Two Weeks of Fun

We just finished a great book - Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories.  This book sorts some interesting pieces of artwork from all over the world and gives them a little historical context.  There are only a few pages for each piece, so it's not too hard for short attention spans.  After we finished, we headed back to the Crocker Art Museum for a fun day looking at art.  We like to follow that up with a walk through Old Sacramento, stopping at the school house and ending at the train museum.

We started working on our own book about the way things move.  We read about ramps.  I wrote some basic principles about directions and force and Genevieve watched for examples throughout our week.  Gymnastics and the park gave some great examples, but we also went to the trampoline park and Imagine That.  They painted some cars and a plane.

Of course, we still had our other weekly activities.  We played soccer and went to art class, where Genevieve made a craft stick Frankenstein.  We walked around the area and rode the small train too.  We had some great fun playing at the park and with dance and gymnastics classes.  Mr. Dan read about fall in storytime.  We had our last week of animal songs at Music Makers.

At  home, Genevieve helped design a haunted graveyard and made some fall jewelry with Grandma.  Genevieve started working on princess decorations for her birthday party too.  She finished some sun catchers, wind chimes and a mobile.  Tobias has been really interested in lining up his toys and taking tours of our solar system, walking by the line of pictures on our wall as we name them.

As October began, we celebrated Chuseok, making some lunar observations and painting the night sky.  She also helped me carve a pumpkin in a pattern of stars and moons.  We read about spooky animals like bats and spiders plus dealing with feeling scared.