Tag: nature study
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Outdoor Play: Essential to our Homeschool!
First of all, have you heard our happy news from earlier this week? We finalized adoption of our two youngest kids! That’s exciting, of course, but today’s post is about how outdoor play helps our homeschool — and keeps this mama sane! Outside time improves moods! A couple of weeks ago, we got a new…
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Interest-led, Unschoolish, CM-style Nature Study
Although Scout will happily tell you that she is now homeschooled, I’ve done nothing at all structured with the little ones because: A) It’s summertime. B) Even after just one year of public school, Scout clearly needs some de-schooling. (That’s a post for another day.) C) They are still little kids! What they need most…
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Nature Notebooking Pages
We love using these bird notebooking pages for our nature journal. These are two from Kathryn’s notebook last summer. We have one in-process on robins since we have yet another robin nest on our back porch right now! (This post contains affiliate links. See disclosure.) We already love using NotebookingPages.com for our nature journals, but…
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Nature Study on Tybee Island
I often say that we don’t do as much nature study as I’d like, but what I’ve come to realize is that, although we don’t always have pretty nature journal pages to show for it, and I don’t always take my camera along to document it all, our lives have gradually become more nature-focused. I…
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Homeschool Week: Farmer’s Market, Cute Dog, a Weird Car, and MORE Summer
We’re past Labor Day now… which means summer is unofficially gone, but it’s still feeling plenty hot around here, and I am soooo ready for fall weather. History, Math, Literature Kathryn is enjoying history (America the Beautiful). In fact, she asks to do things like vocabulary words or writing assignments so she’ll have papers to…