Thursday was a busy day for us! We made some frosting for our sugar cookies. Since they were pumpkin shaped, we experimented with red and yellow food coloring. Amazing! Those colors mixed make orange when you use food coloring just like when you use paint. How did Mommy know that? I had planned ahead and made the boys smaller sugar cookies to frost. There was a lot more eating than frosting going on on their part of the table.
We did a pumpkin cutting activity (fold pumpkin in half and cut only on black line) and a sequence the 5 pumpkin sheet. These are Ryan's. He obviously needed assistance, but he had fun and is very proud of his accomplishments.
Justin did this sort by size sheet. I think the large and medium are pretty close to the same size. He initially made a mistake when sorting, but caught it and was able to self-correct before he glued them in place. He wouldn't have been able to do that if I hadn't insisted that he sort first, THEN glue. He didn't want to break it down into steps, but I knew that it was probably a good idea for him to do that.
Justin also did the color the shapes the correct color. He went through and did all triangles first, then circles, etc. I thought he would do one pumpkin at a time. He also added corn for the scarecrow. He definitely will still have plenty of skills to master when he starts school. He likes to color, but not in the lines.
Friday the boys were so excited for the Embassy Halloween party that we voted to skip school. AFN was showing some Halloween cartoons and the boys were into watching them, talking about the party, and making sure their costumes were ready. Halloween has been fun. I don't know if we will enjoy the Thanksgiving activities as much. I will do my best.
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