Tag Archive: Nature study

Homeschool Mother’s Journal March 28

In my life this week… God has led me down a path, I wasn’t expecting.  I am putting together a new resource blog for the Christian Homeschooler.  The purpose?  To help parents distinguish between curriculum that will meet their needs and curriculum that is marketed to meet their needs, but won’t.  Yes, this was brought…


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…


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…


Nature Study Tuesday~March 1

Welcome back to Nature Study Tuesday.  We took a break over the coldest months of the winter, but now it is warming up and time to get back outside and enjoy God’s creation. Over the winter our oldest Philip, AKA Nature Boy, fed an opossum in our garage.  This opossum has been lose and able…


Learning as a Lifestyle Science.

Someone once asked me what I used for science in our homeschool  I stared at them blankly.  Seriously I did.  Shh, we really don’t use anything for science.  Science happens in life, and well, we just let life teach us.  This is coming from a mom who literally tested out of High school biology, helped…


Nature Study Tuesday~Pumpkin Patch~October 26

This will be the last weekly NST until spring, unless, I have people showing interest to continue it.  I am considering it doing it monthly through the winter.   I just don’t see myself, or others, really being out in Nature enough to be about to post each week. This past Friday, we went to a…


Nature Study Tuesday~A Day at the Refuge October 19

This past weekend, we went to the nearby wildlife refuge for their annual celebration. First we went on the tram, the took us through an area of the refuge to the lookout tower over the marsh and wetlands. We learned that the marsh, is supposed to be naturally salty, but over the years has “freshed”…


Nature Study Tuesday~October 5~Apple Orchard

I am sorry I am getting this up late.  Our four year old most likely broke his arm Saturday, and I have been running. He has an ortho appointment tomorrow, so we should know for sure by then. Friday we went to an Apple Orchard for a field trip.  It is a beautiful place to…


Nature Study Tuesday~September 28~ Large Moth

This week we were out playing, and our landlord/adopted grandpa drove in with a special package.  I guess our love of nature must have rubbed off on him.   Anyway, he brought us a large moth.  We believe it is a tobacco hornworm  moth, but umm, it seems that these big moths all look very…