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Green Hour Challenge #5

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the_green_hour.jpgI’m late sharing our Green Hour Challenge this week and I’m sorry. I got so wrapped up in a conversation I was having online that somehow in my mind I thought I had already posted it. It was only when I swung in to check comments did I realize I hadn’t yet. Sorry!

This week the assignment was to read through the section we’ve chosen to cover and list the topics that we plan to be covering for the rest of the time. I’ll admit that I’m more than a little inept when it comes to knowing flowers. There are pink ones, white ones, yellow ones, etc… The names aren’t anything that I’m familiar worth, which is part of why I choose plants. I’m enjoying learning about them as much as my oldest is. Here’s the list we have so far.

  • moss (not a flower, but the boys have been exploring it a lot)
  • tulips
  • German Iris
  • prairie trout lily
  • grey-green wood sorrel
  • henbit

We’ve been making a point to look around more on our walks and see what we see coming up. There are so many flowers popping up. The bright yellow dandelions really caught our eye this week, they are adding quite a bit of color the everyone’s yards. As it warms up more outside there will be a lot more prairie wildflowers popping up everywhere. But for this week dandelions had our attention.

We spent a warm afternoon picking dandelions in various stages of growth, making wishes on the seed puffs, and getting close and personal with the flower heads. The oldest was actually excited to make a page in his nature journal on dandelions so I helped him as much as he wanted.

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2 Responses to “Green Hour Challenge #5”

  1. Barb-Harmony Art Mom Says:

    Dandelions make such a great flower study because you can usually find them in abundance AND you don’t feel too bad pulling up a handful of them to study. :)

    There are a couple of flowers on your list that I have not heard of before so I am going to look them up. I enjoy this part of the GH challenges, learning about other parts of the world and their particular plants and animals.

    I enjoyed your entry, thanks for linking.
    Barb-Harmony Art Mom

  2. Ellen Says:

    I’ve started a new homeschool meme for Mondays and I thought that you might be interested. If you want to participate, just write a post about a highlight from your past week of home learning. Then, come to my blog and sign Mr. Linky.

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