Green Hour Challenge #4
Week #4 of the Green Hour Challenge, this week things are coming into focus for our nature study. This week we are supposed to choose a specific area to study for the remainder of the challenge. Since it is spring and things are blooming everywhere here we choose to stick with plants. Though I am sure that incects and animals will wander in as they are needed.
This week on our nature walk we found and brought home two things to explore and learn more about.First this robin egg that we found on the ground. The top of the shell was broken, but the insides were still intact. There wasn’t a baby bird inside, but there was a clump of something floating in there.
Next we found these purple flowers growing in a huge patch. I’m still not sure exactly what kind of flower they are. I couldn’t find them in the Handbook of Nature Study and searching online by their description brought me about 500 different types. I’m just not that patient to dig through them all. But I learned of a great online resource for exploring animals and plants. eNature.com has free field guides online thousands of species that you can dig through.
This week we were supposed to read pages 10-11, 13-15, and the introduction of the area we are exploring for the challenge. I’ll save you my analysis of it this week, mostly because the kids are not interested in letting me type this morning.
nature, nature study, green hour challenge, home education
April 13th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
If I am not mistaken, those are grape hyacinths, if they are as small as I think they are. Look those up and see if I am correct.
I am always surprised at how small robin’s eggs are in real life. They are such a delicate shade of blue too.
Thanks for sharing your link and I look forward to more entries.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom