We have been surrounded by utter beauty this week. In the midst of taking pictures, sledding, skating on the ice covered snow, making snow cream and more, I prompted the children to squeeze in just a little learning. They had a long walk to their favorite sledding hill. I asked them to just listen for…
If you live anywhere near a pond when it freezes over, this is a great nature study activity! We headed out in the very cold wind to bring a sample of ice home from the pond. After trying to break the ice with a knife (which usually works), then a large rock (which almost always…
Our “math break” continues to bring lively and rich lessons! One of the projects from Hardhatting in a Geo-World concerned bridge construction. We had to make six different bridges and test their strength. After completing the activity and filling in the chart provided, I had the kiddos show their findings with homemade graphs. The book…
We are having SO much fun with this book! A little break from the regular math schedule has turned out to include such exciting math and science that my kids are actually asking to do more. 🙂 Here are some photos from one of this week’s investigations…. Cylinder structures – Using various sized cardboard tubes…
Our Monthly Book Club We take part in a Book of the Month Club for elementary homeschool students that we just love. Our family had never heard of this month’s assigned book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. What a great surprise…my children and I LOVED it and now consider it to be…
Hubby joined in on our nature walk this week. I love when he goes because he always knows where to take us for a new adventure on the farm. This week was a walk along a creek bed on a neighboring farm that we rent. He has known about several of the secret surprises we…
(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…
We live in Central KY – what’s often called the “Horse Capital of the World”. We’re surrounded by beautiful horse farms and have the priviledge of living near the Kentucky Horse Park. With so much horse business going on in the area, there are two premier equine hospitals within easy driving distance. Lucky for us, Rood and Riddle…
Our Creation Club met this October for the last time until spring to study deciduous trees. We were as busy as beavers learning and having fun together! You’ll love the easy ideas and free printable that will work for any sized group of children. This post contains affiliate links. Deciduous Trees Lesson and Activities Partner…
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…
For those of you who know Melissa from blogging, consider yourselves blessed. But, if you’re lucky enough to know her in person, how much more blessed you are! It was such a treat to spend time with her last week. Not only that, she took on all three of my children while I spoke at the THINK meeting AND…
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…