Discovery School Nature Study: A journal of our discovery of the natural world around us
Challenge #1: Let’s Get Started
Resources
· Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock ww.archive.org/details/handbookofnature002506mbp
· Outdoor Hour Challenges, Nature study close to home by Barbara McCoy
· Handbook of Nature Study Blog: handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com
This week’s challenge was to just get out into nature nearby our house. We chose to visit our friend Kathy’s backyard garden. She’s an avid gardener and has transformed the shape of her backyard into a lovely cottage garden with a babbling water fall and fish pond that the kids love. We’ve been so many times that the Reeves was surprised I chose there as our first spot. What could we see that we hadn’t seen before? So we decided to look past all the landscaping and transplanted flowers. We chose to focus, instead on the pieces of nature that were there by chance. It was a whole new location then. Reeves and I took pictures of lots of treasures. While I found it hard to stray from flowering plants, Reeves found several unusual items. Following is our photo diary for this week. Because we will be learning more about identification and journaling, I will post these with general descriptions only.
· Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock ww.archive.org/details/handbookofnature002506mbp
· Outdoor Hour Challenges, Nature study close to home by Barbara McCoy
· Handbook of Nature Study Blog: handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com
This week’s challenge was to just get out into nature nearby our house. We chose to visit our friend Kathy’s backyard garden. She’s an avid gardener and has transformed the shape of her backyard into a lovely cottage garden with a babbling water fall and fish pond that the kids love. We’ve been so many times that the Reeves was surprised I chose there as our first spot. What could we see that we hadn’t seen before? So we decided to look past all the landscaping and transplanted flowers. We chose to focus, instead on the pieces of nature that were there by chance. It was a whole new location then. Reeves and I took pictures of lots of treasures. While I found it hard to stray from flowering plants, Reeves found several unusual items. Following is our photo diary for this week. Because we will be learning more about identification and journaling, I will post these with general descriptions only.
Snow drops? Not sure. Reeves spotted these in our driveway. Possibly from perennial seeds strewn last year?
Dandelion Fluff - that's the technical term!:)
A violet
Cones of a Hemlock
A violetA lily pad (not naturally occuring, but cool!)
Remains of a Grackle. Reeves was fascinated by the maggots. It was a good lesson about the creatures that help keep nature cleaned up and tidy.
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