Another found friend

PUMPKINS!!!!!

 Today we carved pumpkins. It was pretty fun to see them try and not make a mess. Skyler was really into trying to get every single seed to bake. I let them draw their own faces and the boys cut their own while I did Skylers. I think her little guy is adorable! Damian was not happy his mouth came out so big and Fox thought it was all good. For Fox he gets to be outside make a mess and be silly so of course it is all good!We found a sprout inside Damians pumpkin which was pretty cool because I had never seen nothing like that before. Come dark we will stick in the lights and have Jack O Lanterns!!

Our Nature Skeletons

Well here are our skeletons made from stuff in nature!! They had fun I am sure. The idea came from The Nature Detectives which is a really neat site. They really liked these and talked alot about the human body bones and organs while making them.

Skylers skeleton she wanted him to wave. She also wanted him to look just like the picture which you know is so hard to do LOL

Damians skeleton he wanted his to have organs as you see the "heart and lungs"

This is Foxs little kid he called it

Cool Stuff Today!!!

They are almost as big as her. My lil girl found some BIG stuff today

A very pretty flower my son found and gave to me He can be so sweet

I GOT MY NEW BOOK!!!!!!

I am so excited to get this book! I really hope to do the Outdoor Hour Challenges at The Handbook of Nature Blog. I cannot wait to start reading. My son is already looking at all the pictures even though they are black and white he loves them!

Today we hunted for stuff

Using the Halloween nature stuff from Nature Detectives we started on a hunt tonight for body parts! Out of their little project booklets we are going to make a skeleton of the human body. Spooky, fun, educational I LOVE IT!!! My kids love Halloween and nature and the body so it is right on spot for us! Here are a few of our pics of tonight and here is a few more.

This is the Halloween activity booklet. (yes I love these little bags)!

The page with the skeleton project (lot's of cute little projects in here)



Here goes the bug boy not even out the door pickin stuff to use!



All the stuff we gathered. We will hopefully do these tomorrow cause it started to get late and well cranky tired kids are NO FUN!!!

What is nature study?

What is a nature study? Well kinda answers itself but sometiumes I think we as parents over think things. I will give you my point of view then you can go to Charlotte Masons idea. To me-In a time where children are so into video games and computers and (gasp) obesity nature study is a way to get them outside and learn a few things. Seems my children like knowing how the world works and how things fit together and well they like to just have fun. I think nature study should not be forced. You may have an idea but children tend to see things and get distracted but as long as they are learning then it's all good. Start with simple things like going for a walk and point stuff out like webs, bark on trees and the veins in the leaves. Just go play. I love to take pictures of all they see. You can make a journal or just use a plain notebook. Let kids touch, see, smell, create things from nature. Nature teaches us so much but sometimes we get too busy to see that. We worry about getting math and language and geography done all the while cooping the kids up and forgetting that they need to have nature in their lives. To me that is pretty much a nature study. You can add some structure but not too much in my opinion because then it is just work again. So hopefully that answers Lindas question and maybe anyone elses. Just go outside play with your kids and see the world in a new way.