July Learning~

Since July was the 50th anniversary of Appolo mission, we spent the month learning all about it~

We usually call the new school year beginning in July so we drew self portraits and made goals~

We have also begun Writing Workshop with Writing notebooks~

Nature is all around us and if there is a frog to hold, Evie will find it~

Remember EC's swollen hand??? Look nestled in the trees~ 😱A hornet's nest~

We couldn't let it stay there because it was so low and two children had been stung so our exterminators came to spray it... we all watched diligently~

More space fun with chalk pastel art~

After we THOUGHT the hornets were dead, Scott cut it down and we began observing it... then we saw one crawling out!!! YIKES! We ran to get a bin and placed inside for them to finish deceasing~

AND of course, we brought it in to sketch~

Aren't they magnificent?~

EK was out with Mimi and found this Hercules beetle in the parking lot~

We did a beetle drawing tutorial ~

EK wanted the hornet hive for the nature shelf so we found a beautiful container and put it inside~

More chalk pastel painting because we read a beautiful line in a poem: Waterfalls are rivers washing their hair~

SO beautiful~

The girls found a luna moth, ran in to get their sketching bags, sketched~

and released it back into nature!
A wonderful month of learning for sure!!!

Space School~

With the upcoming Solar Eclipse, we spent the week Space Schooling.
Here are a few of the things we did...
I found this ebook online from the publisher of our Science and we followed it for a couple of days~

 Making mobiles of the eclipse.
We also read lots of Space books and painted crayon resist space art~

Payne is a space nut so this was the greatest week of his life!
We learned so much from the many YouTube videos we watched and recorded ideas in our nature journals~

We were excited to get our solar glasses~

For Friday Free Write, we did a little art project and they wrote what they knew about solar eclipses~

It was a GREAT week and Monday is going to be awesome!!!!!