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Melissa | May 28, 2008
In the last week, we have been on several wildflower walks! Each time the rain would let up, we’ve been out there discovering new flowers. And truly, everytime we go out there’s a new one to identify. It has been so much fun for us! There really is so much more to knowing the names [...]
Melissa | May 19, 2008
Due to getting behind on practically everything this week, I’ve tried to combine challenges #13 and #14. We’ve certainly been out in nature when there was an opportunity, but downpours of rain and cooler temperatures have kept us inside too much. We had already accomplished flower pressing in recent weeks, so isn’t wasn’t hard to combine [...]
Melissa | April 2, 2008
This week’s nature walk was accomplished on my parent’s property, it was a nice change of scenery, with some new things to look at. For us, this walk was all about signs of spring! We are all suffering from an acute case of end of winter blues; so it was timely for us to be [...]
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, and have our nature [...]
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 brrrrr cold [...]
Melissa | March 11, 2008
Despite our early Spring blizzard which resulted in near 15 inches of snow on Saturday, we still managed to complete our Green Hour Challenge this week! Yes, today we bravely donned our winter coats, hats, and mittens and met some dear friends at a local park to have a nature walk.
But before I get too far ahead of myself, [...]
