at the Waterville Opera House; Coliseum
12/2/14 - Behind the Scenes at the Nutcracker, tree decorating, Scouts blanket night, counting steps
12/3/14 - Lots of outside play in the snow!
12/4/14 - Chutes and Ladders, Where is Sock Monkey?, rough-and-tumble play
12/5/14 - Setting up church fair, errands with Daddy (post office, Marden's), shoveling off steps for delivery people, kindness delivery to flaggers, Christmas books with Mama (exclamation points)
12/6/14 - Playing in snow and Minecraft with Neighbors, Sparkle Stories marathon (vocabulary, emotional expressions)
12/7/14 - Sunday School (advent story), choosing wise man costume and pretend play, shopping for giving tree gifts
12/8/14 - Sick day! Lego Marvel game on YouTube, VeggieTales Christmas episode, League of Extraordinary Vegetables, coloring wrapping paper (purple, of course!)
12/9/14 - Sick day! Syllables by sound and clapping
12/10/14 - Sick day! Math magnets (addition and subtraction), reading Lego Move sticker book with finger to follow along and counting syllables in words by sound, coloring advent picture by number with Mama
12/11/14 - Pretend play with Daddy (Indiana Jones), 2nd Advent Candle
12/12/14 - Outdoor time, color-by-numbers Advent picture, games with Brady
12/13/14 - Lowes Build and Grow (Christmas train), Festival of Trees (scavenger hunt), Hanukkah party
12/14/14 - Stars in Sunday School, traditional concert w/Holbrooks
12/15/14 - numbers, reading to Brady
12/16/14 - Russia (Little Passports), library Christmas party (candy factory and ornament-making), How to Train Your Dragon pretend play, Harry Potter Lego book, Scouts (making ornaments for self and friends - Oma and Opa, Grace, Ayden and Brady)
12/17/14 - Emptied dishwasher, drew out recipe and made toaster pizza on his own for supper, dreidel game, Santa's workshop (helping Daddy fix broken ornaments, decorations, etc.)
12/18/14 - Giant snowman, Sparkle Stories (including Nutcracker)
12/19/14 - Newells, more Sparkle stories, recognized the letter "A" in "A tasty surprise!" in book
12/20/14 - Library for banjo music, dancing, and new books (Bear and Beatrice sleepover book, Copy Crocs), choosing get-well cards at Target for aunties, open house for Franks (dragon cave, Legos), Sparkle stories
12/21/14 - Wise man in pageant at church, singing Christmas songs, Santa Activity book, Sparkle stories (new subscription - Willowbee Tree), creating four stories in the style of "If you give a Mouse a Cookie", 3rd and 4th Advent candles
12/22/14 - Helping Mama at work, health food store and post office (balance challenges while waiting in line), superheroes at the playground with Mama, Avery's house for a playdate
12/23/14 - Playdate with Newells
12/24/14 - Making cupcakes and birthday shopping for Jesus, snowball attack on Nana and Grampy's car, Christmas Eve pageant at church (Joseph)
12/25/14 - Christmas! Buildling Lego Fusion and Mixels, new activity books (letters, numbers, hidden object pictures, colors), Skype with Oma and Opa and Aunty Rochelle (sharing stories he had written), Star Wars thumb wrestling
12/26/14 - Playing detective with Grampy, Angry Birds Go! on iPad, walk outside and playing catch with Charlie, Amelia Bedelia books with Nana and Grampy, Sparkle Stories (many...all week long...)
12/27/14 -  Chima Speederz
12/28/14 - Angry Birds National Geographic books, especially the atlas
12/29/14 - Recognizing sight words like "no", "off", and exclamations, restaurant pretend play while waiting at passport office
12/30/14 - Frog and Toad pretend play game with Mama and Grampy, telling Nana about the recipe, making an instruction book for a Popple Lego bed, new Lego Club Jr. magazine
12/31/14 - Cleaning up Christmas decorations, Lego Club Jr. magazine (maze, finding hidden objects, matching letters), New Year's sleepover with Avery

Photos from Aunty Rose

Here are a few shots of the Sweet Pea baby shower, the 4th of July parade and Jon reclaiming some barn board.

November 2014 - Unschooling Kindergarten

11/1/14 - Star Wars Wii game; Jesus Storybook Bible on CD; shopping for Christmas shoeboxes
11/2/14- Jesus Storybook Bible on CD ("trial", "engaged"); All Saints Day - memorial table, breakfast, and procession at church; snow shoveling and winter walk in the first storm of the season
11/3/14 - Tons of snow play! 
11/4/14 - What's voting?; home school group at library for character day and reading; new Lego Club magazine (word fill-in game, connect the dots, hidden pictures, Christmas story)
11/5/14 - Knot tying at Scouts; yard clean-up; nature walk
11/6/14 - Building boats with blocks, playtime outside with Brady at Newells
11/7/14 - Sensory Gym with Grace; Target shopping; new Indiana Jones game
11/8/14 - Lowe's Build and Grow science lab; vocabulary from audio Bible (mistress, results); Ramona the Brave (liberated, for one!)
11/9/14 - St. Margaret of Scotland in Sunday School; audio Bible; science experiments (dancing raisins, bending pencil, oil and water); print vs. cursive
11/10/14 - Legos with Daddy; Horseback riding with Newells
11/11/14 - Indiana Jones with Daddy; knights with Ayden and Brady; gravestone rubbings for Veteran's Day; Legos and music parade with Franks; gingerbread house foam craft
11/12/14 - 
11/13/14 - Little Passports Argentina; Minecraft; outdoor pretend play
11/14/14 - Sparkle Story - Holiday Delight and building spaceship in living room; acting out Wise Men while listening to holiday tunes; Chinese zodiac and learning about qualities of different animals and years (like wisdom and intelligence)
11/15/14 - Reading and acting out Ramona and Beezus stories while playing outside, filling bird feeders, and cooking macaroni and cheese; Playing video games together and learning about buying items; number places (500!) and trying to recognize some letters on packages of popcorn while we packed Cub Scout popcorn orders; Sparkle stories - Holiday Delight and Yom Kippur
11/16/14 - Legend of the 5 kernels of corn
11/17/14 - Crystal tree science project
11/18/14 - Scout badge night; number places (5, 50, 500, etc.); pet store surprise for Mama; coloring purple bat picture; using big words (skedaddle, meteorite when seeing a falling star, swarm of locusts when seeing a snow squall)
11/19/14 - Eartha (giant globe at Delorme in Yarmouth, Maine)
11/20/14 - DIY.org - checking out skills and deciding on Lego and maker tasks to try
11/21/14 - Working on DIY projects (name with Legos, creating a scene of an underwater scavenger hunt); Number places
11/22/14 - Library storytime with Helen and Emily (Brer Rabbit puppit show, African legend book, and other books), cardboard rocketship
11/23/14 - Family Service
11/24/14 - Rocket ship; Ramona's World
11/25/14 - Pretend play with store theme
11/26/14 - Weather videos (Mt. Vesuvius, underwater bomb detonation)
11/27/14 - Thanksgiving!
11/28/14 - Foam nativity scene with Nana; "babysitting" Grampy
11/29/14 -  "New" books with Nana (Three Wise Guys!)
11/30/14 - Pipe cleaner play (after ditch!); Advent Wreaths at church; Robot play and hide-and-seek with Violet

October 2014 - Unschooling Kindergarten

October 2014

10/1/14 - Seasons around the world

10/2/14 - Stacked wood; learned about the circulatory system

10/3/14 - Fall hike; car sing-a-long; rhyming book

10/4/14 - iPad everything! and rhyming book

10/5/14 - Trick or Treating in Houlton

10/6/14 - Bog Boardwalk - identified native plants, including pitcher plants

10/7/14 - Lego creations, outside play marking tree for syrup next year, crayfish, "The biggest leaves, Mama!"

10/8/14 - Leave No Trace at Scout meeting; beige; drew in sketchbook; created a spaceship with chairs and boxes outside; helped Daddy cook

10/9/14 - Playdate with Violet; pumpkin carving and Halloween hunter game

10/10/14 - Leaf raking; bulb planting

10/11/14 - Manatees book; Haunted Woods with Scouts

10/12/14 - Creation Story; duck picture in Sunday School; popcorn sale at Shaws

10/13/14 - Columbus Day

10/14/14 - Lots of outdoor play!

10/15/14 - Pumpkin carving at Scout meeting

10/16/14 - Homeschool Resource Center Pumpkin craft (including cutting with scissors); imaginative play with zoo theme

10/17/14 - Walk with Daddy and Mama on dolly; viking game; paper doll knights; dragons; Halloween audio story (about twins who became what their Halloween costumes were)

10/18/14 - Toys for Tots train; Belfast park and spy game

10/19/14 - Dragon books; playdate with Grace

10/20/14 - Playland Adventures - dodgeball; learning about China from Little Passports; mariner's book

10/21/14 - Stacking wood in garage with Daddy

10/22/14 - Practicing items for Scout badges, including flag folding

10/23/14 - Acted out Bible stories; knights book, including chivalry

10/24/14 - Lego candy dispenser; playground; Target shopping with Mama

10/25/14 - Imaginative play with knights theme; Lego Marvel DS game; meanings of "punch"; monster eyes craft to surprise Daddy

10/26/14 - Family Mass; Acting out creation and Noah stories with church soft playset in Godly Play room; popcorn sale after church; outdoor superhero vs. villain play; read-aloud Ramona and Beezus
10/27/14 - Newells; outdoors with Daddy
10/28/14 - Playing lighthouse keepers; original artwork (leaf-raking depiction)
10/29/14 - Carrot harvest; imaginative play with Star Wars theme; making bat house at Scouts
10/30/14 - 
10/31/14 - L.C. Bates Museum Flashlight Tour for Halloween - scavenger hunt, bat and spider crafts, owl pellets

September 2014 - Unschooling Kindergarten

These are some of the fun things we have been learning with Caleb this September, when Caleb turned six years old!

*Purple is Caleb's favorite color right now!

9/10/14 - Bug Mainea at the Maine State Museum; Lego building with Daddy

9/11/14 - Tomato harvest; Lego Movie and Marvel DS games

9/12/14 - Little Howler (Wild Kratts)

9/13/14 - Fall books; Raptors (Wild Kratts); Lego documentary; creating a spooky house with Mama; pirate sticker scene

9/14/14 - Creation story; creating rainbow ocean picture in Sunday School; harvesting herbs with Mama; nature walk
9/15/14 - Learning about funerals; Abram's Move story; reading Lego Ninjago graphic novel and learning about fonts (like how to tell when characters are yelling)
9/16/14 - Imaginative play with pirate and castle sets; imitation game at Scout meeting; learning about invasive species; creating his own superhero character, Light Man!
9/17/14 - Creating 3D Big Ben like we saw when we were in England; more tomato harvest and helping Daddy with canning
9/18/14 - Creating sticker pad scenes 
9/19/14 - First day of the Common Ground Fair - solar prints and fans
9/20/14 - Second day of Common Ground Fair - visiting animals, spending time with Helen and Baby Emily
9/21/14 - Learning about the President and the Secret Service, and imaginative play with this theme
9/22/14 - Playing restaurant,;practicing with fire ladder with Daddy
9/23/14 - Playground with Grace; potato harvest, Georgie and Bluenose books
9/24/14 - Scout meeting; Moses story
9/25/14 - Rhyming; Moses story
9/26/14 - Playground; grocery shopping and meal delivery to needy family
9/27/14 - Boat trip in Camden with Mama - touching lobsters and starfish, driving the boat; rescuing a turtle on the way home and learning about reptiles and being cold-blooded
9/28/14 - Serving food for coffee hour at church, including helping with food preparation and getting table ready; popcorn sale at Marden's for Scouts
9/29/14 - Turtle rescue game
9/30/14 - Completed Lego Movie police set, acted out Batman story