October is my favorite month when homeschooling. The weather begins to cool down and we spend more time enjoying the outdoors than any other time of year. The bugs are gone, the sun isn't making us sweat and the leaves are changing to shades of red, orange, and yellow.
There are plenty of activities you can include among your lessons throughout the month of October. Here are just a few of them:
Hayrides and pumpkin patches: Most farms offer free hayrides down to their pumpkin patches. Kids get to roam through the pumpkins and choose one to take home (for a fee of course). We always like to gather one pumpkin for carving and another for painting. Then we decorate the porch steps with them.
Corn mazes: Some corn mazes are simply mazes, while others have clues throughout them that kids need to put together to form a puzzle. Others, yet, are turned into haunted mazes at night if you like that sort of thing.
