Caffeinated Homeschooler

I cannot even believe that it is Halloween in just a few short days! We have been very busy decorating for Halloween, reading Halloween books and buying pumpkins of all sizes and colors. To really get in the spirit of all things fall and pumpkin we visited Craven Farm, a real pumpkin patch with an actual field of pumpkins that you can into and pick the pumpkin of your choice off the vines! No trucked in pumpkins here. The pumpkin patch also happened to be a really great field trip to go along with our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum. This months theme is Down on the Farm, so it was perfect to go down to the farm and see pumpkins on vines as well as corn stalks, and a huge variety of squash. It was a cold rainy day but we still enjoyed the apple sling shot, duck racing, and the 15 acre corn maze. We also visited Apple Creek Orchard earlier in the month for apple picking. It's a yearly tradition of ours and we have been going to Julian for years. So this year I found

It's been a little while since my last post , but relocating is hard and takes some time. We have now been at our new home for 2 months, I can't believe its been 2 months already. My husband just started his new job that brought us here and we are slowly starting to get back into a routine. The last 2 months I have been working more hours and when I am off we are spending time exploring Washington. It is absolutely beautiful here and I am enjoying the cold rainy fall weather. We got none of that kind of weather in San Diego. So not much school has happened, but I think I can safely say we have been world schooling the last few months because believe me learning has been happening. So now that we are getting back into our routine and my husband is starting his job and I am getting back to working part time lets talk curriculum! The last couple years we have homeschooled through a charter school. It was comfortable knowing that they were there if I were to totally mess up. I ha