Nature Study – Pond Resources

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 17:53 | Category : Nature Study
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What a wonderful month studying ponds!  Here are the resources that have been in the sidebar.  November = rocks!

Nature Study at the Creation Museum

Monday, 28 September 2009, 7:13 | Category : Field Trips, Nature Study
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When you think of the Creation Museum, the first thoughts that pop into your head are probably things like Bible truths, dinosaurs, Noah and the flood, the need for Jesus and so on.  We took a tad different approach to the normal routine of simply touring the museum this time around.  Even though it rained [...]

Wild Turkeys

Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 11:04 | Category : Nature Study
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As we were finding giant turkey prints on a farm walk, one of the giant turkeys who had been hiding in some brush decided to get out of dodge.  I know you can’t see him very well, but in the middle of the bottom picture is the very fast flying turkey skedattling across the field [...]

Fungi of Summer/Late Summer

Saturday, 19 September 2009, 8:42 | Category : Nature Study
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Many people think fungi are only around during the wet and warm spring months.  How are these for August and September fungi finds?? I took these pictures near the edge of a creek on rotting logs and on a walk in the woods.  They were everywhere!  Finding fungi is one of my new nature study [...]

Ending our Month Spent with Wildflowers

I admit that wildflowers are quite possibly my favorite of all nature studies.  I’m always in awe of God’s creativeness, beauty and majesty through such delicate little things like wildflowers.  I’m also amazed at how each season presents me with new flowers that I’ve never noticed before – each with awesome characteristics that are different [...]