Have you ever noticed that God made seeds with adaptations that give them the best opportunity to make it to fertile land and grow into new plants?  Hooks, wings, feather, rolling shells, floating bodies and yummy fruit whose seed will be pooped out are several examples.  We took time last week during our nature walk [...]

This month’s nature study is focusing on wildflowers.  Our farm is just abundant with wildflowers this time of year!  During last week’s study, we placed a blanket among a field full of wildflowers to read books and praise the Lord for His magnificent beauty.

Afterward, I sent the kids off on a scavenger hunt.  They had [...]

I love Colonial History and, after this unit, I think my children do, too.  We covered everything from the first colonies of Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth to the settlement of all 13 original colonies to life in colonial times.  Thanks to our “spine” books, Hands-On History: Colonial America and Colonial Kids, the unit was packed [...]

We’re finishing up our Thirteen Colonies & Colonial Life Unit this week.  I’ll be posting soon about the biggest chunk of the unit, but I wanted to take a minute to highlight the 13 Colonies lapbook/notebook we put together using this book.

I had to do the legwork of locating library books about each of the [...]

That’s what we did yesterday!  All in the name of nature study, of course.  )  With some of Dad’s older socks (one white pair and one dark pair) the kids were instructed to run through as many fields, patches of weeds, fence rows – whatever they could find – and then come back home [...]