Monday, January 9, 2012

Winter Nature Study...

The boys were off on an adventure in the pasture.
So Miss LouLou asked to do nature study.
We took off on a walk around the yard...exploring
One of the first things we noticed was...
Not just one...
Not two...
Not three...four...or...five
But...SIX...birds nests...
We found one...
in the oak tree at the road
in the hedges near the woods
in the oak tree in the yard
in the blackberry bush along the fence
in the bluebird house
in the magnolia tree
So we collected a couple that we could reach and examined how they were made.
We saw...
pieces of carpet from the carpet in the garden
pine straw
hay
pieces of blue tarp pulled from the fraying edge
and twigs.
We drew a bird's nest in our nature notebooks and taped some of their construction materials beside the picture...
And this Tiny Miss was just along for the ride...

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