Can I just say how much I LOVE Five-in-a-Row curriculum! I am SO thankful that God allowed me to find this awesome, literature based, gentle, full-of-fun curriculum while my kids are young! What a blessing! Here are some pictures of our first day with the Bee Tree! First of all we read the book, by Patricia Polacco. The book looked a little longer and I was a bit worried, but the girls enjoyed the book - and so did I! I had never read this story before! ~ Here is our table as it was set ... Read More about Our first day with The Bee Tree
Hunting for Salamdanders
On Friday a few of us went up to Sugarlands visitor center in the Smokies for our final salamander event with this book. What a fun week we had! It is so beautiful up in the mountains…I’m so thankful we live close enough to enjoy days like these. I should take advantage of our location more often! Daddy was the first to catch a salamander! Yipee! We brought along our big ziplock bags and put a little bit of water in, just like the park rangers taught us to do. We each took a few looks ... Read More about Hunting for Salamdanders
More Salamander Fun
Here are some more pictures of our fun week with The Salamander Room! A huge THANK YOU to the Lamberts and FIAR for choosing such WONDERFUL books for us to enjoy! And another big THANKS to Homeschool Share Site where I got nearly all of my printables and “extras” for this book. These really helped give my crafty girls some extra fun this week! Not to mention all they learned from these pages! ~ A Nice House for a Salamander ~ inside this book we listed all the things that Brian put in his ... Read More about More Salamander Fun
Nature scavenger hunt
One of the lessons in the FIAR manual for the Salamander Room is to go on a scavenger hunt to find different things in nature. I had this planned for next week at some point, but late this afternoon David and I decided it might be fun to do this as a family! So off we went to Panther Creek State Park! I had typed up a list of items we were going to search for and let the girls check off the items as we found them. I also took pictures of most of the things we found. The most exciting things ... Read More about Nature scavenger hunt
Our bird watching center
I’ve been talking about it and finally got it done! We have an official “bird watching” window now! I color copied 6 of the birds we see most often at our bird feeders and made a chart out of them. The girls are going to mark the chart each time they see one of the birds. I think this will help them be able to identify the birds we see, learn their names and see which birds come the most often, least often to our home. After we have learned these 6 I may put some others up. We also have a ... Read More about Our bird watching center