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Outdoor Hour Challenge #5

Friday, May 15, 2009

As you know, we’ve decided to focus on “the sky” for our next 6-8 weeks of nature study. Although this was initially an overwhelming prospect for me, I’ve gained a little perspective over the last few days and think I’ve come up with a list of areas to work from that will satisfy [...]

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Outdoor Hour Challenge #4

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

 

Challenge 4 encouraged us to choose a focus for our nature study. Trees, or flowers, or mammals, or birds, or insects…. you get the idea. The idea is to find one area to focus on for 6-8 weeks and foster real familiarity with that topic. I had a few suggestions to offer [...]

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Outdoor Hour Challenge #3

Friday, May 8, 2009

 

Yesterday we were all geared up for another nature walk. This challenge’s assignment was to find something that piqued Liam’s interest, observe it, and hopefully follow that up with a drawing in his nature notebook. The walk started out well, and he showed some interest in a number of different birds we saw [...]

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Outdoor Hour Challenge #2

Monday, May 4, 2009

Today the kids and I took a walk along the canal to complete #2 of the Outdoor Hour challenges. This time the focus was using words to describe what we see, hear, and feel. It was supposed to be a quiet walk, in which we could really concentrate on our observations. Unfortunately, [...]

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Outdoor Hour Challenge #1

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

I was thrilled this past weekend to stumble across the Handbook of Nature Study blog’s Outdoor Hour Challenge. Nature Study is something I’ve really wanted to incorporate into our homeschool, but I’ve been a little lost as far as how to get started. I grew up out in the country, but I was [...]

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