May’s Creation Club

Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 11:11 | Category : Creation Club
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This month’s Creation Club focus was on creeks and creek banks.  Sadly, though, the creek bank was grown up more than I had imagined and we didn’t get to do nearly as much exploring as planned.  For me, it didn’t matter because I can enjoy any nature walk.  For the children expecting to explore a [...]

Creation Club – Evergreens, Focusing on Conifers

Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 20:59 | Category : Creation Club
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Our Creation Club started again!  And, as usual, the Lord blessed us with absolutely beautiful weather!  This month’s topic turned out to be more timely than I ever imagined when planning it.  I had anticipated just getting to talk about certain aspects of conifers because I assumed we couldn’t possibly find examples of every stage [...]

October’s Creation Club – Trees

Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 8:35 | Category : Creation Club
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Our Creation Club met for the last time until spring.  (Boo Hoo)  This month’s focus was on trees and we were as busy as beavers!

As a warm-up activity, each child was asked to find a leaf from any tree in the area.  They had to remember which tree it came from!  Then, they exchanged leaves [...]

Manet, Pachelbel and Wildflowers

Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 9:06 | Category : Artist Study, Composer Study, Creation Club
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Our first Fine Arts Tuesday has come and gone.  What a lovely day it was!

We will soon be listening to Peggy’s Violin: A Butterfly in Time (which is a wonderful story of the life of a violin, by the way!)  Woven into the story are several classical music pieces by famous composers.  One of the first [...]

July’s Creation Club

Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 18:33 | Category : Canning and Freezing, Creation Club
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July’s meeting was less of a nature day and more a celebration of water.  We had a water field day!  Each of the moms brought a water game or two which turned out to be tons of fun.
Let’s see, the kids played a relay carrying containers of water on their heads, a sponge and bucket relay, and competed [...]