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Melissa | March 20, 2008
I sure wish I would have had my camera more handy today, the squirrels have been quite entertaining to the kids and I. Evidently the words out among the squirrel community that I not only have squirrel feed, but also prime bird seed and homemade suet. I’m not joking, I must have 15 or more [...]
Melissa | March 20, 2008
Recently Hannah and I were doing one of her Intermediate Language Lessons, Lesson #138 to be exact. I wanted to share this lesson because it was simply wonderful! And to also give a recommendation for Intermediate Language Lessons and Primary Language Lessons, they have been a huge blessing in our homeschool. If you like Charlotte [...]
Melissa | March 19, 2008
Ok, I admit it, this week I just couldn’t do it…I just couldn’t drag us out in this weather! Last week it was truckloads of snow, this week we’re drowning in rain and mud. We made an honest attempt to go out in our backyard on Monday, but between the ankle high mud and [...]
Melissa | March 18, 2008
Rain, rain, and more rain is the theme of this week. Add that to 14 inches of melted snow, you get a LOT of water! But we’ll have a beautiful spring because of it! This video of my backyard was taken this morning before the rain got really heavy, the creek has such a pretty [...]
Melissa | March 17, 2008
Our root vegetable garden is doing really well. We started our project using a carrot, beet, parsnip, sweet potato, rutabaga, and turnip. A picture of when we first started it can be found here. Just today we had to toss out the rutabaga, for some reason it had rotted underneath, very stinky! Everything has [...]
Melissa | March 16, 2008
So what is it about nature study with my children that is so amazing? Is it the smell of the fresh air or newly bloomed flowers in the spring? Or perhaps the peacefulness of the birds chirping in the trees or flying overhead? Yes, it’s definitely those things. But there is one thing that stands [...]
