Finding Splendor in the Ordinary
I don’t know about you, but this time of year, it’s hard to get enthusiastic about nature study. And lately, I’m losing my own momentum in that area. So, when I started planning our Term 2 Morning Basket, I wanted to brainstorm a simple way to recharge wonder in this area! It had to be simple – I don’t have room… Read More
I’m often asked, “How do you DO science in your home? Especially in the early years? What do you use?” I can certainly tell you what we enjoy, and give you some ideas, but it may not be the tidy, wrapped-in-a-bow package you’re looking for. “The child who sees his mother with reverent touch lift an early snowdrop to her… Read More
I’m so thrilled to let you all know about this series of books authored by Mr. Glenn O. Blough and delightfully illustrated by Jeanne Bendick! They are all out of print now, but they were very easy for me to find and purchase used very inexpensively. They may still be in your library system, so do check! I discovered one… Read More
We’ve really been enjoying some wonderful non-fiction science picture books and I thought I’d share them with you! I have long been a big fan of the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series of books. They’re engaging and a wonderful way to introduce elementary science concepts. I have collected several of them over the years; I began to wonder if there were any… Read More
It’s March and that means…Spring! Some days can still be quite cold, but some days are downright gorgeous!!! And the days are stretching and getting longer which means more sunshine, and sunshine is never a bad thing! Our nature table reflects the seasonal excitement of nesting birds! This is a favorite time of year for us! Most of the birds… Read More
Let’s face it, February is always a bit of a low for us homeschoolers. Work starts dragging, attitudes are suffering, days are cold, we begin questioning our curriculum choices, and planning faults are magnified. It’s a challenge to get motivated. One area of our homeschooling venture is always rejuvenating for us – nature study. Nature study in our house takes… Read More
I have resisted the purchase of more shelving for the learning room for some time now thinking “surely, I can make this fit somehow!” I have not been happy however with my Nature Shelf. We used to be able to fit on one shelf – one shelf! Then, I expanded over the summer to 4 shelves. It still wasn’t working…. Read More
I have resisted the purchase of more shelving for the learning room for some time now thinking “surely, I can make this fit somehow!” I have not been happy however with my Nature Shelf. We used to be able to fit on one shelf – one shelf! Then, I expanded over the summer to 4 shelves. It still wasn’t working…. Read More
Sweet Pea has been reading in Nature Friend, and decided after several articles on keeping ladybugs as pets, that she too wanted to create a habitat for some ladybugs. She used an old mayo jar with a plastic petri dish cover for a lid. It fits just right over the opening, and Sweet Pea likes that it’s clear. See her… Read More
It was time to get out for a long nature walk – we headed down “Anne Lane” to the bottomland. It was quite warm yesterday, and I had been back-packing the Peanut up the bluff already, so I wimped out and asked if we could take the gator down to the river. Everyone was agreeable, so off we went. Isn’t… Read More
Kim and Chris really came through for me and sent me some pictures from their camera. I had to include them here. I wish I had thought to ask for them to include in the original post So Much Scope… Well, above is the Anne field as it was last Sunday. Waiting to spring forth with color, but still holding… Read More
Alright – let me just start by saying that I’m not sure how much restraint I can exercise here. There are just oodles of pictures from this nature walk. Mom, I’m going to try to keep you off the world wide web – but so many of the good pictures with you and the Peanut would have to be excluded…. Read More
