Green Hour: Challenge 1

I've been wanting to do "Nature Study" for a while now, but I need someone to tell me what to do. Barb at The Heart of Harmony is doing just that. Every Friday she is posting a weekly challenge. She just posted week 3, but I wanted to start from the beginning.


{Walking/falling in our field}

The very first thing that I did was to print out and read the assigned pages from Handbook of Nature Study. I got very excited about starting.



The first thing we noticed was the birds singing.
Then we started looking around and found 3 different bird nests!! All in our yard! Wow!
(The birds were too fast for my camera reflexes.)

*C* noticed that the leaves crunched when he stepped on them.

I asked him how this leaf was different from one that was still on the tree.

He said that on the tree it's green and soft.

After we came inside, we talked about the things that we saw and they expressed an interest in learning more about birds and trees.

We read the section on nests from this book. The kids enjoyed it. *T* even got some of the answers right!

We also read a little about trees from our Kingfisher's The Little Encyclopedia.



I've been debating about taking down one of the nests and looking at it a little more in depth.

I'll update my post if we do.