Making the Most of Childhood
This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.After we raised Swallowtail butterflies, we decided to make journal pages showing the swallowtail’s life cycle. I had seen the idea of using pressed…
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Raising swallowtail butterflies is such an amazing experience. Swallowtail butterflies are usually hesitant to remain in one place when I’m around, so raising the caterpillars is one way to get an up-close look. We found our swallowtail caterpillars on our dill and Queen Anne’s Lace around our home. We kept them in jars covered with paper napkins that we had…
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Nature study is a great way to experience science first-hand. If you’re looking for a homeschool nature study curriculum, I’d like to introduce you to Wonder-Filled Days in Nature. Wonder-Filled Days is a year-round nature curriculum. At its core, is a watercolor nature calendar with something to look for or a nature observation each day. It also has a tracker…
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One thing I love about nature walks is that you can head out looking for one thing (in this case May Apples) and stumble across something completely different. I was puzzled recently when we came across a fallen log that was stained an attention grabbing blue-green. Don’t you love the contrast between the yellow lichen and the bluish wood? As…
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For an educational activity for the spring equinox, I’m going to show you how you can track the sun’s position throughout the day. I’m indebted to John Muir Laws’ for this sun and shadows equinox activity. He has a very informative article and video about this, but I thought I’d try to break it down a bit simpler. The activity…
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Keeping a Calendar of Firsts is a wonderful way to begin or expand your nature study. It’s also a great way to dive into phenology. Phenology is the study of the cyclic events in nature and how they effect each other. Viceroy caterpillars emerge a few weeks after the willows leaf out. Birds time their nesting to when there are…
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Thanks for joining us. I’m Suzanna, mom to four boys and now an adorable little girl who’s growing up too fast and who will never doubt that her family loves her. I am in wonder of what God has done for me through His Son, Jesus Christ; in wonder of the precious husband He has given me, and of the family we are raising together by His grace. [Read more]
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