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We did random fun seasonal books this week, including an old favorite, Popcorn by Frank Asch, and a new favorite, Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! by Wallace. By the end of the week Ted was reading Popcorn all by himself.

We also worked on planning Ted’s novel for NaNoWriMo’s Young Writer Program. He (and Maddy, she wouldn’t be left out!) made lists of their favorite things to include in stories.

For Cub Scouts, the pack had a Halloween party, and the kids got to wear their costumes again. Ted’s spider costume was made of a black sweatshirt and black sweatpants, with extra spider arms made of black knee high stockings stuffed with cotton. One end of each pair of legs was pinned to each side of his shirt. The other ends were joined with string which looped around Ted’s wrist, so that when he moved his arms, the extra legs followed his motions. He also wore some  spiderweb decorated mittens we found in Wal-Mart, and a headband with glittery pipe cleaner antennae attached. Maddy’s angel costume consisted of self-decorated pink fairy wings (courtesy of a kit from Grandma), a frilly white costume skirt with lights, from Wal-Mart, and a white turtleneck and pink pants. Plus a wand, and a halo of the same glittery pipe cleaners. She loved it. The pack started with an awards ceremony. Ted was the first of the Tigers to earn his Bobcat badge, and they all earned lots of patches and beltloops from other things. Then they had snacks and a silly game involving lots of toilet paper and teams wrapping a mummy person.

I forgot to note what they read at storytime, but that evening the kids planned out their pumpkin and Daddy carved it at their direction.

Friday was Halloween, and Daddy took them for a really long walk, as the houses close to us mostly don’t invite trick-or-treaters. For once we had a lot of kids come to our house, though. I guess we stood out, being the only ones participating on our block.

Saturday was the first day of NaNoWriMo. Due to panic attacks, I’d been trying to convince myself not to participate this year, but I wrote a few words anyway.

Our math, science, and phonics are going really well this year. And we're still loving FIAR units!