When we decided to homeschool our girls, I found myself worrying about how to teach them enough. Then I realized that our children are learning every single day...........from the time they wake up until the time they go to sleep!! Now, obviously this is not formal education type learning, but still a very vital piece of the education puzzle. I still have days that I worry that I'm not doing enough.......but I think that is normal for new homeschool families. So, while we're doing our studies, we're also finding lessons in daily activities.
The girls love to go to their Daddy's vet clinic. There are always lessons to be learned there. In science, Ava has been studying caniforms (dog-like carnivores) & feliforms (cat-like carnivores)--these are 2 large subgroups of Carnivora. So she gets to see lots of science application at the clinic. When we were there last week she told me that Breezy & Mr. Big are feliforms!!
We've also enjoyed a recent trip to a local orchard. We were able to see many different kinds of apples & pumpkins. They also had some other seasonal vegetables & some potted plants.
My girls LOVE going to the zoo. This is what we do for their birthdays instead of having a party. We let them choose what to do & they always want to go back to the zoo. So they were really excited about last week's field trip. While we were at the zoo, we had to check on Lola & see how much she had grown since our last visit!
Ava was eager to take notes to go in the science journaling notebook that we have.
Then we came home & mapped the animals we studied on our world map!! The girls thought that was really cool!!
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