(click on the icon to visit The Outdoor Hour site)
I have come across several families
using the Outdoor Hour as part of
their HS curr. I finally checked it
out, and the girls wanted to do it.
quiet about all the wonderful things
we discovered, perhaps
next time we contain ourselves :-b
We visited a park near by, this park is not new to us,
but it was like the first time for us because we
were observing, listening and taking in
all we could.
The first thing we observed was FROGS!
Frogs, frogs everywhere, it was like we stepped
into the pages of Exodus, everywhere we stepped
little frogs would leap and jump...we were trying to
be so careful not to crush any
then we came across this little guy, he was about 1 cm in size
we thought at first we has a frog that had not lost it tail
but with a closer inspection the head
looked like a grasshoppers, it had what looked like
folded wings, there didn't seem to be any
hopper legs, but only four legs...strange indeed!
We tried to get a pic of his face but he just
kept turning his back to us...
then we came across an empty oyster shell
the girls walking (as quietly as possible)
We came across this huge tree trunk, next time
we go we are taking a large string to measure
things with. Once home we will measure
the cut strings :-)
our next find was a spider hanging out on it's
web (a fisher spider?)
the local ducks gathering around,
oh, poor little thing...we came across this
little fellow, all alone with his head tucked
into his feathers. When we walked closer
he didn't move...his eyes look very weak.
I believe he was sick, very sick.
We said a prayer to Yahweh to help him
This is the last discovery. A beautiful mushroom.
I made up some Nature Journals for the girls
Here is YahChanna's entry...her two favorite
creatures were the spider and grasshopper.
Here is
AbbiYah's entry...she loved everything
and wrote about it all!
The two topics of study this next week will be:
Pygmy Grasshopper (YahChanna's choice)
Ducks (AbbiYah's choice)
I'll be making up notebook pages for the info
they gather then put them in their
school notebook
rustling...
crispy...
green plants...
round mushroom...
strange mushrooms...
ant hill...
sticky, pointy, round... 
hard, rough, and strong... 
soft, velvety, thin... 
