Tag: nature study
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{Beautiful Things} Another week of summer
Another summer week full of good and beautiful things. “You make beautiful things; You make beautiful things out of dust… You make beautiful things out of the dust. You make me new. You are making me new.” (from a favorite song, Beautiful Things by Gungor) The collage above is full of beautiful things: Birthday cards….
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A week of birds, birds, birds!
Our hummingbirds are back! Last weekend I hung a feeder and bought a colorful hanging plant for the back porch, trying to give the hummers a better chance of finding the feeder. The next morning, I got buzzed when I took Lacy outside, and this week I’ve seen them coming and going, even while I’m…
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Our Week: Interest-Led Nature Study and More!
LAST WEEK: We finished up Kathryn’s semester of enrichment classes, finally came to the end of the book Freckles (which we loooooved!), and Kathryn and I served at a soup kitchen! I’ve looked far and wide for a ministry opportunity where kids were allowed to serve, and this one dropped right in my lap. Neither…
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Nature Study: Crows
I love it when a nature study comes to us, rather than when we have to go looking for it. (Mostly because I have slacked big-time this year in planning for studies!) We came home one day last week to find this garden snake in our driveway, being attacked by crows. We actually like snakes…
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Our Week: Kites, a Picnic, & the Military Ball
All is well in our homeschool: nothing new, really, but no big bumps in the road either. We’re just plugging along pleasantly through the next month and a half til we’re done with this school year. We are, however, considering the possibility of moving to a year round schedule with something along the lines of…