Homeschooling my 2 - Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden & Bird Sanctuary

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May. 17, 2008

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden & Bird Sanctuary

"A tree with its delicate tracery
of leafless branches
is a thing of beauty to eyes
that are adjusted to see it."
~ Eloise Butler

Tyler's best friend, Jacob, joined us for our nature walk today. We decided to check out the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden & Bird Sanctuary. It turned out to be a gorgeous afternoon, despite some sprinkles during the drive there. The kids really enjoyed themselves and got to see a lot of neat things in nature. I took quite a few photos so here is a little slideshow...

We also worked on our Green Hour Challenge #5 today... Keeping a List. Our focus area right now is Birds, so we are creating a list of all of the birds that we see during our walks. I used Melissa's Bird List. I have added all of the Birds we have seen so far to it as well as the two we saw today (Black-Capped Chickadee and American Redstart). I have it clipped in the front of my Nature Journal so that we can update it as we return from our walks. I also grabbed a little spiral-bound notebook today. I thought I could keep that in my pocket when I don't bring my Nature Journal on our walks in case we want to jot down the things we see along the way for adding to our Journals and Bird list later.

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May. 19, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by melissal89

Love all your beautiful nature photos! Looks like you had a great day. I really love the sign that reads "Let Nature Be Your Teacher"! You are doing an excellent job with nature study!

Blessings, Melissa

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Welcome to my blog! I am a stay-at-home mom and a homeschooling mom from Minneapolis, MN. I have two children, Tyler (7) and Emily (1). We are using a Charlotte Mason inspired approach to homeschool our children with a few eclectic and relaxed studies thrown in here and there. I look forward to sharing our homeschooling and Nature Study with you via this blog. I hope you enjoy it and visit often!

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