This is the perfect time of year for finding fruits, nuts and seeds! Your study can be as simple as a scavenger hunt to see how many fruits, nuts and seeds you can find - or as in depth and dissecting various finds to see how they are similar and different. No matter how in depth you'd like to go, our Fruits and Nuts study will give you ideas every step of the way! Neighborhoods, woodlands, nature trails and orchards are all wonderful areas for finding a variety of fruits, nuts and seeds. Be sure to take along one or more field guides relating to trees, wildflowers or berry identification. Now, on to our most recent walk to photograph as many fruits, nuts and seeds as we could on the ... Read More
Our Time Spent with Fruits and Nuts
We've had a wonderful month of nature study! I don't know whether the fruits and nuts were abundant enough to make our nature studies such a success or the weather was so picture perfect that anything would've been a success. Either way, we had fun! We're off to study ponds in October! Here are the resources from the sidebar... ... Read More
Traveling Seeds
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 to observe seed adaptations using the notebooking page found in the NaturExplorer Fruit and Nut study. Here's just a sampling of the seeds we found. This time of year is wonderful for finding fruits, nuts and seeds! Okay, not a seed, fruit or nut, but I couldn't resist this picture! This friendly little Fritillary spent several minutes fluttering between this ... Read More
Take a Walk in Your Socks??
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 minutes time. Before After They took some time to remove as many different seeds and such that they could find and observed each one of them under a magnifying glass. After talking a bit about this method of seed dispersal, they completed a notebooking page on their finds. Art time was so much fun as Mrs. Kim had several sensory centers set up for experimenting with various art techniques. ... Read More