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Nature Study Tuesday~Sept. 6~Tomato Horn Worm Moth

  Welcome to our Nature Study Tuesday.  I no longer do these every Tuesday, but we do them around monthly. A week or so ago, my son found a pupa, I couldn’t get my camera close enough to get a picture that you could see.  However, my son was out side constantly watching it every…


Nature Study~July 5 Garter Snakes

For my new readers, Nature Study is part of our homeschool for my oldest anyway, and it seems his younger siblings enjoy it much more then they admit. My oldest loves snakes, he is quite careful of what kind he will pick up though.  In fact just last week, he was out messing around in…


Nature Study Tuesday~May 17~Nature Boy Tells about Baltimore Orioles~Today Brought to you by Nature Boy

The Baltimore Oriole is a colorful bird.  It has an orange stomach, black head and wings, with some orange and white with in the wings. A good way to tell if this bird has been around is to look for it’s nest.  Their nest looks like a crocheted purse, hanging by the handles, attached to…


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”…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…