Exploration...

This past week has been one full of nature exploration. One of the reasons I love the Oak Meadow curriculum is that it encourages nature exploration, science and hands on activities. My son loves all these things and I have witnessed him open up so much since we started homeschooling. He is excited to learn, he is full of questions and curiosity. All this was squashed and turning nonexistent at his precious school. Our science for this week was spiders and their homes, so we went trekking through our front your and field for spider webs. We managed to find some in Grandpa's barn but we also found a swimming turtle, beautiful birds and other wild things.

We live really close to a little hobby airport so we often get to see interesting planes from WWII bombers to bi-planes. We saw a couple of cool planes this week.

Then we spent the rest of that afternoon enjoying our pond and the gorgeous day that was more like fall or spring than winter.

 Last weekend was almost as gorgeous, although much colder. We flew kites and Miles practiced his archery. He is improving so much. He has been begging for a compound bow but I think he needs a little more practice with his current bow before we go making that kind of investment.

 That day was the first time he got his kite sailing all by himself, usually his daddy has to get it going but the weather was perfect and after lots of tries he got it.

We are ending the school week with making fun things out of clay, having a delicious "snack" (according Miles this is considered a snack and not a meal), watching Charlotte's Web (to end our spider unit) and making spider webs out of sticks and string (also known as a God's eye).

 So Happy Friday and have a great weekend!!!