Last week I shared The Grouchy Ladybug portion of our Bug/Insect Unit Study. As we continue with our Bug/Insect Unit we enter the world of spiders, beginning with reading The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. Spider Facts: All spiders have 8 legs All spiders make silk in their bodies which is used to spin […]
Ava and I are working our way through a bug/insect unit using Eric Carle books. Homeschoolshare has a bunch of great lapbooks for these books which has been our stemming point. From there we also really like Enchanted Learning and First School for information and printables. Check in over the coming weeks for the rest […]
The Handbook of Nature Study blog is the home of the weekly Outdoor Hour Challenge which encourages families to enjoy the nature in their own backyards through simple activities and nature journals. A global community of families link up with the Outdoor Hour Challenge community in a monthly newsletter and blog carnival. Outdoor Hour […]
We read from the Big Handbook of Nature Study about daffodils and learned some flower vocabulary. To go along with our theme of daffodils we read the poem Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) by William Wordsworth, and included a copy of it in our nature journals. We also watched this great animated version of […]
After a much needed vacation, we are home and getting prepared to dig in again. But things are changing around here! We are throwing out some things and trying some new ones! For the past 3 years we have taken to planting seeds and gardening at this time of year. From April to September/October we […]
The BIG Handbook of Nature Study THE BIG HANDBOOK OF NATURE STUDY is a HUGE (940 pages) wonderful teaching guide full of hundreds of nature study lessons, activities and discussion questions. It is a complete multi-year nature study curriculum that you can use for years to come. It is over 100 megs in size! The […]
We recently enjoyed a nature walk which included a guide that took us around to check out nesting boxes and fed us loads of great information about a couple of the common types of birds that would nest in them. It was primarily about bluebirds (thus the Bluebird Nature Walk) but there are other birds […]
Quote for the week: This was the third and final week of my Tooth Unit with Ava. You can check out Week 1 and Week 2 now, and in a few days I should have Week 3 up as well. Monday: Today we had a field trip to a local Nature […]
Ava and I just finished our second week of 3 on a tooth unit study. I found a tooth unit from HomeSchoolShare to use as my starting point and then I am adding and subtracting as I see fit. During our first week, we read Throw Your Tooth on the Roof and started some […]
What You’ll Need: White and black construction paper Cotton balls Glue Scissors Pink mini puffball 2 googly eyes Red yarn/pipe cleaner Sheep body template (simply click on image to make it full size. Then right click and save as) Sheep head/leg template (simply click on image to make it full size. Then right click […]
Monday: Joey was off from work today to celebrate President Lincoln. Whatever the reason, when Daddy is home the flow of the house is disrupted so I aimed for a shorter day. Amazingly we breezed through our “must dos” of history (Africa), First Language Lessons, math, and instrument practice, as well as spelling for […]
Monday: Today was somewhat uneventful. Given that we had a busy week ahead of us we used the morning to get some work done and then headed out for the kids music lessons. Tuesday: We are continuing with our Africa studies. This week we learned a few words in Swahili, and we have some more […]