While we wait for Beluga in her ballet/tap class, Indie is doing his phonics and math lessons. We are taking it easy between Thanksgiving and Christmas so this is a nice change. It’s breezy and about 80 degrees here in South Florida. Ahhhhhh 🙂
Brian tired very hard to catch a either a butterfly or a dragonfly but had to settle instead on a little beatle walking on the path. It worked out fine. 🙂
Little Miss J did pretty good drawing this flower for a 4 year old! I was impressed!
We’ve only just started nature journaling this year. I put everything in one binder for now. I have divided sections for each of them and a pouch to hold stuff to draw with and to collect things with. We’ll see how it goes. I’d like to do this at least once a week if we can. We are doing KONOS Attentiveness next which is a lot of nature stuff it should be good. Will be easier too getting out in the cooler fall/winter weather down here.
J got a scooter for her 4th birthday last month and we hadn’t taken them out yet (away from the driveway in front of the house). Today was the first of many time. I love how light and easy they are to bring along. I get exercise too walking along with them in the park
A couple of weeks ago, while on our evening walk, we noticed woodpecker holes in a dead palm tree. As we approached, we saw an adult woodpecker leaving the tree and I told the kids to go up to the tree and see if they hear babies. Sure enough! We could really hear them chirping away. We hung around for a while looking and listening carefully. A couple nights ago we stopped back by to check on them and my husband put his camera in the hole and took a quick photo. Looks like there are 2 live babies and one that didn’t make it. We’ll keep an eye on the tree/nest. I love seeing wild life and nature right in the middle our neighbor here in South Florida.
Today we had a class with some homeschool friends at the local nature center. First, we went out and collected 5 flowers we would later press into a book we were making. It’s a great book we can add pages to in the future. Also in the class today we learned about spring showers and how the water cycle works. We have been going over this at home so it was a perfect time for this class. The kids seemed to really enjoy it. This is right up Beluga’s alley. At 3 1/2 that’s all she wants to do. Every time we go outside she’s looking for flowers to pick and bring home. I have a little bud vase she put them in. We keep it on the kitchen table a lot. Many mornings we have woken up to a dandelion seed explosion all over the table. 🙂
