Our Backyard Tree Project

We worked on Our Backyard Tree Project since last spring, taking pics of the trees and bushes throughout each season. This project was inspired by Great-Grandma who can tell us all of the trees in our yard by name. We wanted to know too so we we made it a project. Here are some pics of it all put together:

 

Aiden's cover page. 

 

Red Currants. 

 

Red Currants almost ripe and ready to taste. 

 

Crab Apples trees. 

 

Crab Apple blossoms and bark. 

 

Ripe apples. 

 

Crab Apple trees in winter. 

 

Some interesting observations along the way. We got the chance to witness a whole bunch of butterflies mating on our lilac bushes. 

 

An interesting tree...

 

Tamarack tree. 

 

Tamarack in the fall. 

 

The bare Tamarack in the winter. 

 

An interesting fact about the Tamarack. 

 

A rose bud. 

 

A rose in full bloom. 

 

This last year there was a lot of rain and we noticed this fungus growing on some plants and logs. 

Printing Practice with Numbers

Our world.

I am not sure where this project originated, but a lot of our friends have done it and I have seen it over and over again. It looked like fun so we did it as our final Socials task. It was great to go over all the things we learned about Canada and our surroundings. I used this greatly as review for Aiden- to sort of test what he remembered....

 

The project. 

 

Our home- Aiden's rendering.  

* In here there is "Our Street" and "Our Town" circles. (I would rather not advertise our address.) Aiden knows his street address. We talked about the industry in our town- mining and about some of the town's attributes such as the lake.

 

Our province. We talked/mom asked about some of the geography in BC. 

 

Our country. Aiden was able to tell me where our province was, that Saskatchewan has fields, Northwest Territories is snowy, BC is close to the Pacific Ocean. He also told me about many animals that live in Canada such as deer, birds, brown bears, grizzly bears, and coyotes. 

 

Our planet, Earth. 

Science Project

Aiden finished off his Human Body curriculum with a body project. Here it is:

 

Senses.

 

Bones, muscles, nerves. 

 

We looked up some anatomy on the computer for the rest...

Aiden knew his brain, heart, and lungs....

 

He had a little trouble identifying the intestines....

He has learned so much through this Science book and never tired of staying on the same subject. Kids are like sponges, it's true!

Bible

Aiden finished "My First Bible." He was so excited to be recognizing the Easter stories that he wanted to read on through.

 

He has now finished this beginner's type bible-through the the old and new testaments. Mom was excited to find him a kid's NIV bible at the homeschool conference as he has been asking for his very own bible. It turned out great just reading through and we ended up not needing a devotional or any curriculum as I had first planned.

Art by Gem.

I love Gemma's art work.

Sonlight

English

 

On to book 3. 

 

One of Aiden's word/spelling lists. 

 

Matching contractions. 

 

Another word list. 

 

Analyzing an experiment. 

 

Writing his words out on big on the board.