Earth Day at Ogden Nature Center

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April 27, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Ogden Nature Center had a terrific Earth Day festival!

How cool is this? We got to ride in a llama cart!

Tori was a little excited…

Making Earth gel clings with colored glue

Looking at sun spots through a fancy telescope.

Tori impressed this guy with her sun knowledge!

She also completed a math puzzle with a pattern they’d never seen before! So proud!

my lil monkeys rock climbing

some much needed icies

storytime break

The girls have new matching desks for school! They love this setup!

We read about canines in science this week and made sock puppet dogs. They still love those junior notebooks!

We watched a documentary about reintegrating wolves from Yellowstone to the surrounding wilderness and how that impacts ranchers. Now they want to research wolves for a living. I love their passion for their studies!

How do you celebrate Earth Day?

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The Living Planet Aquarium Field Trip

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March 19, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We finished off our science study of Swimming Creatures with a field trip to The Living Planet Aquarium!

Alex was just a baby last year when we went and he didn’t care much about it. This time, he was ecstatic!

We spend a LOOOONG time watching the jellyfish get fed. They literally swooped and scooped up the food from this turkey baster!

This is a BIG lobster. Any one have any butter?

Alex got really tickled at this tank with needle fish and lion fish.

The lion fish spread his fins out a couple times and was quite magnificent.

A really colorful tropical tank

There’s a little goby hiding in the bottom of this tank.

We got to pet rays! Alex liked to watch everyone else pet rays. He really didn’t like it when I put his hand in the water. The keepers said they clip the tail barbs like we clip our fingernails.

Alex had a needed break in this fun little area with little bitty aquariums among the climbing areas.

They also had a quiet room with fun puzzles and books!

After his break, he wanted to join his sisters again to see the rays.

We got to watch them getting fed too! They went rather crazy. The rays, not the kids.

Ribbit, ribbit!

And the star attraction, just arrived in January!

OTTERS!!!

They have a little bubble you can climb into and see them from the inside, up close.

Alex really loved this. We also entered the contest to name these cute little boogers.

We glanced through the gift shop, and Alex loved this turtle hat!

On our way out, the girls had a fun photo booth session!

I made scavenger hunt pages for the girls.

I had fun clipboards and gave them each a pen and we checked off the animals we had learned about in science this year.

Visit The Living Planet Aquarium:

Open daily from 10am to 6pm, Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas

Adults $17.95

Military $14.95

Teens 13-17 $14.95

Child 3-12 $12.95

Under 2 FREE

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Eagle Day at Farmington Bay

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February 28, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

It was Eagle Day at Farmington Bay.

Do you see the eagles?

Two little teeny tiny dark specks on the ice. Yeah, that was it.

Thanks to all the people who told us how much better the event was last year. That greatly improved our day.

At least we got a cool button.

At least there were some other things to see.

A falcon and red-tailed hawk from the Aviary:

a nest display

A heron rookery. I LOVE HERONS.

And we made the cutest little eagle finger puppet!

We picked up some really awesome brochures and some neato notebooking pages too.

Resources:

Eagle Nest Cams

Bald Eagle Animal Study and Lapbook by Homeschool Share

Eagle Unit by Homeschool Scientist

Eagle Lapbook by Walking By the Way

Eagle Unit by Walking in High Cotton

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Black Island Farms

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October 24, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

We had a blast on our Black Island Farms pumpkin patch field trip.

Daddy even took off work to experience the fun with us (and help me wrangle the young uns!) This farm does agro-tourism to help stay afloat in this economy. We learned about their irrigation system and saw a harrow plow in action.

Alex really was fascinated by the tractor during the wagon ride. So glad we got a seat up front!

The kids got to see, feel, and test out the carrots and cabbage that they grow. Gimme some coleslaw!

(Did you know that those baby carrots are actually carrot pellets? They’re not quite so thrilling now…)

Everyone got to pick out a pie pumpkin (even I did!) and we’re going to try our hand at making homemade pumpkin pie and some other delectable pumpkin-y recipes this week.

Of course, we couldn’t resist the cheesy scarecrow picture!

We got feed animals too! Katie loved the baby cows, but they were sleepy. Pigs, goats, turkeys, and chickens were in their zoo too. This llama was super friendly and hungry.

Katie and Alex got to ride the tractor train! I was so proud of Katie holding tight her little brother! He didn’t want to get off, but they were closing the ride for the day!

They had some amazing slides made from straw bales.

The corn “maize” was super fun for all of us.

They offered maps, and it’s pretty obvious that even I need to work on my map-reading skills. sigh

Black Island Farms is one of our favorite fall traditions! Also a great place to buy farm fresh fall produce and decorations.

Black Island Farms has been a family business for over 50 years!

Opening Hours During Most of September and October

Mon-Thurs 4pm – 10pm

Fri 4pm – Midnight

Sat 10am – Midnight

Sun 11am – 5pm

Corn Maze and Courtyard

Adults $11

Kids (Ages 12-2)$9

Corn Maze and Courtyard + Hayride

Adults $16

Kids (Ages 12-2) $11

Corn Maze and Courtyard + Nightmare Acres

Adults $20

Kids $20

Nightmare Acres

Adults $16

Kids $16

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