The really good stuff ...
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| Scripture Memory |
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| Adventures in My Father's World ~ science |
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| Interaction of yeast and sugar ... Jesus is the bread of LIFE. |
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| Notebooking our discoveries. |
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| Yeast interacting with salt ... not so impressive. |
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| Adventures in My Father's World ~ History |
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| Oiled paper windows, in the spirit of the Pilgrims. |
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| The Dutch Pilgrims ... well, coloring the Dutch Pilgrims. |
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| Unusual concentration for this one. |
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| Homemade butter. |
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| James was not a fan. |
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| All Nature Sings, Queen Homeschool |
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| Studying oak leaves. |
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| Aging trees. |
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| Picking moss. |
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| Lovely lichen. |
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| Weekly nature walk. |
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| Or, skip. |
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| Or, climb. |
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| Back home ... |
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| to notebook our exploration. |
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| Viola, age 5 |
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| Mae, age 7 |
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| Birds, Nests, and Eggs (Take Along Guides) |
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| This week we read about the Chickadee in the Burgess Bird Book for Children, listened to its song, watched a video of it in flight, then enjoyed a little fellow on our bird bath outside the kitchen window. |
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| Each of my girls keeps a nature notebook to chronicle our bird studies, ala Burgess. |
I am crazy thankful for the gift of home schooling these children and witnessing their amazing growth and learning and wonder. So very thankful.
Looks lovely. Thanks for the recent posts, Erin!
ReplyDeleteThe birds ... were those coloring pages that your girls colored and then cut out and put into their notebooks? Good idea!
Love and light
Melissa
www.irienarrowpath.blogspot.com
Loved seeing what they are doing... missed your posts, sweet mama!
ReplyDeleteWhat nature book is "Mae" working on? It looks like it's from Queen's! I have drooled over their Discovering Nature Series, but I am waiting for one that supposed to be for younger kids. What does Mae think? Can Viola do it also?
ReplyDeleteHi Melissa ~ I think I sent you the link to the bird study we use with Burgess. There with each bird/chapter are links to coloring pages. Cornell has several good ones. And 50birds.com, I think it is. I do have them color the bird realistically and then cut and paste it into their notebook and sketch the background. I think they are happier this way than with trying to actually sketch a bird, plus we do one to two a week, so their birds might start to look the same. :) This helps us identify them out in nature, too! Thank you for reading!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cindie. :) I have been so behind on this, but pictures are really better than words sometimes.
ReplyDeleteCindie ~ We are using the youngest Queen Nature book ... All Nature Sings. I LOVE it. WE LOVE it. It is 180 lessons around Oakie the Oak Tree, Daniil, Beneniah, Creation, etc. One of the weekly lessons is reading/narrating the short story. We typically combine this with another of the week's lessons (a shorter one). We tend to take two weeks per lesson, since we don't do nature five days a week. Viola (5) can participate in most of the lessons, and I modify when necessary, especially with writing. I do not have two copies of the book ($$) so Viola keeps her journaling in a separate nature notebook of her own. This last week I omitted one "research" lesson that I felt was too much for Mae, too. I'm happy choosing what works for my girls each lesson, but as a whole it is likely more appropriate for upper elementary. I am still planning on Bessie next year. The series is beautifully done overall and fills a niche for me that I can never quite pull together as I hope. We use that and our Burgess Bird study and take what we've learned into nature on our walks weekly. Good stuff. :)
ReplyDeleteThe two consumable book thing has kept me from buying it right now also. That's a lot of money if it doesn't work out. I was wondering about the age-level since it's in the Easy Packs for 2nd grade-ish and up. Sandi says she's coming out with a younger one in the next few months. I will probably wait for that. Right now we are doing Oakie and the NSTLB guide that goes along with it slowly and they use a MLB to journal in. I love the Burgess Bird book. Could you link to where you print things out to go with it? We just read it last year.
ReplyDeleteHey Cindie ~ That's awesome that Sandi is writing a nature book for youngers. I don't really agree that ANS is realistic for a 2nd grader, even, but like most things, it is workable. What do you think of the Oakie study? I have the one for Pagoo and find it too advanced still. :( For the Burgess Bird Book ... here is what we use for the coloring pages and links to bird songs: http://satorismiles.com/2010/03/08/burgess-bird-book-companion/. This site has great videos: http://classicalcharlotte.net/burgess-bird-book-video-companion/. And, we use this site as our guide for which chapters to read each week based on our season: http://www.kellscraft.com/yearwithbirds.html. I have also found a few bird coloring pages here: http://www.50birds.com/. I hope that helps. :) Sometimes I feel like just doing birds this year and no ANS, but the stories in ANS are sweet, too.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Thanks, Erin. Coloring pages are always a hit here. :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome Erin! I always love seeing your pictures of the work they do. It is so inspiring. It is wonderful to see their progress in ADV and in all of the other curriculum that you are tying into it. I am happy for you.
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Im very interested in the Discovering Nature series, and it's so hard to find reviews on it, and to really see what it entails. Love the looks of it! I'm with the others... the price is what gets me. But, we may get it and stretch one guide a couple of years. Thank you for posting some great ideas!
ReplyDeleteHi LeAnna, I think I just posted on a comment you made on ALHOW's FB page. :) My candid thoughts on DNS ... it's good. Really good. It's advanced. Too advanced for my girls who are in 2nd and K. Will be too advanced for them next year too. The price is out of our budget this upcoming year since we have to buy two books. :( I tried to have my K'er simply notebook in her own little book, but it just didn't have that special-ness to it that my older daughter's actual All Nature Sings book had for our lessons and keepsake purposes. I wish there were more of a work around for that ... the cost. I know that Queen says that the DNS is considered a full year of science, but I found that it was not fluid enough for us. So, we switched to Apologia, which is also a CM style and the jr notebook has been an absolute favorite of my girls, as have the hands-on experiments and learning experiences. It was also pricey, but the text is not consumable so I only need to re-buy the notebooks for my other children. ALL that said, I do hope to do Mary's Meadow with my girls in a few years since I find it incredibly sweet. I am also eager to see the new DNS coming out this spring geared to younger children as that might be perfect for James in two years when the girls are in Apologia Land Animals. You can DEFINITELY stretch one DNS over two years since it is 180 lessons. I would surely suggest that as well. I hope that was helpful. Thanks for reading. Are you starting ALHOW Vol 1 in the fall? It's just plain wonderful!
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