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Melissa | August 14, 2010
We finished up our butterfly and moth focus this week in school. With my youngest (Kindergartner) I’ve concentrated on the very basics of these wonderful creatures. And one concept we’ve learned about was symmetry. Aside from bringing up the word “symmetry” to her as often as possible during the past two weeks, the three main [...]
Melissa | August 9, 2010
As always when we start paying more attention to something in nature, God starts blessing us with wonderful opportunities to see it. As I said before we are learning more about butterflies and moths this first couple weeks of school. Yesterday my oldest daughter came running excitedly through the front door declaring that we were [...]
Melissa | August 7, 2010
“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” ~Jeffrey Glassberg The soaring heat and humidity of August makes it an excellent time to observe butterflies in nature. In fact, for this first structured week of school, I have focused on butterflies [...]
Melissa | July 27, 2010
God has given all creatures a line of defense, something to give them a better chance of survival. And lately I’ve become intrigued by seeing evidence of this on our nature walks. For instance below you will see a picture I took at our last Nature Club meeting. Notice the tiny red and black bugs. [...]
Melissa | June 3, 2010
All things in God’s creation are beautiful. However, lest we keep in mind some things have been “tainted” by the sin in this world. My Dad would say that moles are one of those things, along with poison ivy and such. I think it comes from all the years that he’s battled the vision impaired [...]
Melissa | February 21, 2010
Lecia, one of my readers, recently emailed me to ask the following question: Several moms in our homeschool group want to start a nature club but we have no idea where to begin with forming a club. Can you tell me a little about yours? Thanks for the help! Thank you for your question [...]
