Making the Most of Childhood
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A Citizen Science Project For All Ages The Great Backyard Bird Count is a fun citizen science project that involves observing birds near your home. Birds are easy to find, colorful, and delightful to observe. Robert Bateman has this to say, “Of all wild creatures, birds are the most colorful and easiest to see. You don’t need to travel to…
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Smoky Eye Boulder Lichen Nature Journal Page We’re surrounded by so much beauty and diversity in nature that sometimes it can be hard to know what to focus on. It can be easy to forget to examine the details. A great nature journaling idea is to zoom in on a certain feature of an item you see in nature. It’s…
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A Winter Nature Activity A fun nature project to do in winter is investigating rehydrated lichen under a microscope. We’re exploring lichen in our nature study this month. One of the extra projects is rehydrating some lichen and examining the water droplets under a microscope. You don’t need an expensive microscope to enjoy doing this. First, you need to rehydrate…
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Dock Seeds are Key to Identifying Dock Varieties We found two different types of dock this week. The thing I love about dock varieties is that you can identify bitter dock (and curly dock) in winter just by looking at the seeds. Even when the leaves are hidden under ice and snow, you can examine the seed heads that are…
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What You Can Discover on A Winter Nature Walk We try to get outside and explore every day, even during the winter. Once you know what to look for, exploring nature can be just as interesting in winter as in summer. Here are a few things that we found on our recent winter nature walk. Winter is a great time…
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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]
