Nature Study

In my previous post I mentioned that I incorporated nature studies into our school day this week. I read about this in the Charlotte Mason Companion and it sounded like a good idea. Audrey was totally on board with it and was excited to get started. We began by drawing a rose and a bird of paradise from our front yard. We then moved to the backyard to see what we could find. Here is a shot of the kids coloring their masterpieces.

You may be wondering why they are sitting on the trampoline....there are actually two reasons.

1) Gunther and

2) Gretchen

Our two faithful and loving German Shepherds can be a bit of a nuisance, so we sat on the trampoline to avoid being licked to death. :)

Once we were settled in our spot we decided to draw a picture of the Mexican sage bush we have in our yard. Here is a photo of what it looks like.....

.....and here is Audrey's rendition of it.

For our next specimen we chose these orange flowers.

Since I did not know what they were called, I had Audrey just label them as "flowers".

I think she did pretty good for her first attempt at capturing what she saw. She is already a better artist than me at 6 years old. :)

I hope you enjoyed out first attempt at studying nature. God bless!!