We did something really fun last year with our gardening. We learned about the weeds we find in our yard and what we can do with them.
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I posted before that we don't do much formal school work over the summer, but we don't take a break from learning either. We are summer unschoolers :) Here are a few of the things the children have been doing this summer, besides helping in the garden.
One of my readers commentee on my Gardening With Your Children post mentioned that she would like to read about how to get her children to help in the garden without having to fight to get them there. I realized this might be a common problem so I thought it would make for an interesting blog post. The only thing is, I don't really have that problem...
It's that time of year, when I can start picking my rhubarb, and better yet, eating the rhubarb! It has been raining so much here lately that I can't actually get in the main part of my garden today because it is too muddy. My rhubarb is on the edge of the grass and easy to get at even with the mud, so these rainy days are a good time to work with the rhubarb. Here is what the kids and I have been doing with our rhubarb. (*Recipes included.)
One of my favourite things to do, besides homeschooling, is gardening :) What I like best of all is to combine my two favourite things - gardening and homeschooling. In an earlier post I shared a bit with you about how my children helped me plant my garden. For the rest of the summer we will be weeding, watering and harvesting our garden. That is a big part of our summer homeschooling / unschooling :)
Spring seems to have finally come to Saskatchewan! With the warmer weather comes all sorts of wonderful learning opportunities and teachable moments that we don't get at other times of the year. Continue reading to see three reasons why I love homeschooling on the farm in spring.
I just want to let you know that I probably won't be on here as much in the summer. We usually finish our formal schooling by the time my husband starts seeding. The rest of the spring and summer we get really busy and we become unschoolers :)
Yesterday when I was in the city I bought a Mini Ant Factory for the kids! It is made by GeoSafari and is the smaller version of their full-size Ant Factory, but it has already provided much entertainment and learning!
The last month was mighty cold, with the kind of weather that makes you wonder if spring will ever come. But now that it's mid-March, we are seeing the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel! The last week has been beautiful, full of warm, sunny days and lots of melting snow. The farmers are starting to talk about seeding, my mother-in-law, who is an avid birdwatcher, saw some robins, and a friend told us they saw geese flying overhead yesterday! All signs of spring in Saskatchewan :)
The sun and the warm weather have been calling me outside, and I have been happy to ignore the housework for an half hour or so each day to go "look for signs of spring" with the kids outside. I figure that is a wonderful half hour homeschool science ;) |