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Melissa | June 28, 2009
This past Friday our Nature Club met at a local park to learn about and observe wildflowers. The park had some gorgeous wildflower fields. Here are a few photos from our meeting. Sorry there are not many photos, I find it difficult to lead the meetings and take photos. It [...]
Melissa | June 26, 2009
The most fascinating and beautiful clouds are oftentimes seen right after a storm. Last night we had some very impressive storms come through equipped with high winds, hail, lightning (which seemed to keep the sky lit up constantly like a flickering lightbulb), and thunder that made me jump out of my seat a few times. When the [...]
Melissa | June 21, 2009
Well, it finally happened…he has hunted since the beginning of spring, he has sought out almost daily to find one…and today, with his heart beating faster than a hummingbird’s wings, my son swiped his trusty frog net through the creek waters and came up victorious with his first American Bullfrog catch!! He has caught several less challenging [...]
Melissa | June 15, 2009
Two interesting news articles regarding nature have been passed my way recently and I wanted to share. First there was recently a report on Good Morning America on how scientists are starting to look more at ants to learn about improving our traffic systems. Seems ants really know how to cooperate and work together to [...]
Melissa | June 9, 2009
Recently the children and I went on a fungi hunt. The photos in this post are just some of what we found. The word fungus doesn’t usually make us think of fun nature study. In fact if you’re like I was before learning about it, the word conjured up sorta unpleasant thoughts, to be [...]
Melissa | June 5, 2009
I keep saying it, but it’s worth saying over and over again that nature can be used to teach SO many things! The more we do nature study and observation the more opportunities I see. We’ve been focusing a bit on learning more about the human body lately. We’ve studied the human body [...]
