Unwanted/Uninvited Guests and Nature Journaling

Now, Angela, HOW exactly do these go hand in hand? Well, I'll tell you, because that's what a blog is for right? heehee

Last week sometime my husband came into the house and said, "I think we have termites. I can "see" some tunneling behind the drywall (that had gotten very very thin) in the attached garage."

I thought, "Oh, that's bad. Those can be expensive."

He took a butter knife out to the garage and cut a strip away and, sure enough, a parade of them...lovely.

We ( I really mean he) called around to different companies to find out information and the Terminix guy won our business. They came out yesterday to treat our house. Since it was going to be an all day job I took the kids to Victoria Bryant State Park and we did some nature journaling. It was SO fun. I have never done that before but I had recently read about it on a couple of blogs.

They each got their own notebooks and we walked around and they drew what they saw. Then we wrote (we as in me and Judah and sometimes Thomas) the names next to the pics.

The best part- it was SCHOOL!!!!

Drawing-Art
Writing- Language Arts

We watched a duck and a goose on the lake for quite awhile. We talked about how the duck eats, how he sleeps, how God made his feathers NOT to soak up water. We talked about the basic differences btwn the duck and the goose.- SCIENCE

We played on the playground.- recess

We ate lunch on the big rocks next to the creek.- lunch

We saw HUNDREDS of little tadpoles in the pools of water in the rocks- SO CUTE and they boys LOVED that! We talked about how they change into little frogs. - Science again.

We went for a short hike in the woods to do more journaling but since we didn't bring the journals there we had to remember all of them- working on memory definitely counts as school-heehee

Here is what the boys wrote down- Rock, water, tree, duck, goose, squirrel, tadpole, waterbug, ants, leaves, bird, flower, nut, lizard.

It was a fun time. We were EXHAUSTED after being in the sun and on our feet for three hours, but we had a great hands on learning day and we got away from the chemicals while the exterminator was working his magic.

We will definitely do the nature journaling thing again. I need to brush up on my drawing skills however. The boys don't like to draw things they can't do nicely so I ended up drawing way too many ugly looking animals. :):):) I'm definitely sparing you the pics here. :)

Today is a normal school day - Math and Language Arts - with a fun little science lesson about dry ice thrown in. Michael ordered some meat that came packed in dry ice. Making fog is FUN!!!

Gotta go! Blessings everyone!!- Angela :)