I garden rather simply. It is mostly due to necessity because I don’t have the time to put into gardening to do anything else at this point in my life. I rarely, if ever, weed the garden area. I plant and water and let nature do its work. In the…
This school year we have undertaken a wildflower project. During the first part of the school year before autumn took full force we went exploring around our neighborhood and on a farm to find different wildflowers.
“We can never have enough of Nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and Titanic features, the seacoast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which last three weeks and produces freshets…” – Walden…
One of our science projects this year is studying wildflowers. We have searched for wildflowers in three different locations so far this school year. When we find them, we use the Ontario Wildflowers: 101 Wayside Flowers book to identify them. Once we identify the flowers we press them in between…
Last week we captured a bunch of Rollie Pollies and placed them in a terrarium. Today we started our first experiment using Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: More Than 100 Hands-On Science Experiments for Children. I wanted to study bugs with my boys this year because neither of them…
