Category Archives: Nature study

Nature Study Tuesday~May 9~Around the Yard

Change in Plan… Our phlox has spread widely and is so pretty. Robins have come back and are fluttering around our yard. Philip caught a bull snake in our yard.  It is over 4 foot in length.   Grab the button and add your URL to the linky below~ <br /> <center><a href=”http://peacecreekontheprairie.com/category/homeschool/nature-study/nature-study-tuesday” _mce_href=”http://peacecreekontheprairie.com/category/homeschool/nature-study/nature-study-tuesday”><img src=”http://peacecreekontheprairie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Nature-Study-button.png”…

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Nature Study Tuesday~Creation Study with The Nature Boy~May 3

This post is a team effort from The Nature Boy aka our oldest son Philip and myself.  We have worked on this together from keyword outline to rough draft to final copy. Creation is the basic foundation of our Christian Faith.  As Christians without understand creation there is no need for God…Could this explain the…

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Nature Study Tuesday~Horsing Around~April 26

This week, we didn’t get out much and when we did, I didn’t have my camera.  However, we did get out on Easter Sunday and rode horses. Lora 8 riding for the first time by herself. Your’s truly riding Stormy…this is the mare that was severely injured in August…We have come a long way. Our…

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Nature Study Tuesday April 19~Garden, Lilacs, and Butterflies

Wow, we managed to plant 200 onion sets and around 100 potatoes…I didn’t count them. lol I have four rows that are nearly 20 feet each. Our lilacs are blooming and with them, have come the butterflies.  We have spotted Monarchs, Painted Ladies, Sulphers, and Black and Yellow Swallowtails. Spring has Sprung and the winds…

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Nature Study Tuesday~April 5~Baby Possum, Owls and More…

Hey all, here is my real post. Nature Boy isn’t quite done with his post for this week, so you are stuck with me. Sunday morning dh and oldest found a dead possum on the road.  On their way home, they stopped to see if it had babies.  Well, it did and this one was…

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Nature Study Tuesday~Nature Boy talks…

Guest post from: Philip (11)  AKA Nature Boy. I caught a fence lizard the other day. I set up a habitat with old decaying wood, rocks, dirt and growing cheat for it in an aquarium. I like to do a few science experiments with it.  I made a jungle gym out of yarn for it…

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Nature Study Tuesday~March 21~Windy Kansas, Spring is blowing in.

There are little signs of spring all over.  The strawberries are starting to poke through the hay we mulched them with, the alfalfa fields are more green then brown, and the wind is BLOWING.  Blowing hard enough that we actually stayed inside today.  Why?  Because the pollens are high and the need for Benadryl has…

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Weekly Wrap-Up~Starting Nature Studies Again, The Boys of ‘76, and more…

This week has been a busy week at home.  We have gotten up fifteen minutes earlier then last week each day.  Our nap/rest/reading time has been much more peaceful.  I think I will go another 15 minutes earlier next week and then see how this schedule works for the rest of the spring.  Why would…

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Homeschool Sanity in the Special Needs Homeschool Family

When you are a homeschool family with a special needs child, there comes a time that you find what works.  The sooner the better.  There are many families with more then one special needs child.  Our family is blessed—yes, I do mean blessed, to be one of those families. We have one child with dysgraphia,…

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