Part of our "Deciduous Forst" unit is going to teach us about plants.  We are doing a quick course on plant development.  Today we studied lima bean seeds and are going to attempt to sprout some in a wet paper towel in a zippy bag.  DS5 and DS6 colored a picture of a seed as we talked about the parts and DS8 colored and labled. 

We are also going to plant some eggplant, jalepeno pepper, oregano, and basil in Jiffy pots for our garden.  The eggplant and jalepeno plants have to be started 8 weeks before you put them outside.  We'll talk about "germination rates" and so forth with these.  Perhaps we'll have a little on going notebook about them. Daily observations....

DS8 also read a few chapter out of a library book concerning deciduous forests.  We learned what a biome is, and that our weather, temperature and soil is right in line with a deciduous forest.  Of course!  We live in the eastern US!!

We've managed math along with our forest studies. DS5 and DS6 are going to do 100 Lessons in a few minutes....As soon as I get the bread started :)  Thanks to some yummy, tummy inspiring emails over the last few days with another homeschool mom :)