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Friday
Oct282011

Trick-or-treating take one

We spent the morning waddling through downtown Dexter collecting candy from the participating businesses along the main drag (read: the one street in town), and the afternoon waddling around the rec room at our homeschoolers group Halloween party.

Waddling is what penguins do.

A doughnut for lunch?

Cookie decorating (and eating) for snack...

spooky searches...

making salt dough ghosts and pumpkins and gluey and sparkly crafts plus a plethora of homemade munchies warm fall drinks...Halloween party homeschooler style.

And when we got home Calvin dove right into his candy, but not to eat it. We pay him ten cents per piece that he turns in to us, so the candy sparked an hour of learning about money and counting up his earnings. He opted to keep only one piece to snack on (tomorrow, since we'd had enough sweets today), and earned $3.50 for the rest. After all that excitement we were too tired to carve pumpkins after dinner tonight, so that has been postponed, but still, the Halloween weekend has begun.

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Reader Comments (2)

He makes a great penguin! You did a fantastic job on the costume. It looks like he had a good time at the party - we actually just went to our first homeschoolers party last night and had a blast. Homeschoolers really know how to do things right. ;) Enjoy your Halloween!
October 29, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterMargaret
Thanks, Margaret! Glad to hear you had a great Halloween party with your group, too.
October 31, 2011 | Registered Commentercortneyandjon

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