Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge is our family reader. We start each morning by gathering together and reading from this novel. It is about primitive life on the prairie and we have been able to talk about different story elements as we go, as we as early Canadian immigration.
On Mondays we head out for a nature hike to explore nature, seasons, etc. and to get some healthy fresh wild air. It makes for a great start to the week and gets our brains and hearts working. Before we head we read about an aspect of nature in this text. It has been great for spurring on ideas of what to open our eyes to.
Hiking in the Lac Du Bois Grasslands.
Sage
Bear or coyote droppings! We didn't want to find out which.
A beautiful tree changing into Autumn colors. We took some home for our collection to study.
Finn chose a rock to collect.
Rattlesnake safety in the Grasslands.
Back home we add to our nature journals and try to figure our collected treasures. Aiden chose a rock and looked up what it could be, while drawing it's color and edges.
Finn painted his rock and declared for mom to write down it was emerald.
Gemma chose many samples and drew and printed leaf, adding scientific terms she learned from the nature text about trees.
Gemma also was drawn to the sage.
Keiran loved the science of the leaf and remembered how to classify this one as spoon shaped with serrated edges.
Part of the collection .
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