Here are some snapshots of another fun nature club meeting!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creek Clay 

 

 Water Scorpion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature Club continues to be a huge success!! Thank you Cheryl for the photos!

This past Friday our Nature Club met at a local park to learn about and observe wildflowers. The park had some gorgeous wildflower fields. Here are a few photos from our meeting. Sorry there are not many photos, I find it difficult to lead the meetings and take photos.

It was VERY hot and humid that day, so everyone made their way down under the shade of some trees by a creek.

Even though the above photo doesn't show it The kids had tons of fun making boats from natural materials and racing them in the creek. And below is a dragonfly that was discovered along the pathway.

And just in case you're wondering, all of my teaching materials that I use for teaching the Nature Club is taken from the NaturExplorers series.

Our Creation Nature Club met again this past Friday. I continue to be amazed at how much fun this is! For this meeting we met right here around my home. Here are snapshots and a video from our day.

We discovered two Eastern Box Turtles, and male and a female.

One of the ways males can be determined is by their red eyes, versus the females brownish colored eyes. 

 We also found two baby Midland Painted Turtles. They were SO cute! And such NEAT markings.

We also found this interesting creature. At first I thought it was some kind of frog tadpole, but after research I think it may be either a baby Mudpuppy or some type of baby salamander. Any ideas? See the fluffy gills? Interesting. And it has four little legs and feet.

Also, we of course had our tadpoles for the children to observe, along with Alex's Green Frog catch from last week and an American Toad that we caught to show the kids the comparison between the two. Here is the latest photo of our toad tadpoles which grew legs over the weekend!!

We absolutely had a blast at our first Nature Club meeting!! We visited a gorgeous nature park where we walked on a long trail winding down to a bottomlands where we visited a huge creek for play in and around. I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see kids and parents together enjoying nature SO much. Here are so snapshots from our day.

 

 

 

Just a few of the neat creatures we found:

Spiny Soft Shell Water Turtle (thank you Cheryl for the great photo!)

 

I'm having trouble identifying this beautiful white moth. 

 

Of course our favorite always, the American Toad.

 

We got such a kick out of watching this Carpenter Ant. He was taking one tiny wood chip at a time and throwing it over the edge. Very cool! 

 

And of course, I couldn't miss the new wildflowers:

Hairy Buttercup

 

Star of Bethlehem

 

Wild Hyacinth

 

After we climbed back up the mountainside, a packed lunch was so tasty!

I'm really looking forward to our next meeting in a couple of weeks. If you can find a Nature Club/Creation Club anywhere near you run as quick as you can to join up!! If you can't find one, start one!