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Nature Study Tuesday~April 5~Baby Possum, Owls and More…
Hey all, here is my real post. Nature Boy isn’t quite done with his post for this week, so you are stuck with me. Sunday morning dh and oldest found a dead possum on the road. On their way home, they...
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Nature Study Tuesday April 19~Garden, Lilacs, and Butterflies
Wow, we managed to plant 200 onion sets and around 100 potatoes…I didn’t count them. lol I have four rows that are nearly 20 feet each. Our lilacs are blooming and with them, have come the butterflies....
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Nature Study Tuesday~Horsing Around~April 26
This week, we didn’t get out much and when we did, I didn’t have my camera. However, we did get out on Easter Sunday and rode horses. Lora 8 riding for the first time by herself. Your’s truly riding...
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Nature Study Tuesday~Creation Study with The Nature Boy~May 3
This post is a team effort from The Nature Boy aka our oldest son Philip and myself. We have worked on this together from keyword outline to rough draft to final copy. Creation is the basic foundation...
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Nature Study Tuesday~May 9~Around the Yard
Change in Plan… Our phlox has spread widely and is so pretty. Robins have come back and are fluttering around our yard. Philip caught a bull snake in our yard. It is over 4 foot in length. Grab the...
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Nature Study Tuesday~May 17~Nature Boy Tells about Baltimore Orioles~Today...
The Baltimore Oriole is a colorful bird. It has an orange stomach, black head and wings, with some orange and white with in the wings. A good way to tell if this bird has been around is to look for...
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A Few Changes for the Next Several Weeks~Family Updates and such…
I once heard how summer is supposed to be a slow relaxing and carefree time…Ummm, For Who? Summers in our home are actually the busiest time of the year… Farm~baling hay Wheat Harvest Animals...
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Nature Study~July 5 Garter Snakes
For my new readers, Nature Study is part of our homeschool for my oldest anyway, and it seems his younger siblings enjoy it much more then they admit. My oldest loves snakes, he is quite careful of...
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Nature Study Tuesday~Sept. 6~Tomato Horn Worm Moth
Welcome to our Nature Study Tuesday. I no longer do these every Tuesday, but we do them around monthly. A week or so ago, my son found a pupa, I couldn’t get my camera close enough to get a picture...
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Nature Study~Herps are out in Central KS
Philip has been out hunting down the snakes, toads, frogs, salamanders and turtles. They are out, and we are having fun working with a Facebook group that is focused on these creatures in Kansas. Great...
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Nature Study Tuesday~ September 21~On or Off the Fence…
Once again our oldest was working with dad near Quivera Wildlife Refuge, when he found three Eastern Fence Lizards. These are the neatest little creatures, and they are really cute in a scaly kind of...
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Nature Study in Our Homeschool~Relaxed, Fun, and Educational
We have been doing some description or another of Nature Study for many years, long before we were officially homeschooling. I have always had an interest in Nature, and knew that I would pass it down...
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Nature Study Tuesday~September 28~ Large Moth
This week we were out playing, and our landlord/adopted grandpa drove in with a special package. I guess our love of nature must have rubbed off on him. ;) Anyway, he brought us a large moth. We...
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Nature Study Tuesday~October 5~Apple Orchard
I am sorry I am getting this up late. Our four year old most likely broke his arm Saturday, and I have been running. He has an ortho appointment tomorrow, so we should know for sure by then. Friday we...
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Nature Study Tuesday~A Day at the Refuge October 19
This past weekend, we went to the nearby wildlife refuge for their annual celebration. First we went on the tram, the took us through an area of the refuge to the lookout tower over the marsh and...
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Nature Study Tuesday~Pumpkin Patch~October 26
This will be the last weekly NST until spring, unless, I have people showing interest to continue it. I am considering it doing it monthly through the winter. I just don’t see myself, or others,...
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Helping your Children Pursue their Career Goals.
Homeschooling is one excellent way to be able to help your child learn about a career they are interested in. From a very young age, our oldest has wanted to work at a wildlife refuge or be a...
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Nature Study Tuesday~March 1
Welcome back to Nature Study Tuesday. We took a break over the coldest months of the winter, but now it is warming up and time to get back outside and enjoy God’s creation. Over the winter our oldest...
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Nature Study Tuesday~March 21~Windy Kansas, Spring is blowing in.
There are little signs of spring all over. The strawberries are starting to poke through the hay we mulched them with, the alfalfa fields are more green then brown, and the wind is BLOWING. Blowing...
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Nature Study Tuesday~Nature Boy talks…
Guest post from: Philip (11) AKA Nature Boy. I caught a fence lizard the other day. I set up a habitat with old decaying wood, rocks, dirt and growing cheat for it in an aquarium. I like to do a few...
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