At our house we take nature study as adventure seeking. We have been known to do things like spend a day down at the river bottom just observing, going out to nature trails hiking, collecting bugs in our backyard... We have seen tadpoles at various stages, minnows, as well as deer tracks, raccoon tracks, various bugs, frogs, different stages of decay... We have learned things like how rocks errode, the difference between a toad and a tree frog, something that hedge apples are good for (keeping pesky bugs away in case you didn't know). We have also identified the different parts of insects, learned what makes moss form on some parts of a river, what a current is, and more things than I can ever list. One thing we planned to do and will still do if we get another nice day is to dig our an old half rotten log to observe what happens inside of it. We have been known to have bugs living in jars and net cages on our kitchen table. After the bugs die we have saved them in plastic bags and hung them on the wall in our school room. They have been taken out a couple of times to look at them with magnifying glasses to identify things about them that we have been reading about in our science text. This has been a lot of fun for my boys. Right now we have a hedge apple rotting in a bowl on the kitchen table so that we can observe the process. So I know many who have posted these nice neet and well decorated school rooms. I am going to post a few pictures from our school room-- only they won't be like these nice rooms they will be of some of the dead bugs hanging in our school room.
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