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Melissa | March 31, 2008
It all started yesterday morning. I was going about my morning business outside of filling my bird feeders when suddently I heard it…the familiar sound of a Pileated Woodpecker, and it was loud, obviously very close. I stopped in my tracks and scanned my eyes meticulously across the woods, expecting to see his red head [...]
Melissa | March 30, 2008
Tabletop Root Vegetable Garden (the parsnip never produced, so we tossed it this week, the turnip, carrot, beet and sweet potato remain) Wow, Turnip! Beautiful Beet Leaves Hannah’s Strawberry Plant (tiny fruits keep forming!) Carrots, Roma Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Basil Seedlings (everything’s sprouted; isn’t it neat how the Roma Tomatoes [...]
Melissa | March 28, 2008
Today was Arts and Music day. So after Math and LA studies, we listened to a little bit of George Frederic Handel and did a really fun art project. Towards the beginning of the year we did a study on Mary Cassatt mostly using books from the library, including our favorite by Mike Venezia, Getting to Know [...]
Melissa | March 26, 2008
We’ve been seeing very small glimpses of him for a week now..but he was so quick to fly away, we could never really observe in detail. But…sometime within the last week my son managed to hear and remember their call. Here’s how I know…. Today, right when we were getting school started this morning, Alex jumped [...]
Melissa | March 25, 2008
“Nature-study is science brought home. It is a knowledge of botany, zoology, and geology as illustrated in the dooryard, the cornfield or the woods back of the house.” – Handbook of Nature Study, Page 21 This week we were to pick another item from our focus area to read to the children about, [...]
Melissa | March 24, 2008
I’m going to start calling these posts “Green Monday” because every Monday, as part of our Science/Nature lessons, we take notice of all the green things growing in our house and do journal pages and other things for them. First, an update on our Tabletop Root Vegetable Garden…It’s coming along very nicely. The turnip [...]
