(This post contains affiliate links and links to my business website, Shining Dawn Books.) It was COLD in Central KY yesterday The nature walk part of our nature study was rather short – just a quick trip down to the creek bed to collect a variety of leaves. But once we got home – the…
Yesterday was Tuesday and that means another busy, but very rich day of learning in our house. After a bit of Bible and math, we went outside for nature study from a distance. Instead of observing God’s creation up-close and personal, we took time to view the beautiful autumn trees as they grow in groupings. All…
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 in ten…
This week’s Fine Arts Tuesday finished our study of Monet. I’ve love his work and could probably spend many more weeks with him as our focus, but it’s time to move on. We’ve been finding and hearing lots of frogs around the farm lately, so a picture study using three of Monet’s “Waterlillies” paintings seemed…
The walnut trees are beginning to change colors and drop leaves in Kentucky already. While they’re still full of nuts, I wanted our nature study time this week to focus on these trees. We used one of the nature notebooking pages from the Delightful Deciduous Trees NaturExplorers study to focus our attention. Mahayla made some Apple…
Fine Arts Tuesday was another hit this week. I don’t think any of us are going to get tired of it anytime soon! Early morning nature study was a simple summer scavenger hunt. Art and classical music were combined this week. In a simple activity, you play a piece of classical music and let the…
Tuesdays are such a sweet treat! Nature study, artist study, art projects, composer study, tea time and an afternoon club are making for full and fun days. Last week’s nature study turned out to be working cattle in the barn with dad. I had planned on a nice walk to observe trees and their lines, but…
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…
I’m the first to admit that “fitting it all in” is hard. And in the past, to my shame, the first things to go when “school” seemed to be pressing were the richest learning experiences of all – artist study/art opportunities, composer study, and even nature study. I don’t know why it seems like those studies…
As a fitting end to our Keepers At Home year, we had a little scrapbooking party. What great memories come from this group! (And, yes, even our boys have fun. But, ahem, shooting a foam deer with a bow and arrow in his Contenders of the Faith class at co-op was MUCH more manly! Thank…
Our final unit study of the year turned out to be a great one – even if it was on the lighter side of book learning. We had just finished an intensive study of the Middle Ages, which naturally covers a lot of Renaissance history. So, the main purpose of this study was to tie…
Making hot rocks was SO much fun! Since we just happened to be doing the rocks and minerals section of our earth science unit, the craft fit in perfectly. The rocks turned out so well, we entered them in the craft division of our co-op’s expo. Heat rocks in the oven at 350 for 15…