was finally ours to be had! Since the suspected untimely demise of our woolly boogers (apparently our Lepidoptera skills are somewhat lacking), we reluctantly moved on to…tadpoles! Okay, maybe we just happened upon gobs of them in the livestock water buckets this summer – nevertheless another experiment to get our hands on! :-)
Come to find [...]
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…in Glen Rose made for an exciting year-end field trip! Thankfully the rains didn’t come pouring down until after we finished five of the six activities. We had four full hours of fishing for brim, playing with the animals in the petting zoo, swinging on the maypole, riding the cable swing, playing horseshoes, taking a [...]
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…was a nice break from the usual routine. The park hosted an event for home schoolers to fly kites last month. Our group was quite small and the wind wasn’t totally cooperating, but we had lots of fun trying – especially when we did get those kites up in the air. On top of that, [...]
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Abby discovered how to write without pencil, pen, paper, computer or any other modern day amenity!
With mere rock on rock, she found you can write messages…
and solve math problems! :-)
At least now I can say there is one good use for all this slate around here! If only I had thought of it when we [...]
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is in the air! Yay! After all the winter colds, viruses, ear infections and COLD rainy days, we are SO ready for spring. Our sprouting apple seeds are a great reminder that it is just around the corner.
Both Abby and Jadon planted several Fuji apple seeds, but unfortunately only some of Abby’s sprouted (probably because [...]
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in the rough. Well, rough in the sense that we came up empty handed. :( Otherwise, our fieldtrip to the Crater of Diamonds State Park was really a lot of fun! The weather was beautiful and hung around the 70’s all day!
We all dug for a while, but I think the kids decided it was [...]
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and comparing them to certain animal senses was the theme of our field trip to Pinnacle Mountain State Park yesterday.
The kids enjoyed looking, touching, seeing and hearing lots of new things. Abby’s favorite parts were learning that butterflies taste with their feet, hearing an owl hoot in the forest and walking among the “humongous” bald [...]
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has been surviving beautifully – Cattie that is, our Leopard Moth caterpillar that we adopted in October. We weren’t sure how things were going to turn out in the beginning, but he still looks pretty fat and happy. He has awoken on a few warm days, but for the most part has remained in a [...]
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over Lake Maumelle today made for an exciting fieldtrip! Our four sightings beat the previous tour’s sightings of three but paled in comparison to some over the weekend which had 12!
They are so majestic in flight with a wingspan of about 6 feet! If you click on the picture you can see the video Bryan [...]
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surrounds us everywhere. We love it! Abby found this katydid carcass stuck upside down in a cedar tree in our front yard. It was a great opportunity to hypothesize about Katy’s final moments! For example: Was she ambushed and eaten alive? Did she die of old age? Do katydid’s have a common practice of *sticking* [...]
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