Three Boys & A Little Bit of Grace

Friday is Nature Day

Today we did our very first nature walk of the year...infact our very first  nature walk ever. Well actually, the boys are always in the yard finding bugs and pulling up plants then asking a thousand questions - what is it? can you eat this? can i pick it up? come on mum...look what i found!!  and then we do a bit of surfing to find out the answers.... These are the perfect moment for learning  to take place (the way it should...not behind a desk)  and alot of the time im just not takin the time to go with the flow..... so our friday nature walks will be a little more structured but not to much....let them ask the questions and go from there.....

After todays walk we did a photo report up on the computer and printed it out for their Nature Folio... they dictated i typed..... and Roo drew a picture of  the lizard he saw trying to catch a spider....

There are a hundred diferent way we can go from here.....im thinking on doing "the life cycle of a cicada" with them......caleb found two cicada's..one of which look like it had just broken out of its caccoon....it was really soft and white with crumpled up wings...by the time he got it home it was a bit squashed though....he was so proud of his little find