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Nature Study: Dragonflies
Yesterday we did Barb’s Nature Study #28 on Dragonflies… and we actually found some! LOL! I think this is the first one this year where we’ve found what we were looking for. Sam noticed a trio of dragonflies and drew this: and then wrote this hiku: Warm weather brings joy and good humor as dragons [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Nature, Outdoor Hour
Nature Study: Bees… or not
Bee Theme and nature study idea courtesy of Barb’s Nature Studies… Well, similar to the week we tried to do butterflies… the bug in question was no where to be found. LOL! We spend about 20 min stumbling around the backyard. Found lots of butterflies, toads, frogs… but no bees. Was a little cooler this [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Outdoor Hour
Week 4 Highlights
Whoosh! Here I am again looking back at another week. I’m shaking my head at how fast time is flying by. But here we go… Building jigglebots… Take a look at this funny video. Jessie took her waterbot 2.0 into the wild Jessie took the jigglebot supplies and kept building. Found the tiniest ring-neck snake [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Weekly Review
Science Saturday
The kids made their first robots today! Click here to see how “waterbots” did. The instructions are from Supercharged Science’s Summer eCamp Robot Lab. You can bet we’ll be doing more.
Posted in Homeschooling, Science
Week 3 Highlights
A few pictures… a few notes. It was too hot to ride so we walked and saw some pretty cool stuff along the way. Jessie & I planted “sock seeds” The kids dug for soil samples to compare And found out just how much air is hiding in potting soil. Whew! It went by so [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Weekly Review
Looking Back at Week 2
Thought I’d post about some of the other things that happened during this week. Mostly pictures with a few notes mixed in. Thought it would be fun to combine our drawing exercise with our Nature Study Subject. Goal was to use all 5 elements of shape to create a butterfly. We used pastels and construction [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Weekly Review
Nature Study: Butterflies
Today we did our second nature study of the year on Butterflies. Here are some pictures that Sam took on our walk around the yard this morning: Not sure what this one is… Bronze Copper maybe? Eastern Tailed Blue photography by Sam White Dotted Prominent? Before starting out we looked up butterflies we have seen [...]
Posted in Backyard, Homeschooling, Insects, Outdoor Hour
Seasonal Tree Observation – Summer
Here are some pictures from the Outdoor Challenge we did today. Jessie chose a Red Cedar (her favorite climbing tree) in the backyard. Sam chose an Ash… in the front yard. So I spent some time going back and forth at first. Jessie’s Red Cedar Tree Looking up the Cedar Tree Sam’s Ash Tree looking [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Outdoor Hour
A New Start
Today was our first “working” day of the new school year. All that prep I did… well, I wasn’t as “prepped” as I thought and spent a panicked few hours Sunday evening trying to get my brain wrapped around how the day might go. Didn’t help much that I’m feeling rather hormonal. :\ Moving along [...]
Posted in Homeschooling
Found and Lost Chapter 1
For your reading pleasure, I have a bit of a guest post. Sam has been working on this story for weeks and is seriously seeking feedback. So, if you have time to read and leave comments he would be seriously ecstatic. Found and Lost an original story by Sam Martin Chapter One A lone figure [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Language Arts