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Melissa | July 31, 2008
Yesterday was another great day for us with Art and Music! We started some new lessons created by Barb at Drawing with Children: Nature Journal Style. Using the book, Drawing with Children, by Mona Brookes, she adapts the lessons to be used with Nature Study and journaling. With this first lesson we got in an Art [...]
Melissa | July 28, 2008
Around early evening the other night, I heard Alex shouting for me from the garage, “Mom, it’s a hummingbird moth in the garage!” Evidently hummingbird moths, unlike most other moths, become sedentary at night, and this particular one had taken up residence on my garage wall for the evening. Over the last week or so, [...]
Melissa | July 24, 2008
Black and Purple Petunias, by Georgia O’Keeffe
I really love it when I can combine lessons! And yesterday I was able to combine many lessons into one fantastic project! For this year, I have our Art and Music lessons scheduled on Wednesdays. We do not try to accomplish a great amount of other subjects this day, because [...]
Melissa | July 20, 2008
There’s no doubt that everyone loves a neatly trimmed and manicured lawn. One kept with grass and landscaped with beautiful store bought trees, shrubs and garden flowers. But have you ever thought about what might grow in your yard if even just a small part is left to itself?
My husband has a gifted ability to make [...]
Melissa | July 15, 2008
Kidney-Leaf Buttercup (yellow); Spring Beauty (white), and Purple Dead Nettle (purple)
Early Spring 2008
Since the first wildflowers began poking themselves through the spring soil this year, we have been fascinated by them. So we just couldn’t help ourselves but to want to begin identifying them one by one. On average we have been taking wildflower walks once or [...]
Melissa | July 13, 2008
We love blueberries! We love to eat them fresh and bake them in homemade blueberry muffins. And now, we love to paint with them too!
Once again, I owe this idea to my daughter Hannah. She had taken some frozen blueberries and rinsed them off to eat for lunch one day. When she was unable to finish [...]
