Our little Munchkin is now five years old! Munchkin is also a huge animal lover, so for her birthday party we visited a petting zoo with some friends. If you live in southwest Saskatchewan, I highly recommend visiting Gramma Zoo Exotics! They have quite a variety of animals and the kids had a great time!
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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 :)
I told you about our trip to the Discover the Farm Exotic Animal Sale and how we brought home two pet rabbits. Now it is time to up-date you on how those rabbits have become an amazing homeschool project! Let's call it Operation Population :)
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 kids and I have so many projects on the go right now that it's hard to keep it all straight sometimes! I have shared some of our projects with you before. As they are ongoing projects, I thought I would show you how they are progressing.
Last week I took a break from blogging. Since it was Easter, I called it my Easter break :) This post is heavy on the pictures, as I promised to take lots of pictures to show you why I was too busy to blog last week :) We had a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy our pictures too!
I love creation science, but have so much to learn about it! I enjoy learning along with my children and one great resource I have found for helping us learn about science from a biblical perspective is Creation Science 4 Kids. Cheri Fields, the author / publisher of Creation Science 4 Kids, has a knack for making creation science easier for people like my kids and I to understand! I enjoy reading her posts and I asked her if she would be willing to do a guest post so I could share what she has to say with you :) I hope you enjoy her post and take the time to visit her blog to see what other great things she has to say!
My husband and I both try to make sure we spend one-on-one time with each of our children. When I take just one of the kids with me, I call it a "date". The kids love having one parent all to themselves once in awhile, and I love being able to focus on just one child at a time sometimes. Our dates are always a special time for both me and whichever child is with me.
Princess and I both love flowers and working in the garden, which I seem to have inherited from my own mom. My mom told me about a great opportunity for us to start getting our hands in the dirt earlier than usual. R & R Greenhouse and Gardens near Limerick, Saskatchwan offers workshops where you can go and get an early start on your spring gardening! Princess and I signed up for the Plant Your Own Hanging Baskets workshop and went to play in the dirt :) |