Halloween 2015

 Cool display at the local garden center this year. Hannah doesn't really do scary but I enjoyed it! They had a tunnel set up in store with lots of ghoulish scenes along it.

 Halloween afternoon took us to the marina at Port Solent for a Trick Or Treat pumpkin hunt - much more Hannah's thing. She dressed up as Hermionie Granger  from Harry Potter this year. I actually shopped the school uniform sections for the first time ever! Her Hogwarts robe and tie came from Amazon, and my friend crocheted the Hogwarts scarf and hat for her. I lieu of a basket Hannah collected her treats in her hat :-)

After dark we headed to Grammy's house. Her street is a fun one to trick or treat as most people enter into the Halloween spirit and decorate their houses.

and at home, Hannah carved our pumpkins, a cat and a traditional jack 'o' lantern.

Currclick American Girl Club - October

This month the American Girl Club book was Kirsten Learns A Lesson by Janet Beeler Shaw which is the second book in the Kirsten series.

Kirsten starts school in America, but she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston comes to live with the Larson family. Kirsten's only escape is playing with her secret friend, Singing Bird. When Singing Bird suggests running away forever, Kirsten must decide where she belongs. Kirsten does learn some important lessons in school, but she learns something even more important about herself.

Hannah loved the Native American connections in this book and really enjoyed learning a little bit about Sweden (Kirsten's homeland) during the class.

After talking about the book and discussing some of the characters the children did some really fun crafts.

Hannah made a replica patchwork quilt in paper such as Kirsten would have made,

and a buffalo skin native American writing craft.

Currclick American Girl Club can be found here American Girl Club , if you'd like to join in.

Beach Day

We had an awesome beach trip yesterday, I love the beach in autumn it's quite possibly my favorite place to be.

Luckily Hannah shares my love of the beach and had a lovely time wave jumping, sand dancing and running around.

A Homemade Loom

Inspired by a recent trip to Little Woodham 17th C village, Hannah wanted build herself a little loom and see if she could make something. With a couple of knitting needles, a doll desk and some yarn she managed this -

and made herself a bracelet!

She is now busy investigating proper looms as potential Christmas presents :-)

A Rainy Day At The Playground

Only one other family came to the home ed meet at the adventure playground this week - it was a very wet day - but they were the family of Hannah's really good friend so she still enjoyed herself immensely. 

She spent lots of time on the zip wire,

and they excavated some very interesting rivers and lakes in the sand.

A Quick Catch Up

My laptop isn't working, and blogging on my phone is proving tricky, so here are a few pictures of Hannah and her friends this week!

At tennis!

At the adventure playground,

With Chocolate the rabbit 😀.

And at Priory Park in Chichester.

She has also been to her English, Math and Art classes!