Autumn Treasures... a DNG review

Because we have been having beautiful sunny days and temperatures in the 90's, it was hard to decide about doing this unit.. I still felt summertime... and was wondering if it wasn't a lil' too early to start thinking about fall and the changing of the seasons... cooler evenings, roasting marshmallows, and sitting by the fire...

Well, it only took my kids a second to decide that thay wanted to do it, since they had so much fun with the ones before ~ so the decision was made... and off we went on our journey into fall...



The 5 day plan for Autumn Treasures includes:

Day 1: What is Autumn?
Day 2: Science Secrets of Autumn
Day 3: People and Places of Autumn
Day 4: Time for Tips and Treasures of Autumn
Day 5: Goodies and Gadgets of Autumn

Autumn Treasures is a wonderful way to ease into the changing of the seasons. At $7.95 it is also affordable...

Since we had some other activities going on, we decided to omit the lapbooking part of this unit and just concentrate on the information, videos, and books... It worked great for us... So the DNG units are truly flexible and can be used in whatever way suits your families' individual needs... But here is a look at some of the wonderful notebooking and lapbooking worksheets included with the unit:

We talked about the changing of the seasons and how where you live on the earth determines what season it is (hemispheres)... I included discussion on longitude and latitude for DS (10yo) and DD (7yo) even picked it up... We read some of our favorite books and some new ones...

The Leaf Man is one of our favorites...

we read the Pumpkin book by Gail Gibbons (another of our favorites)

and we also brought out our Crinkleroot guide

The kids love leaves and we looked at our leaf collection that we had started last year, looked at seeds and leaves under the microscope, and talked about photosynthesis and used some info from this site for our discussion and experiments using solar paper...

 you can buy the paper here...

We learned about Johnny Appleseed, watched a video from Netflix (I love Netflix) and made homemade applesauce in the crockpot... made apple prints and discussed symmetry (you can find out how here)...and drank wonderful apple cider...

Roasting corn on the cob over the fire gave us the opportunity to branch into seeds and even a rabbit trail on how Squanto taught the Pilgrims to use fish to fertilize their corn when planting... not too mention it was delicious!!

More science with migration and the various geese and ducks that have been flying over our house and fields and just getting to go out and enjoy God's beautiful creation and appreciate all the wonder he has created for us and learn about in the process...

And with the Autumn Equinox beginning, it's the perfect time to give this unit a try at 20% off until Sept. 24th through THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE... Just click on the TOS link and it will take you right to where you can purchase this great unit!!

As a reviewer for DNG, I get the use of this unit free for my honest opinons and review...

Happy Fall!!