Curriculum and book reviews, faith, homeschooling and more!
a while back we picked up a garden bugs of Ontario book.
I’ve learned over time it’s not exhaustive as we find LOTS Of bugs in the garden that aren’t in the book.
The lad caught this bug this morning and through searching the computer we were able to identify it. 🙂
he’s gotten curious about bugs since Renee’s children are into bugs and he’s discovering they are rather cool. 🙂
Tuesday we tried to pick up our new car. That didn’t work so we spent some time with oma and papa, building with a new to the lad toy, having lunch and just spending family time. It was a good time all-round. 🙂
Wednesday and Thursday this week we’ve spent a good portion of our days outside. did some gardening, went for a nature walk at Wildwood conservation area. I have tons of pics but its late so I can add those another day. The lad had a hoot and even learned a thing or two. 🙂 We did this walk as part of our time with HOPE. Took about two hours and was just a good learning and spending time with each other time. Played at the park for 10 minutes afterwards.
Thursday (that was today!) we um… what did we do.. the lad played out his time at Mad Science last week. Had a hoot with some bunnies…taught one that screaming when caught was just silliness… Dusty is a very easily started bunny and certainly likes to tell the world about it. played soccer this afternoon…mommy was the coach this week so that was different. and then when we got home to pulled rhubarb, played for a while, put bunnies back in cages. Came inside had snack and went to bed. (at least the lad did). Mommy was tired so just kept herself busy tonight.
Anyways, goodnight all!
Today we practiced opposites. First I had to teach the lad what opposite meant.
And we read a poem on cats, and did some work about Tabby Cats. We’re feeling VERY disorganized and muddle headed this morning so I’m pulling together things that I think will work for us today as book work ain’t where it’s at today. 🙂 So we did some lap book work on cats. Poem, parts of a cat, practicing the letter C, Spelling the words Tabby Cat,
Pulled a poem from a cat study from reading-tutors.com. We read through it a couple of times.
We did this page from Enchanted Learning. And we read books looking for the letter C (easy to do when you have LOTS of cat books). 🙂 We did this maze as well.
Then upstairs to read books for a half hour.
Time for a late lunch. and the cleaning up the house and playing. We done good on a day when we just want to veg so it’s all good. 🙂
This was interesting to learn about.
Hubby found that tidbit of information about the Nyiragongo Crater. The lad and I sat and looked at the pictures and talked about it. It’s very hard to convey to a five year old lad how dangerous all that melted rock would be, and how the gases are dangerous.
He found it quite interesting how they had to protect the cameras too. 🙂
I have the e-book Handbook of Nature Study, and
Barb, the author, has prepared over * 80 * lesson plans (which she calls “nature study challenges”) based on the book, and these are linked for you to freely download and use, on the right sidebar of the blog. Also, listed under the challenges on the right sidebar of the blog are numerous free custom designed notebook and nature journal pages for families to use with the Handbook of Nature Study.
The blog is called “handbook of nature study“.