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Where I Find Project Ideas February 5, 2010

Lots of people over time have asked where I find ideas for the project choices I give my children. At this point, most of the ideas are dreamed up in my head, but it hasn’t always been that way. Some of the books I use include: Better Than Book Reports is book is full of great [...] […]

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Snow and Ice Wonderland February 7, 2010

Once again we got hit pretty hard (not nearly as hard as others) with a Snow and Ice storm. It started off on Friday with just rain, through the day turned into ice and by Friday late afternoon, snow. We ended up getting about 4 inches of just snow, and then some ice under it. [...] […]

Fun with Fruits and Nuts

This month we have began our study of fruits and nuts during our schooling time. We started off by heading outside for a fruits and nuts hunt in our backyard. It didn’t take long for us to begin finding some. We have a several large Black Walnut trees and lots of Hickory trees as well that provided us with samples of nuts to take and we also found bushes with wild berries growing on them.

Wild Berry Bush

Wild Berries

A Squirrel Chewed On this Hickory Nut

Top of Black Walnut Tree

My Son Found Lots of Hickory Nuts

Give a Boy a Hammer and Watch Out!

Broken Hickory Nuts

Close-up of Hickory Nut

Fruits and Nuts we Collected

Notebook Entry for Hickory Tree and Hickory Nuts

Notebook Entry for Hickory Nuts Labeling the Layers

We finished off our day by reading one of our absolute favorite books, The Hickory Chair!

I’ve been amazed at how much fun we’ve had learning about fruits and nuts so far! You can find suggestions to do all of the above things plus lots more in the Fruits and Nuts themed study.

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