Tell Me Thursday 4/24/08 - Homeschooling at it’s best!

Yesterday I posted these two photos for Wordless Wednesday. My oldest daughter drew them last Saturday - pretty good huh?

The nice thing about taking a relaxed approach to homeschooling is that you see all of life as school. So school doesn’t just happen between the hours of 8 am and 3 pm but it can happen on a Saturday afternoon before dinner.

We were working in the yard Saturday afternoon and I realized I needed to head back into the house to start dinner. When I got to the deck, I saw this little Ruby Kinglet bird flipped over in front of the grill. We often have birds flying beak first into our windows - sometimes they die instantly from the impact but most of the time they’re stunned and after a few minutes they fly away. This little guy was still recovering but I could see he was breathing so I flipped him over onto his feet and he just sat their panting.

I called the girls and told them to bring the camera. My oldest started snapping photos left and right. I picked up the bird and he let me hold it - thus the bird in the hand picture (I still had on my gardening gloves) and as we tried to transfer him over to my youngest daughter’s hand, the bird jumped onto her shirt and just rested there. So cute.

We placed him carefully in one of the flower beds to finish catching his breath and in about 30 minutes he decide he was ready and flew off.

Both girls immediately loaded the pics up on the computer and printed off a few to draw in their nature journals. A side note - don’t wait until your kids can actually draw to do nature journaling - start NOW!

Now mind you, neither of the girls have had formal art lessons - we’ve taken a few video courses and have books that cover the basics but most of their drawing is done by …well just doing it. Will they be world famous artists? Probably not. But do they do some nice work? Yepper!

I’ll post some more of the live bird pictures later - they’re very fun.

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