Going on a Nature Hikes!

We really enjoy Nature, well except for cockroaches :) This summer we were visited by lots of pretty butterflies on our Zinnia flowers, and I love butterflies! 

We got this camera for the boys to start taking pictures more, they really love it. Here is Ryan taking pictures.

One of the boys took this picture we have TONS of these spiders around here they are very popular, and they are HUGE this is a great shot, look at the deatils of that web!

One of the boys took this picture of a butterfly

Ryan look these of this butterfly

We found this pretty bush it is called a

Callicarpa - Beautyberry bush

we also found this yellow daisy type flowers we found these as we were hiking as a family at swayback trails, it is one of our faves around here and it is close.

Will and the boys on our hike.

We all thought these trees with the twisty vines up the trees were cool

Here was a tunnel of trees twisting together, it was a beautiful day for a hike! we did about 3 miles, and even little Dallin held his own, what a trooper!

We also Took A field Trip to swayback trails in October, we had a lot of fun kicking and us mom visiting - love my home school support here!

Nature Study

Over the months we have done a number of fun things to enjoy, and learn more about nature. 

These are not all of them but a nice overview of some of the things we have done. 

 We went camping in the spring, and the boys did a Geode water mining activity, we brought home all the rocks and Geodes they collect, along with the guides they them looked up, identified the different Geodes.

 When we went camping another time (we love camping) we did a nature hike, and collected rocks, we looked them up in our nature guide, and then wrote about it in their nature and science notebooks.

 Another time we went camping (we really love camping) we visited a Butterfly house, and learned about the different butterflies and the different places in the world they live. This one was in Pensacola Florida

 Another time we went hiking with two other Homeschooling Families the boys kept an eye out for plants, bugs and animals, we found a baby mole, (it was not well, alive but defiantly not well) great time to talk about life, death and the circle of life, for animals.

 Here the boys were learning about animals in our Animals in their Worlds Note booking program from Winter promise. The boys were learning about animals that do not live in our area from "Take a Beach" walk book this is a series of books the boys enjoyed last year.