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Wildflowers and Herbs Unit Study

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October 4, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 5 Comments

We’ve been exploring for months all the herbs and wildflowers near our home.

The kids went on a hike in the woods with my old camera and took fun pictures of interesting finds!

I love how excited they were to show me this humongous grasshopper on a branch.

Tori loved this big mushroom in the detritus.

They took several pictures of the water patterns in the creek.

We always stop to watch the honeybees!

I love that the kids have the freedom to explore the woods near our house. I encourage them to get out there every day to see the changes taking place with the seasons.

They’ve been fascinated with wildflowers and herbs lately.

We’ve acquired some fun books as gifts and from thrift stores, and I bought a few. The library had some too!

We also went on a family walk in the woods and brought our wildflower guidebook with us.

We loved this very tall thistle!

Foxgloves are my favorite!

We noticed some lovely flowers popping up all over!

We love notebooking about what we’re learning about:

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Learning About Seeds

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March 1, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 13 Comments

We’re studying botany for science for the next few months.
We read the Parable of the Sower and about the mustard seed in Bible.

We’re learning about seeds and longing for spring.

We’re seeing a few signs of spring, but also more snow and ice. It’s a lovely dichotomy.
We’re using Exploring Creation with Botany by Apologia as our text and the kids each have an Exploring Creation with Botany Notebooking Journal.

Alex loves his first junior notebooking journal! The girls each have their first regular journals.

There are pages to draw or color, writing sections, puzzles, and lapbooking components.

We compared sunflower seeds and bean seeds. We found the hilum and embryo.

Dad helped us to dissect our soaked bean seeds to see the embryo.

We also placed bean seeds in plastic bags with wet paper towels to view the germination.

Since it’s still so cold here, we taped them to the windowsill by the radiator instead of to our sliding glass door which is in the coldest hallway in our house.

We’ve been observing some early signs of spring like my chives and daffodils sprouting.

We have some wildflowers to plant when the ground gets a little warmer. We will observe bees and pollination.

Katie found this little curly seed at the park and proudly brought it home.

We’ll hold onto it to see what kind of leaves it has.

And here are our bean seeds after ONE WEEK!

I think it’s important for kids to learn where food comes from and how much work farming is.

We’ve had nice gardens in the past with fruits and vegetables. They love to plant, weed, water, watch, and harvest the bounty – and cook, can/preserve, and eat it!

We’re excited to start our garden when the ground gets warmer!